Welcome to boolcast.com

The site is designed to educate developers of any level and to cut down time on problem solving. Content on this site is created per request or when challenges occurs. Most of the code related to content on the site it published in the Downloads under GPL/GNU version 2.

The goal is to have a helpful developer zone where developers will be able to find answers for problems that were solved. It is impossible to know everything and be able to resolve everything on your own. I work in the development industry for over 8 years and use google.com to find answers to complex/random problems that arise from time to time. I really hope that someone will find my website useful. Anyone who wishes to contribute is more than welcome to join, contact me via email so we can figure things out.

boolcast.com is privately owned an maintained by Oleksandr Balyuk (Alex). Feel free to ask any questions you like, use this contact form.

Since release of Joomla 1.5.19 new plug-in is available that allows to load latest Mootools JavaScript Framework.

The plug-in overrides the JHTMLBehavior and loads the new Mootools 1.2.4 Javascript files instead of the version 1.1 files. Compatibility with existing Mootools functionality is preserved using the Mootools compatibility layer. You can read more about this plug-in on Joomla website.

If Joomla CMS (version 1.5.19 or above) is installed for the first time the plug-in will be will be installed and added to the database automatically. Also, if you update to Joomla 1.5.20 using a patch the plug-in will be automatically installed when you access Admin Control Panel.

All businesses are different and require specific software to run the business property. PayPal is a great service that millions use to quickly, safely and securely process online payments and send/receive money. Joomla being the most popular framework has many developers reinventing the wheel  and re-developng the IPN (instant payment notification) over and over and over again. I have seen some Joomla IPN that is horrible, not secure, bad logic, but was used by businesses. I while back, I developed a solid IPN for Joomla. 

Joomla is a fantastic framework! To develop Joomla components one need to know the framework, need to know how to work the database how to work with Factory class in order to keep single instance of an object. Developing custom components might get complex and require developer to use 2 or more databases.·One might think that JFactory class is able to hold only 1 instance of a database object, at least I though so. JFactory can handle multiple database as the same time, you can have as many database connections as you want without having to reconnect to the one you want.

JDownloads is a great component. It does it's job well, performance is good. It has it's problems, the source code is maintained but the architecture is outdated. It uses old Joomla 1.0 architecture for displaying views and NOT the Model View Controller architecture. I recently decided to remove the Powered By link at the bottom of component, turned out to be tricky. 

Even though jDownload states that you are not allowed to remove the Powered By unless you pay. There statement is faulty, the project is released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. According to license you can modify and even distribute the source code. 

Google Chrome is by far faster than FireFox and other top of the line browsers, under load when 7+ tabs open at a time in 1 or more windows. Chrome uses more resource because tabs do not share resources (i.e. each tab runs as a separate new process with it's own memory pool and CPU time), this significantly improves the performance. Think about it, how useful are your 2 or 4 GB of RAM if 40% or more is not used..., and how useful is your CPU if it is 90% idle..? Google Chrome utilizes the computer resources much better, you will have to sacrifice about 60MB of RAM per tab but you will gain a lot of performance. I notices performance improvements by as much as 400% on Google Chrome vs FireFox under Fedora 13, and Google Chrome 5.0.3 is at least  2x faster than FireFox 3.6.8 under Windows Vista Professional.

I like everything about Google Chrome except for 2 things:

1. Thumbnails View looks empty on 24" monitor, and there are not settings to increase that.
2. Development Tools are not on the same level as FireBug

After a little research I found an easy way to fix my first dislike "Thumbnails View" problem.

I downloaded a big help file. I was able to open and read it on the Linux Machine at work, however when I got home and tried to open the same file on my Windows Vista machive I got "Navigation to the webpage was canceled". This is happening becuase windows does not trust the file.