Category Archives: Testing

Debugging mails being send from applications

Posted on Thursday, August 7, 2008 by DelGurth

Ever needed to test the e-mail functionality of your application, on windows, without having access to a SMTP server? Try SMTP server for developers, a brilliant piece of software, so far. You need .Net for it. It’s really easy to … Continue reading →

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PHP Acceleration with eAccelerator

Posted on Thursday, May 8, 2008 by DelGurth

With high traffic sites, performance issue’s rise. Now one of the solutions is to use an opcode caching mechanism for PHP. There are two mainstream open source solutions for that, APC and eAccelerator. And there is Zend platform and Zend … Continue reading →

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Using VMware player for testing Internet Explorer on Ubuntu

Posted on Monday, May 5, 2008 by DelGurth

One disadvantage of developing websites/web applications on Unix (in my case Ubuntu) is that it’s hard to test things on Internet Explorer. Yes, you have IEs4Linux but that’s just not the same thing. For real testing with the different versions … Continue reading →

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