Alex Ivaylov web developer blog.
 

 

One year in UK..

Posted on August 13th, 2009 in category Uncategorized

Today, officialy it’s been a year since I came to Scotland.
I must say that I love it, I have had lots of fun, I’ve met so much new people and made many friends.
For me, it’s not just going somewhere randomly… This is leaving home and starting an new, independent life.
Now I got everything that I need and I am happy.
But the biggest challange is, to keep all these things and keep on growing…


Posted on August 10th, 2009 in category Uncategorized

“Can you find all that you stand for
has been replaced with mountains of gold.”

 

If you don’t know how the web works, I’ll let tell you this:
1. It doesn’t matter how a website works
2. It doesn’t matter how a website looks
3. It doesn’t matter what a website offers

 

The only thing that matters is that the website makes money…..

 

Unfortunetly, not we (IWA/W3C) rule the web. The whole web is owned by Google. They say what’s wrong and right..
But what they consider as “right” is wrong. It’s bad for all the internet users out there and for the way they use the web.

 

Have a look at the Google web access recommeditions:

http://code.google.com/speed/articles/optimizing-html.html


IIS asks for authentication when it shouldn’t

Posted on August 8th, 2009 in category Uncategorized

I bet that you had this case at least once. You upload a website to IIS and when somebody tryes to open the website they are asked for authentication when they shouldn’t. The reason for this is simple: you have a problem with the file/folder permissions. Check them and make sure that IIS has access to them.

This can occur on Apache as well. In this case, the users will see a massage ‘You don’t have permission to access / on this server.’ (They won’t be asked for a password). In this case, Apache doesn’t have access to the folder or you have selected an impossible to use for www-root folder. The best think to do is check the error log.


DJ Paella – Bulgarian Sunrise

Posted on August 5th, 2009 in category Uncategorized

You might know, you might not know but I have been djing in the last few weeks and here is my first set:

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Windows 7 is out

Posted on August 4th, 2009 in category Uncategorized

The next operating system from Microsoft – widnows 7 is now ready. Vita’s succesor is now ready for manufacturing (RTM). It will not be available for the general public untill October this year.
I have been beta testing nearly every release by now, and since the first one I have a very good impression about the OS.
I find it much faster and better than Vista. However, I must say that some of the annoing useless staff which vista has is still here.


In the middle of the holiday…

Posted on July 13th, 2009 in category Uncategorized

Unfortunately, nearly half of my holiday has passed now. Right now I am in Arbanassi, a tourist place in the beautiful Bulgarian Balkan mountain. I am staying at the Wine Palace hotel and I am really enjoying it here. It’s definitely one of the best places to go after a busy year. In the last two weeks, since when I am in Bulgaria, I have had a lots of fun. It’s good to be home!


Alex Is now 20 yrs old, back in Bulgaria

Posted on July 3rd, 2009 in category Uncategorized

I am now back in Bulgaria. I will stay here the whole July. Today I am 20 years old. Happy birthday to me 😉


DJ Paella is in the mix

Posted on June 22nd, 2009 in category Uncategorized

DJ Paella is in the mix…

Lady Gaga – Poker Face (JDB House Radio Edit)

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Michael Mind – Love’s Gonna Get You

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Steve Angello vs Robin S – Show Me Love

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Pitbull – You Know You Want Me

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Plus a lot more!!


Dreamweaver

Posted on June 7th, 2009 in category Uncategorized

When I tell somebody, who knows a little bit more about computers, that I am in the web industry, the next thing they will ask me is if I know the program Dreamweaver and if I use it. So here’s the answer:
Yes, I know the program and No, I don’t use it.
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For me it doesn’t matter how a woman looks…

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 in category Uncategorized

“I want a woman who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.”

Henry Rollins


These days

Posted on May 31st, 2009 in category Uncategorized

These days there’s been a lot going on with me. Basically, it was all parties, parties… We started with a few parties and birthdays here in the Halls on Wednesday and Thursday, than on Friday night we went to a night club, after this on Saturday noon (around 12pm) somebody wakes me up, and we all went to the Princess Park in Edinburgh. It was full of people, everybody loved the sunshine. After this, we took the train back to Kirkcaldy.
I actually missed it and I had to run after it, but thanks to the nice stuff, the doors opened again, just for me 😀 After this there were no places to seat anywhere, so I went into the first class place, and took a sit there. And just when we arrived, everybody wanted to go to the night club Kittys in Kirkcaldy, so we went there. We went there straight from the train station at midnight. Up there, I spent around £30 about vodka. Kittys closed at 3am and after this we went to somebody’s flat and the party continued there… Then at 5 or 6 am in the morning, me and a few other friends went back to the halls.
After this, they woke me up today and we went to the beach…
Now, I have to do an assessment for my flash unit.. I don’t know when was the last time, I had a good sleep.. I don’t remember..


Sun bathin…

Posted on May 31st, 2009 in category Uncategorized

So the last day of May, I heard some local people saying that these days are one of the warmest days in Scotland at all, so everybody here is very happy, enjoying the sunshine.

We decided to go to the beach. It was a low-tide, so the sea water was a little far away from the beach. We went to the beach in Burntisland. A lot of people from around Scotland came especially to this beach. For them this is hot weather, but it actually was windy and cold (for me). It was very cool to see Edinburgh and the Forth Road Bridge from a few miles away (I had the feeling that I could swim to Edinburgh from there 🙂
Click here to see a map of where we were.

A team from BBC came and shot the beach and us. They told us that this was the warmest place in the whole UK. So now, I am watching bbc one and I am waiting to see myself 😀

I’ll be thinking about this when I go to Sunny Beach back in Bulgaria this summer 😉


Web Hosting….

Posted on May 31st, 2009 in category Uncategorized

On 26th of May 2009, Alex’s two shared web hosting servers, as well as 2 more VPSes and one dedicated server have crashed. This has never happened before! (These are all web development servers and no customer websites have been effected).

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The web has crashed..

Posted on May 11th, 2009 in category Uncategorized

Here is a nice one for you all:

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New Website Project

Posted on May 6th, 2009 in category Projects

The Web Activations team (which I am part of) is proud to present you our latest project. Our client is an well esablished company specialised in bathrooms – Connect Twenty Four Seven.

Their website can be found at: http://www.connect24-7.com

For building this website we used the web technologies PHP, XHTML, Javascript and XML.
As a recognized high-quality web developer, we produced W3C valid XHTML and CSS.


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