Mail Archiver ideas
We use it for receiving junk e-mails (i.e. for those times where we need an e-mail address for sign-up to a service). E-mails are of the form: [email protected] TODO: Extend postie: ...
Fixed drive letters for removable USB sticks
If you use multiple USB drives, you've probably noticed that the drive letter can be different each time you plug one in. If you'd like to assign a static letter to a drive that's the same every time you plug it in, read on. Windows assigns drive letters to whatever type of drive is available. This can be annoying especially if you use backup tools or portable apps that prefer to have the same drive letter every time. ...
Portable Console
portable console Set scrolling region: printf "\033[1;24r" Reset scrolling region: printf "\033[r" However, it is easier/better to do: ...
Xnest
This trick lets you run X-Windows within an X-Windows session. This is kinda like running VNC. It is useful for testing scenarios. #!/bin/sh Xnest :1 -name "Bla" -ac -geometry 800x600 & sleep 1 export DISPLAY=:1 ...
CyberWorld 2017.1
Development travis cordova build ...
Side Load apps on Android TV
So we bough a Philips 50PFK6540. This is a 50" TV with Ambi Ligh and Android TV. One of the things I wanted to do from the very start was to load my own APKs. This was not possible until a recent (2016) update that enabled the "Install from Unknown Sources" setting option. ...
Building Signed APKs
Building signed APK's for Android is easy if you know what you are doing. This article goes over the preparation steps and the additional build instructions needed to created signed APKs. Preparation First you need to have a keystore. Use this command: ...
Archiving DVDs and CDs
Since now I have a Android TV I put away my HTPC and with that the capability to view DVDs or listen CDs directly. So I converted my entire CD and DVD library to media files and stored in my home NAS. Since we are talking hundreds of DVDs and CDs, I was using some tools. CD ripping For CD ripping, pretty much everything can be done with abcde. ...
Writing Safe Shell scripts
Writing shell scripts leaves a lot of room to make mistakes, in ways that will cause your scripts to break on certain input, or (if some input is untrusted) open up security vulnerabilities. Here are some tips on how to make your shell scripts safer. Don't The simplest step is to avoid using shell at all. Many higher-level languages are both easier to write the code in in the first place, and avoid some of the issues that shell ...
editor to replace emacs
At the end, I switched to geany GUI TextAdept Bluefish Editor editra ...
MariaDB Quickest Quick start
This article outlines the bare minimum to get a MariaDB or MySQL database up and running. It covers a CentOS/RHEL and an ArchLinux installs. Make sure your system is up to date: ...
Jaxon: Call PHP classes from JavaScript using AJAX
Jaxon is an open source PHP library for easily creating Ajax web applications. It allows into a web page to make direct Ajax calls to PHP classes that will in turn update its content, without reloading the entire page. Jaxon implements a complete set of PHP functions to define the contents and properties of the web page. Several plugins exist to extend its functionalities and provide integration with various PHP frameworks and CMS. ...
Building chroots with yum
Building CHROOTs with Yum in a single command: yum --releasever=7 --installroot=/chroot/jail2 -y install httpd Will install httpd with all its dependancies. If you are on x86_64 and want a 32 bit chroot: setarch i386 yum --releasever=6 --installroot=/chroot/jail32 -y install httpd ...
My WordPress plugins
For my own purposes I have written a number of WordPress plugins. S3Copy - Makes backup copies of your pictures to an S3 Compatible server. I use sirv.com myself. It also mangles tags so files are server from the S3 bucket. wptools - A collection of WordPress related functionality. ...
vr starting points
vr boilerplate threejs vr chrome experimets google cardboard google cardboard ...
Hosting WordPress on OpenShift
So I finally moved my WordPress web sites to OpenShift. OpenShift is a cloud based Platform-as-a-Service offering from RedHat. And while there is a learning curve I would say that so far it works great. My implementation is a fully cloud based solution. Makes use of the following services: GitHub for code hosting ...
CSR ideas
Work improvements NFR Javascript single page application JS GUI ...
game lists
Cybernator Darius Twin Another World | Out of this World Front Mission Series Strike Gunner ...
JavaScript resources
Typescript voxeljs ige More powerful github web pages ...
Programming 2016
Programming 2016 GWT and GWT on Mobile and Java servlets Generate Excel http://www.gwtproject.org/overview.html ...