Peter Velichkov's Blog

Sorry for the downtime guys. I have reached my CPU usage limit due to turning on automatic database backup feature in Wordpress (or something else - not quite sure).

Lets hope from now on everything will be ok.

Update:

With my blog suspended for second time I got really pissed and investigated the reasons. My previous believes about buggy pluggins was not correct and with little googling I found out that Wordpress 2.5.x has some serious problem with CPU usage. As I examined my load logs it is obvious that the PHP process is using more than 5 times as previous versions.

The solution is either to install WP Super Cache or to downgrade to the previous version before 2.5.

Jeremy Martin has done a great review of the upcoming Javascript 2.0. His article points out the major changes including:

• Introduction of classes, interfaces and primitives ( OOP -  yeee)
• Strict mode with compile time type checking
• Namespaces
• Many other…

The list of changes looks great to me, the only thing that still bothers me is the possibility of inconsistent implementation in the major browsers.

For more info checkout the full article.

Finally this blog has some decent look. After 2-3 days of coding xhtml/css and playing around with the few graphical elements this theme went public under the name Xedunism - Cheerz! I know it is not very colorful but I wanted a nice, clean and easy to read layout. I hope you like it and if you have any comments please drop me a line

Legal stuff:

There are still bits and pieces from Kubrick Theme so - http://binarybonsai.com/wordpress/kubrick/

Floral element (top right) comes from - http://ro-stock.deviantart.com/art/Floral-Deco-Brushes-2-54001452

RSS Icons are from the Oxygen Icon Theme - http://www.oxygen-icons.org/

If there are any licenses i have broke please contact me and i will take the needed measures.

Thanks

There is one really nasty bug in Adobe Illustrator CS3 which manifests when trying to save a file. Everytime I tried this operation I was receiving an error telling me that Illustrator.exe has thrown exception and suggesting me to use debugger. After trying lots of stuff including installing all updates from Adobe I found the reason - my Print Spooler Service was configured to start manually and therefor not running.

So in summary: if you plan to save files from Adobe Illustrator CS3 keep your Print Spooler service running.

On 17 Jan 2008 took place the first event in Bulgaria dedicated to Adobe Flex and building RIA with it. It was well organized by Gugga and RIABG with one exception - it was in a weekly day which for sure lowered the number of visitors.

Summary of the things that were interesting to me:

1. A sneak preview of Adobe Thermo - there are couple of videos already on YouTube
   1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XecRJgbdCtU
   2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzAKlSE_-9o
2. Adobe Flex 3 CRUD Database Wizard
3. Couple of presentations which included good explanations for Flex databinding mechanism
4. A demo of SWFAddress deeplinking utility

Of course there were some disappointments too - there was one presentation about laptop.bg which looked like payed commercial because it didn’t showed anything connected with Flex even the site itself and one more: the guy sitting in front of me took the iPod

Anyway it was a good experience, I hope there will be plenty more.

Hi all, as this blog has just started its existence i will be pretty short.

The idea is to have my technical stuff written here, so it will be mostly about Web - AS3, Design, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript etc.

Hope you like it!