Technologies

Binary compression still alive – golang binary compression.

Binary compression still alive – golang binary compression.

Technologies, Go Lang, Open Source
In the ancient times, when I was coding mostly in Pascal – size did matter. People were using RAR to shave couple kilobytes from archives, and having 2mb executable was better then having 4mb executable file. In that beautiful time we used UPX – I wasn’t aware that this project is still alive, and works nicely with binaries create bo go lang. Ultimate Packer for eXecutables Copyright (C) 1996 - 2017 UPX 3.
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How to choose the right technology for your next project

what is the best stack for your next project

Technologies, Blog

People quite often asking me about technology stack, and where to go with next big project. The answer isn’t simple – it depends. Usually, we have couple components which are critical for the whole system. If we are talking about a web-based solution or any API we have to decide about DATABASE, then we have STORAGE, moving on – some BACKEND service language.

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Magento 2.1 installation issues

Technologies, Open Source, PHP

I’ve been recently trying to install the latest Magento and was experiencing some issues with Magento installer unable to detect PHP version. My message was pretty weird:

Your PHP version is . The required PHP version is

also found couple 500 errors in XHR requests.

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Caddy rewrite and CodeIgniter

Open Source, Technologies, PHP
Caddy it’s a new kid in the block in category super light web servers. Personally – I love it. Same love I feel to CodeIgniter . To marge both of them, we need only basic rewrite rule to drop into caddyfile. api.spidersoft.com.au { root /var/www/html/spidersoft.com.au gzip rewrite { to {path} {path}/ /index.php?/{uri} } fastcgi / /var/run/php-sock php }