Today I had to read about git tags in order to be able to explain in a better way why somebody would use tags and for what. The old (and still good) git workflow explains very well how to develop using branches but doesn’t explain too well why we create the tags and how should be used on production. It just saying “that commit on master must be tagged for easy future reference to this historical version”. If you followed that guide and now you are ready to go live with your code changes, you maybe wonder what should you do with the tag? Why did you create it. Some people would say, just leave it there, maybe somebody, in a shiny day will take a look to it. Just go to production and do git pull origin master. But I don’t think this is the purpose of the tag.
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How to send an ajax request with CURL
curl --header "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" --data "param1=razvan&param2=value2" http://my.domain.com/request.php
Today’s readings
REST Anti-Patterns – A lot of people (or companies) pretend to have a REST API. Read this article and you will understand that not all the API’s that implement GET and POST methods are REST APIs. It is an old article (from 2008), but still valid.
Crashing Google Chrome on Google website
Used version of Google Chrome Version 31.0.1650.63
OS Version: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS, Linux work 3.2.0-57-generic #87-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 21:35:10 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Go on Google Trends website http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?zg=full
Click View #my2013 Gallery
Click any picture
Click the browser’s back button
Click again the browser’s back button
Crashed… or it will take between 20 seconds and 1-2 minutes to refresh that page.
Making a super fast blog with Drupal 7
Yesterday I decided to try to make my blog to load under 200 ms from my laptop using Drupal 7without loose my old links to blog posts, from SEO reasons. I know, some people would say there are better solutions for a blog others than Drupal, but… I wanted to give a try to Drupal because it has one of the biggest community, a lot of modules and features and of course for fun.