I have an old PHP website that I wanted to have its code/content versioned with Git, normally Git setup the repo directory in the “.git” directory inside the working directory, but I faced a problem, if the working directory is accessible from the web server it means “.git” is also accessible too. Luckily git have an option to have the repo directory located somewhere else using the GIT_DIR environment variable, so here what I did:

The problem In alriyadh.com most of the site administration take place inside the premises of Alriyadh Newspaper offices, and as you can image the bandwidth dedicated to the website team isn’t that big. This why we designed our system to have two parts, one inside Alriyadh Newspaper internal data center where the local access is very fast, and another part accessible to the public hosted in MeduNet, and we would have a database replication for the website data, and file system replication for the web site images and media.

Drupal wins 2008 Best Open Source CMS from Packt Publishing More from http://www.packtpub.com/article/2008-open-source-cms-award-winner-announced More from Wikipedia: Drupal Content Management System (CMS)

PHP default resampling method vs “resampling and sharping”; Move your mouse over the image to see sharp version Influenced by: Smart Image Resizer Flickr’s Dirty Little Secret

TIOBE Programming Community Index The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

I’ve just upgraded my Blogging software to WordPress latest version 2.5 Since I skipped a version I noticed huge improvements, tags, widgets, new dashboard, new interfaces, more info in this post WordPress 2.5

After installing PostgreSQL (15 minutes job), and playing with pgAdminIII, I decided to try it with PHP.