Calin Don passionate web developer

3Mar/108

Software bureaucracy is overkill

This is a story of two applications being developed one by bureaucratic methods and one by continuously integrating user feedback.

1Mar/102

Just finished coding marathon at GeekMeet24

About few hours ago ended the 24 hours coding session of GeekMeet24. I had a volunteering weekend working on a very cool facebook application named freeconomy, alowing people to share or give away things that they don't need anymore.

26Feb/100

Debugging WordPress trackbacks and pingbacks

These days I needed to debug WordPress trackbacks and pingbacks. It is not that straight forward because it uses RPC. Hopefully, there is a neat way to log the calls.

25Feb/102

High performance application stack for next generation web

If I'll have to choose a new stack for developing the next big web app or framework what would it be?

16Feb/100

nginx – how to rewrite

One of the web servers of the new cloud era is nginx. It's a fast server, with a low memory profile and can handle an impressive amount of concurrent connections compared to a standard apache setup.

It's more than a year since all the servers I work with were switched from apache to nginx. One of the common problem I came across after setting up nginx was figuring out how to do the rewrites. Translating a rewrite rule from apache to nginx is not that hard.

11Feb/102

5 reasons why I recommend WordPress

Today I was asked by someone why would I use WordPress over a framework for a real estate website. This put me inĀ reflective mode. After some debates, here are the conclusions I've reached.