Whew! This is the first time this year that I’m writing on this blog.

Time indeed flies when you’re having fun – (or not – let’s save that story for another day).

A rumble in the dark

Quite a lot has been happening on the Tandolin side – especially on the development of internal projects, which you can catchup with on the Tandolin Facebook Page.

Client projects are also steadily increasing, which (more…)

I think this qualifies as a Frequently Asked Question when to comes to Joomla implementation:

Can it up-scale reliably?

The answer has always been “yes” since the days of Joomla 1.0, but achieving that goal was a tricky affair.

You had to set-up a cluster using HAProxy/Keepalived in front of your (two or more) Joomla webservers, and have them connect to the same database/Db cluster.

Joomla cluster (4 webservers with HAPoxy/KeepAlived)

And trying this on Windows servers would have made you the butt of many cruel jokes. It had to be Linux!

Booby Trap(sss)

There were some other niggles and (more…)

UPDATE: Enhanced code styling 30 June 2009

This post will show you how to write a basic AIR application in HTML/JavaScript and get it to speak AMF with your Joomla! 1.5 (and above) installation.

If you’re just starting out, see how to setup and run J-AMFPHP in Joomla first. We’ll be creating our AIR application based on that example.

Why HTML and JavaScript?

I’ve seen some tutorials on the web that dive straight into FlexBuilder’s MXML layouts and AS3 classes as a start. Although the thinking behind MXML is to mimic (X)HTML, I feel that starting out with (X)HTML is the easiest way for a (more…)