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Crop images using mask on PHP

Adil — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:58:17 +0000

Sometimes the rectangle images are not enough from the design point view. You can crop images using the masks on Photoshop, GIMP or other graphical manipulation software. Another way to do it is using PHP’s GD library. Conceptual steps for …

Installing Redmine on cPanel

Adil — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:03:49 +0000

Installing Redmine on cPanel will be bit harder, because it needs some modifications on server configuration. And custom modifications will be lost on regeneration of configuration files by cPanel. According instruction at http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/HowTo_install_Redmine_on_CentOS_5 you will need change Apache configuration manually. It’s …

Getting thumbnail from YouTube

Adil — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:22:58 +0000

Getting thumbnail image of any YouTube video you need it’s video ID number. Video ID number is the 11 character string in the url and assigned to v parameter. For example video ID of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5msjdZIoag&feature=related is S5msjdZIoag. You can get …

Removing UTF8 BOM from PHP files

Adil — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:09:11 +0000

UTF8 Byte Order Mark (BOM) is sequence of bytes for represent the file as UTF8. The sequence is hexadecimal EF BB BF value also you can see it at the beginning of the file as ï»¿. When these symbols is used the text …

Linux computer inside your browser

Adil — Wed, 18 May 2011 07:54:57 +0000

The subject I am writing about is the x86 emulator written in pure JavaScript and it works inside the browser. The author of emulator is Fabrice Bellard also founder of QEMU, FFMPEG, Tiny C Compiler. You can test it from http://bellard.org/jslinux/. …

Installing Sun JDK instead of OpenJDK on Ubuntu

Adil — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:29:19 +0000

By default Ubuntu comes with OpenJDK. Most developers prefer closed source JDK instead of OpenJDK. But in version Ubuntu 10.10 the closed source version of JDK is not listed in apt-get list. So it makes some difficulties removing OpenJDK. First of …

Getting twitter messages on PHP

Adil — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:23:35 +0000

It’s usual on web sites to place a widget with twitter messages by site owner. There are many methods to get messages from Twitter. For example you can do it using Twitter API. There is another very simple method. It’s …

Subqueries in MySQL

Adil — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:25:36 +0000

MySQL has an interesting feature called subquery. It lets you to use SELECT statement within another query. Imagine you have two tables named countries and capitals you want select capital names and country names without join statement. The tables are …

Graphic icons for buttons

Adil — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:23:48 +0000

Most common problem of software developers is finding good graphic icons for buttons, links or something like that. There are many sites where you can download such icons in various sizes. One good method is searching on google. Type on …

Windows is a beautiful background not an OS :)

Adil — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:13:57 +0000

Windows is big, it’s only job is making all your resources busy. Linux is little, it’s job is to work even if your resources are limited. *nix is the best!!!