Andrei Zmievski » PHP

As I mentioned on Twitter recently, duplicate detection (or de-duping) is one of the most unappreciated problems that the developers of certain types of applications face sooner or later. The app...

https://zmievski.org/2011/03/duplicates-detection-with-elasticsearch/

I miss blogging and the conversations that used to go with it. My friend Chris Shiflett probably feels the same way, because he is trying to start a blog revival with his Ideas of March post. I u...

https://zmievski.org/2011/03/ideas-of-march/

Becoming an American citizen a couple of years ago greatly eased travel-related headaches for me – no more visas to worry about (in general), way faster processing at the passport control, and ...

https://zmievski.org/2011/02/php-uk-2011/

I’ve seen a lot of problems solved with regular expressions, but last Friday, thanks to Chris and Sean, I found out that one can use them to determine whether a given integer is a prime number....

https://zmievski.org/2010/08/the-prime-that-wasnt/

About a year ago, I finally wisened up to the obvious: 1) losing data sucks, and 2) doing daily (or frequent) backups manually are a pain in the ass, especially for portables. 2) is why most peop...

https://zmievski.org/2010/07/time-machine-forensics/

A few years ago, I was considering what proposal to submit to the Vancouver PHP Conference. The usual slate of “how to do this and that in PHP” was becoming a bit tired, so I decided to submi...

https://zmievski.org/2010/06/vim-for-programmers-on-slideshare/

Back in 2004, I submitted a proposal to the only PHP conference ever to have taken place aboard a cruise ship. Yes, the infamous PHP Cruise (“Do we all know each other?”). The talk was about ...

https://zmievski.org/2010/05/regex-clinic-on-slideshare/

Please Start From The Beginning is a video series that explores the career paths and experiences of web industry professionals. I was honored to be interviewed for the series along with such inte...

https://zmievski.org/2010/01/please-start-from-the-beginning/

There have been a few kind words and questions about the GeoIP-based blurb that greets the visitors to our Analog holding page, so I wanted to blog about how it was made and what obstacles I ran ...

https://zmievski.org/2009/12/php-advent-2009-geoip-wrangling/

Wow. That pretty much sums up my feelings about the response to the announcement of Analog, a web design and development co-operative that I started with a few of my friends. I am stunned and hum...

https://zmievski.org/2009/12/say-hello-to-analog/