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Fruitbots, a JS bot challenge
I sometimes like to join bot challenges to improve my programming skills and logic reasoning.
Last week I discovered Fruitbots, a JavaScript bot challenge created by the Scribd staff. Like every good challenge of its type, it features simple rules and a clear bot API, also it can be scripted in 4 languages: Python, Lua, Ruby and JavaScript.
The Fruitbots world is a board with different kind of fruits lying around. The goal is to collect more fruits than the opponent bot, of many types as possible.
Deploying in 2013, from Grunt to Amazon S3
What is your deploying chain right now? How has it changed over time?
The actual deploy of a single page app I’m involved is based on a single Grunt script, executing on a Node.js environment.
The Grunt chain takes all the files (Backbone.js app, JS libs, HTML templates, CSS and images), checks, copies, concatenates and minificates them.
Youtube subscribe button now available
Our Good old Share WordPress plugin aims to be always updated and fresh.
The news today is about the new YouTube subscribe button, presented here.
Continue readingHow to update the remote content of a Modal in Twitter Bootstrap
Twitter Bootstrap is a very good tool with beautiful graphics and lots of tiny useful objects.
The Modal object is nice and lightweight, and is also able to load remote content. I liked it and wanted to use it on a list of links, loading new content every time a link was pressed.
The problem
Unfortunately, I found that the Modal remote content load feature works only the first time the object is used! Once a Modal object is instantiated, it is persistently attached to the element specified by data-target; subsequent calls to show it will only call toggle() on it, but will not update its content. This is because the remote load is done in the constructor of the Modal object, so even changing its properties, the content won’t be updated.
How to implement a custom file manager in TinyMCE 4
The TinyMCE 4 javascript editor supports HTML5 and features a new interface and a complete rewrite of all plugins. TinyMCE is the standard WYSIWYG editor for online CMS and websites: if you have a custom file manager attached to the image button, it’s time to think about updating its loading code. To do this in minutes, you can add a quick hack to the new image plugin. Of course, this tutorial covers a standard approach not related to any File Manager in particular. Your final working code will be strictly related to the File Manager in use.
Continue readingMySql performance optimization tricks
MySql performance optimization is an interesting task, I like to focus on it on my free time.
Please note that these are house rules. There is no guarantee that your performance will improve. Use with precautions!
key_buffer_size
An important variable setting is key_buffer_size; a good value is the 20% of total RAM.
Here it is a sample:
key_buffer_size = 820M
max_connections
Also, the max_connections variable could be safely lowered from its default value. Take a look at your Max used connections status variable; you can safely set the max_connections to Max used connections x 5, with a minimum of 40.
Sample:
max_connections = 85
tmp_table_size and max_heap_table_size
Finally, it’s important to take a look to tmp_table_size and max_heap_table_size. You can get a good value for them by dividing the available RAM by the max_connections variable.
Sample:
# Total RAM: 4GB; Mysql supposed available RAM: 3GB; Max_connections: 85;
# Good Value = 3GB / 80 = 35MB
tmp_table_size = 35M
max_heap_table_size = 35M
Thank you 500000!
This is a special day for our little project! The Really Simple Share plugin just reached 500,000 downloads; at the same time our Really Simple Twitter Widget plugin reached 100,000 downloads.
We’re busy keeping them (and the other plugins) update and working. At the moment we’re focusing on the Twitter side, making every plugin API 1.1 compliant.
Thank you everyone, for your requests and support!