March 23rd, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Resources
It is a great tool to check, for instance, if google public DNS (i.e. enabled to use the pirate bay) really make your internet faseter:
Are you a power-user with 5 minutes to spare? Do you want a faster internet experience?
Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer [...]
March 23rd, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Web services
Lo ammetto, non sono di certo uno esperto in materia, ma comunque finora ho avuto modo di provare diversi servizi hosting. Tra questi il famoso “Aruba” che qua in Italia va per la maggiore, perchè considerato molto economico, ma ecco tre semplici motivi per cui ve lo sconsiglio altamente:
E’ costoso. Sì, in realtà Aruba costa [...]
March 9th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Tips&Tricks
Running XAMPP or WAMP as local web servers is extremely useful to test websites, but sometimes it gets pretty annoying when other processes use port 80 (i.e. skype) so that Apache can’t start.
Recently I had the process “System” using that port, and I couldn’t help stopping it! Finilally google gave me the right solution:
You can [...]
January 21st, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
In this previous tutorial I simply showed how to create a service in Flex and how to use it to create something in the database. Now we’ll use the service to get al the items in the database and to populate a DataGrid.
So, let’s open the project and create a DataGrid:
not difficult hu? Okay and [...]
October 26th, 2009 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4, PHP, Resources
Have you ever wondered how to test your PHP (for instance) files locally? Well I never did, till I found XAMP. It is a great tool to quickly install on your computer with no hassle Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl… There are different distributions for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris.
It became essential for [...]