Explor­ing some parts of the code behind gallery.chaostangent.com includ­ing data­base func­tions for deal­ing with mod­i­fied pre­order tree tra­versal mod­els, image res­iz­ing in PHP and JavaS­cript numer­acy functions.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• database,
• firebug,
• framework,
• functions,
• gallery.chaostangent.com,
• gd,
• image,
• imagemagick,
• javascript,
• mysql,
• php,
• resizing,
• sql,
• swfupload,
• zend framework

Tasked with set­ting up a sup­plier search, I opted to use the most com­plex and pre­cise for­mula avail­able for cal­cu­lat­ing the dis­tance between two points. I then imple­men­ted into a data­base func­tion for easy com­pu­ta­tional overhead.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• airy,
• antipodal,
• calculation,
• database,
• distance,
• geodesic,
• haversine,
• latitude,
• longitude,
• maths,
• mysql,
• php,
• script,
• suppliers,
• vincenty,
• wgs84

All about the recent major update to the applic­a­tion power­ing gallery.chaostangent.com. A brief his­tory of the applic­a­tion and its pur­pose as well as some imple­ment­a­tion details and an in-depth look at the updates and the reas­ons behind them.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• cake,
• Code,
• database,
• framework,
• galleries,
• gd,
• imagemagick,
• images,
• modified preorder tree traversal,
• mysql,
• php,
• php5,
• prado,
• symfony,
• thumbnails,
• zend framework

The first in a multi-part series on les­sons learned and plans made (not neces­sar­ily in that order) for repla­cing an exist­ing ded­ic­ated server with a newer model. Cov­ers audit­ing the exist­ing server and reas­ons for doing so.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• apache,
• database,
• dedicated server,
• dns,
• domains,
• email,
• fedora,
• firewall,
• linux,
• mysql,
• server,
• switch,
• unix,
• upgrade