Author Archives: Andrei Gherasim

I’m a PHP developer. I currently work for Optaros, an open-source application assembly driven company, based in US. I’ve been developing websites for about 5 years. Besides PHP, I’m proficient in Javascript, CSS and HTML, and enjoy working with Symfony, Codeigniter, Drupal, Wordpress and jQuery.

Google+ – will this be the end of Facebook?

All the internet is buzzing – Google has launched yesterday the official Facebook competitor – Google Plus. Even though one already existed – argh, Orkut, that wasn’t a big of a competition for Facebook. But Google+ (Plus) looks like it is. It’s biggest promise as far as I can tell is fixing the weird privacy [...]

DrupalCamp Bucharest 2011

I might have mentioned in a tweet or two about Optaros being present at DrupalCamp Bucharest 2011 in early May. I had a presentation there about using Drupal + Page Syndication module to create a content marketing platform. Well, here’s the presentation: OView CMS presentation from DrupalCamp Bucharest from Chris Fuller on Vimeo Please do [...]

Dark day for AWS

I really don’t want to be in the shoes of the guys over at AWS NOC – this is not a good day for them. Some of the Amazon Web Services hosted in the US-EAST zone are affected (as of the time this article has been written) due to an issue related to EBS re-mirroring. [...]

I’m back

Finally I managed to migrate my site to a new server. Thanks to Andru!

jQuery Mobile alpha released

jQuery team released the much-awaited mobile development framework. Built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI framework, this framework provides a lightweight, progressive enhanced, flexible and themeable foundation for mobile development. Browsing through the features we find that this framework is compatible with all major mobile platforms and browsers, such as: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Palm [...]

Solr, Tomcat6 and Ubuntu issue

If you run into issues when starting solr on Ubuntu 9.04 and the symptoms are as follows: Oct 6, 2010 11:33:31 AM org.apache.solr.core.SolrResourceLoader INFO: Solr home set to ‘/opt/solr/example/’ Oct 6, 2010 11:33:31 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error filterStart Oct 6, 2010 11:33:31 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Context [/solr-example] startup failed due to previous errors [...]

Curăţenie în toată ţara. Într-o singură zi!

Sustin aceasta idee, sper ca macar pentru curatenie sa incercam sa ne mobilizam!
Let’s Do It, Romania!

WPML supports WordPress 3.0 nav menu

Thanks to the great effort of the WPML team, the plugin now supports translating the WordPress 3.0 nav menus: http://wpml.org/?p=5064. The 1.8.0 RC 1 version of the WPML plugin (adds multilingual support to WordPress) adds translation support for WordPress’ built-in navigation menu system.

Adding All-In-One SEO to custom content types in WordPress

Wordpress version 3.0 adds multiple improvements and new features to this popular blogging platform, one of the most important being custom content types. I’ve made use extensively of the new feature when developing the new optaros.com website, but soon we realized that we needed to integrate our custom types with the AIO SEO plugin. This plugin, with more than 5,000,000 downloads, does an awesome job on setting custom titles, keywords or description per post, in order to improve your SEO. In the current version (1.6.11), it has no support for attaching the editing form to a custom type, but integrating that looks pretty easy.

Icons search engines: iconfinder.net vs. findicons.com

Designers everywhere are trying to spice up their designs and communicate to end-users better using icons, and while there are many high quality, free for commercial use icons, finding them could be very difficult. I remember the times when I was browsing through dozens of blogs and websites trying to find icons, and when I [...]