Tag Archives: php

A normal problem: notifications or updates that have to be displayed on a website, but it’s kind of overloading the backend. But as long as the page is open: please update the status dynamically (if necessary) without reloading the page.

I can hear you think: AJAX! Yes, I’ll use AJAX for sure. But there is a little problem when it comes to how up-to-date you want these notifications to be without overloading the backend of the website.

In this article I’ll approach pushing notifications from another perspective, regulating them in the backend rather than the frontend.

If you are a developer, especially in the object orientated parts, you must heard of the Model View Controller design pattern.
This post will tell you a bit about models and how you can use them to lift your code to a higher level and safe a lot of time in the development process.
I will also tell you about PHP Object Generator (POG) to use for implementing your models.

For the first time ever I created my own plugin. Starting out as a hacking attempt, it quickly changed into a prototype plugin.

What it basically does is list the articles that haven’t been read yet by a logged in user. Whenever a change to the post is made or a new comment is posted, the post moves to the top of the unread list.

Caching data. If you are a developer you must have heard about it somewhere. Is it really that important? There is only one thing I can say to that: yes!
There are a lot of reasons why you should start caching data that has been calculated. The most common reason is to keep the owner of the data happy, saving him/her bandwidth and server capacity.

In this article I will be telling you how to cache data given from an external service, but can also be used to save local results.

Twitter is an amazing service to keep in touch with everyone on the Internet. It’s easy, fast and there are a lot of Twitter applications.

I came up with the idea to Ajaxify (is that even a word?) the tweets on my website. As you can see, it’s on the right, below the last.fm recently played. It’s called AjaxTwits!

This article will show you how to use AjaxTwits and how to install it on your website.