On some website around ASUS, I have found a HTML code for building complete user country selection dropdown, which includes every country name written in both English and local name. All local names are encoded in UTF-8 (if not in UTF-16; I’m not sure) so for all countries that uses non-Latin alphabet everything should be fine.
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Checking size for inline scripts is as easy as document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].text.length (solution taken from here). But, when it comes to measuring size of remote resources things gets a little bit complicated. Mostly due to cross-site restrictions and reducing unnecessary server load. Head-type of AJAX call, not so famous among developers, may help in this case.
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brainjar.com’ scrunchinator is a Javascript code minifier, that I use most often.
As for reversing this process, you can use JS Beautifier or — if you’re an extension maniac — a Pretty Beautiful Javascript extension for Chrome (at GitHub you’ll find sources) and for Firefox.
Below JS Beautifier’s main window, you’ll find more useful links to tools like above.
You can find a lot of free hostings for PHP and MySQL, but not that much for ASP and MS Access. In addition to being free, these hostings also offer absolutely not ads, neither on your websites nor in sent e-mails:
100 MB might seem to be very low among nowadays offers (counted in GB or even not limited in space). But since you get: ASP Support, MS Access database and ISS 6 (on Windows 2003), absolutely free for lifetime with 100% no ads, then I think it would be hard to find similar offer with higher storage.
Here is a function that should work in virtually every browser, even really old ones. Of course, it is only useful, if you don’t use jQuery. Because, if you do, a far better way is to just call .on() or .bind() or .delegate() or .live() or whatever you want, and let jQuery do all the dirty work.
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This is a very short brief on how to properly setup NAT functions on ASMAX AR1004g router, i.e. how to route all (or part of) incoming traffic to a specific machine in your local network. In this text, I assume that your router is available under 192.168.1.1 static IP address in your local network and you want to route all traffic using FTP protocol to your video-player, available under 192.168.1.3 and all traffic using HTTP to another computer, that is accessible under 192.168.1.4 static IP address in your local network. Adjust this assumption to your actual situation. Read More “Configuring NAT, DMZ or Virtual Servers on ASMAX AR1004g”
Javascript does not have (by default) any counting and clearing methods for associative arrays (based on JS object). This article shows probably the quickest way to add a little bit more functionality to Javascript arrays. The same, as can be found in other programming languages.
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To all those, who just don’t get it!
Never, ever forget about these five, if you’re developing anything.
I was searching for good looking (nice graphic) and fine organized (modern structure) company organization chart. I found one at ygraph.com and wanted to share some thoughts on this topic.
I don’t know how common it is, but common or not, it’s still a bad idea — I found a great article at Programmers Stack Exchange about copying code, you wrote for your old employer, when leaving him for a new job. I found arguments given in this article so enlightening, that I actually decided to… copy them to my blog. So, here it is.
Some guy on Stack Overflow wanted to know how to highlight a piece of text in given page using jQuery. Finding proper solution for jQuery (client-side) took me around ten seconds as three most important search results were found on StackExchange and jQuery documentation itself. Anyway, here’s a copy of my answer.
Long long time ago in a galaxy far far away I wrote a very simple PHP script, that I usually put into index.php of a directory, which contents I’d like to print out to the browser. I’m using this solutions on all servers and hostings which has Apache-based directory listings disabled and thus are showing empty page or error screen, if folder does not contain index.php.
Here’s the code:
[code language=”php”]
$dir = getcwd();
if (is_dir($dir))
{
if ($dh = opendir($dir))
{
echo(‘Files in this folder:<ul>’);
while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false)
{
if ($file != ‘.’ && $file != ‘..’ && $file != ‘index.php’)
{
echo(‘<li><a href="’.$file.’">’.$file.'</a></li>’);
}
}
closedir($dh);
echo(”);
}
}
[/code]
That’s pretty much everything, folks!
Ignoring folders using TortoiseSVN is a rather delicate thing. You must consider many factors, such as: whether file is or isn’t already versioned, whether file is needed for running application (i.e. file is junk or differs per computer and you don’t want to put it into repository, but must exist in local folder) etc.
I was once asked, if it would be possible to do step-by-step conversion of a large project written in pure PHP into Yii. In my opinion, it is possible, but absolutely not worth it.
Most professional frameworks are complete opposite to “pure PHP” code in actually all areas. Code is separated most times (i.e. into model, view and controller in MVC design pattern) and uses mostly framework classes or code. I would even say, that writing an application in some framework means using only 10-20% of pure PHP code and doing rest purely on framework classes, extensions, controllers etc.
In other words: porting a “pure PHP” application into framework code would mean writing that application from scratch. I’m not sure, if you would be able to reuse more than 5% of your original source code?
This article is based on information provided by QPKG package created for SVN by noski and on QNAP Wiki article about SVN and of course a piece of my experience. But since SVN is relatively easily to install by-hand (so you don’t actually need QPKG package) and since Wiki article about SVN is outdated / contains some garbage (directory /share does note belong to /dev/ram!), I decided to write my own guide.
The fastest way of generating passwords for htpasswd program is… to use PHP for this task:
[code language=”php”]
$clearTextPassword = ‘some password’;
$password = crypt($clearTextPassword, base64_encode($clearTextPassword));
echo $password;
[/code]
You may also (of course!) use htpasswd program or some 3rd party tools.
As for right know (when anything goes web and desktop applications are nearly dead) there aren’t many situations, when you would like to send an *.exe file as an attachment. But, suppose you want. Then you, the good question, is how to do this? Well… in general, you can’t do that. Gmail itself will block you from sending an EXE file directly or ZIP archive containing it. Saying that it did so, for the security reasons. And, even if you pass it over (see below), most mail servers will block you from delivering such contents to mailboxes operated on this or that server.
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This article deals with installing Optware (IPKG) on QNAP TS-210 NAS machine. Optware is a must-have, if you want to do anything with your NAS that goes beyond using as simple network storage. I.e., if you want to access it via SSH and play a little around Linux on-board. In other words, in installs many core utils, that are simply gone from default distribution of Linux on-board QNAP.
I use my QNAP as backup stations and this for 99% of operations I mount its shares under my Windows. Once, for some non-typical backup operation, I had to do something exactly opposite — mount remote Windows share under QNAP. Since I’m quite Linux newbie, I had to wrote this down for future reference.
This is just a short notice, on how much data transfer and battery lose you should consider, when using Google Navigation.
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Most QNAPs randomly mounts USB disk shares. I.e. you can have disk attached to left USB port as USBDisk1, second as USBDisk2 and after reset — changed together. This causes many problems, where being unable to write some script accessing particular disks could be named at first. There isn’t an easy way to work around it. The only solution I found out was to write an script that resides in flash memory (therefore is called upon each restart of QNAP) and that mounts disks under shares similar to their disk labels.
As a Windows-born user I was kind of surprised, that writing Linux version of autoexec.bat isn’t as easy task as it is under Windows (or formerly, under DOS, from which Windows has inherited this solution). Anyway, here is an example on how to execute bash script during every startup of QNAP machine.
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You may try to use rm -rf [directory] to delete given directory along with all its content (including all subdirectiories and all files). Use this with caution, to not end up deleting all files on your root! :>
Note, that on QNAP (but not on regular Linux) you have to start your session as admin user, as you cannot use su command to become root. If you try this, you’ll end up with error su: user root does not exist.
The fastest way to get whole page or FTP directory contents is to use wget like this:
[code language=”shell”]
wget -r "ftp://dylon.co.cc/Shaun The Sheep (high res) – Series 1 and 2/"
[/code]
However, this may not work always, if destination is secured by password or requires login.
In this situation you may consider rsync…
Tables with multilevel lists inside are rather uncommon element of Microsoft Word documents, but sometimes this is the best solution, you can have. For example, when you need tree-like structure (multilevel list) on the left with additional columns to the right. But, in general, it is harder piece of cake to build and manage them.
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