HTML overlay over a embedded flash element

As an experienced web developer you might have run into this issue for many times. In this post I will show you how to recover your markup to expected behaviour.

Simplified PHP Spreadsheet / Excel Export

Three years ago I was pleased to announce SpreadsheetExport 0.1.0 by Fusonic - an open-source PHP library provided by Fusonic. Its purpose was to enable PHP developers to export spreadsheet-like data to various file formats while only writing their export logic once. You need to implement some kind of spreadsheet export in nearly every application - so did we in our Social Intranet solution Fusonic…

Chive 1.0 released!

I'm pleased to announce the release of chive 1.0! Chive is a free, open source, web-based database management tool, designed to bring joy to web developers - with easy administration, super fast UI and state of the art web technologies. Our mission is to bring joy to web developers - every part in chive is optimized to speed so that web-developers can achieve any tasks easily and super-fast -…

Tuning Apache for High Traffic

A few months ago we launched an online community / social network at querdenker.de using our software for such solutions Fusonic Connect. We have always been thinking that we already considered nearly everything which could break our system when beeing accessed by a lot of people concurrently. And we were right. What did break the site when more than 200 people accessed the site in the same minute,…

Knockout

Having problems with user-responsive, interactive UI's? Sick of confusing and complicated js-code to handle your UI? Knockout is the solution. I first stumbled upon the knockout-library during the implementation of a UI with lots of interactive features, like updating a field if another field changes, displaying areas only if a certain option is set, … Simple actions are very easy to implement…

Mono 2.10.4 parallel environment debian/ubuntu package

Mono 2.10.4 parallel environment package for ubuntu/debian users. Includes all references to build GTK# and Asp.net MVC applications.

Monotouch - Tips and Tricks (Part 3)

Increase user experience by using UI-Toasts for action-feedback, Making UIWebViews transparent, Buttons with image scaling

Android Tips and Tricks (Part 1)

+ After a good feedback for our Monotouch / iOS  Tips and Tricks series I decided to start the same thing for Android. This means I try to provide solutions for some common pitfalls during the Android development of our amazing product Fusonic Event Guide. Please be aware that we do not use Monodroid here, we just use the native way to code the APP, this means all sample code is written in…

Chive 0.5.1 released

I'm pleased to announce the release of chive 0.5.0 / 0.5.1, a next generation mysql-management software which brings joy to web developers. Since the last release of the 0.4 series we fixed 11 Bugs including some nice improvements. Some Key changes are: - Improved import - Improved search+edit handling - Submit SQL-Query with CTRL+Enter + visual feedback Fixed Bugs in chive 0.5 ________ #793918…

Why we chose PHPStorm over ZendStudio and Eclipse PDT

As a software development company we are primarily focused on web based applications such as our Social Intranet Software Fusonic Connect. For the last five years we have used Eclipse PDT as our favorite IDE. We have always been happy with the features it provided and did not have the time to do an intense investigation on other IDEs. A few months ago, we had some free time and decided to take a look…