Category Archives: web programming

how to ignore *.php requests using Apache

By etagwerker | Published: September 1, 2010
This will redirect any *.php requests to your 404.html and save resources in your server.
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SVG Javascript chart libraries

By etagwerker | Published: July 20, 2010
The last couple of weeks I worked on a feature that required to display a set of charts. Namely, a pie chart and a bar chart. One of them had to be interactive. We didn't want a Flash chart. I did some research and found these libraries: gRaphaël Highcharts Google Chart Tools
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getting started with Cucumber and Webrat on Rails

By etagwerker | Published: June 17, 2010
A couple of months ago I started using Cucumber in one of my projects. I think it’s a great tool for large projects. It makes it easier for developers joining the project and it gives the development team a lot of confidence when changing the code. If you have a running set of tests, you know [...]
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