Category Archives: web development

Four Things to Know when Writing Comments

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Stoimen

Every developer has been learned from his teachers how important is to comment his source code. You should comment the classes, the methods, the logic, etc. However nobody explained how exactly to code with comments between the lines. Have you … Continue reading →

Posted in web development | Tagged C, Comment, Computer programming, Computing, Human Interest, Logic, Metadata, Reference, Software engineering, Source code, Source lines of code, speaker | 2 Comments

Friday Algorithms: Sorting a Set of Integers – Far Quicker than Quicksort!

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Stoimen

Yes! It’s really really fast, and it’s far quicker than the quicksort algorithm, which is considered as the fastest sorting algorithm in practice. However how it’s possible to be faster than the quicksort, which is the fastest algorithm?! Is that … Continue reading →

Posted in algorithms, javascript, web development | Tagged Algorithm, Mathematics, Quicksort, quicksort algorithm, Selection algorithm, Sort, sorting algorithm, Sorting algorithms, Spreadsort | 14 Comments

Joomla! – Old Code or Bad Code?

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Stoimen

Recently I started managing a small system based on Joomla 1.0.15. I know there is a most recent version of the popular CMS, but this one wasn’t based on it. Actually once upon a time I was working with Joomla … Continue reading →

Posted in web development | Tagged Computing, html, joomla, PHP, PHP programming language, Technology/Internet, web projects, zend framework | 5 Comments

Friday Algorithms: Quicksort – Difference Between PHP and JavaScript

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Stoimen

Here’s some Friday fun. Let me show you one sorting algorithm, perhaps the most known of all them – the quick sort, implemented both on PHP and JavaScript. Although the code look similar between both languages, there are few differences, … Continue reading →

Posted in algorithms, javascript, micro tutorial, PHP, web development | Tagged Computer programming, Computer science, Computing, Curly bracket programming languages, javascript, JavaScript programming language, Negation, Null, one sorting algorithm, PHP, Procedural programming languages, Quicksort, Scripting languages | Leave a comment

Flowplayer and Captions (Subtitles)

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Stoimen

Actually I couldn’t mange to make it work with a non-javascript approach, but however with the .js help it works. I’ll paste here this code, hopefully this will help. Note that you’ve to change plugins/javascripts/videos/captions path! <html> <body> <div id="player" … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript, web development | Tagged Computer programming, Computer science, Computing, javascript, JavaScript programming language, Mange | 4 Comments