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Appix, the global webapp directory

Vincenzo Buttazzo Projects 13 November 202113 November 2021

On everybody smartphone there are a lot of apps downloaded from an app store. There apps are build for a specific platform and distributed through a managed selling channel. This works well, but is not really the way the internet worked in the past few decades.

At the same time technology around websites is highly evolved and it is possible to recreate the same app look and feeling using HTML5, Javascript and CSS3. This are called webapps or sometimes Single Page Applications (SPA) and you don’t have to install them, but just navigate to the URL using your internet browser.

Modern browser allows you to “install” them, but it’s more a link placed on your home screen, and also use them when you’re offline.

But for webapps there is no app store and they are difficult to find, but now there is Appix, the global webapp directory, where you can browse through webapps presentations and find that one you need. Give Appix a try, register and review your favorite webapps.

Running MySQL/MariaDB and Sphinx in Docker for powerful search

Vincenzo Buttazzo Solutions 14 November 201914 November 2019Docker, MariaDB, MySQL, Sphinx SE

Want to setup a relational database with advanced search features? Just merge two specific software in one powerful application: MariaDB and Sphinx.

Perl6, get your test environment running in seconds

Vincenzo Buttazzo Perl6 15 June 201914 November 2019Docker, Perl6, Raku

So you want to give a try to Perl6 to see what this language can do for you, but you don’t want to mess up your system with a lot of software you don’t know if will ever use again. No problem! The obvious answer is called Docker.

Perl-FPM, running Perl on nginx as FastCGI

admin Perl 31 May 2018nginx, Perl 2 Comments

Perl was the language of choice in the early days of web programming, when Perl was a synonym for CGI. Many things are changed in the meanwhile, but we can still use Perl with a modern webserver to get things done! Read more

Get started with Perl on Docker

admin Docker, Perl 17 May 2018Docker, Perl 1 Comment

Docker is the modern way for distribute applications. It allows you to create a deployable entity that will run in the same way on almost every *unix platform without the need to install anything more than same basic dependencies required by Docker itself. An ideal choice to run a code sample, a testing environment or your production application. Let’s see how to use it to run a simple Perl script. Read more

How to transfer only a certain file extension with rsync

admin Code 6 November 2017 2 Comments

Rsync is the tool of choice if you have to transfer files from a server to another one. The tool is very powerful and has a lot of options, but is not that easy to use when you have in mind what you need to do but you don’t know how. Read more

How to correctly manage UTF-8 with Perl

admin Hints 23 May 2017Perl 0 Comment

Perl has a native support for different character encodings, like the well known UTF-8, but its default behavior is to use Latin-1. This brings easily to a lot of problems if you don’t tune certain settings. Read more

Upload huge files with Perl’s LWP::UserAgent

admin Perl 7 December 2016 2 Comments

Everybody who work with Perl knows LWP::UserAgent, the most used library when you need to work with HTTP connections.

The library has some methods that cover the most common usage cases, such as GET and POST request.
If you need something more particular you have to set up a HTTP::Request object and pass it to LWP::UserAgent’s request method. I don’t think I’m saying something unexpected.

I recently got some problems by sending a bug file. It wasn’t really big because I’m talking about a 100 MB file, but it was bit enough to send my small VPS server out of memory. This was because I needed to pass it as raw POST payload for Google Drive API and to do that I was slurping it into memory. A bad idea.

Simple smooth expanding element with Javascript without any framework

admin Code 30 October 2014 0 Comment

One common situation in web developing is that you want to expand and collapse an element (maybe a DIV) with a smooth animation. It’s a common request because having a smooth animation helps the user to follow what happens on the page without being disorientated by fast changes. Read more

Google Analytics API with PHP using a service account

admin Code 17 September 2014 0 Comment

Google APIs are great. You can do almost everything with them: data reporting, file upload, everything. Unfortunately the documentation isn’t that good because same very important informations are not reported there! So you try the examples and they don’t work because of a hidden step you didn’t done. Read more

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Appix, the global webapp directory
On everybody smartphone there are a lot of apps downloaded from an app store. There apps are build for a specific platform and distributed through a managed selling channel. This works well, but is not really the way the internet worked in the past few decades. At the same time technology around websites is highly
Running MySQL/MariaDB and Sphinx in Docker for powerful search
Want to setup a relational database with advanced search features? Just merge two specific software in one powerful application: MariaDB and Sphinx.
Perl6, get your test environment running in seconds
So you want to give a try to Perl6 to see what this language can do for you, but you don’t want to mess up your system with a lot of software you don’t know if will ever use again. No problem! The obvious answer is called Docker.
Perl-FPM, running Perl on nginx as FastCGI
Perl was the language of choice in the early days of web programming, when Perl was a synonym for CGI. Many things are changed in the meanwhile, but we can still use Perl with a modern webserver to get things done!
Get started with Perl on Docker
Docker is the modern way for distribute applications. It allows you to create a deployable entity that will run in the same way on almost every *unix platform without the need to install anything more than same basic dependencies required by Docker itself. An ideal choice to run a code sample, a testing environment or
How to transfer only a certain file extension with rsync
Rsync is the tool of choice if you have to transfer files from a server to another one. The tool is very powerful and has a lot of options, but is not that easy to use when you have in mind what you need to do but you don’t know how.