Ivan Jovanovic

PHP web development and stuff

My birthday was some time ago, but due to some unexpected circumstances I managed to share this moment with the colleagues from YoungCulture today. This way I would like to thank them for the nice greeting card with their signatures.

I really like when I stumble upon a creative and useful piece of software that could improve my everyday development process. I remember when I started using FireBug it was great help in the HTML/CSS/JavaScript development and debugging.

Last couple of months I was involved in evaluation and implementation of ActiveMQ as message queue solution for the project I currently work on. While it is more or less mainstream open-source solution today I couldn't tell I don't miss a native PHP messaging solution. Recently I've found a sign of something similar that could potentially evolve to serious PHP messaging solution. Dropr is a distributed message queue framework written in PHP. The main goals are:

• reliable and durable (failsafe)-messaging over networks
• decentralized architecture without a single (point of failure) server instance
• easy to setup and use
• modularity for queue storage and message transports (currently filesystem storage and curl-upload are implemented)

While writing this post, post-intallation update on my fresh Ubuntu installation is under its way. It was long time ago I started to feel constraints of Windows as web development environment.So, very logical step was to move to something more developer friendly than user (read dummy) friendly. After testing Ubuntu with VMware player I decided to go step further and use WUBI (Windows Ubuntu installer) to intall Ubuntu as WIndows application in a folder that will act as separate filesystem for my linux installation.