Another instructional blog post as I try to figure out something. Configuring a website with Rackspace.com is much different than setting one up with a shared hosting service such as Dreamhost or GoDaddy. I could write more about this, but it’s not really productive. Anyways, here are the steps I went through: 1. Buy a domain. I [...]
Impossible? No! Just add some AJAX to your <head> section: <script type=”text/javascript”> function request(query){ if (window.XMLHttpRequest){xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();} else{xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”);} xmlhttp.open(“GET”,”query.php?q=”+query,true); xmlhttp.send(); } </script> and create the new page query.php with the following content, replacing the default values where necessary: <?php $dbhost = ‘#REPLACE THIS#’; $dbuser = ‘#REPLACE THIS#’; $dbpass = ‘#REPLACE THIS#’; $conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, [...]
If you request the “offline_access” permission when using the Facebook PHP SDK (and sometimes even without it), it makes the default logout functionality not work very well. To fix this, here’s what worked for me: Change your logout url: $logoutUrl = $facebook->getLogoutUrl(array( ‘next’ => ($fbconfig['baseurl'].’logout.php’) )); On your logout.php page, add the following code: setcookie(‘fbs_’.$facebook->getAppId(), [...]
One problem that seems to affect many web developers (and desktop programmers as well) is how to store recurring events in a database. There are several ways to do this, all with varying degrees of complexity (both inserting and selecting), storage requirements, and requirements on the type of recurrences. These can all be found by [...]
Everyone remembers back when you had AOL Instant Messenger, a major threat was getting a virus. Once a friend got one, it would send itself as a chat message to all of their friends, propagating across the network. Now, there seems to be a similar menace facing Facebook, especially it’s chat feature. I recently received [...]
Because this might happen. And then this. <?php while(1){ $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://34st.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-polls/wp-polls.php"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $id=rand(11,13); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"vote=true&poll_id=3&poll_3=$id"); curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); header(‘Location: http://getmeep.com/curl.php?loop=true’); } ?>
Aside from some technical glitches and miscommunication, tonight went pretty well for MEEPME. Almost a hundred people signed up, and everyone seemed to have a fun time playing around with it. We got to demo our new AJAXified text feed, and other than a screensaver problem and a video cable problem, it worked great all night. We [...]
Wow, what a trip. When Matt contacted me a week before the competition to ask if I had a team yet, I had no idea we would get this far. Timeline Thursday, before competition – Meet up with Matt, go over idea, get introduced to Twilio API Friday, 6pm – Watch intros, get theme, meet [...]
But I just finished a cool embedded systems project for a course I’m taking. And yes, I used the word “hacking” in the title for some sweet Google juice. Anyways, hit up the microblog (updates coming soon).
Was having some issues installing the latest version (3.1.0) of OpenVAS in a CentOS 5.5 VM today, so I thought I’d throw up a walkthrough in case anyone else was having similar issues. I’m not really a Linux expert, so it may look kind of backwards at times. I’m going to skip the long and [...]