DavilBlog - Tech Geek Stuff

Create Windows Shortcut in PHP

2011-01-04T07:09:00.000-08:00

This code comes courtesy of Drarok on the stack overflow forums- http://www.drarok.com/

However, I've modified the code slightly so you can set a 'working folder'

so you simply call the function like this:

symlink (notepad.exe,newshortcut.lnk,d:\) where the shortcut will be called newshortcut, and the target being notepad.exe and the working directory being D:\

function symlink($target, $link, $workingdir) {

$shell = new COM('WScript.Shell');

$shortcut = $shell->createshortcut($link);

$shortcut->targetpath = $target;

$shortcut->WorkingDirectory = $workingdir;

$shortcut->save();

}

This also works great in command line EXE files created by bamcompile

A fix for Synctoy 'failed to create the provider' error message

2010-10-19T08:58:00.000-07:00

If you use Synctoy, and you install Samsung Kies Software, you may be in the same boat as me.

I started getting the message 'failed to Create the provider' while trying to sync my folders.

This is the fix, courtesy of 'Lior Messer' on Microsoft Forums:

Do a "Repair" for "Microsoft SQL Server Compact" and "Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0" ...

Original forum post here:

http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/synctoy/thread/2af85e52-1f02-4b3c-a4aa-57545b874782

However, all I had to do was uninstall Synctoy and anything that mentioned "Microsoft Sync Framework" and reinstall, as I didn't have the Synctoy V2.0 media, just a new installer for 2.1.

and all is working fine for me again now....

WebOS 2.0 from a developer's point of view

2010-09-28T06:42:00.001-07:00

Since HP bought Palm, I've been looking into webOS, and I have to say it's impressive. Not least from the perspective of a web developer like me.

This is because the SDK is powered by web technologies - HTML, CSS and Javascript

Here's a quick rundown:

http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1603&Itemid=27

but also you can include C or C++ libraries (plugins) with the use of the PDK so using OpenGL the creation of 3d apps and games should be a snap for any decent developer (still a bit over my head though)

So with webOS 2.0 that's coming soon, web developers will be able to write services that run on webOS devices using the node.js runtime environment.

Here are some more details on webOS 2.0:

http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2109

If I had spare cash (which I don't - who does these days?) I would get me a palm device and get programming..... but then I'm still waiting for my Android device as well !!

P.S. The webOS emulator uses virtualbox so should theoretically be a lot faster than the Android Emulator which I found extremely unusable. But I haven't tried the webOS emulator yet so it's just speculation.

accessing WMI with Python

2010-09-17T04:12:00.001-07:00

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/index.html

Here's a 'Cookbook' of examples

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/cookbook.html

our VPS is down because of wait for it..... bad luck...

2010-09-15T04:10:00.000-07:00

"On Monday night, we had a DDoS against our London 3 site causing widespread outaging into the early hours.

As a result, the datacentre powered down a number of servers to try to alleviate the scale of the attack. But it continued into Tuesday until their network operations staff built suitable filters to clamp the incoming traffic.

Two out of nine of our UK servers are still offline with corrupted filesystems and our engineers are trying to recover as much data as possible. Unfortunately the datacentre pulled the power to the servers rather than the expected method which is to disconnect the ethernet connection.

We will continue to recover what we can from those two servers and make it availble to you. However in the interim, I recommend that we get fresh VPS's setup for you so you can restore from your most recent backup.

- Steve"

UNFORTUNATELY I BELIEVE THAT IS THE STUPIDEST THING I'VE HEARD ALL YEAR !!!

A great article about 'Fake Difficulty' in Games

2010-08-19T02:37:00.000-07:00

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FakeDifficulty

Make a bootable USB installer for Windows XP, Vista, 7 with WinToFlash

2010-08-18T03:12:00.000-07:00

http://bigbrains.com/2010/03/make-a-bootable-usb-installer-for-windows-xp-vista-7-with-wintoflash/

How to remember your dreams, and how to have more vivid dreams

2010-08-18T01:28:00.001-07:00

I've noticed something lately about my sleeping patterns and vivid dreaming. Now whether it's because they are actually more vivid or if it's just because I remember them more strongly I'm not sure, but it does seem to work for me.

If you find you don't remember your dreams, give this a try (it might work) - but remember that interrupting your sleeping patterns a lot can be dangerous for your health long-term:

I discovered this completely by accident, but seems to work:

Ok, let's say you're due to wake at 8am (like me) and you have to do something before 7, let's say you need to drive somewhere or let the dog out or whatever, if you're awake and up (even if sleepy) for more than 5 or 10 minutes (or maybe more) and you get some light stimulus (I once watched a half hour episode of some comedy show), if you go to sleep for about an hour after that you may, like me, have very vivid dreams during the hour, that you can remember strongly. If this is not the case for you then I'm sorry but this just seems to work for me.

I would imagine if you try to do this every day it won't work (your body will adapt), but it happens by accident when you randomly change your morning routine like I do once a month or so.

I think that basically if you're woken up mid-dream or if you change your patterns a bit then you remember the dream better, but if it's during the night it definitely fades. Whereas I dreamed something a few days ago using the method above and can still remember 90% of the dream.

I hope this has been some use to you dreamers out there... Let's just hope you don't just have a strong nightmare...

How to make video games better - Co-op FTW !!!

2010-08-03T04:25:00.000-07:00

,Disappointing....

That's the only word I can use to describe the latest slew of games to come out of the big developers. I always get bored with them after a while, no matter what fancy gimmicks they put in.

For me, it should always be about a great multi-player experience, specifically co-op / team based games. The latest game I played that almost came close was Red Dead Redemption. After completing all the standard co-op missions, we just lost interest. And there's no way in hell casual gamers can complete the advanced co-op missions. What's wrong with putting in an option for setting the difficulty - a couple of simple sliders would have done it - one for setting the damage the enemies inflict on the players, and maybe one for the overall number of enemies. Ok the second one would require a little more coding, but come on... for the amount of replayability. even if you had 3 or 4 levels of co-op instead of easy and schwarzenegger hard....

Also, the team-based games are the same old boring team deathmatch, capture the flag, king of the hill crap... we've seen it all before. Create a game type that allows for actual changes in tactics. It's a big open world, why not let the players set the 2 flag capture points even? Yes it would be more tough programming to make sure they don't drop it on a dodgy part of a hill or on a roof or whatever, but far from impossible. I think with games like these, replayability is very important, yes you'll sell another game soon and the buzz from the first one will wear off, but not everybody can afford new games, and even the people who can are getting bored with moving from COD4 to COD5 to COD6 to Red Dead etc etc.

There's nothing new about the 'newer' versions of the games, new graphics, new guns, new maps. What about the new gameplay?? Where's that? Stop tacking on gametypes and do it right!!!

But to get back to the gametype thing, I remember when GTA IV came out, all the gametypes that came with it, I nearly wet myself - "They've finally done it", I thought to myself. But alas, there was quite a lot of overlap in the gametypes and the one gametype that could have been the replayability holy grail - "Hangman's Noose" - just lacked one little thing - the ability to set the start and end points. Even if they gave us 5 or 6 pairs of start and endpoints - like in the "Cops and Crooks" gametype, it could have been replayed a tonne of times. 2 or 3 difficulty settings would be nice 2. Now I know what most gamers and game companies are thinking - "Co-op missions are more immersive if you create a custom mission for it" - this is total horse-poop if you ask me. Give players freedom, and control, and they'll love you for it. Sure, there should always be a "quick game" with defaults, but people love being able to control what happens in their game. Take the low gravity option in Halo for example, completely useless in my opinion, but a nice idea because of the extra freedom given to the player to control their experience. By the way, allowing us to pick and choose the paths in "Cops and Crooks" instead of them being random would be nice too.

Now I'd like to point out that I'm not singling out Rockstar, it's just that sometimes companies are so close to making the 'perfect' game, I think I want to help them out a bit. GTA IV isn't for everyone, but it did suit a lot of people (until it got boring that is).

Also I know that I'm different from a lot of gamers, many of them just play the game non stop in hardcore team deathmatch and just obliterate everything that moves. That's fine... it's just not for me...

There's a distinct lack of fun there. Maybe those people don't like co-op and don't want it. That's fair enough... and maybe there are sales figures to prove that they're the core market.. in which case the gamers looking for fun are screwed because we'll never get that game that makes us want to play it for years and years.

And by the way, I'm not just a console gamer, I'm actually happier with a keyboard and mouse. But it seems that a lof of XBOX games nowadays are trying to get co-op play into the foreground, whereas PC games are severely lacking in it and probably the last good co-op experience I had in a PC game was in "Joint Operations" - a terribly glitchy game, but it didn't matter because more than 4 of us could play it at a LAN. I haven't mentioned Left 4 Dead or other co-op games like that because this new 4 player limit thing that everyone seems to be adopting is absolutely ridiculous. Just randomly spawn more enemies or make them tougher if there's a fifth or sixth player, you lazy programmer you!!!

Anyway here's what I'm getting at - I know a lot of gamers (the ones in their 20s/30s anyway) are like me. In a shooter, they want to be the A-team (just an example) - Teamwork and Camaraderie can be crucial to having fun playing videogames. Friends want to be able to shout orders and warnings at each other, while always fighting the enemy. I remember driving motorbikes into a chinook helicopter in Joint Operations, only to drive them out before we even hit the ground when we got to our destination. That just felt cool. It doesn't matter how old the game is, or how terrible the graphics are - I'm still playing PC games with solid gameplay such as - Age of Mythology, Call of Duty 2, Unreal Tournament (yes the first one), and many more like them - these games are timeless because of their great gameplay mechanics. Easily the best games I've played in the last few years have been Oblivion and Fallout 3 - they really push the freedom and immersion aspects of gaming. I'm going to do another post soon on my 5 to 10 rules of gaming (not sure how many yet) but freedom and immersion are key I think. These two games allow you to wander freely, discover things your own way, play the game your own way, no painful scripted events as such. They also immerse you in the world by having a great library of in-game information and a detailed history, as well as the AI being so well programmed they randomly talk to each other and have 24-7 schedules!!! And yes these are single-player games but oh how I wish we could program co-op versions of these games - I know there are hundreds of issues to get past from programming, balance and logistical points of view, but it's not impossible. I remember when programmers and artists pushed the boundaries in gaming. Mayhem in Monsterland on the Commodore 64 was a great example, pushing extra colours with the way they used alternating lines I think and even having extra performance by doing some mad trickery with the VIC-II chip. Now it's all Direct3d APIs and Marketing Execs pushing release dates etc. Bethesda are one of the true pioneers of gaming at the moment I think.

I haven't even mentioned the big one yet - Blizzard - hardcore gamers the world over are in love with this company, and I can see why. They've done their best to balance a fantasy MMO (World of Warcraft) and actually, truth be told, haven't done a bad job. You know when people have to go to addiction counselling for something it must be doing something right. My only issue with the game is it didn't always suit my gamer "type". I tended to play solo throughout the game because the people I knew in the game where too good for my level and I don't play well with random strangers. Needless to say I got to level 18 and gave up. However Blizzard also created one of the best single-player / co-op RPGs of all time as well (Diablo) - and where this game gets its freedom from is randomly generated levels and items. I was amazed by this concept when I first heard it, having already played through Diablo II co-op with a friend. I was told that it's all more or less random, just following a general idea and end point for each level - I I really was very impressed at this. I heard portions of Hellgate London were going to be randomised (in a 3d-Game, surely not!!) but it turned out that the demo was pure crap so I never really found out. I know a lot of people disagree with me here, but I just never bothered finding out if it was any better when finished. To cut a long story short, Blizzard are not to be counted out just yet.

This post has been all over the place I know, I don't usually ever write long essay type things, but I forgot to mention a couple of things:

1. Anybody remember System Shock 2? now that was co-op, when it worked. I loved the fact that, however useless, I could keep putting plants and other silly things into my friends inventory when we were running around. Giving the player the freedom to do stupid things (if they want) is so priceless.

2. Aliens Vs Predator (the first one on PC) - levels were crap, but running around as a group scared off your faces was just amazing.

3. When is Sven Co-Op 2 coming out for half life 2? I've been waiting AAAAAAAAGGGES..... aw no I've just checked and the mod has been dead for years now. CRAP

If anybody agrees or disagrees with me on anything here, please leave a comment. I want to get a feel for what people really expect in a game (Console or PC). And I know I'm not the only one who would love a good co-op gametype or two in games from now on.

Anyhow Thanks for reading my uber-long rant. Please comment

Now you can program for Symbian 3 using only web technologies too (and Palm)

2010-07-27T08:16:00.001-07:00

in March, I posted up some links to some tools that would allow you to develop native apps for iPhone and Android using only web technologies:

Here's that post:

http://pojomcbooty.blogspot.com/2010/03/making-apps-for-phones-using-only-web.html

However, I have since learned that you can do the same in Symbian nowadays (since April):

http://developer.symbian.org/main/tools_and_kits/symbian3_developer/index.php

and also, that's the way Palm do it in general for webOS:

http://developer.palm.com/index.php?...rticle&id=1758

Needless to say, if I had the time, I'd be creating tonnes of apps, instead of just thinking about it...

43 of the best free Windows Enhancements

2010-06-29T05:52:00.000-07:00

Some of these even work on Windows 7

http://bigbrains.com/2009/11/forty-three-of-the-best-free-windows-enhancements/

140 !!!

2010-04-26T02:49:00.000-07:00

Please check out this project (it's worth your while) - It's called 140 - 140 filmmakers, communicating using twitter to synchronise, with 140 seconds of film time each, in 140 locations across the world. I personally can't wait until this comes out.

Pong Ultra!!!

2010-04-23T02:52:00.000-07:00

http://pongu.sourceforge.net/

XP Mode for Windows 7 without hardware-assisted virtualisation

2010-04-21T08:34:00.001-07:00

The Official (Microsoft) way:

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2010/03/18/windows-xp-mode-now-accessible-to-more-pcs.aspx

The VMWare way:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/10911/run-xp-mode-on-windows-7-machines-without-hardware-virtualization/

The VirtualBox way:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12309/install-xp-mode-with-virtualbox-using-the-vmlite-plugin/

Installing Snow Leopard on a PC without a MAC (PC ONLY ISO METHOD)

2010-03-29T01:45:00.001-07:00

Here's the guide that got me through my install,

http://osx.mechdrew.com/guides/nbi3.shtml

just note that you may have to try a few different USB DVD drive combos before this will work.

I used a USB to IDE bridge thingy and an old IDE DVD drive from my work computer. Tried another IDE DVD drive from home and that didn't work for me.

also in the guide it says boot the CD, swap in snow leopard, hit F5 and then boot the snow leopard CD but the way I got it to work for me was to boot the CD, swap in snow leopard, hit ENTER on the CD icon, then it came up with an APPLE HFS thing that wouldn't load, but then I could hit F5 and that changed to "snow leopard install" or something like that, which loaded fine.

I hackintosh'd a Dell Mini 10V, and all the hardware works perfectly using the guide above (netbookCD has drivers / extensions for many of the popular netbooks)

[edit] Here are the rest of the guides - for USB installation from any OS for example

http://osx.mechdrew.com/guides/

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Making Apps for Phones using only web technologies

2010-03-18T05:49:00.000-07:00

Here's a list of all the frameworks you can use to program a phone web app (eg. iPhone) using only web technologies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_phone_web_based_application_framework

Some of the frameworks can even compile native apps for iPhone for example. Of course you'll need a mac or hackintosh if you want to compile an iPhone app using Appcelerator Titanium for example.

Some of the frameworks also allow you to create native desktop apps as well !!!

Bye bye web design, app design here I come!!

P.S. if you want to make iPhone apps but can't afford a Mac, there's always the Dell Inspirion Mini 10V which seems to have all its hardware supported by snow leopard:

http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-10-guides/17087-how-hackintosh-dell-mini-10v-into-ultimate-snow-leopard-netbook-6.html

(although you'll need to check out the legal aspects of that as regards apples EULA and your country)

Creating iPhone / Android / Other Mobile Web Apps

2010-03-05T04:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.genuitec.com/mobile/

It's a drag and drop UI creator for iPhone / iPod touch web pages - I dunno if you're into that sort of thing. Also works for creating Palm Pre apps
Soon to include the following features:

Other popular smartphone emulators (coming soon)
Blackberry Storm simulator (coming soon)
Google G1 emulator (coming soon)

more in this vein:

http://www.codestrong.com/ - develop apps for iPhone, android or desktop (windows,linux,mac) using only HTML and JS, the desktop version can even use Python or Ruby !!! (like Adobe Air but claims to be better)

http://www.jqtouch.com/ - More iPhone web app development - just the animation / UI side of things, but it has some very nice effects.

http://webapp-net.com/

http://iwebkit.net/

http://phonegap.com/

Some of the above can be used to compile from web-app to an iPhone app that can be sent to App Store (but I think all compiling requires a Mac or hackint0sh)

[edit] Oh I forgot to mention - iUI - intro + download + demos

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Great video tutorials on creating dynamic websites

2010-02-16T08:48:00.000-08:00

http://academicearth.org/courses/building-dynamic-websites

Colour Theory for designers

2010-02-12T03:43:00.001-08:00

This is a great article, please check it out over at smashingmagazine.com

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/28/color-theory-for-designers-part-1-the-meaning-of-color/

Easy Abstract Wallpaper

2010-02-10T08:07:00.001-08:00

http://www.webdesign.org/photoshop/special-effects/easy-abstract-wallpaper.17756.html

How to Use MySQL Foreign Keys for Quicker Database Development

2010-02-05T05:10:00.000-08:00

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/12/mysql-foreign-keys-quicker-database-development/

Write iPhone apps with any Operating System!

2010-02-04T04:33:00.001-08:00

Here's how to write iPhone apps using Java on any Operating System

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1849055/how_to_write_iphone_applications_with.html?cat=15

Really easy digital painting illustration in Photoshop

2010-02-03T04:45:00.001-08:00

http://abduzeedo.com/reader-tutorial-easy-digital-painting-illustration-photoshop

Creating an HDR-like Image From a Single RAW File in Lightroom

2010-02-03T04:42:00.000-08:00

http://digital-photography-school.com/correcting-and-creating-hdr-images-in-lightroom

15 useful hacks for Dropbox

2010-02-01T02:29:00.000-08:00

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/15_things_you_have_know_about_dropbox

Streaming Last.FM, Pandora etc. to XBMC using VLC (on Windows)

2010-01-29T08:26:00.000-08:00

http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php%253Ft%253D27503

Build a silent standalone XBMC Media Centre on the cheap

2010-01-27T08:12:00.001-08:00

http://lifehacker.com/5391308/build-a-silent-standalone-xbmc-media-center-on-the-cheap

One of the best Car-PC installs I've ever read about

2010-01-27T08:07:00.000-08:00

http://www.timekiller.org/carpc/index.php

Web Form design with sliding labels

2010-01-21T04:33:00.001-08:00

http://www.csskarma.com/blog/sliding-labels/

What to include in your design contracts

2010-01-19T09:32:00.000-08:00

http://www.thedesigncubicle.com/2009/07/what-to-include-in-your-design-contracts/

iPhone-style checkboxes for your webpage

2010-01-08T03:06:00.001-08:00

http://tdreyno.github.com/iphone-style-checkboxes/

Windows 7 "God Mode"

2010-01-08T02:20:00.001-08:00

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10426627-56.html%253Fpart%253Drss%2526subj%253Dnews%2526tag%253D2547-1_3-0-20

How to change Win 7 logon screen background

2010-01-07T05:43:00.001-08:00

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/change-the-windows-7-logon-background

A site with the best free fonts [can be used for commercial projects]

2010-01-06T03:42:00.000-08:00

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

Tokenising Autocomplete text entry (jQuery)

2010-01-05T03:06:00.001-08:00

http://loopj.com/2009/04/25/jquery-plugin-tokenizing-autocomplete-text-entry/

Develop Native Iphone Apps with just HTML + Javascript (u still need MacOSX though)

2010-01-04T04:37:00.001-08:00

http://www.nimblekit.com/

SVG Web - Google have made SVG possible in IE6+ !!!!

2009-12-31T06:19:00.001-08:00

http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/

Monster list of Open Source Downloads

2009-12-23T03:22:00.000-08:00

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3854601/Open-Source-Downloads-the-Monster-List.htm

Create Server Daemons with PHP!!

2009-12-15T07:43:00.001-08:00

http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/create_daemons_in_php/

Top 30 wiimote hacks of the web (HACKNMOD)

2009-12-15T06:22:00.001-08:00

http://hacknmod.com/hack/top-30-wiimote-hacks-of-the-web/

Ressurect a dead XBOX 360 - Turn it into a PC !!!

2009-12-15T05:24:00.001-08:00

http://hacknmod.com/hack/ressurect-a-dead-xbox-360-into-a-pc/

Linux Live USB Creator

2009-12-11T07:40:00.001-08:00

LiLi USB Creator is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable Live USB key with a Linux on it.

http://www.linuxliveusb.com/

Install Windows 7 from USB flash drive

2009-12-11T07:32:00.000-08:00

http://wudt.codeplex.com/

Developing CSS for IE 6 and IE 7

2009-12-09T08:35:00.001-08:00

http://www.edgeofmyseat.com/blog/developing-css-for-ie6-and-7

Coding Puzzles!

2009-12-04T19:14:00.001-08:00

http://sixrevisions.com/resources/10-puzzle-websites-to-sharpen-your-programming-skills/

A great guide to regular expressions

2009-11-27T03:21:00.000-08:00

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/you-dont-know-anything-about-regular-expressions/

This is just handy

2009-11-26T13:51:00.001-08:00

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/839102/cool_little_miniature_stove/

Video: Install Windows 7 from a USB flash drive

2009-11-25T11:35:00.001-08:00

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=1276&tag=nl.e099.dl091125&tag=nl.e099

automatic cPanel backup (domain & mySQL) with cron & PHP

2009-11-25T08:09:00.000-08:00

http://www.justin-cook.com/wp/2006/12/27/automatic-cpanel-backup-domain-mysql-with-cron-php/

Implant a boot image to a non-bootable ISO

2009-11-18T07:17:00.000-08:00

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9145

How to create Network Bootable Images under Windows

2009-11-18T06:21:00.001-08:00

http://www.hanewin.net/remote-boot.htm

How to create a CD/DVD based image of your hard drive with Acronis True Image

2009-11-18T04:30:00.001-08:00

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=381776

Caching your output with PHP

2009-11-17T07:03:00.001-08:00

http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/php-caching.php

A good article on "tunneling" through firewalls

2009-11-16T15:29:00.000-08:00

http://sebsauvage.net/punching/

The best way I've seen yet to de-clutter your desk

2009-11-13T11:08:00.001-08:00

http://www.decluttered.com/

Survive Heavy traffic with your webserver

2009-10-21T07:50:00.001-07:00

http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/survive_heavy_traffic_with_your_webserver/

MySQL: tinyint(1) and tinyint(4), which one is bigger?

2009-10-21T07:39:00.000-07:00

http://www.phpmag.ru/2009/02/15/mysql-tinyint1-and-tinyint4-which-one-is-bigger/

Build Windows Live CDs with Winbuilder!

2009-10-19T06:31:00.001-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinBuilder

10 tips every PHP newbie should know

2009-10-19T03:23:00.001-07:00

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/vaska20050722.php3?aid=948

Adding custom google maps to your website

2009-10-19T03:00:00.001-07:00

http://stiern.com/tutorials/adding-custom-google-maps-to-your-website

Make a bootable USB installer for Windows XP, Vista, 7 with WinToFlash

2009-10-18T03:40:00.001-07:00

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/08/27/make-a-bootable-usb-installer-for-windows-xp-vista-7-with-wint/

Getting started with VHD files in Windows 7

2009-10-16T07:44:00.000-07:00

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3324&tag=col1;post-3324

Easy CSS dropdown menus ( including IE6 )

2009-10-14T03:40:00.001-07:00

http://www.cssnewbie.com/easy-css-dropdown-menus/

How to create an IE-only stylesheet

2009-10-13T04:29:00.000-07:00

http://css-tricks.com/how-to-create-an-ie-only-stylesheet/

Gmail / Facebook style jquery chat

2009-10-07T06:47:00.000-07:00

http://anantgarg.com/2009/05/13/gmail-facebook-style-jquery-chat/

3D Markup Language for Web

2009-10-06T07:41:00.000-07:00

3D Markup Language for Web - Open Source platform for creating 3D and 2D interactive web content

http://www.3dmlw.com/

Quick info about streams in NTFS files

2009-10-04T17:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/stupid-geek-tricks-hide-data-in-a-secret-text-file-compartment

Connecting to Google Spreadsheets with Python

2009-10-02T17:29:00.000-07:00

Using Google Spreadsheets as a Database in the Cloud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWCLROPKug0

Creating your own service in windows

2009-10-02T14:52:00.000-07:00

http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1269060,00.html

Game Map Exporter tool for sketchup

2009-09-18T16:59:00.001-07:00

http://www.playuptools.com/

Learning Object Oriented PHP

2009-09-14T02:36:00.001-07:00

http://www.killerphp.com/tutorials/object-oriented-php/index.php

Getting next and previous rows in MySQL

2009-08-25T03:54:00.000-07:00

I was having a problem getting next and previous row IDs from a MySQL database, it's easy to add 1 or delete 1 but what if there's a missing ID # because an item had to be deleted.

Well here's the right way to do it

http://www.akemapa.com/2008/07/15/php-mysql-select-previous-row-and-next-row-from-current-id/

Syncing Lotus Notes with Google Calendar

2009-08-24T02:22:00.003-07:00

http://cfguy.instantspot.com/blog/2007/2/28/Syncing-Lotus-Notes-with-Google-Calendar

Sync any desktop calendar with Google Calendar

2009-08-24T02:22:00.001-07:00

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/07/how_to_sync_any_desktop_calendar_with_google_calendar-2/

eAccelerator PHP Accelerator

2009-06-30T03:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.leigeber.com/2008/04/eaccelerator-php-accelerator/

Introduction to web caching on Leigeber (great web dev blog)

2009-06-30T03:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.leigeber.com/2008/04/introduction-to-web-caching/

"Minify" your external JavaScript and CSS with PHP

2009-06-26T08:48:00.001-07:00

http://www.thedanglybits.com/2007/06/21/minify-your-external-javascript-and-css-with-php/

also

http://code.google.com/p/minify/

RRDtool - Open source graphing for PHP and other languages

2009-06-26T07:31:00.001-07:00

RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python, Ruby, TCL or PHP bindings.

http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/