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  • Some friends and what they are doing - part I

    This article resides in my sandbox for some time and this is the big day for him. I will write some ideas about some friends that are running IT business. Emil Marcoci - Software engineer Emil is...

    Published on 15 October, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Human Computer Interaction - Episode III

    I want to share some ideas about using AJAX in web interface development. Working with Dojo, jQuery or any other JavaScript framework any web developer is able to offer a higher level of usability. In...

    Published on 12 August, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Alternative PHP Cache

    I had a small conversation with a junior PHP developer and I was disappointed about the lack of knowledge on PHP caching. In this article I will cover some ideas about APC. What is APC? Php.net of...

    Published on 21 July, 2008 Read entire article »
  • PHP and MySQL Query Profiler

    This is not really something new, but I had to use it few days ago and I decided to write my experience with the new Query Profiler from MySQL. Jeremy Cole from Proven Scaling did a great job and sinc...

    Published on 12 July, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Culture Factor in Team Management and Leadership

    Maybe you've heard the expression: "Managing computer programmers is like herding cats". I think that analogy is not chosen just happy. Traditional management, through some sort of command-control hie...

    Published on 8 July, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Windows Live Writer

    I found a very interesting tool to write articles on Ideaticus.com : Windows Live Writer. I have to admit that I'm rarely impressed by Microsoft software and in this case I really am. First of all i...

    Published on 27 June, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Importing CSV files with PHP

    Attention: this is a technical article. Sometimes site owners, with almost zero technical knowledge, want a way to save their database then to import them directly from their web application. For t...

    Published on 5 June, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Human Computer Interaction - Episode II

    I managed to finish another article about Human Computer Interaction. In the previous episode we covered some rules about search results. Maybe some of you found them useful and I decided to write ab...

    Published on 5 June, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Code reuse in web context

    Code reuse is maybe one of the most interesting controversy of the IT industry. I have three questions that I'll try to answer in this article: Why it is good to reuse code and why it is bad? ...

    Published on 4 May, 2008 Read entire article »
  • MDP - MySpace Developer Platform

    This is a very short post! Congratulations MySpace! I found few days ago their Developers sections and I think is great. Since august 2006, when Facebook launched their API, I didn't found any othe...

    Published on 3 February, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Human Computer Interaction - Episode I

    As I promise, I'll write a series of articles about Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The prologue of this series had defined some terms from HCI theory. This article is focused on web interfaces, esp...

    Published on 1 February, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Flixster powered by MySQL

    I like Flixster! It's a nice community where I can find quickly what movies should I rent for the weekend, I can read stories about actors, I can easily find some pictures with some cool actress or ju...

    Published on 23 January, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Brands and domains market

    Last night I made some research on domain names major domains auction sites and I didn't found many options. A lot of good domain names are parked and not for sale, but many domains are listed for tho...

    Published on 22 January, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Sun acquires MySQL

    On January 16, 2008, Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer and President Sun Microsystems, Inc., made a big announcement: "we're putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP". The most popula...

    Published on 21 January, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Speed up ip2location queries

    Many web applications use ip2location for ads targeting, restrict content to a specific location or just because they need to know where the traffic comes from. The initial setup of ip2location data...

    Published on 20 January, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Human Computer Interaction - Prologue

    I try to find different kind of approaches when I have to design web interfaces even I am a developer and not a designer. Reading about how to design an interface, I found the "Human Computer Interact...

    Published on 13 January, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Simple URL rewriting

    Any website needs a good url rewriting policy. Simple urls will be easily followed by spiders and many search engines will love your site if internal links are simple and offer some clue about the pag...

    Published on 10 January, 2008 Read entire article »
  • MOSH - Nokia Social Network

    I was very happy to discover MOSH, a great social network made by Nokia for their happy users. I believe the title says all: "MOSH - mobilize and share (by Nokia)". You can build a community, share ap...

    Published on 10 January, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Web development quality assurance

    One of the most important aspects when lunching a website is the customers satisfaction. If you want your site to be a success story, you must offer the best navigation experience to your clients. Eve...

    Published on 8 January, 2008 Read entire article »
  • Developing the future

    The title looks like a motto. Well, it isn't. IT development implies deep understanding of technology and comprehensive forecasts. Right now, every company try to align their business with the market ...

    Published on 4 December, 2007 Read entire article »
  • Video on Demand - Run your own television

    Online televisions are small applications mostly made for websites. Some of them have a version for mobile phones, but the number of users is not very important for the market right now. No matter you...

    Published on 30 November, 2007 Read entire article »
  • Social network everyone?

    MySpace, Facebook, AdultSpace, Orkut or Hi5 deliver thousands of pages every second. Many other applications were recently enhanced with social networking aspects (one of the biggest is Yahoo!). I w...

    Published on 24 November, 2007 Read entire article »
  • Rumors about PHP and MySQL coming to mobile

    I found some rumors about a not so far release of PAMP for S60. What PAMP stands for? The answer is very simple: Personal Apache, MySQL, PHP. The release and demonstration of PAMP capabilities wil...

    Published on 20 November, 2007 Read entire article »
  • Working with development teams

    I am a developer and I always want to maximize customer satisfaction. Any project manager should take care of customer satisfaction. Let me "sell" you few tips about how to maximize their effort. Fir...

    Published on 20 November, 2007 Read entire article »
  • Android Development

    Do you have a good idea and you want to build a mobile application? Google helps you and much more then that: Google pays you! With the Google's million bounty put on application development for A...

    Published on 20 November, 2007 Read entire article »
  • Web application security

    Dear reader, are you, or your developers, familiar with the following terms: Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Injection Flaws, Malicious File Execution, Insecure Direct Object Reference, Cross Site Reques...

    Published on 17 November, 2007 Read entire article »
  • What's special in you project?

    When I talk with someone who wants to start a business online, my first questions is "What's special in you project?". Every new project needs something special. When end-users interact with your busi...

    Published on 16 November, 2007 Read entire article »
  • It's all about ideas

    A lot of websites are talking about Web 2.0, accessibility, usability, website optimization, security and many other topics and we will discuss about this topics too, but my concern is about quality...

    Published on 14 November, 2007 Read entire article »
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Who am I

I'm Narcis Radu, a web developer living & working in Iasi, Romania. I'm the founder of SpryBase, a company of talented proffesionals who make web sites.

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