Archive for January, 2010

ImageShack Linux Uploader

Has been using imageshack for years, my only complain is the lack of desktop uploader for linux. However, few days ago, when I open up imageshack to upload some images, I stumble upon section called “More Ways to Upload”. Curious, I click it and I saw list of 3rd party apps. There’s an uploader for [...]

Test Your Site on Multiple Browser Using Adobe BrowserLab

Having Ubuntu as development environment is great! But, I things get complicated when I came to testing your site on IE. Yes, we can test it using IEs4lin project. But, my experience told me that the result is not quite the same as using IE on pure windows installation.
Yesterday, I got message from colleague at [...]

Loading Contact-Form-7 Plugin Outside Post/Page/The_Loop

Hi, just want to share little snippet. I was developing wordpress site for my client and I want to use Contact-Form-7 (CF7) to speed-up my development time. I need to add form (custom form) outside the loop / post / page content. From CF7’s documentation, there’s no single text explaining how to do it.
So, I [...]

Web Scrapping Made Easy, With YQL

Usually, when someone asked me question: “how do you scrap data from certain website?”. My answer would be using some REGEXs. However, Yahoo now has something interesting on it’s developer site. Instead of doing REGEX, we can just QUERY our target page with YQL and extract the data as XML or JSON.

CR-Post2PingFM 0.8 Released

Just minor enhancement on admin page for Ping post template. I added 10 messages template form for you to fill it out. The plugin will randomly select non empty template for ping.fm updating purpose.

Display Drupal Taxonomy Like Craiglist Does

So you have a classified site build on top of drupal. Someday, you encounter this craiglist page and though that you would like to mimic that page. Don’t worry, I’ve been implementing in on my recent project and I would like to share it here.

Bermain Tebak-Tebakan di Plurk

Kali ini pakai bahasa Indonesia saja ya. Posting ini hanya untuk pengumuman kalau sekarang sedang testing permainan tebak-tebakan di platform plurk. Model permainannya sama seperti bot yang dulu banyak beredar di IRC (entah, sekarang masih ada atau tidak, sudah lama tidak berkunjung ke IRC).
Kalau kalian ingin coba, silahkan melihat2 di website resminya. Oh iya, karena [...]

How To Move Apache’s Htdocs to Home Directory

For me, as developer, working with apache on home directory is the preferred way than working on default installation directory. To move your htdocs to home dir, you can follow this simple step.

Create directory on your home dir, for the sake of this tutorial, let’s call it wwwroot.
Change htdocs location at /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default to your ~/wwwroot [...]

How To Prevent Someone From Executing xkill

From wikipedia entry:
Xkill is a utility program distributed with the X Window System that instructs the X server to forcefully terminate its connection to a client, thus “killing” the client.
Some one at id-ubuntu mailing list asked how to prevent someone from executing xkill. After reading this, my evil mind popped a solution .

My strategy is [...]

New Post on New Year!

No, nothing special in this post!