https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/web-development/ Recent content in Web Development on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 11 May 2010 21:31:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/why-is-my-database-slow-2010-05-11/ Tue, 11 May 2010 21:31:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/why-is-my-database-slow-2010-05-11/ Not part of my Don’t Assume series, but when a client states “Why is my database slow””, you need to determine if indeed the database is slow. Some simple tools come to the rescue here, one is Firebug . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-drupal-observations-2009-02-23/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:36:26 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-drupal-observations-2009-02-23/ I had the opportunity to review a client’s production Drupal installation recently. This is a new site and traffic is just starting to pick up. Drupal is a popular LAMP stack open source CMS system using the MySQL Database. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/javascript-helpers-2008-10-13/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:36:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/javascript-helpers-2008-10-13/ Combined with my old favorites of Dynamic Drive , DHTML Goodies and Brain Jar , I’ve added the following to my list of Javascript sources. Mochikit JQuery https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improving-your-web-site-compatibility-with-browsers-2008-09-26/ Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:21:55 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improving-your-web-site-compatibility-with-browsers-2008-09-26/ Every website page content uses two basic elements, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) . Each of these has various standards, HTML has versions such as 3.2, 4. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/brand-identity-with-undesirable-domain-names-2008-09-24/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:07:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/brand-identity-with-undesirable-domain-names-2008-09-24/ Choosing a domain name for your brand identity is the start. Protecting your domain name by registering for example .net, .org, and the many more extensions is one step in brand identity. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/to-www-or-not-www-2008-09-22/ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:26:07 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/to-www-or-not-www-2008-09-22/ Domain names historically have been www.example.com , written also with the protocol prefix http://www.example.com , but in reality www. is optional, only example.com is actually needed. www. is technically a sub-domain and sub-domains incur a small penalty in search engine optimization. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/an-intestesting-approach-to-free-hosting-2008-08-27/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:17:31 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/an-intestesting-approach-to-free-hosting-2008-08-27/ I came across the OStatic Free hosting service that provide Solaris + Glassfish (Java Container) + MySQL. They offer “Now you can get free Web hosting on Cloud Computing environment free of charge for up to 12 months. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/project-darkstar-2008-08-14/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:05:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/project-darkstar-2008-08-14/ It may sound like either a astronomical research project or a Star Wars spin- off, but Project Darkstar is an open source infrastructure from Sun Microsystems that states “simplify the development and operation of massively scalable online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-buildbot-2008-07-28/ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:28:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-buildbot-2008-07-28/ BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. Here is my environment. $ uname -a Linux app.example.com 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 02:14:55 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ python Python 2. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/getting-started-with-simple-db-2008-07-14/ Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:47:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/getting-started-with-simple-db-2008-07-14/ With my continued investigation of evaluating alternative data management with cloud computing options, I’m now evaluating Amazon Simple DB . Still in restricted beta, it helps to have a friend on the inside. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/generating-word-clouds-2008-06-21/ Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:36:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/generating-word-clouds-2008-06-21/ I came across a wicked cool tool at wondle.net . I wanted to create a word cloud for the back of a business card, now I know how. <img src=“http://wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/05557/Ronald_Bradford_About_2"style=“padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd” /> https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-on-ec2-2008-06-20/ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:30:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-on-ec2-2008-06-20/ Thanks to my friend Dustin, and his EC2 demo using Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2 I got an EC2 image setup. With other references Link 1 ,Link 2 ,Link 3 I was also able to create my own AMI. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/working-with-google-app-engine-2008-06-03/ Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:21:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/working-with-google-app-engine-2008-06-03/ Yesterday I took a more serious look at Google App Engine , I got a developer account some weeks ago. After going though the getting started demo some time ago, I chose an idea for a FaceBook Application and started in true eXtreme Programming (XP) style (i. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/trying-out-google-app-engine-2008-04-12/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:21:14 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/trying-out-google-app-engine-2008-04-12/ I got my registration for Google App Engine this morning after being Waitlisted previously . Between flying for about 15 hrs tomorrow and then the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo where I’m presenting and running an Exhibitors booth, fat chance I’ll get to look into this much over the next week. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/shareadd-this-buttons-on-sites-2008-04-12/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:12:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/shareadd-this-buttons-on-sites-2008-04-12/ I’ve noticed a change of buttons lately on sites where you can bookmark/share the relevant information. So I’ve done a cross sample of A Computer Site – www.dell.com , The MySQL Acquirer – www. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-iphone-safari-browser-2007-07-15/ Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:08:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-iphone-safari-browser-2007-07-15/ One of my photo websites www.ronaldbradford.com doesn’t work properly on the iPhone under Safari, but it works under Safari on Mac OS/X. Problem is, there is no debugging options and I see no way to workout why DOM compliant Javascript doesn’t work! https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/got-the-next-great-web-thing-2007-05-27/ Sat, 26 May 2007 18:35:26 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/got-the-next-great-web-thing-2007-05-27/ I joined a new meetup group New York Dot Com Hatchery on advice from my friend Marc. Now only if my schedule keeps in NY for the event I’ll be very much looking forward to going. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-colons-that-may-appear-in-a-valid-url-2007-03-01/ Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:10:31 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-colons-that-may-appear-in-a-valid-url-2007-03-01/ In idle conversation I was asked by MM. Question: What is the maximum number of colons ‘:’ that may appear in a valid URL? If you said zero to one, then you are victim of browsers, and you have never used anything but a browser. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ny-tech-meetup-idea-virus-2006-12-07/ Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:21:24 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ny-tech-meetup-idea-virus-2006-12-07/ On more thing that came from the NY Tech Meetup last night was the Idea Virus. It was handed out on a piece of paper. Here is what it said. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ny-tech-meetup-2006-12-06/ Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:08:44 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ny-tech-meetup-2006-12-06/ Tonight I headed to the NY Tech Meetup organized by the CEO of Meetup and co-founder of Fotolog, the company my friend Frank works for. This forum provided for quick presentations by new NY high tech ventures and other interesting discussions, then enabling further networking between people. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tutorial-beginner-web-services-2006-10-05/ Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:38:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tutorial-beginner-web-services-2006-10-05/ An introduction to using Axis . What is Axis? Axis is essentially a SOAP engine — a framework for constructing SOAP processors such as clients, servers, gateways, etc. The current version of Axis is written in Java. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/transforming-xml-with-xslt-2006-09-26/ Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:12:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/transforming-xml-with-xslt-2006-09-26/ I’ve done some work previously in XSLT to nicely format XML output within a browser. Presently, some code I’m working with also does this transforming of an XML output via XSLT into a HTML file. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/generating-an-internal-ssl-certificate-for-tomcat-2006-07-04/ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:16:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/generating-an-internal-ssl-certificate-for-tomcat-2006-07-04/ How to Generate an internal SSL certificate Create the self-signed keystore $ su - $ URL="your.url.here";export URL $ cd /opt/tomcat/conf $ keytool -genkey -alias ${URL} -keyalg RSA -keystore ${URL}.keystore Enter keystore password: changeit What is your first and last name? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/firefoxs-live-bookmarks-2006-06-15/ Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:39:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/firefoxs-live-bookmarks-2006-06-15/ I’m just about to launch a new project I’ve been working on in the past week. It has a RSS feed, and I wanted to ensure that within FireFox, this could be picked up as a live bookmark. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-gwt-2006-05-26/ Sat, 27 May 2006 09:06:49 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-gwt-2006-05-26/ New to the AJAX vertical space is the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) released the the Sun Java One Conference last week. AJAX (“Asynchronous Javascript and XML”) isn’t new, infact the underlying requirements within AJAX, the DHTML, DOM manipulation and XMLHttpRequest were available in 1997. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/restyling-a-mediwiki-installation-lesson-1-2006-05-26/ Sat, 27 May 2006 05:32:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/restyling-a-mediwiki-installation-lesson-1-2006-05-26/ Following my implementation of UltimateLAMP , read heaps more at this thread , I undertook to provide customizations of a MediaWiki Installation. Here is the first lesson that you can undertake if you wish to beautify the default MediaWiki Installation. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/latest-books-from-amazon-2006-03-08/ Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:31:42 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/latest-books-from-amazon-2006-03-08/ My latest Amazon book purchases. <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/auditing-an-existing-mysql-installation-2006-02-09/ Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:42:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/auditing-an-existing-mysql-installation-2006-02-09/ Yesterday I ran into an old collegue that now runs quite a successful computer store chain and highly successful web store here in Australia. Long story short he was having some MySQL problems, so I offered to pass my eye over it. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testingtrailing-new-mysql-releases-2006-02-07/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:57:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testingtrailing-new-mysql-releases-2006-02-07/ By now, I’m sure you have all heard about Free VMware Player allowing easy and quick access to see, view and use other OS’s easily. For those Windows users out there, now is your chance to trial MySQL under Linux with no impact to your system, why wait. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-internet-exploder-ie-under-linux-2006-02-07/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:22:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-internet-exploder-ie-under-linux-2006-02-07/ It’s really so simple, I’m surprised it doesn’t come bundled in distros. (Well I take that back, I’m as anti-microsoft as you can get, but unfortunately, we have to lower ourselves and our good work to the power of Bill who has it over those uninformed majority being brainwashed with a non-standard and flawed browser, that you have to break your code to get to work for it somethings). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/another-enterprise-lamp-stack-provider-2006-02-01/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:31:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/another-enterprise-lamp-stack-provider-2006-02-01/ ActiveGrid, the Enterprise LAMP company, provides a service-oriented application platform built on the lightweight architecture of the proven LAMP software infrastructure stack. ActiveGrid Enterprise LAMP simplifies and speeds the development of service-oriented applications that weave together existing enterprise systems into new rich web applications and services. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/blogwiki-spamming-what-makes-your-blood-boil-2006-01-29/ Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:35:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/blogwiki-spamming-what-makes-your-blood-boil-2006-01-29/ Well this is low. I’ve just been spammed on my Wiki . And it was cunning, I just found it by accident. An enterprising hacker embedded into my Home Page hidden links that were not visible via normal page view, but ultimately would be via a search bot or some other means. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/404-file-not-found-2006-01-24/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:40:19 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/404-file-not-found-2006-01-24/ Shamelessly stolen from REALITY 2.0 by Doc Searls. (You know the web, page here today, gone tomorrow. If I just have the link, you may not be able to appreciate the image in the future) https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/support-for-technology-stacks-2006-01-22/ Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:34:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/support-for-technology-stacks-2006-01-22/ As part of my next conference presentation Overcoming the Challenges of Establishing Service and Support Channels I’ve been struggling to find with my professional sources, any quality organisations that provide full support for a technology stack, for example a LAMP stack, or a Java Servlet stack. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ruby-2006-01-12/ Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:28:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ruby-2006-01-12/ Being a little despondent regarding Spring, a framework I’ve chosen to skill up in Read More , I’ve changed tack to investigate further Ruby. I was in a training demonstration of Ruby late last year, I’ve had other colleagues talk about it, and in a number of readings of late, Ruby has been making an impact, so time to delve in. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/adding-to-the-library-collection-2005-12-26/ Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:48:59 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/adding-to-the-library-collection-2005-12-26/ I took the chance today to order some books from Amazon today to add to the library. Of course I’m still reading 2 current books Spring in Action and the MySQL Certification Study Guide in order to site the second MySQL Professional Certification Exam. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/december-java-users-group-talk-on-ajax-2005-12-19/ Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:01:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/december-java-users-group-talk-on-ajax-2005-12-19/ I attended the December meeting of the Brisbane Java Users Group last night. The presenters Alex and Brad from Working Mouse a Brisbane Based J2EE Solutions Provider gave a talk on AJAX. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-20-design-patterns-2-2005-12-05/ Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:42:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-20-design-patterns-2-2005-12-05/ In his book, “A Pattern Language”, Christopher Alexander prescribes a format for the concise description of the solution to architectural problems. He writes: “Each pattern describes a problem that occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-web-20-2005-12-04/ Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:19:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-web-20-2005-12-04/ In his article What Is Web 2.0 – Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software Tim O’Reilly gives a very detailed description of these seven principles. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/myths-open-source-developers-tell-ourselves-2005-12-02/ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:25:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/myths-open-source-developers-tell-ourselves-2005-12-02/ Some interesting points from this ONLamp article on Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves Publishing your Code Will Attract Many Skilled and Frequent Contributors Myth: Publicly releasing open source code will attract flurries of patches and new contributors. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-20-not-to-be-confused-with-internet2-2005-12-01/ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:34:38 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-20-not-to-be-confused-with-internet2-2005-12-01/ What is Web 2.0? Well the definitions out there aren’t clear and precise. Tim O’Reilly from O’Reilly Publishing has a detailed description at http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228 . (More notes from this below) His compact description is: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/quotes-from-web-20-conference-2005-12-01/ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:29:31 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/quotes-from-web-20-conference-2005-12-01/ I’m writing something about Web 2.0, but I got distracted by the random header quotes that appear on the website at www.web2con.com . Never being a Simpon’s fan, but it reminds me of those sites out there with all Bart’s blackboard quotes. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-better-approach-to-using-china-for-software-development-2005-11-30/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:09:26 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-better-approach-to-using-china-for-software-development-2005-11-30/ India and China are the next powerhouses of software development, simply due to the numbers, but I’ve never heard a good report (maybe I have to dig deeper). My recent experiences are with Australian companies placing call centres in these countries, and almost always the language barrier is a clear limit. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/further-to-the-firefox-debugger-problem-2005-11-29/ Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:01:47 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/further-to-the-firefox-debugger-problem-2005-11-29/ Installing the current version of Firefox 1.07 directly of course fixed my debugging problem. However, Firefox has now released 1.5 Available here. The problem is the debugger 0.9.85 is not supported in FireFox 1. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sending-email-using-php-2005-11-06/ Sun, 06 Nov 2005 07:30:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sending-email-using-php-2005-11-06/ I’ve had a number of recent inquiries about sending emails on a Web Form using PHP. The following examples using the core PHP mail() function. mail() syntax http://www.arabx.com.au/example/mail.php – View Source