Today I released my YahooPics plugin for Wordpress. The plugin lets you display pictures from Yahoo’s Picture search engine on your blog. You can display the pictures in a single post, on the sidebar, or anywhere you can edit your blog template. Currently I only support either 1 picture, or a 3 column set.
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If you are planning on moving a website from one domain name to another you’ll probably want to forward all your traffic from your old site. Many people just forward the actual domain name to point to the new domain name but this won’t help people who land on specific pages. If your links stay [...]
Today I was sitting next to a nice warm stove up in Vermont looking at some Linux Application code I’ve developed in the past. I thought, what a good time to make a quick and dirty “Hello World” GTK# tutorial. GTK# is the equivalent in Linux as Visual Studio is to Windows and both use [...]
If anyone is interested in joining a professional programming forum check out uniprogrammer.com. I created this site with the idea of making it a close-nit community of programmers. The site is virtually spam free due to the strict review of memberships. All memberships are reviewed for approval before being allowed to access the site. [...]
Have you ever wanted to post some resources but didn’t necessarily want them to be on your blog’s front page? I post lots of resources but I don’t want to bog my readers down with tons of RSS feed updates and posts on my frontpage, so I created a few PHP scripts for Wordpress to [...]
The following PHP code will display a set of jpeg files from a folder on your webserver. This code can be used to generate a list of thumbnails provided that the thumbnails are already resized. This code simply outputs the images “img” html tag with the “src” already in place. I would recommend putting this [...]
I’ve done a bunch of GIS development in my past programming days. Almost all of my experience was with the openSource GIS engine MapServer. MapServer is mainly a set of cgi-bin programs that let you read and display various map data such as ESRI Shape files, TIFF & geoTifff, and even ESRI ArchSDE data stored [...]
Quanta Plus is a web development IDE for Linux. QP is loaded with awesome features such as auto completion (even with Object Oriented PHP), SFTP and FTP connections, color syntax highlighting, local PHP preview, local Apache integration and more. I’ve used Quanta Plus for a long time and it’s one of my favorite Web Development [...]
If you’re like me, you may once in a while have something to write about that isn’t necessarily related to your overall blog topic. Take me for example. My blog is mainly about internet and application development (programming) however sometimes I find a really cool tip or trick that isn’t necessarily related, such as a [...]
Mono is a Novell and Microsoft sponsored effort to bring the .NET framework to Linux. Microsoft has partnered with Novell to provide the tools and libraries necessary for .NET development on the Linux platform. Currently the Mono project supports the .NET framework 3.5 to include WinForms 2.0. Some of the new technologies such as Silverlight [...]
Adding a simple ListBox widget in your GTK application is easier than you think. This tutorial will show you how to create ListBox-like functionality in GTK using Glade3. GTK uses the TreeView control as their do-all list control. You can create simple lists, tree-like lists and all sorts of various list views. What is really [...]
Read More »Today I whipped up a simple GTK application using the Anjuta IDE, Glade 3, and the new GtkBuilder system. As some of you know, Glade 3 and GTK changed things up. First Glade stopped using generated code which required you to use libglade. Now the GTK developers created their own interface interpretor called GtkBuilder. [...]
Read More »This code will show you how to search for Windows Services. The ServiceController class handles almost everything service related. You can also check if services are running by checking the service.Status property and you can search for installed services using the sample code below. The services we are talking about are the services that run [...]
Read More »Visual Basic for Linux is here, sort of. In my search for the perfect RAD environment for Linux I came across a project called Gambas. Gambas is a Visual Basic like development environment for Linux which is very much like Microsoft’s drag and drop Visual Basic but it is not a clone. For an Open [...]
Read More »This code snippet will let you force a background color into a PNG file with C#. When working with PNG files in Visual Studio sometimes you’ll run into situations where the background of a PNG shows up as grey or even blue. This is because of the PNG files transparency and Windows can sometimes [...]
Read More »The following code shows you how to build a UDP server in C# using the UUdpClient class for the networking and BackgroundWorker class for reporting data back to the application. This particular UDP server class is designed to be used with a Windows Forms or GUI. When using the UDP server you pass a BackgroundWorker [...]
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