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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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 …

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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Fluster2 0.1.1 with significant performance improvements

It’s five days since Fluster2 was released and I had the chance to use it in production the first time. When working on this I realized that it was quite slow, the map didn’t work properly when using >1000 markers (changing zoom mode or dragging the map was very slow, even in Google Chrome). So I tried out some things and found a solution. This is Fluster2 0.1.1 now.

Two things changed:

• Markers must not be added to the map, only to Fluster. Then Fluster only assigns markers to the map which have to be displayed. This speeds up the whole map (when changing zoom mode or dragging the map) and makes it about 15 times faster (measured with the 200 markers example included in the download package).
• Fluster only calculates markers and clusters which are in the viewport of the map. When increasing zoom mode, fewer markers/clusters have to be processed. When dragging the map, calculation of the needed markers is triggered.

Download

From now you can download Fluster2 from SourceForge.

Clustering for Google Maps v3 with Fluster2

Everyone knows the pain of displaying a lot of markers in a Google Map. For this problem there is MarkerClusterer which merges multiple markers to one cluster marker if there are a lot of markers at one place – as long as you use Google Maps v2. We used MarkerClusterer in our Community Software Fusonic Connect too but wanted to migrate to Google Maps v3. So we had to write our own clusterer logic or adapt MarkerClusterer to work for v3. The result is Fluster2, a new clusterer built from scratch but based on the same logic as MarkerClusterer.

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AmCharts-PHP 0.2.0: bubble and radar charts

The new version 0.2.0 of AmCharts-PHP adds support for bubble- and radar-Charts. They work as simple as line- and bar-charts. We hope you like it! Read more …

Export spreadsheet data in ODS/CSV format with PHP5

The second LGPL library this week is a PHP5 class to export spreadsheet data in different formats. Currently supported are CSV (Comma Separated Values) and ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet). While CSV exports are quite ordinary, ODS functionality is something special for your project. Read more …

AmCharts-PHP Class Library

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to integrate the very nice AmCharts into one of our products. After a few tests in general (my colleague Stefan wrote about it – German) we decided to build a PHP5 library around the AmCharts Flash objects to create and configure charts in a more convenient way. Read more …

[DE] Online Flash Charts mit AmCharts

Dem ein oder anderen Webentwickler ist sicher schon aufgefallen, dass in der heutigen Zeit nicht nur Funktionsumfang, sondern auch Präsentationsstil einer Webanwendung einiges zu deren Popularität beitragen. Eine dieser Präsentationsmöglichkeiten sind z.B. aufwändige Linien-, Balken- und Kreisdiagramme um große Mengen an Daten übersichtlicher darzustellen bzw. auch mit deren Effekten und Funktionen User anzulocken.

Nun gibt es dafür mehrere gute wie auch schlechte Möglichkeiten, beginnend mit der schlechtesten: Read more …