CodeIgniter is the king 😉 But if we want to create good quality code, we should be aware about CodeIgniter style guide standards. What can be better than PHP_CodeSniffer for keeping our code consistent and clean as much as it possible.

Unfortunately standard rules from PHP_CodeSniffer doesn’t apply for CodeIgniter. You have to install additional set of rules – you can download them from here: PHP_CodeSniffer rules for CI .

You can find plenty of tutorials how to setup tinyMCE and iBrowser, but non of them mention about common problems, like “error building image list!”, or how to bind regular image browser to iBrowser. Here you can find full instructions.

As much as I love lighttpd  sometimes I can’t avoid Apache . For me – “the best” thing in lighttpd is support for keeping vhost names in MySQL database. I don’t have to use any config files, I can just put record into MySQL database with virtual host server name, path to document root and it’s done. But – I can do the same witch Apache! How? With third party modules, below you can find short tutorial “how to”.

In last two days I’m trying to find best way to convert PDF files to good quality JPEG files. Of course size does matter, not only in case of women breasts.

When I was trying to convert files directly from PDF to JPEG results was pretty scary:

convert myfile.pdf[1] dc.jpg

number 1 in brackets means only one(second) page to process.
As I result I get file with pretty huge size: 496.8K
but… if we do this in two steps:

Google Page Speed Online is really good service for measuring and optimising your website. After deep analysis we get a lot if clues how to improve speed of your website. But how to Leverage browser caching if we have Lighttpd  instead default Apache? We need to use mod_expire .