I am now studying at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Although I think that the Websites of the KIT is much better than the Website of most Universities, I can imagine several possibilities how the online services could be improved: Use OpenID I have 9 different accounts with 7 different passwords for university. After [...]
A 404 http status code means that no document could be found at the given URL. The reason could be a misspelled URL or moved content. Anyway, the user needs help now. The standard error page doesn’t provide much information, so you should create a custome one. If you like more information, just google for [...]
Recently I read a very good post about search engine autodiscovery by Jan Phillip. Did you know that many browsers can detect an internal search engine automatically? Firefox gives you the possibility to add such a search engine to your browser: OpenSearch OpenSearch is a collection of technologies. This project aims to create a standard [...]
RSS-Feeds Everyone who wants to get informed about updates on websites has to use RSS Feeds. Every time any website you have in your Feed Reader makes an update, you can get instantly a little notice. Its a bit like Email, but you have the possibility to stop this service. You can’t get spam, as [...]
PEAR is short for PHP Extension and Application Repository. It provides a very easy method to get some common classes. PEAR MDB2 is a database class. It is a successor of PEAR DB. I took a look at version 1.4.1 which is currently the latest stable one. Install PEAR You can install PEAR on Ubuntu [...]
I used ApacheBenchmark (ab) to make a few Benchmark tests I was interested in. If you like to view some more, go to www.phpbench.com. The most important options are: -n: Number of requests to perform -c: Number of multiple requests to make An empty file: Now I make 1000 requests to this empty file: Time [...]
