Archive for the ‘productivity’ Category
17
Jun
First, you need to follow installing these packages on your ubuntu machine. Mine was installed on Hardy, haven’t tested the command yet now that I have upgraded to Lucid.
ffmpeg -i "Output_Video_File.flv" -vcodec libx264 -b 512k -flags +loop+mv4 -cmp 256 -partitions +parti4x4+parti8x8+partp4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me_method hex -subq 7 -trellis 1 -refs 5 -bf 0 -flags2 +mixed_refs -coder 0 -me_range 16 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -qmin 10 -qmax 51 -qdiff 4 "Output_Video_File.mp4"
This also works on .avi and .mpg as the source video.
Update: Howto link for Lucid
18
Jan
I noticed this when I uploaded an entire project files from dev server to production server. Using Web Developer plugin for Firefox, I had a clue to compare the Content-Type from the response header and the one I have in <meta> tags in my HTML.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:32:28 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7 with Suhosin-Patch X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.7 Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Content-Length: 6572 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 200 OK |
And it was really it! Though they both have text/html, they had different character set values. Server responses with ISO-8859-1, but the <meta> instructs the browser to use utf-8, as it is declared in the document.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
And so the second load of page occurs, its sort of trying to correct page encoding on the client-side. In the script I was working, I needed to pass some session values to the next page and clear it on page load, but when it reloads the second time, the session value had been emptied.
Hope it helps.
17
Dec
I’ve been looking on how to start a torrent session on another machine lately (on *nix flavor), and I thought there’s probably a command-line for it, and I was right. Since I can SSH thru in my Ubuntu machine at home, this sounds like a fit option.
The need arises when I’m in the office, working of course, and a movie title suddenly pops in my head and I get eager watching it. So I’d search for torrent for that movie with good remarks, at least watchable quality. Download it then SCP that to my machine at home and start session torrent on CLI. Takes at least a minute of my time to fire it up, but most importantly, it’s finished downloading when I get home. And watch on dinner I guess.
So, if you’re using Ubuntu, transmission is commonly installed there. But we need the transmission-cli package installed, which includes transmission-daemon and transmission-remote for starting CLI torrent session. First fire up the daemon, then use remote to add torrent file, like this one below
marvin@localhost:~/Desktop$ transmission-daemon marvin@localhost:~/Desktop$ transmission-remote -a Avatar-2009-TELESYNC-XviD-ORC.torrent
If it says The program 'transmission-daemon' is currently not installed, just type the suggested install command. It should be like this
marvin@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install transmission-cli
Now, if you want to find out download stats just add the -l or --list like the one below, will list all torrents and status.
marvin@localhost:~/Desktop$ transmission-remote -l
Use transmission-remote --help for other options. You can set upload and download limits too.
Here are useful links:
27
Oct
This plugin is dependent on WP/GeoTrack by Johannes Lietz, this is NOT a stand-alone plugin, it won’t work if WP/GeoTrack is not installed anyway, so it’s safe.
And don’t look for it in WP Plugins repo, you won’t find it there 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 | /* Plugin Name: Top Visitors Flag Plugin URI: http://www.marvinmarcelo.com/ Description: This plugin displays visitors on sidebar as widget dependent on <a href="http://dadabase.de/weblog/archives/2006/05/23/wordpress-geotrack-plugin">WP/GEO-Track plugin</a>. Author: Marvin Marcelo Author URI: http://www.marvinmarcelo.com/ Version: 1.0.0 */ function tvf_get_topvisits() { global $wpdb, $table_prefix; $sql = "select count(*) as `rows` , `country` , `flagname` from `".$table_prefix."geotrack` group by `country` order by `rows` desc limit 0 , 12"; $flagstats = $wpdb->get_results($sql); $html = "<li id='top-country-flags'><h2>Top Visiting Countries</h2><div>\n"; /* id string */ foreach ($flagstats as $cf) { $cf->rows = number_format($cf->rows, 0, "", ","); $html .= "<img src=\"". GEOTRACK_URL . "flags/" . $cf-/>flagname . ".png\" alt=\"Flag of $cf->country with $cf->rows visits\" title=\"$cf->country with $cf->rows visits\" />\n"; } $html .= "</div></li>"; echo $html; } function init_tvf_init(){ register_sidebar_widget("Top Visitors Flags", "tvf_get_topvisits"); } if (defined('GT_NOT_INSTALLED')) { echo "<!-- You need \"http://dadabase.de/weblog/archives/2006/05/23/wordpress-geotrack-plugin\" installed first-->"; } else { add_action("plugins_loaded", "init_tvf_init"); } |
Also, you have to forgive the function, constants, and variables names, we all struggle for a better and sensible one 
Happy coding!
23
Oct
Ok, this is actually the first post I did about Windows. I haven’t used it as my working platform for more than 2 years, though honestly, it’s also where I started, back in Windows 95 in my school years. Even if that’s the only available version we had in 1999, it was huge then! I am now more in the FOSS community, and have been enjoying doing my stuff in Ubuntu Desktop. But what I really wanted to point out in this post is the new Windows Social, it is just like any social media but it runs real time feeds, “popping in” every second into the stream area with streams coming from different major social media out there – Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, etc. And that is a “WOW”, I admit. That’s the feature Facebook Developers haven’t really implemented in full capacity. But Facebook already rolled out their version with that feature, sort of saying “we’re on the way!”, as they had also announced in that release.
I still remember way back the upgrade of MSN’s Hotmail (or not exactly sure if older versions work smoothly on Firefox), it was always complaining that it’s not compatible with my browser. But this one, this one is really good, so Kudo’s to Windows Social team. When I found this in the Twitter’s box in popurls, posts just started popping in, sweet! Though I suppose it would do the same as on MS and IE platform. But if someone knew of a “flaw”, “fail” or “weak link”, complain about it properly to their support, and if you can bother to let me know 
LOL
06
Oct
I’ve been practicing strict CSS rules for years now, but it was only this year that I changed the way I fix floated containers inside another container, to stretch the height down to the bottom of the floated inner container. I guess almost everyone started with <br /> with ‘clear’ or the next element with CSS ‘clear’ in it to fix the issue, but we all know it’s ‘dirty’.
I found this great tutorial that would make a ‘css nobody’ become a ‘big guy’ on CSS, and I myself is going to keep this page available when needed.
Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started covers:
- Padding vs. Margin
- What Is Padding and Margin?
- Margin and Padding Values
- Quick Tip
- Floats
- Center Alignment
- Horizontal Alignment
- Vertical Alignment
- Ordered vs. Unordered Lists
- Customizing Unordered Lists
- Using Unordered Lists for Navigation
- Styling Headings
- Overflow
- What Is Overflow?
- Position
- Adding Flavor With CSS
- Background Images
- Using Large Backgrounds
- Text Replacement
- CSS Sprites
- Image Enhancement
- PSD to HTML
03
Sep
Found this post from Smash!ng Apps
PHPanywhere is a new online service that’s changing the way people develop on the web. They enable users to develop and maintain their php/html projects online using any standard web browser.
This is a web based free Integrated Development Environment or IDE for the PHP language, in other words it is an application that gives developers all the code editing capabilities they need to develop PHP applications online. It includes a real-time syntax code editor with support for all web formats and a powerful FTP editor.
Because it works in a browser you can start coding right away, no need for installing anything and best of all you can work from anywhere, all you need is an internet connection and a web browser and you’re ready to go.
You can develop and maintain multiple projects with ease using PHPanywhere, because as soon as you log in all your projects (FTP servers) are immediately accessible. PHPanywhere even remembers what files you were working on and reopens them as well.
Real-time syntax code editor
The real-time syntax code editor is really what PHPanywhere is all about, so here is a list of just some of the things it does:
- Syntax highlighting
- Smart indentation for each language
- Code folding
- Full internationalization
- Unlimited undo/redo (now handled on client (browser) side, no more waiting for server response)
- Unlimited tabs
- Find and replace feature (New Feature)
- Displays line numbers (New Feature)
- Code auto completion, snippets (New Feature)
- Displays line numbers (New Feature)
- Code indention (TAB key) (New Feature)
