Sphinx Search Engine 0.9.7, Ruby Client API 0.3.0

Apr 05
2007 16:44 (Development, MySQL, RoR Plugins, Ruby on Rails) · Русский (7,648 views)

Sphinx Search EngineIt’s happened! We all waited for Sphinx update and finally Andrew Aksyonoff has released version 0.9.7 of his wonderful search engine (who does not know about it, look my previous posts here and here).

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Wordpress plugins updates

Apr 01
2007 16:29 (Development, WordPress) · Русский (4,680 views)

Today I finished reorganization of my blog and now all my Wordpress plugins moved to separate page. Check it if you are using my plugins in your blog. In this post I’ll describe which plugins I have at this moment.

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JavaScript optimization Part 2: Applying styles to elements

Mar 27
2007 22:02 (Development, JavaScript) · Русский (9,572 views)

This is second part of articles cycle devoted to JavaScript optimization. In this post I’ll cover dynamic elements styling and explore a little HTML-rendering process. Also you will find here some tricks on how to make your applications faster.

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JavaScript optimization Part 1: Adding DOM elements to document

Mar 25
2007 03:40 (Development, JavaScript) · Русский (18,442 views)

Most web-developers writing tons of JavaScript, especially in our Web 2.0 century. It’s powerful technology, but most browsers has very slow implementation of engine, and everyone at some instant decide to review code and make it faster. In this post I’ll share my experience and explain several tricks how to make your JavaScript as fast as possible.

This is first article in 7 parts tutorial, stay tuned.

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Colorizing console Ruby-script output

Mar 23
2007 18:28 (Development, Ruby on Rails) · Русский (12,136 views)

Very often I have to implement console scripts (because of my laziness, for boring processes optimization). Many of them write some information to the output, show process status or display results of work. Anyway, it’s very wearisome action to read script output, and I want to highlight most important things: errors in red, successfully finished steps in green color, etc. And it is a case when ANSI escape sequences could help. They are supported by the most terminals, including VT100 (btw, Windows NT family console does not support it, but I will back to this issue later).

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