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What is the future of Web Applications?

Maxime — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:18:03 +0000

I’ve been building websites for almost 10 years now and recently I had the chance to work in a team where we can investigate about new technologies, patterns, etc. While we are building an application which has be be compliant with multiple platforms, we have to use webservices to provide data and [...]

Zend_Db and Symfony 2 using Dependency Injection

Maxime — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:42:36 +0000

This week I spent some time playing with Symfony 2, a framework that everyone heard about which become as famous as Zend. After few hours juggling with the bundles, configuration, routing, etc it come to life and does not look as complex as it seems to be. The first thing you need to know about [...]

Install Nginx & PHP with FastCGI & MySQL on OSX 10.7

Maxime — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:26:25 +0000

Here we go, after months of standby a new post that I think can be useful for some of you wanting to install nginx (http server) and compile PHP with fastcgi (you have to run PHP as a CGI with nginx). So first why nginx? You can find the answer here or here. Now, to install our server we first [...]

Merry Christmas From Crustiz

Administrator — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:39:55 +0000

The Crustiz Team wish you Merry Christmas! Many articles coming soon about codeigniter libraries, jQuery IE 6/7 fixes, CMS and Codeigniter working together, etc… Let’s hope IE6 would be banned in 2011 Cheers, M. & J.

Fancybox 1.3.4 not working on ie6/ie7

Julian — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:30:22 +0000

Hi guys, The other day I noticed there was a new version of Fancybox, the Fancybox 1.3.4. Initially, I was using the Fancybox 1.3.1 for all our websites. Seeing that, I decided to update the files and quite surprisingly (or not :)!) it didn't work on Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. Theres' definitely an issue with the CSS, could even be the last release of jQuery library. My advice: not use the Fancybox 1.3.4 for now (if you want to make it work on IE).

Youtube library for CodeIgniter

Maxime — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:08:02 +0000

What a better idea than to push video content on your website... Here we go, one of the last library I worked on. This is for Codeigniter but might be used for other framework. This is a library which request videos to the world famous and inexhaustible video library: Youtube

Highcharts Library for CodeIgniter

Maxime — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:16:41 +0000

Hi everyone, in this post I'll talk about a Codeigniter library that I've done after few hours using highchart. Highchart is one of the best javascript library i've ever used to render beautiful charts (which are compatible with iPhone and iPad). This library is very awesome ! Here is a first draw of the library I've done, it's not perfect but it's working well for the simple graphs I had to do. Let's see this highchart library.

jQuery Fancybox 1.3.1 plugin images not working on IE : How to fix it

Julian — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:20:11 +0000

Here is a little fix for the jQuery plugin FancyBox 1.3.1.If you have encountered the same issue as me with the images display on IE, here is the solution: Read more

jQuery UI 1.8 autocomplete : how to fix issues/bugs with label and value

Julian — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:43:37 +0000

Ok so if I have decided to write this article it is mainly because a lot of developers like me encountered issue with this new jQuery UI autocomplete. Here is my function autocomplete that I re-use all the time in my different website projects.Here is the complete code of the autocomplete, please make comments and give feedback if you have some issues. This autocomplete has been tested on all the browser (IE6, IE7, IE8, Opera, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, etc) and it works perfectly ;). Enjoy guys!

Linux useful commands line

Maxime — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:30:07 +0000

I opened this post to share with you some linux commands that I use most of the time. This list is exhaustive and I'll try to update it as much as I can.

Transparent LCD display – Our future screens? (Video)

Maxime — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:14:58 +0000

This week was revealed the latest transparent LCD display at the SID (International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition). Read more and watch the video

OutOx – The drink that reduce the alcohol effects

Maxime — Sat, 29 May 2010 04:08:23 +0000

This "soberade" drink is plan to be released in the coming weeks (mid June) in Europe whereas it's already available in Canada and Japan where the alcohol tolerance is very strict. This sparkling fruit juice won the Innovation Award at "ANUGA" in 2005 and the Innovation Award at "SIAL" in 2004. This drink has been developed and tested by scientific according what we can read on the Internet. If you want more information about it, you can visit this site.

How to secure your ajax controller for codeigniter/php

Julian — Sat, 29 May 2010 01:45:28 +0000

This is a basic security test that I thought about last week. In my websites, I have an AJAX controller where I put all my Ajax functions (eg autocomplete, email check, etc ). Before last week I wasn't protecting the functions from a classic call via browser. For some functions it was not a big deal because I was sending data in POST but for those in GET, it was more problematic. So I added a security check in my constructor. From now on, I'm 100% sure that these functions are called only via XMLHTTPREQUEST. Read more

Tabnagging or Tabnapping or tabnabbing : A New Type of Phishing Attack

Julian — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:55:04 +0000

Just a quick article to tell you about this new type of phishing attack called "tabnagging". This one is really tricky and everyone coud be fooled by it. Read more

Trade on HSX – Hollywood Stock Exchange

Maxime — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:32:21 +0000

For few months now I've been playing around with this website and I have to say this is a very original idea ! The goal is to make money (as usual) as if you were a trader, buying and selling Movie Stocks. Actually there more than only movies that you can trade but also stars, TV Series, ... I have to say that for someone who is a fan of cinema this website can become very adicitve and for those who have a very basic knowlege, they will have to investigate before to buy or sell auction. Read More

Twoolr : Every statistics about your twitter account

Julian — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:25:13 +0000

Twoolr has been created by Antoine Guiral (@antoineguiral on twitter), a talented and self-educated web developer. Its creator defined his website as

"a mix of twitter and statistics tools"

and that's exactly what it does, amazing don't you think?! Twoolr is in private beta at the moment and you will need an invitation to try this new website. To get this invitation , just follow @twoolr_beta on twitter and wait for your lovely invitation :)! Read More

How to code non-intrusive javascript with jQuery, Codeigniter and Smarty

Julian — Sun, 23 May 2010 08:19:21 +0000

There is one thing I really stand for when I develop website, it's accessibility. With all these new asynchronous technologies, the question is can we code without thinking about those who have no javascript enabled. Read More

Trip Journal – Share your tracks

Maxime — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:49:04 +0000

This is certainly the most advanced application for travellers at the moment. With this app you can just record all the places you've been, what you've done there documenting your check points. The other cool thing is that you can share your trips with your friends or familly and just to prove this application is as good as it says:

The app received a $100,000 prize from Google for innovative concept and design, in December 2009

Visit the website here.

New Nike Commercial, What a cast!

Julian — Sat, 22 May 2010 07:28:20 +0000

Here is the new nike commercial, it's pretty impressive, enjoy it!