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Design you color scheme
Published on 2010-10-25 09:06:41
Searching for an harmonious color scheme starting with a givent color? I recomend Petr Stanícek’s “Color scheme designer“. Using a simple yet powerfull graphical interface, you can find complementary, triadic analogic and many othe > read more
List all methods of an object in PHP
Published on 2010-08-12 15:41:45
echo get_class($my_class_instance) . ‘’; foreach (get_class_methods($my_class_instance) as $method) {echo ‘———>’ . $method . ‘’;} Stumble upon something good? Share i > read more
Stocking machine readable data in a ‘td’ tag
Published on 2010-08-12 15:31:29
To stock ‘machine readable’ information about a table cell use the abbr tag: Might come in handy for example when you try to give jQuery a handle on specific table cells when id and class tags are already i > read more
Force Windows trash (recycler) to empty itself
Published on 2010-08-12 15:24:03
Sometimes, stuff gets stuck in Windows trash. Mouse-click trash emptying doesn’t work any more. If that happens, use the following command in the command line: rd /s /q C:RECYCLER If something’s really stuck in the recyler, you will get > read more
Calling ‘Program Files’ folder by its real name
Published on 2010-08-12 15:13:05
Trying to call R from, say Java? C://Program Files/R/R.exe returns an error as the Windows command line has trouble interpreting spaces. Use this call instead: C://program~1/R/R.exe Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Blog this on Bl > read more
Draw what you’re looking for with an image search algorithm
Published on 2010-04-17 06:01:38
The written language, made of letters, words and phrases, is how we mostly do internet search. It doesn’t have be that way though. It is very possible, for example, to search a photograph by drawing its approximation. This is shown by ‘re > read more
My six podcast pics: novels, history, philosophy
Published on 2010-04-07 15:25:00
After a long choice process, my best picks go to the following podcasts: The classic tales podcast: Delivers professional performances of unabridged classics. Enjoy classic short fiction from Poe, Dickens, Hardy, and others. Performed by characte > read more
The society of diversified consumption
Published on 2009-09-21 11:15:32
And what if consumption has superseded itself with the advent of Internet advertisement? Since commercials are now possible on global scale, while being contextually aimed at specific audiences, it becomes less and less interesting to mass-produce fo > read more
One day, we won’t be alone again
Published on 2009-09-20 12:50:21
Allopatric speciation of fruit-flies seems to take but weeks, much less then squirrels separated by drifting continents and floods. How about us? How long will it take until we are no more alone… again ? since the fun times of Universe sharin > read more
3D without eyes
Published on 2009-09-18 16:50:42
3D with glasses? Definitely not the next step as we’ve seen it all: color filters (bu-ah!), polarising glasses (neat but don’t tilt your head), alternate hiding of right and left eye with liquid crystal glass (kind off heavy for the brain > read more