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 – without any hassle.

Since the last release of the 0.5 series we fixed 10 Bugs and contributed some nice new productivity features:

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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, it has not been our software that collapsed but it has been the whole LAMP setup. So here is what we did to get the site up and running again: Read more …

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 Read more …

Monotouch – Tips and Tricks (Part 3)

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Part 3

This part 3 of my monotouch tips and tricks series blog post covers the following topics:

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

To view my previous monotouch posts follow these links:

- Monotouch – Tips and Tricks (Part 2)
- Monotouch – Tips and Tricks (Part 1)

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Mono 2.10.4 parallel environment debian/ubuntu package

The new Mono 2.10.4 is out and comes with lots of bugfixes. To make it easier to get the latest and greatest on your ubuntu/debian machines, I have created a deb package which I will share with you.

The parallel environment package includes all important references so that you can build your  GTK# and Asp.net MVC applications.

Once downloaded, the package installs to “/opt/mono-2.10″.
For this 2.10.4 build I once again used Patrick McEvoy`s great mono build script. For those of you who want to make your hands dirty and build mono yourself, you can find the script here: https://github.com/firegrass/mono-installer-script/

You can download the mono 2.10.4 debian/ubuntu package here.

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Android Tips and Tricks (Part 1)

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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 java and our IDE is Eclipse.

In the first part we go after:

1. “Could not execute method of the activity”
2. My development phone does not get found by adb
3. Useful Emulator commands
4. Start Facebook-App via intent + mobile alternative

If you have problems with the AlarmManager and BroadcastReceiver you can read about this in our last blog entry here. There is also some sample code included.
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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 at some other IDEs and compare them in detail. We picked PHPStorm, ZendStudio and Eclipse PDT to be compared in detail. And here are the reasons we finally chose PHPStorm over ZendStudio and Eclipse PDT:

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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

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Monotouch – Tips and Tricks (Part 2)

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Part 2

This is the second part of my “Monotouch – Tips and Tricks” series. I will write about the following topics:

• How to create reminders using NSNotifications + use of my UIAlertHelper class.
• How to simulate reminders/alerts using NSNotifications when the application has already been killed. (handling it in the FinishedLaunching method)

A cool feature of the Fusonic EventGuide application is the ability to star your favourite events/gigs. All starred gigs are not only available on your personal running-order, you will also get a notification shortly before the event starts so that you don’t miss your favourite bands. So I needed a solution to show notifications some minutes before the gig starts and to allow the user to jump directly to the event info page (alert action buttons).

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Monotouch – Tips and Tricks (Part 1)

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I recently had the joy of writing the IPhone-implementation of our amazing Fusonic EventGuide Product.
Because of my C# .NET/Mono experience and love it was obvious to reuse skills and libraries and so we bought a licence of MonoTouch. This was after the lay-off of the monotouch team, but luckily mtouch 4.0 is very mature and from my point of view it is definitely worth investing this money even though you will have to buy the Xamarin IOS version sooner or later.

Although programming against the Monotouch APIs using monodevelop was a real joy and really straight forward, you will come over some problems or nasty bugs from time to time. The goal of my blog series is to summarize my experiences in the last two weeks, show you up some common pitfalls and tell you