JobShuk | yirmi | Activityhttps://jobshuk.com/company/yirmi/activity/ Activity feed for yirmi. Thu, 28 Jan 2021 20:50:42 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=4.3.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3cdb5f279b7d7e216269b222f7ce0483yirmi wrote a new post, Optimizing High Traffic Massive Data Websites, on the site Yirmi's World of Web Widgets by Yirmiyahu Fischerhttp://jobshuk.com/yirmi/2014/06/15/optimizing-high-traffic-massive-data-websites/ Sun, 15 Jun 2014 12:22:52 +0000 The big dilemma in web development is that, on the one hand, web pages are expected to do more and more, while on the other hand, are expected to load instantaneously.  A web page that takes longer than 2 seconds […]

]]> 0 c351d346b3326d60942c733bbc2e2dc6yirmi wrote a new post, Oy Vey Debugging – Fixing PHP Web applications without a debugger, on the site Yirmi's World of Web Widgets by Yirmiyahu Fischerhttp://jobshuk.com/yirmi/2013/11/18/oy-vey-debugging/ Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:16:43 +0000 While it is much easier and more efficient to use a debugger such as x-debug to debug your PHP web application, there may be some difficulties on the server stopping one from implementing x-debug.  In this case, […]

]]> 0 ad5f9d1d94d080d1c33cc435294c7c0byirmi wrote a new post, Using Google to look up Web Development Solutions, on the site Yirmi's World of Web Widgets by Yirmiyahu Fischerhttp://jobshuk.com/yirmi/2013/11/04/using-google-to-look-up-web-development-solutions/ Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:35:59 +0000 Rav Nachman said, “Saying I don’t know is negligent.” (Talmud Baba Metzia 35a)

In the age of Google, Rav Nachman’s statement can be extended way beyond its original meaning.  What do you mean, “I don’t know”?  […]

]]> 0 04735ac2523a300a780f30e238896dc5yirmi wrote a new post, PHP/AJAX Shipping Calculator for UPS: getting a list of the available shipping services between locations, on the site Yirmi's World of Web Widgets by Yirmiyahu Fischerhttp://jobshuk.com/yirmi/2010/02/18/php-ajax-shipping-calculator-for-ups-getting-a-list-of-the-available-shipping-services-between-locations/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:53:38 +0000 PHP/AJAX Shipping Calculator for UPS: getting a list of the available shipping services between locations There are already guides available for building a general UPS shipping calculator form , and with a little knowledge of PHP, one can modify the sample to have the shipping calculated on one’s own shopping cart.   The problem with such a static form is that […]

]]> 0 5705cd3cf3362747bd7650189c22b004yirmi wrote a new post, Developing multilingual websites using PHP, part 3 – Right-to-Left vs. Left-to-Right, on the site Yirmi's World of Web Widgets by Yirmiyahu Fischerhttp://jobshuk.com/yirmi/2009/10/19/developing-multilingual-websites-using-php-part-3-right-to-left-vs-left-to-right/ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:34:40 +0000 The problem    When developing a website for Hebrew and other languages, there is an additional issue to deal with.   If all the languages are left-to-right, then it is straightforward to use the same template or design with all languages.   All that needs to be switched when the site is viewed in a different language […]

]]> 0 238425c8f6099f120eaddbbcd64c88c1yirmi wrote a new post, Developing multilingual websites using PHP, part 2 – database connection character sets for MySQL, on the site Yirmi's World of Web Widgets by Yirmiyahu Fischerhttp://jobshuk.com/yirmi/2009/08/20/developing-multilingual-websites-using-php-part-2-database-connection-character-sets-for-mysql/ Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:37:54 +0000 The problem    Ok.  I did everything it said in the previous article, and both my database and my site are working in UTF-8.   Still, anything in Hebrew I enter into PHPMyAdmin comes up as question marks on my site.   If I enter in data from the website, it comes up as gibberish on PHPMyAdmin.   When I […]

]]> 0 91d5b3e04668245822d62d1198a00e10yirmi wrote a new post, Developing multilingual websites using PHP, part 1, on the site Yirmi's World of Web Widgets by Yirmiyahu Fischerhttp://jobshuk.com/yirmi/2009/08/06/developing-multilingual-websites-using-php-part-1/ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:46:47 +0000 In today’s World Wide Web, people expect to read websites in their own language.   Many Israeli websites now appear in Hebrew for Israelis, in English for the international community, and in other languages, such as Russian or Arabic.   To make a website work properly in many languages, one must take care of a few issues.   This article will deal […]

]]> 0 e21ec5a6e328587dae2a3780a9751713yirmi wrote a new post, Using free scripts to develop websites, on the site Yirmi's World of Web Widgets by Yirmiyahu Fischerhttp://jobshuk.com/yirmi/2009/07/23/using-free-scripts-to-develop-websites/ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:26:33 +0000 Using free scripts to develop websites It’s all about “keeping up with the Jones’s” on the Internet.   If Jones’s website has draggable, flashing, flying boxes, Smith feels his site also has to have them.   For me, as a developer, this is good because it keeps up the demand for website development and redevelopment. This helps to keep me employed. […]

]]> 0 e273a417264bea09e69daef625a32c56yirmi wrote a new post, How does your website look on the other guy’s computer?, on the site Yirmi's World of Web Widgets by Yirmiyahu Fischerhttp://jobshuk.com/yirmi/2009/07/16/how-does-your-website-look-on-the-other-guy-s-computer/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:45:51 +0000 One major challenge for web developers is to have the site look just right on the various web browsers.   While there are official standards how all the browsers are supposed to interpret HTML and CSS, in practice, each browser has its quirks, and while the page may look one way on my computer, if one is unscrupulous […]

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