Two notes on YCodaSlider
I think that newcomers need simple notes to use YCodaSlider. First, include the required libraries: jquery-1.2.6.pack.js jquery-easing-1.3.pack.js ycodaslider-2.0.js then fire it up with a short script like this one: YCodaSlider.Base.css(‘style.css’); jQuery(window).bind(“load”, function() { jQuery(“div.ycodaslider”).ycodaslider({width : 540, sidebars : false}); jQuery(“div.ycodaslider”).width(540); });
Samsung SyncMaster 245B with Kubuntu
The Samsung SyncMaster 245B is a 24” TFT monitor that works at 1900×1200. I’ve waited for the release of Hardy to try it (my test was done with a video card recognized by lspci as ATI RV516 Radeon X1300/X1550 Pro). Surprisingly, Hardy chose the correct resolution at the first attempt! How simple in comparison to [...]
Notes about TPCI 2008-04
The TPCI April Headline is Lua hype seems to be over (fallen out of top 20). What is next? Groovy, Erlang? Some people here say that Erlang would be the next hype. I don’t know… but if I began to study it then it certainly would be the next hype in a rather short time. [...]
Notes about TPCI 2008-03
The TPCI March Headline is Ruby after 4 months back in the top 10 again My headline is Viewing its graph, I noticed a frightening renaissance of (Visual) Basic. Burp. :)
It doesn’t fit all jobs
Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for using AWK to find zero length files AWK is a great tool but IMHO that is not its job. I would have used a simple find -size 0b
When a news page doesn’t offer a feed
Yesterday TrueCrypt 5.0 was released. Unfortunately, they don’t use a feed to announce their news. An old question of mine is: how to get noticed when a webpage changes? A simple but effective answer is: to check periodically its changes with something like curl -s http://www.truecrypt.org/news.php | sha512sum This is not a complete script but [...]
4 lessons 4 the enterprises :)
Even though approximately 40% of the Top 100 Technorati CMS/blogs are PHP-based, a good cut of the Top 50 websites (or Top 500?) makes a deep use of PHP many enterprises continue to walk the wrong path in their web strategies (I won’t write the name of the programming language I ‘m talking about :D). [...]
Inserting raw HTML code in MediaWiki
Someday this post could save you an hour: do you need to insert raw HTML code in MediaWiki (for example, an internal image that links to an external website)? Configure it to use $wgRawHtml (its page says that it is safe to use it only if your site is not publicly editable). I can’t say [...]
Use patTemplate
I don’t know why but only few {third-part} Joomla! developers use patTemplate variables: this library is available in both Joomla! 1.0.x/1.5.x so I really don’t understand why it’s not widely used (I didn’t use it in my early components but I’ve definitely started using it). A simple example is available on their website. If I’m [...]
Notes about TPCI 2008-01
The TPCI January Headline is TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007! The reason is Python appeared to have the largest increase in ratings in one year time (…) Chances are high that Python’s star will rise further in 2008, thanks to the upcoming release of Python 3. Unfortunately I don’t have enough time [...]
