[CakePHP] Pros and Cons of using cakePHP

http://www.bootstrappist.com/archives/to-cakephp-or-not-to-cakephp-should-you-use-it-or-dump-it/

To sum up from the article,

PROS:

• Shortens dev. time
• more secured
• pretty coding
• widely supported
• trend (?!) - many people talk about it

CONS:

• Not for complex issue
• Not always necessary
• Not really a "native PHP" training

[Apache + PHP] php_mbstring.dll missing

Wanna install 'Bake' for CakePHP. In cmd, when trying 'bake', an error prompts out like below (with solution included) :


http://aaron1102.pixnet.net/blog/post/51096054-%5B%E6%9E%B6%E7%AB%99%E6%9C%8D%E5%8B%99%5D%E9%A1%AF%E7%A4%BA%E9%81%BA%E5%A4%B1php_mbstring.dll%E7%9A%84%E8%A7%A3%E6%B1%BA%E6%96%B9%E6%A1%88

[Eclipse] Change Default Text File Encoding in Eclipse

Window -> Preferences -> General -> Workspace : Text file encoding

[CakePHP] Better Performance – Speeding Up Your CakePHP Website

http://doctorfox.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/better-performance-speeding-up-your-cakephp-website/

[Project Management] Drupal Case Studies

So, the story begins ... We want a online shopping website but we don't know what framework or tools can catalyze the development progress. The time frame is around 1 to 2 months. WordPress is good for layout process, but not good for customizing for our needs. Custom-made proprietary website likes our old one ... ya it is custom-made but wow, seems much work to do ...

All in a sudden we came up with a question: how about ... Drupal?

Found that several comprehensive project case studies have been put on Drupal, which can be brilliant reference sources for the newbies like us, I recommend this to you also to understand if Drupal suits your project needs.

https://drupal.org/case-studies

We have selected some main points to glance through in our preliminary phase, which might help for your decision making if you are in the same situation:

• Why Drupal was chosen
• Team Size
• Time Spent

This is what our rough result found:

• Drupal should be suitable for more likely the medium or large sized project
• One of the impressive features for Drupal is taxonomy, which seems more relevant to journal-related, news-related or story-related projects
• It requires skills and trials for us the Drupal newbies before the "real" development
• Roughly the projects take about a year or more for a small team size

As seems the findings above do not benefit much for our aim, thus, the idea of using Drupal is ABANDONED in our case.  

[Tomcat] An Introduction to Tomcat Catalina

Just notice that Catalina is very useful tool for taking logs of the server, thus wondering what Catalina in Tomcat is ...

https://www.mulesoft.com/introduction-tomcat-catalina

[ClouSE][EC2] What is ClouSE? What is EC2?

http://www.oblaksoft.com/documentation/

Something relates to MySQL, Cloud, EC2 and storage stuff?

So, what is EC2, more precisely, Amazon EC2?

http://blog.soft.idv.tw/?p=823

• What is Cloud Computing?
• -> What is SaaS (Software as a Service)?
• -> What is PaaS (Platform as a Service)?
• -> What is IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)?
• What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
• -> What is S3 (Simple Storage Service)?
• -> What is EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)?
• -> What is SQS (Simple Queuing Service)?
• -> What is VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)?
• How to get my AWS?

http://blog.soft.idv.tw/?p=824

• What is VPS (Virtual Private Server) and VM (Virtual Machine)?
• What are the differences between VPS and VM?
• What can EC2 do?
• How to get start with my EC2?
• How to use my EC2?