Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Openads (formerly known as PHPAdsNew) is now rebranded as OpenX. This project started a few years back to provide an open source Advertisement Management system. Currently, it is one of the most extensive OSS Ad management system out there, with tons of features.
This year OpenX plans to bring out a hosted version of OpenX allowing more publishers to leverage the use of this platform, without having to install and set it up on their own servers.
Read more : http://blog.openx.org/02/changes-to-openx-site-and-brand-quick-guide/
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Here’s a cool wordpress plugin which updates your twitter account whenever you create or update a post on your Wordpress blog. You can configure the plugin to send a twitter when you - create or edit a new draft, publish your post or edit any old posts.
Link: http://blog.victoriac.net/blog/twitter-updater
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Usability and the utility, not visual design, determine success or failure of a web-site. Since visitor page is only person who clicks mouse therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become standard approach for successful profit-oriented
Link: 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Usually handing forms involves coding the form in HTML and performing client and server side validation, which usually makes the code for complex forms quite unwieldy. Zend_Form which is available in Zend Framework version 1.5 aims at simplifying this process.
You can now create and add methods for validating form fields completely in Zend_Form. Here’s an example from an article at Zend Developer Zone:
$form = new Zend_Form;
$form->setAction('/resource/process')
->setMethod('post')
->setAttrib('id', 'login');
$username = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('username');
$username->addValidator('alnum')
->addValidator('regex', false, array('/^[a-z]/i'))
->setRequired(true)
->addFilter('StringToLower');
$form->addElement($username);
$password = new Zend_Form_Element_Password('password');
$password->addValidator('stringLength', false, array(6))
->setRequired(true)
$form->addElement($password);
$form->addElement(new Zend_Form_Element_Submit()); |
To learn more on this head over to the Zend_Form Quick start guide at : http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.form.quickstart.html or an article by Cal Evans at Zend Developer Zone: Lifting the Skirt on Zend Framework 1.5 - Zend_Form
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
| Wavelog allows you to blog straight from your S60 mobile to your Wordpress or Drupal site. You can attach audio, images or video files from the handset to your posts. The software uses the xmlrpc script on the wordpress blog to submit your posts to the server. |
| This post is created using Wavelog on my N82 unit to test the capability of the software. One crib is the inability to choose the post category while publishing from the mobile. Oh well, hope that feature comes in a future version. |
| You can download the trial version of Wavelog over at http://telewaving.com |
| The full version of the software costs 10 dollars and the licence can be purchased at the developer’s site. |
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Here’s an installer which eases your task of downloading and installing open source software. There are two versions of the software, a full version which is around 150MB and a lite version which is less than 1MB. The lite versions downloads the software you’ve selected to install on your system, which the full version has all the software pre-downloaded.
WinLibre contains software in the following categories:
Links: WinLibre Site
WinLibre Download Page
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Inspekt is a PHP library that makes it easier to write secure web applications, which works on PHP 4 and 5 and has no external dependencies.
Inspekt acts as a sort of ‘firewall’ API between user input and the rest of the application. It takes PHP superglobal arrays, encapsulates their data in an “cage” object, and destroys the original superglobal. Data can then be retrieved from the input data object using a variety of accessor methods that apply filtering, or the data can be checked against validation methods. Raw data can only be accessed via a ‘getRaw()’ method, forcing the developer to show clear intent.
Inspekt can also be used on arbitrary arrays, and provides static filtering and validation methods.
Project Page: inspekt - Google Code
Downloads Page : http://code.google.com/p/inspekt/downloads/list
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