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Google adding Chrome Desktop Notification for Gmail

Jakub — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:09:09 +0000

This is pretty interesting, I was in my gmail this morning, and noticed a message that I can enable desktop alerts just by using Google Chrome.

Now you can get chat / email alerts without popping back and forth from your work to your gmail account.

To activate the feature, go to your Gmail settings and activate desktop notifications. You can also customize it so you only receive Gmail or Gchat notifications, or only priority inbox notifications.

Need to benchmark your website?

Jakub — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:07:48 +0000

I ran into this issue after suggesting clients to use godaddy.com for the longest time. I honestly feel bad now that in an effort to ‘save a buck’ I funneled clients to this giant of a company to only find months later poor customer support and a web hosting setup starved of any resources they might need.

In one particular case, I bench marked load times for a simple PHP web page at well over ~15 seconds!

I contacted support, they sent me useless information how to increase PHP performance (a tactic usually used to sling the blame at the user). I provided back to them statistics from benchmarking my site, compared to their main page.

So godaddy, replied stating that I should upgrade my hosting to their new grid-something-or-other hosting, because I was a high usage ‘site’. Right… this customer had a site that had a very small following (25-50 users a day).

Anyway, if you are in the same boat, and you might need to inform your web host (hopefully not godaddy, they won’t do anything) regarding slower than expected response times. Check out http://webwait.com/

Webwait allows you to quickly and easily add sites to benchmark, and do multiple calls to get an average time rather than just one single test.

CMSMadeSimple 1.6.5 – PHP 5.3.0 patch fix

Jakub — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:41:35 +0000

I was installing cmsmadesimple, and ran into an issue where errors were thrown while running cmsmadesimple under PHP 5.3.0 env.
Upon checking the Forums, it became clear that cmsmadesimple did NOT yet support PHP 5.3.0 in its 1.6.5 release, that the newer 1.7.0 would address the issue(s).

I have yet to run into any other issues, but the editcontent.php file was the one that gave me trouble, here is how I fixed it:
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,36805.0.html

I was able to ‘patch’ this myself by doing the following:
open up /admin/editcontent.php
search and replace all get_class(
replace with fix_get_class(
add the code below to the top of the editcontent.php file
Code:
function fix_get_class($object)
{
            if (is_object($object)) {
                 return strtolower(get_class($object));
            }
            return false;
}
Keep in mind this is a quick, rough patch. It seems to work just fine for me after the patch, and I have not run into any issues… yet.

So whoever needs it, enjoy, apply the patch and good luck in running the quick easy to use CMS application.