Programming Ideas, Logics, Tips and Tricks

From February 2012 onwards, Facebook stops App profile pages. But you can still move all your page likes and users to new page (till Feb). The new Facebook app creation flow is really confusing. For developers, to add a app as a tab to another page, you  need to user the following URL: https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL next [...]

Mac port packages are available for Asterisk in mac As a first step, do a port update to get all new packages: port selfupdate Step 2: sudo port install asterisk [This is a long process, it will start installing many dependancy packages] Possible errors you can see: 1) Image error: /opt/local/bin/a2p is being used by [...]

Those who use their on hosting inside an iframe  for Facebook Fan page, there is a mechanism to pass additional parameters to your iframe page if you need to create a deep URL. A normal Fan page of Facebook would like this: https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=xxxxxxxxxx&sk=app_XXXXXX This Url will call your domain, say example.com inside the iframe to [...]

Two months ago, I published a jQuery plugin to record audio from browser (without any Media server) called jRecorder I got many responses and requests to maintain the code with new enhancements and some bug fixes. Based on that, a new version (1.1) is released which has the capability to preview the recorded audio before [...]

Buzitweet is a blogging platform where anyone can register using a Facebook account and can post your articles. No matter what topic it is, it can be programming, videos, quotes, images, pictures or any thing. I use that platform for writing quick programming tips, and which I feel  really interesting. Here are my recent 4 [...]

Sometime in Facebook Pages, you can see the message / banner, we have offers for you, like us to see. Or Like us to unlock the content etc. These all are for getting more likes in their Facebook page and indeed, it is a very nice idea to spread your updates among many of your [...]

Just another time pass. Today I tried Angry Birds Welcome Screen in HTML5. Use Latest Safari for HTML5 with Sounds. In my Mozilla Animation works but no sound. (If you are viewing this post via Email, click the link to see the animation) Click for FULLSCREEN I will try to amend this if get time. [...]

I tried new Adobe Edge yesterday, wow it is cool and it took only 10 minutes for me to develop the following animation in HTML 5. You can simply do animation, movements, rotation, resizing, font changes etc as you do in Flash layers . You can also write actions in javascript, if reached here, or [...]

Recently I made a jQuery plugin named jRecorder to record voice in html pages. This plugin is very easy to integrate with your web page and you DON’T need a flash server or RED5 server to do the recording What all you need is a Web Server (PHP or any server scripting language). You can [...]

The tips is based on my requirement to call india using a calling number. Usually calling card has their number and after that we need to enter our PIN (for some calling card, PIN won’t be there) then we need to enter the destination number. All this can be done in a single call using [...]

[This tip is for information purposes only. Always use technology for good intensions. ] Take any JPG file and place inside a folder. Place the files to hide inside same folder and zip the altogether to a single file (do zip even if there is only one file to hide) Open terminal and switch to [...]

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This is the 200th article of sajithmr.me So, I thought to write something special and it is regarding the new website. New theme, New WP Version, New Server,  New Logo, Mr Me is totally new  

Audio recording using Flash ====================== To Record voice from web we need the following thing: 1) A flash media server (eg: Adobe Media Server [paid] or Red 5 [free]) 2) Java6 3) Webserver (eg, Apache, PHP) 4) A flash client app to record voice The one I used ========= We used Red 5 Server, because [...]

Open a Terminal, and browser to the folder we want to start recursive deletion and run the following command , for example to delete all folder named .svn find ./ -name “.svn” | xargs rm -Rf  

A PHP based tool to generate QR Code for your website URL. http://qrcode-factory.com/ Now a days, the usage of QR code is higher and this is becoming one of the PR generating mechanisms. QR code is another kind of bar code called matrix bar code.  QR stands for Quick Reader (source: WikiPedia) The tool is [...]

Install port first Run: sudo port -fvds selfupdate (to get the recent list) port search ffmpeg port variants ffmpeg sudo port install ffmpeg +gpl +lame +x264 +xvid Install java before these steps

I recently started a new URL shortener service. If you’re bored with old short-url services, you can start using this http://zip.ms Here you can set your-own custom alias, than some random string. I used Phurl library to create this website. I have no spam guard added in the site, please be a real human, I [...]

Use the below code to check your public IP from your linux console. wget -q -O – checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e ‘s/.*Current IP Address: //’ -e ‘s/

I recently use getId3 library to manipulate audio files from PHP. It is very accurate than FFMPEG. For example, FFMPEG is not helpful for audio files having VBR (Various Bit Rate). It returns error max_analyze_duration reached OR “Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate” But by using getId3, we can retrieve detailed information about [...]

In the present financial climate, many people are setting up their own businesses to make money. This has resulted in lots of small companies being created on the fly. So if you’re setting up your own office here’s how to do it in a cost effective method. Tricks like setting up remote offices and using [...]

When we implement Curl for an URL where 401 authentication is made (The pop-up for username and password when we access that url through browser), we can pass the username and password parameter along with the calling URL. For example: for your url, www.abc.com to by pass authentication in one go, we can use, http://username:password@www.abc.c [...]

1) Set up for SVN repository2)Create three folders trunk, tags and branches (optional) 3)make directory lib/vendor inside trunk folder (or your project folder) 4)CD to lib/vendor folder 5) svn propset svn:externals ‘symfony http://svn.symfony-project.com/tags/RELEASE_1_4_0′ . 6) Type: svn update (it will download all the symfony files) 7)Create project:php lib/vendor/symfony/data/bin/symfony generate:project projectname Commit everything (If you need [...]

FTP is good for smaller projects. But when you work on big projects, with a team, it is hard to manage your deployment with FTP alone. You need to sort items by date and need to upload one by one. So, use rsync from command line, which does the synchronisation and it is much faster [...]

Just a quick review of tips available in jQuery to manage nodes (contents) near by the content / node which is triggered an event, like click, hover etc Functions: find, parent, parents, children, first, last, closest Suppose you need to manage some nodes nearby a link or a button on an event. Say $(‘.button’).click(function(){ // [...]

I was waiting for a good social toolbar for my blog and finally I was recommended  one, it is Meebo Social Toolbar. The video here I attached is from meebo website.

Set of applications I daily use in Mac: Safari (General Browsing)Firefox (Web development + StumbleUpon)Mail (Emails)iCal (Calendar Entries)Skype (Client Chat) MAMP (Web development tool) TextMate (GUI for development)Terminal (SSH and SVN)Filezilla (FTP uploads)Spotify (Music)Stickies (Todo list)Blogo (WordPress blogging tool)TunnelBlick (VPN access)Google Notifier (Gmail alert)and Facebook Notifications

Recently I read an article from IBM regarding the usage of Object Oriented Programming in PHP in a proper way. For an average PHP developer, I recommend it is good to read: Read Article Here I also went this link to understand more about abstract class and interface class

Those who use google translator very frequently and those who like firefox, can use this plugin to translate any language string to any language just by a right click. By default it is auto-detect to english which is most of the people want. This plugin helped me to develop my recent project in Portuguese language. [...]