Anthony H Karasavov

Lithium: the most RAD PHP framework

A new framework (still in development) by the creators of CakePHP is gaining popularity among the PHP enthusiasts. It was first known as Cake 3, but it soon got separated from the Cake Foundation and Lithium was born.

How to build an ajax progress bar with jQuery and PHP

In many cases, especially when you are developing an e-commerce system or a CMS, you will have to deal with data import and/or export. This process usually involves looping through a large file (CSV, XML, JSON, etc.) and processing each "node" in some way. Dealing with this in a web environment could be tricky and you'll have to be particularly careful when building the user interface for the purpose.

Beautiful pagination with CSS3

Today I had to do some styling for a web store. One of my tasks was to convert the beautiful pagination numbers, done in photoshop into HTML & CSS. As I started slicing the graphics, it came to my mind that all of this could be easily done with CSS3.

Обзор на P2P конференцията във Велико Търново 2010

На 24-ти и 25-ти Април се състоя поредното издание на P2P конференцията във Велико Търново. Ето какво се случи накратко, за тези които не успяха да дойдат.

Five truths about SEO

I was recently given the not-so-easy task to optimize an internet shop for kids clothing and apparel, so it can appear on the top of Google searches. After spending a lot of hours reading about search engine optimization and the various techniques used I came to several conclusions.

CakePHP Screencast: Set up CakePHP console under Win7

In these series of screencasts I will try to create several videos to show you some basic CakePHP functionality in action.

Three books to help you learn CakePHP

In this post I'm going to create a summary of some books, which helped me get started with CakePHP and become a "baker". I will try to make a logical separation of the content by level of advancement.

Презентация на Icygen в CityUniversity

От 13:00 часа днес в CityU caмpus Pravetz на гости ни бяха представители от компанията Icygen. Г-жа (или г-ца, не знам точно кое от двете :P) Петя Гърбева и още две нейни колежки, разказаха на студентите от 3-ти и 4-ти курс как Интернет може да се използва като ефективна и ефикасна маркетинг медия.

Pretty CakePHP error messages with jQuery

One of Cake's core components is the Session component, which in most cases will be an inevitable part of your application. Among saving and reading session data, you can use sessions to improve application responsiveness by throwing messages to your users in order to notify them about what has happened as a result of their action.

Basic application security considerations

A very interesting discussion inspired me to write about some basic rules you have to understand before you publish your web application live. We were arguing on whether to clean up data before saving it to the DB or before displaying it to the user. So here are some basic security principles, every web developer should be aware of.