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23Feb/100

Openbox: Nintendo 64 emu pipemenu

I wrote a small pipe-menu script for Openbox earlier today which lists all n64 Roms from a directory and creates a pipe-menu listing these files with executables. Nothing fancy but it might save others some time, or give others some insight in how easy it is to create pipe-menu’s them selves. If you have any questions feel free to ask in the comment section below. (Read full article for code)

19Feb/100

VIM: PHP development

Programming PHP on GNU/Linux can be even easier if one were to use VIM as an development tool. Here’s two great article’s which describes how one can turn VIM into a PHP IDE. You don’t really use GNU/Linux until you VIM :D

VIM an a PHP IDE
Vim Productivity Tips for PHP Developers

12Feb/101

HellaDroid – Android HellaNZB client

This is an Android application which utilizes XMLRPC to monitor a running HellaNZB process on a remote server. It can add a NewzBin ID to the server, pause/resume, manipulate the queue, abort transfers. Everything a boy or girl needs to monitor their usenet downloads on the road.
So anyway, over the past months I’ve been developing this application due to the lack of a decent application for Usenet clients on Android. There are already a handful applications for torrent, which to be honest work really well. I actually wanted both integrated in one. But as I just [...]

10Sep/090

Java Tutorial: More Basics

cup_of_javaThis is the second tutorial in Java I’ve written, in this tutorial I’ll go more into the basics and tell you about array’s and logical operators and control structures. After reading this tutorial you should be all set to go out in the brave world and write some simple not-too advanced scripts. Enjoy.

11Jun/095

Java Tutorial: Introduction

javaFirst of all, I’m going to write a couple of tutorials on programming in Java over the summer, starting with this one. So lets skip all formalities and whatnot’s and begin.

Java is an object-oriented programming language. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer [...]

8May/091

Geeks just wanna have phun!

I don’t know if bad commenting made this man code for food, but if you don’t clean ut your comments this could be the result!

// 
// Dear maintainer:
// 
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
// 
// total_hours_wasted_here = 16
//
2May/092

Python ImageShack uploader script

Do you often take screenshots which you want to share with others on forums, IRC, MSN or such? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just run a script and the file would be uploaded and ready for copy/paste? Well a nice guy over at the ArchLinux.org forum called “solarwind” wrote a script in python [...]

25Apr/090

How to: Hide a batch cmd window

Have you ever tried to run a Java Swing application by clicking on a batch file in windows? Then you’ve probably seen the empty command window and the swing application popping up. If you have no interests in monitoring any error messages in the command window, wouldn’t you like to hide it somehow? Well, here’s how you do it.

23Apr/090

Zend Framework: Populate Select with DB results

After a lot of struggling and web searching I finally found out how to do this. And since I didn’t really find someone who had the same problem as me, I thought I should write a small tutorial on this topic. My problem: I had a form (BlogForm.php) where i initialized the form for my blog entries. In this form I have a selection box for selecting categories. The problem was, how could I populate this selection box with database results?