10 ideas to fill 10Gb of free hosting

How fill the 10Gb of wordpress.com space? Easy task!

1. upload minute by minute photos taken from my webcam for a whole year (decade?)
2. backup “internet”… ops.. too big… ok backup 10Gb of the internet best archives
3. save the latest 3 years of all OSS abandonware ML
4. create a vmware image online repository to use my “pc” everywhere
5. backup all my mp3 inside steganography images, and the create a photoblog
6. cat /dev/zero > fullo.wordpress.com
7. clone youtube, or at least porntube, best movie repository…
8. save my country google maps on hires quality, and reuse with yahoo…
9. donate as free upload archive 1Mb for every 10 cent donation to FSS or Unicef or Greenpeace or whatever
10. convert my rna sequence in animated gif and upload them

ciuaz

phpDay 3rd edition, some other news

As I sayd some days ago in Italian is started the organization of the 3rd Italian phpDay. This event is dedicated to all the php developers spread in the italian peninsula and not only and will be hosted by the University of Bari.

Who organize is the GrUSP, a national PUG, php user group, which I am member of.

Actually we’ve started the Call for Paper (open both in english and italian) and the Call for Sponsors for the companies which want to show their name in an event like that. There will be different kind of sponsorizationship, probably three, based on differents criteria.
I’ll talk about them as soon will be published on the official site.

Btw, this year the phpDay will have 2 differents paths one more technical and advanced and the other one easier and focuses also on php software.

• in the advanced path the speakers can talks abouts new development methods, security and technics, frameworks and php-related problems (like server optimization and *sql problems)
• in the presentation/introductive path the talks will be about software solutions write in and for php (ie. phpSomethings or Zend Studio) and other arguments like library how-to or introduction to the language.

Last edition phpDay had quite 400 visitors and will hope to increase that number this year!

Moka Drink

The moka drink is my personal caffeine drug. I love it, and I drink it since I was 8.

That is a wonderfull drink that can be bought only in Cosenza (Calabria, Italy) and is made only with coffee, carbonated water and sugar (mmh… it’s like a coffee-soda).

It has a very long story and is very appreciated in Cosenza but, I don’t know why, it isn’t reselled anywhere outside there.

Maybe I’ll suggest to the guys on ThinkGeek to add that on the caffeine category of their shop.

ciuaz

Add your feeds to Google Reader

Reading the google reader blog I’ve noticed some strange green links with the ‘in reader‘ text..

after some seconds, and two mouse over, I’ve realized that now is possible add your own feeds to the google reader very easily..

what you have to do is:

• use this URL
  http://www.google.com/reader/preview/*/feed/YOUR-FEED-URL
• change YOUR-FEED-URL with the absolute URL of your blog feed

so what are you waiting for? Catch here my feeds!

ciuaz

Pagerank 7?

How is it possible!? This blog has pagerank 7!!!

Maybe Google spider is going insane…

[update]
it seems that pagerank is changing… here a screenshot of pr7

phpCollab community forum hacked (again)

This is the 4th time that the phpCollab community forum, based on phpBB plus, was hacked.

I’ve liked a lot that forum but actually I, and the other dev team members, cannot check every single day if a new XSS o bug is discovered and if there is patch to download, we’re too busy by our payed day job to working also on something different than the phpCollab development.

With the new releases of phpBB also the update/patching process is begone long and boring with a lot of files to move, rename, update..

Now I’m thinking to switch to another OOS forum, but I don’t know what, the community doesn’t need a zillion features forum, but needs something easy to manage, to use and to restore.

Any ideas? (oh, obviously I need to import all the old messages…)

A bad way to use ajax

A friend of mine ask me about using ajax to create a small counter for his site, he wanted to update the counter every xx seconds to show how many users are visiting his site at the same time.

The idea is nice but after a 10 second thinking I’ve stopped him to implement such feature.

Why? Think about to use a small file (1kb) where you save the counter value.
Now, select as refresh time 5 seconds, every minutes a user will receive 12 refresh of the counter element (=12kb).

This isn’t a real problem for a single user but if the site has more than 100 users online? Every minutes the script will use quite 1Mb of server bandwith…

Do you see the path? If you use an ajax counter like this in a community forum with 100 different browser session, and is not rare that a user opens more than one session to read different posts, always online you’ll waste 60Mb/h => 1,4Gb day!!!

A good use of ajax should be very usefull, but a bad use will surely kill your servers…

ciuaz

webdev days…

this is my very first (personal) post in english, please forgive my syntax, my poor dictionary (I know only a lot of tech words) and grammatical error… Btw I’ll improve it.. be sure

I need some holidays, a year or two…

My head is near to explode after a full month on php, js, a very intricated and old db (that I cannot change for compatibility with an old application), some experiment on ajax and on CSS.

This one is the thing I hate more, the IE behaviour for the float things is driving me crazy… And my clients will never understand that I’M NOT A WEB DESIGNER but a developer… sigh…

ciauz