Stefan Kecskes

Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching

Concurrency vs Parallelism

Single-threaded, multi-threaded, concurrency, parallel tasks, async task… These words are used by programmers on daily basis and while most of us understands them (fingers crossed), I believe we are using this lingo in presence of non-technical people to confuse them? or to give them more detail, with little success. Let’s recapitulate what this all is, in very high level.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Monday, May 29, 2023

Setting up XDebug for dev environment

I would like to describe how to set up xDebug to work in your phpStorm IDE. There are different options available depending on your preference - you can have xDebug always try to initiate a connection for your devbox, or you can use browser plugins and extensions to choose when xDebug should try to run.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Thursday, November 5, 2015

Laravel validator for CSS selectors

Last week I was building a backend tool in Laravel, where you could create layout in bootstrap 3 and add CSS selectors like id or class to any container. You wanted to be able to enter more than one class name into input field. Let’s say that you want to add 2 classes: col-xs-6 infoBox_4. Laravel hasn’t validator for this type of string, so I decided to make one.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Monday, September 28, 2015

Image sprites using CSS only

Web pages these days have many images. They are also called multimedia rich web pages. It may take a long time to load all of them. Each image means a server request from browser. Did you know that browsers these days download concurrently only 6 resources?

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Tuesday, August 4, 2015