Links
How to: Stream Any Type of Video To Your Playstation 3
http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/how-to/how-to-stream-any-type-of-video-...Looking for a way to watch any movie or TV show on your multimedia powerhouse, Playstation 3? Here’s a step by step, if not a bit convoluted, method of getting nearly all your standard and high definition movies on your computer to play on your big screen using your PS3 (fair warning: this isn't an easy install and click solution...not for the faint of heart)...
Tabs in a Textarea/WYSIWYG editor?
http://l4x.org/Story/261/You may have a textarea that you want to allow people to write code into, but you also want them to be able to put
tabs into the textarea without the normal copy+paste trick. This useful article will allow people to use the tab key normally in a textarea.
Rules for High Performance Web Sites
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/The Exceptional Performance team has identified 13 rules for making web pages fast. Specializes on front-end like js & css.
Complete installation of a rails server system
http://www.tsfsc.com/blog/?p=6Everything to set up debian, mysql and ruby in a vmware. You start with an empty vmware and end with a complete running server enviroment.
PHPCheck
http://blog.phpdeveloper.co.nz/2006/10/20/phpcheck-for-php-environment...PHPCheck is a simple script which checks the PHP environment it’s running under for a set of minimum requirements defined in a configuration file. It’s ideal for use in installers but could easily be executed at run-time for any other software to ensure the environment hasn’t changed since it was last checked.
MarkD's knowledge base for Oracle
http://www.badgertronics.com:8008/knowledge/one.adp?parent=1Pretty cool straight forward resource with lots of handy Oracle examples.
10 projects every PHP developer should know
http://www.webdigity.com/index.php/topic,7333.0.10+projects+every+php+...As a php web developer, you should know that php is probably the language that has the biggest code repository. So no matter what module you want to include in your project there should be an open source solution.
Installing more than one wiki on one server
http://pgrdictionary.org/help/index.php/Help:Installing_more_than_one_...In the example, the method is used to install different wikis for different languages. I'm going to use the same example to cage different clients and give them each their own wiki, while duplicating as little code as possible and creating a CommonSettings.inc.php as to which all wikis should comply.
How to install mediawiki in Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/server/C/mediawiki.htmlMediaWiki is an web based Wiki software written in the PHP language. It can either use MySQL or PostgreSQL Database Management System.
Creating a reflection with PHP & Imagick
http://valokuva.org/?p=82By Mikko Koppanen, he has got a lot of cool imagick articles on his site, but this is a simple example of creating a reflection of an image. The reflection is created by flipping the image and overlaying a gradient on it. Then both, the original image and the reflection is overlayed on a canvas.
PHP UTF-8 cheatsheet
http://www.nicknettleton.com/zine/php/php-utf-8-cheatsheet#bodyThere are a number of great articles online about UTF-8 and how it works - Joel Spolski's comes to mind - but very few about how to actually get it working with PHP and iron out all the bugs. So, here to save you the time we put in, is a quick cheatsheet and info about a few common issues.
SVN: How to structure your repository
http://ariejan.net/2006/11/24/svn-how-to-structure-your-repository/For SVN beginners. This article tells you about trunk, branches, tags and will discuss how to structure your repository in order for you to take full advantage of Subversion's possibilities.
Upgrading Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgradingThe official Ubuntu document with the best ways for upgrading Desktop & Server versions of Ubuntu.
SVN in Quanta
http://braincore.blogspot.com/2005/08/kde-kdesvn-in-quanta-update-upda...Turns out it's pretty easy to enable SVN editting in Quanta Plus.
Don't forget to first aptitude install kdesvn kdesvn-kio-plugins libsvnqt-dev
Avant Window Navigator in Gutsy
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=385981AWN is a compositing dock-like task bar. This guide was tested under Ubuntu Gutsy 32-bit.
Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide v0.5e
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449&highlight=comprehe...Start here if you have no idea why sound is not playing in Ubuntu
A Blog for Bloggers
http://blog-dir.blogspot.comMany blog directories ask for a reciprocal link and end up not listing your blog (by building one way links also known as "inbound links" they improve thier own page rank on search engines). From time to time this guy researches a blog directory or index to help bloggers invest their time on submitting blogs to fair directories.
High Scalability
http://highscalability.com/High Scalability is a site to help you build successful scalable websites. It tries to bring together all the lore, art, science, practice, and experience of building scalable websites into one place so you can learn how to build your system with confidence.
ScreencastTeam/FfmpegConversion
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/FfmpegConversionA list of ffmpeg commands to convert a film to tons of different video formats (mpeg4, flv, avi, ogg, etc)
Two Tools to Discover Your Brand Equity and Three Tips to Improve It
http://littleredsuit.com/2007/08/02/two-tools-to-discover-your-brand-e...The Internet has given more steam to the already powerful conversation surrounding a powerful concept: The Personal Brand.
How Much Is Your Blog Worth?
http://www.business-opportunities.biz/projects/how-much-is-your-blog-w...Inspired by Tristan Louis's research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, they've created this little applet using Technorati's API which computes and displays your blog's worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.
How to build a search engine in PHP
http://www.symfony-project.com/askeet/1_0/21No more database-dependent SQL queries, no more external library integration. At last, PHP developers will not dream of Lucene anymore. They can develop their own search engine, with results ordered by relevancy and smart indexing. Take a look at this fifteen-minutes tutorial from the symfony project.
The Best of Eyetrack III: What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes
http://www.poynterextra.org/eyetrack2004/main.htmNews websites have been with us for about a decade, and editors and designers still struggle with many unanswered questions: Is homepage layout effective? ... What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to headlines? ... When is multimedia appropriate? ... Are ads placed where they will be seen by the audience?
The Eyetrack III research released by The Poynter Institute, the Estlow Center for Journalism & New Media, and Eyetools could help answer those questions and more. Eyetracking research like this won't provide THE answer to those questions. But combined with other site metrics already used by news website managers -- usability testing, focus groups, log analysis -- the Eyetrack III findings could provide some direction for improving news websites.
MonoDevelop
http://www.monodevelop.com/Main_PageMonoDevelop is a free GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages.
10 tips to being a better IT manager
http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/business/soa/10-tips-to-being-a-better...It's easy for IT managers to get bogged down in day-to-day activities and lose sight of the bigger picture of leading their staff. Whether you're a seasoned pro, or new to the game, the following tips will help you effectively manage your team.
Common queries for MySQL 5
http://www.artfulsoftware.com/infotree/queries.phpA giant list with useful queries that might come in handy for every web designer.
FeedCreator.class.php
http://www.bitfolge.de/rsscreator-en.htmlPretty good rss + atom feed creator to include in your php scripts.
Domain PageRank
http://www.domainpagerank.com/With this site you can checkout the PageRank of any given domain.
Secrets of Google's PageRank algorithm -- math inside
http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/pagerank.htmlThis is not google's current pageRank formula but it was derived through commonly known methods. This is the basis for pageRank although pageRank seems to be significantly more complex then this article.
Do Math Quickly in Your Head
http://blog.thembid.com/index.php/2007/07/14/do-math-quickly-in-your-h...Sometimes its very useful to be able to perform math calculation mentally and fast. This article lists five easy methods you can apply right away
How Does PageRank Work?
http://www.reubenyau.com/smashing-magazine-google-pagerank-article-mis...Through mybloglog, I came across the smashing magazine community and an article entitled Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It? The article does a very good job of explaining Google PageRank and has 15 points listed under how PageRank works and 13 factors impacting PageRank, but also does a good job of confusing content, quality and ranking factors with items that affect PageRank.
Do more with Nautilus
http://lifehacker.com/software/linux-tip/do-more-with-nautilus-275401....Linux users: Ramp up the Nautilus file manager menu with three simple packages which add several features. Resize and rotate images, run apps as administrator, and jump to locations in the terminal -- all from the Nautilus right-click menu. The OS Novice weblog runs through the whole process. These packages complement the previously mentioned Nautilus Scripts quite nicely. Ubuntu users can get grab these packages with the following installation command:
Install applications from Internet with a single-click
http://www.cypherbios.org/blog/?p=41&language=enWe have a lot of graphical tools for package management in Ubuntu, I’d say we have the best ones. To install an application is a piece of cake.
How could it be easier? I’ll give you a practical example, a webpage says:
"To install aMule, click on the following icon" which points to apt://amule
Learn Python in 10 minutes
http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/pythonSo, you want to learn the Python programming language but can't find a concise and yet full-featured tutorial. This tutorial will attempt to teach you Python in 10 minutes. It's probably not so much a tutorial as it is a cross between a tutorial and a cheatsheet, so it will just show you some basic concepts to start you off. Obviously, if you want to really learn a language you need to program in it for a while. I will assume that you are already familiar with programming and will, therefore, skip most of the non-language-specific stuff. The important keywords will be highlighted so you can easily spot them. Also, pay attention because, due to the terseness of this tutorial, some things will be introduced directly in code and only briefly commented on.
10 Tips To Improve your Adsense CTR
http://www.fusionfeeds.com/2007/01/10/10-tips-to-improve-your-adsense-...It is quite difficult to get the best results from Google AdSense advertisements on your site. This page helps a great deal with 10 amazing tested tips to increase your Google Adsense CTR for technical and psychological studies.
Top Nokia N95 tips
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/tipsn95.htmThe N95 has lots to recommend it, from the 5 megapixel stills camera and VGA video capture at 30fps to the built-in GPS, stereo speakers and standard 3.5mm audio out. There"s also the very latest Symbian OS and Series 60 versions, with multimedia functionality thrown in by the bucketload. This page has 21 great tips on this superb device to help you save battery life and such.
Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20070622-000002.xmlWhy most suicide bombers are Muslim, beautiful people have more daughters, humans are naturally polygamous, sexual harassment isn"t sexist, and blonds are more attractive.
Speed Up Google Analytics and your Site
http://www.askapache.com/webmaster/faster-google-analytics-with-a-loca...Ever noticed that sometimes your sites take a while to load all the way because loading Google "s urchin.js file is taking forever? You may recognize this problem when you see something similar to this in your browsers status bar "Transferring data from google-analytics.com…" Time for Fix!
Highslide JS
http://vikjavev.no/highslide/#examplesHighslide JS is a piece of JavaScript that streamlines the use of thumbnail images on web pages.
JavaScript Packer in PHP
http://joliclic.free.fr/php/javascript-packer/en/PHP Version of the Dean Edwards "s Packer de Dean Edwards, a JavaScript Compressor/Obfuscator.
Make KDE Look like OSX
http://baghira.sourceforge.net/OS_Clone-en.phpFor people who like KDE and the OSX Tiger theme, here is a step by step howto for making KDE look just like Mac OSX Tiger
Undoing html.css and using debug scaffolding
http://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#d06t2354Undo some of the default styling of common (X)HTML browsers. ( Direct link: http://tantek.com/log/2004/undohtml.css )
What Slows Windows Down?
http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/other/what_slows_windows_down/3Oli from thepcspy.com spent hours benchmarking and testing, to compile a very interesting article, complete with comparisons.
MySQL Performance Tuning
http://dev.mysql.com/books/hpmysql-excerpts/ch06.htmlAn article looking at changes to your hardware, operating system, and MySQL configuration to see what effects they have on overall performance.
CSS + PHP: Organized and Optimized?
http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/sandbox/weblog/2004/aug/css-php-organiz...A short article describing different possibilities for webmasters who want their CSS files to be parsed by PHP.
Id software games on Linux
http://linuxboxadmin.com/micro/idgames.phpA mirco HOWTO on how to install and play many classic Id games on Linux like: the doom, quake, hexen and wolfenstein series.
Creating a Daemon in Debian Linux
http://girasoli.org/?p=120This post outlines a straightforward way to create a daemon in Debian Linux based on the skeleton file, in cases where you want to daemonize your own programs, or programs that do not come with a daemon script.
HOWTO Iptables for newbies
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Iptables_for_newbiesPretty eloborate document covering many aspects of linux firewalling, using iptables
Debian Anti-Spam Anti-Virus Gateway Email Server
http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/spamfilter20050626.html#antispamThis document will allow you to create an anti-spam email relay server. That is, there is no local mail delivery on this box. All inbound mail goes through this system. Spam is filtered out and re-directed to a specified mailbox ("spam-bin" in our example), or to the intended recipient, depending how "spammy" it is. Ham (non-spam) is passed on to its original intended recipients at your final destination mail server. Thus, a spam "filter" server.
SpamAssassin Rules Emporium (SARE)
http://www.rulesemporium.com/index.htmlA ton of custom rules written by people for SpamAssassin (SA), so you don"t have to.
Sharing logins on multiple machines using NIS
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/36NIS is a system which is designed to allow people to use the same username and password on a group of machines. (In NIS terms this group of machines is called a domain). This small introduction will guide you through setting up a central NIS server to centralise your logins, and a client to use it.
Compiz Blog
http://compiz.blogspot.com/Once you"ve got Compiz working, this link may interest you. It will keep you posted on all the compiz developments.
Email Injection in PHP Scripts
http://www.securephpwiki.com/index.php/Email_InjectionHere"s a very elaborate article explaining about Email Injection (mail form exploits), and how to fix it
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
http://advbash.activeventure.net/Your complete reference for bash scripting. Practically every issue is covered in here.
Writing Socket Servers in PHP
http://www.zend.com/pecl/tutorials/sockets.php?article=sockets&kin...This Zend tutorial is intended for the PHP programmer interested in exploring the use of PHP Sockets functions to create an Internet Socket Server.
C++ Tutorial
http://cplus.about.com/od/beginnerctutorial/l/blcplustut.htmEver wanted to make a start with learning C++? This is a nice tutorial which really begins with the basics.
PHP: SSH2 Functions
http://php.mirror.ncsu.edu/manual/en/ref.ssh2.phpNot many people know this, but you can actually make secure shell connections with your PHP scripts. This comes in real handy when you"re programming PHP-CLI daemons to automate certain network administration tasks.
ASCII Generator
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/A cool tool for generating ascii art logo"s online.
Running Windows viruses on Linux with Wine
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222A funny article about someone who tried to run different windows virusses on a linux box to find out what effect they would have.
Microsoft Crash Gallery
http://www.scorpioncity.com/mscrash.shtmlA funny collection of screenshots of windows crashes, blue screens of death, etc.
Make Windows Look like OSX
http://www.flyakiteosx.comFor people who like Windows and the OSX Tiger theme, here is cool piece of software for making Windows look just like Mac OSX Tiger
How to harden your sshd
http://www.non-gnu.uvt.nl/pub/uvt-unix-doc/ssh-harden.txtA plain text file containing pointing out some very usefull hints on how to harden your SSH Deamon
The Perfect Setup - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server (Dapper Drake)
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.06_p7This is a detailed description about how to set up a Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.).
Hardware rendered 3D Ubuntu desktop
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=148351Check out Compiz & XGL, you can install these packages on your Ubuntu system to create cool 3d effects on your desktop
Make Ubuntu Look like OSX
http://users.utu.fi/ljtaim/ubuntuosx.phpFor people who like Ubuntu and the OSX Tiger theme, here is a step by step howto for making Ubunu look just like Mac OSX Tiger