Cannibalize Business Development by Popularizing your API

How to make the perfect meringue

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For developers that have a need to access the AJAX Language API from other Non-JavaScript environments, the API exposes a simple RESTful interface. In all cases, the method supported is GET, and the response format is a JSON encoded result with embedded status codes. For google.language.translate, the POST method is available

The xmlDOM jQuery plugin takes a string of XML and converts it into an XML DOM object for use with jQuery.

GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic data structures. A GeoJSON object may represent a geometry, a feature, or a collection of features. GeoJSON supports the following geometry types: Point, LineString, Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon, and GeometryCollection. Features in GeoJSON contain a geometry object and additional properties, and a feature collection represents a list of features.

Resque is a Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later.

This is an almost direct port of the Resque worker and enqueue system to PHP, which I've thrown together because I'm sure my PHP developers would have a fit if they had to write a line of Ruby.

Capturing a signature during a card payment increases security and decreases processing fees. When you pay with Square, instead of signing a receipt with a pen, you sign the screen with your finger:

Why is programming fun? What delights may its practioner expect as his reward?
Bingo.

With some mobile web sites when visited on the iPhone, you may want to skip past the url bar. There's a simple solution to doing this, but doing it right is the real trick.

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I have been involved in development of one journy planner system for Stockholm Public Transportation in Sweden. It was based on Djikstra's algorithm but with termination before every node was visited in the system. Today when there are reliable coordinates available for each stop, I guess the A* algorithm would be the choise.

This uses the ‘haversine’ formula to calculate great-circle distances between the two points – that is, the shortest distance over the earth’s surface – giving an ‘as-the-crow-flies’ distance between the points (ignoring any hills!).

Hookbox is a Comet server and message queue that tightly integrates with your existing web application via web hooks and a REST interface.

MaPit is our database and web service that maps postcodes and points to current or past administrative area information and polygons for all the United Kingdom. It has been rewritten from the ground up in GeoDjango and PostGIS, providing us with a large array of improvements including speed, a lovely admin interface, and much easier updating. The source code is available on GitHub.

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This project is a PHP Stomp clients that besides it implements the Stomp protocol fully, adds some ActiveMQ specific features that could make your messaging from PHP easier.

This is an extremely simple (simplistic?) client for Streaming Text Orientated Messaging Protocol (STOMP), written in PHP. It has no intentions of replacing the already existing STOMP client for PHP (http://stomp.codehaus.org/PHP).

A simple, Object Oriented wrapper for GitHub API written with PHP5.

Uses GitHub API v2.

Requires php curl.

MapBox is a suite of open source tools to create beautiful custom maps in Amazon's cloud.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

Execute any jQuery method or arbitrary function in the animation queue. The first argument is either a function reference or the string name of a jQuery method, like “css” or “remove”. Any additional arguments will be passed into the specified method or function when it is executed. All queued functions execute, in order, in the default jQuery “fx” animation queue.

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A couple of PHP classes that provide auto=links and extraction of usernames, lists, hashtags and URLs in a way consistant with the twitter-text-rb and twitter-text-java projects by Matt Sanford

Professional, scalable and cost-effective transcoding Web Service.

Externalize your encoding tasks and focus on your core business.

For maximum compatibility, here’s what your video workflow will look like:

1. Make one version that uses Theora video and Vorbis audio in an Ogg container.
2. Make another version that uses WebM (VP8 + Vorbis).
3. Make another version that uses H.264 baseline video and AAC “low complexity” audio in an MP4 container.
4. Link to all three video files from a single <video> element, and fall back to a Flash-based video player.

Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the web. Use it to embed video streams into your web pages. Built for site owners, developers, hobbyists, businesses, and serious programmers.

"We are now able to install Ubuntu Netbook Edition on our o2 Joggler devices"

upstart script for couchdb-lucene that creates a pidfile for monit, god, etc

webkit2png is a command line tool that creates png screenshots of webpages

face recognition rest api.

Oh yes.

you're listening to permanentbedtime

Standardised twitter avatar img urls

A simple Twitter Bot written in PHP5, allowing to search and retweet things.

Pandra (PHP-Cassandra) is a light-weight PHP based create/read/update/delete (CRUD) layer for the Cassandra distributed datastore. Sitting ontop of the generated Thrift Interface files, it suits as a factory patterned rapid prototyping tool.

This is a very simple library to wrap around the Mongo API and make it a little more convenient to use for a PHP web application.

decent process supervision mechanisms provided by operating systems I use.

- Mahajamba, Madagaskar. River delta reminds me of Baobab tree :-)

Run your own OpenStreetMap server in the cloud with one-step configuration and zero administration

At MaxMind, we approach fraud screening in a different way. We examine an online transaction from various angles. Our tools are not geared towards verifying the authenticity of the credit card details used for the purchase, but rather, identifying if the purchaser is the legitimate card holder. Through our analysis, we have been able to identify traits and patterns that are associated with fraudulent orders. By asking the right questions, we can provide e-commerce businesses with the necessary information to detect fraudulent orders before the payment is processed.

Arduino RTTY with a 425Hz shift with a Radiometrix NTX-2

Designed to provide most of the NMEA GPS functionality I imagine an Arduino user would want – position, date, time, altitude, speed and course – without the large size that seems to accompany similar bodies of code. To keep resource consumption low, the library avoids any floating point dependency and ignores all but a few key GPS fields.

Rather than have the Arduino keep track of when to perform the next task, you have an outside signal that says “Now!” and fires an interrupt which the Arduino responds to. If your source fires every 100 milliseconds, then 10 times a second, the Arduino will receive an interrupt which will stop any processing currently happening and immediately execute the interrupt handler. For every tick of the clock, the interrupt handler will execute.

monit is a monitoring tool, which you configure tests that will be evaluated at certain intervals. If one of the tests fails, then it will take action depending on the rules you assign to it.

Using Redis to implement a “which of your friends are online now” feature, by maintaining a set of active user IDs for every minute, then intersecting the past five minutes of user IDs with a set containing the IDs of your friends

These days, language detection is really simple in most cases – just use the “Accept-Language” HTTP header, which pretty much every client on the planet passes to you.

XHP is a PHP extension which augments the syntax of the language such that XML document fragments become valid PHP expressions.

an example workflow diagram for OAuth Echo

ANT is a proven wireless sensor network protocol and silicon solution for ultra-low power networking applications in sport, wellness, home and industrial automation.
Operated on world-wide licensed-free 2.4GHz ISM band
Micro-watt power consumption (Approx. 4 years of battery life on a 2032 coin cell when sending a message every 2 seconds, 24 hours per day)

The Sky Mobile TV app allows you to watch Sky Sports 1,2 and 3 as well as Sky Sports News, Sky Sports Extra, Sky News, At The Races and ESPN.

A very simple HTTP proxy which addresses the dog pile effect (also known as the thundering herd) by watching out for multiple requests for a URL that is currently “in flight” and bundling them together.

how to build realtime web applications using node.js, V8 and WebSockets.

# uses script tags for communication, but can detect when a script isn't loaded (this is non-trivial to implement across browsers)
# works across domains as long as you control the domains
# works on IE 6, IE 7, IE 8, FF X, Safari, Chrome and Opera
# small (80 lines of code) with no dependencies

<?php $postdata = file_get_contents("php://input"); ?>

web content intended for the desktop might work well on iPhone without any modifications. Some differences exist, however, so at a minimum you should ensure that your webpages are compatible with Safari on iPhone OS. Next, you might optimize your webpages for iPhone OS simply as a convenience to the user. For example, ensure that your webpages work over Wi-Fi, 3G, and EDGE, scale correctly when rendered, and contain media that is viewable on iPhone OS. Finally, you might build custom web applications for either platform that look and behave like native applications.

Recently, I started developing a new BlackBerry project at work. Naturally, I wanted to setup a build environment on my beloved MacBook Pro. BlackBerry development is Java based, and Java is cross-platform, and so I assumed it would be an easy setup. Was I wrong! It took a lot of research and trial-error; but in the end, I was successful and I wanted to share it here.

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Ferris wheel in Liverpool on a wonderful clear blue day

Product-recommendation startup Directed Edge is launching a free API for its recommendations platform so that developers can create new applications for it. Offered as a web service, the platform plugs into your website, collects data and then delivers real-time recommendations, based either on what similar users have done, or on a user’s own past behavior.

a very simple web-based API to detect and extract the main content from a web page, removing all of the clutter, such as headers, footers, advertising and so on. I guess it’s somewhat similar to Readability or Instapaper, but more suitable to building into your own applications. Watch this space.

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In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now. I won’t talk about any of the projects’ details, merely about the branching strategy and release management.