ROOT_MEDIA_FILTERS = {
    'js': ('mediagenerator.filters.template.Template', 'mediagenerator.filters.yuicompressor.YUICompressor',),
    'css': 'mediagenerator.filters.yuicompressor.YUICompressor',
}

and now in your js file you can do the following:

{% load media %}
$(".myClass").html("");

You can just go and read their manual. The reason of the post is mentioning a problem that I faced while I was integrating mediagenerator app to my project. I was linking my static files in templates like following:

But after switching to the mediagenerator, I had to change those something like this

Well it seemed that the only way to do that is to use regular expressions, since there are more than a hundred of these in my project. I am using the wonderful ide Komodo Edit. In Komodo Edit, you can use regex in “Find in Files” option. So the regex I used is the following:

search: "{{ STATIC_URL }}([a-zA-Z\/\.]+)"
replace: "{% media_url "\1" %}"

Now I am enjoying this cool app.

I am sorry to say that the best media player on earth is windows-only called FooBar2000. Look at the title, Foo Bar 2000, looks like the creator of the software is a hardcore programmer and has no clue about marketing stuff. In programming, if we want to illustrate a random variable, we usually named it “Foo”. Then, most likely, we assign it to “Bar”. Well I bet he developed it in the year 2000

Despite the title, it is really lightning-fast media player. It almost plays everything, ogg, ape, you name it. And has really powerful id3 tagger. You can use patterns to rename files. It can display files on your file system as-it-is. So if you like to organize files by yourself, this is a great option that each media player (except songbird via a plugin) lacks. And queuing songs up is another amazing feature. You just clicking on a song and add it to queue, just like a dynamical playlist. With Foobar2000 you can also just click and highlight the song that you want to play next. woa.

I’ve tried songbird, play, clementine and all other sorts of players but no luck. Songbird is the best one, but it’s damn slow and has lots of features such as integrated browser that i don’t want. I gave up and I went back to freaking itunes which does everything but playing music properly. But now, at last, I found the player that I am looking for. Tomahawk.

Tomahawk is Qt based, open-source music player that embraces social features. The most important feature for me is to be able to queue songs for playing next. This feature was enough for me to switch from iTunes. As I was using it, I discover its cool features. It has “Stations”, works similar to iTunes Genius, you select a song and tomahawk suggest similar songs that you might like. the innovative side is, if you don’t have the suggested song in your collection, it searches sources on internet (they call it resolvers) and play it for you. Isn’t it cool? You can add additional sources. I’ve added Youtube and last.fm, which seems enough for me.

Yeah, this is it, and I am happy.

@interface NSString (Numeric)

- (BOOL)isNumeric;

@end

@implementation NSString (Numeric)

- (BOOL)isNumeric
{
    if (self == 0)
        return YES;

    NSNumberFormatter* formatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
    [formatter setLocale:[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"]];

    // set YES if you want to use floats as numeric
    [formatter setAllowsFloats:NO];

    NSNumber* number = [formatter numberFromString:self];

    return (number) ? YES : NO;
}

@end

And following is the test cases for it.

#import "NSStringNumericTest.h"
#import "NSString+Numeric.h"

@implementation NSStringNumericTest

// All code under test must be linked into the Unit Test bundle
- (void)testIsNumeric
{
    NSString* numeric = @"21";
    STAssertTrue([numeric isNumeric], @"number is numeric");

    NSString* numeric2 = @"0";
    STAssertTrue([numeric2 isNumeric], @"number is numeric");

    NSString* numeric3 = @"21,21";
    STAssertFalse([numeric3 isNumeric], @"number is not numeric");

    NSString* numeric4 = @"asdasd";
    STAssertFalse([numeric4 isNumeric], @"number is not numeric");
}

@end

In my case, I don’t want to allow floats as numeric. You can always modify the class implementation according to your needs.

The other problem with it that it become REALLY slow. The datahouse is in US and I locate in Istanbul. And Turkey’s internet providers suck.

So I decided to go for a Europian company. In fact, my 1st consideration was an american company, Linode, who has very good critics and considerable price range. But still, after slicehost experience, I didn’t want to go for a similar company.

Then I found Tilaa who has good options for VPS. They’re Netherlands based company and their datahouse locates in there. They aren’t a big company but I guess they have good approach.

So far I don’t have serious problems with them. The 1st thing that I noticed that they billed me 12.26 euros rather than 9.95, soon after I send an email about it, I find out that they charge you from a particular day of the month to another. I subscribed on 23th of January, They’ve charged me from 23th to 25th of January and 25th jan to 25th feb, which is fine for me. I only think that their explanations in their website is lacking, if they improve it they become better.

And hopefully the website you’re seeing now is fast enough because it’s already on Tilaa.

https://github.com/laplacesdemon/ZendFramework2-Sample-Application

To see it in action, I have decided to do a quick benchmark. I have used the zf2 skeleton application, and my current zend framework 1.11 setting which I use in any of my PHP projects. The comparison is totally subjective and the aim is to have an overall impression.

I have used the apache benchmarking tool. The number of requests are 100 and the concurrency level is 5.
ab -c 5 -n 100 http://myUrl

Here are the results

Zend Framework 2

Server Software: Apache/2.2.20
Server Hostname: localhost
Server Port: 80

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 11
66% 12
75% 13
80% 14
90% 16
95% 23
98% 32
99% 33
100% 33 (longest request)


Zend Framework 1.11


Server Software: Apache/2.2.20
Server Hostname: localhost
Server Port: 80

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 17
66% 29
75% 33
80% 34
90% 40
95% 46
98% 51
99% 53
100% 53 (longest request)


Conclusion: New version of Zend Framework is nearly double times faster that the current version.

At the end, I’ve spend like 30 mins on the phone trying to figure out windows menus (I don’t have windows, so I need to stick with him). While I was talking with him I’ve researched about the problem and saw that there is actually a screen called “Manage wireless networks”. I directed him to that menu but apparently it wasn’t there. Then he searched for the menu, nope, won’t help. Then he somehow found the

I am looking for a new server

I recovered this post from my drafts, dammit, I can’t even submit my posts.