August 27, 2011 | 0 Minutes Read
The web server where my blog was hosted seemed to slow down by the day, and I’m looking for ways to move some stuff out of the way. I had heard of github pages, that allow one to host a static site for free, on a url like http://jfoucher.github.com. Git hub recently added the abilily to do a CNAME (kind of a DNS reidrect) from a custom domain name to a gituhub page.
The last element that decided me in favor of this setup is jekyll, a static site generator written in ruby. You write your posts in markdown, type “jekyll” on the command line, and your site is generated in a few seconds.
Afterwards, just commit and push to github, and voilà, your site is live!
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August 18, 2011
August 18, 2011 | 2 Minutes Read
Phpstorm allows incoming connection from Xdebug to enable variable inspection, breakpoints and so on in your favorite IDE.
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June 29, 2011
June 29, 2011 | 4 Minutes Read
Phing, a build tool for PHP, written in PHP, allows one to do practically anything when building your project. Today we write a custom task to update your twitter status upon a succcessfull build.
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April 11, 2011
April 11, 2011 | 2 Minutes Read
This library allows you to serve cached minimized css to your users without any action on your part.
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April 03, 2011
April 03, 2011 | 2 Minutes Read
Flickholdr.com takes your chosen image dimensions, your tags, and returns Creative Commons licensed images from flickr that fit your criteria.
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February 13, 2011
February 13, 2011 | 2 Minutes Read
We take advantage of Codeigniter 2's cached mechanism to dramatically speed up our sites with APC.