Sometimes I write about tech and code, and sometimes I don't.
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…
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 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/ *…
The world from above. Lights, Auroras and commets.
I liked both of these videos, good work! In order to show respect to the composers I post them on my blog instead of sharing them on FB. I think posting and sharing on FB has lost it’s value, just doesn’t have the gravity it does when you mention something on your blog. Both videos…
I can across this fun app that generates QR codes based on your own image. http://research.swtch.com/qr/draw
Temptation: You dont know why, you dont know what is going to happen. The unknown unknowns, you might do it and things might get better or you might find yourself in a rather unpleasant situation. Curiosity : Is a cat killer and a human intelligence improver. You are tempted, there it is in front of your face staring at…
…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 ] )
My desk has 2 screens three if you count the laptop. This might be a good way to get a tan. *this post is primarily written for test purposes. Published using a blackberry bold. Long live java.
Happy new year, oblation and libation for the gods.
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….
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