Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Android app for Rechnung+

Good news. Now you can track your time on the Android app tipcat and export it to Rechnung+. For details see below.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Progress bar for a lengthy PHP process

If you ask an average web-developer if it's possible to make a running progress bar on the web-page while it's loading(!), most of them will say "no". This is understandable as practically all web-pages do not exhibit such progress bars and are in a sense "static" - the whole web-site is dynamically generated from a database, but each page is static except for AJAX changes due to user actions. Here I will show how a lengthy PHP process can show a running progress bar while the page is loading. Of course, it doesn't make sense for pages loading within a second or three, but those import/export/dump/analyze/recode/generate scripts which takes ages.