This is a quick reference guide, mostly made of standard Unix commands.Basically because I got fed up of googling them all the time. (POSIX utilities, every Unix / Linux distribution has these POSIXstands for Portable Operating System Interface based on uniX). For more information about each command, refer to a Unix manual or the man…
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Examining Virality
Virality: The act of content on the web being spread by users sharing it, bringing new users to the original content and therefore adding additional utility. Virality is the noun for the adverb viral and it has been thrown about these days when it comes to the online world. Virality refers to a sort of new metric…
Special thanx
Special thanks to the great programmers of these libraries : * FatFree PHP Framework: http://fatfree.sourceforge.net/ * Elastic CSS Framework: http://elasticss.com/ * HTML5 Boilerplate.com: http://html5boilerplate.com/ * SimplePie: http://simplepie.org/ * jQuery: http://jquery.com/ * WideImage: http://wideimage.sourceforge.net/ * iScroll: http://cubiq.org/iscroll * htmLawed: http://www.bioinformatics.org/phplabware/internal_utilities/htmLawed/ * PHP Universal Feed Generator: http://www.ajaxray.com/blog/2008/03/08/php-universal-feed-generator-supports-rss-10-rss-20-and-atom/ * twitteroauth: https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth * floIcon: http://www.phpclasses.org/package/3906-PHP-Read-and-write-images-from-ICO-files.html * modernizr: http://www.modernizr.com/ *…
QR codes custom.
I can across this fun app that generates QR codes based on your own image. http://research.swtch.com/qr/draw
Never ever…
…forget that every Greek character is counted as 2 by the strlen function in PHP. So if you have say a string “Γειά” the strlen will return 8. Try using MB_STRLEN() instead. If you know the encoding you can save time. mb_strlen ( string $str [, string $encoding ] )
A furry planet with anti-collision drones or the Sfera app for Mac/Win/Lin and Android.
A giant furry planet somewhere in universe and a flock of thousands of drones that don’t collide with each other. The app uses openGL for the graphics, it is java based and uses the processing libs. This is quite fascinating you take a break and 20′ later you have a fun doodle running on all platforms that support java….
Mac show hidden files
So you have a mac and you want to view hidden files on Finder. Simple. open the terminal and type this command defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES If you decide that this is tiresome just change the value to NO
WordPress: Adding stuff to your RSS feed
So you want to add stuff to your RSS feed? And by stuff I mean ads, links, text, dead cats etc. Well it’s another add_filter() function based solution. Quick and easy by editing functions.php. There is another more dirty way to do this but I wont get in to it now. [cc lang=”php”] Have you…
glfx.js
glfx.js provides realtime image effects using WebGL pure awesomeness check out their website, demo and source code The moment our browsers acquire camera functionality, I can see flash going bye bye and app’s like photobooth for the mac having strong competition.
Augmented Reality
This is an old but fun application of augmented reality. Instead of a printed marker it identifies the human face as a marker and applies a 2D object. It was all written in flex so be patient, if you happen to want the source code let me know and I’ll mail it to you. I…