Have you ever thought about how can you take a picture from a user’s webcam? Here is a simple plugin for jQuery, which lets you control the webcam through javascript, and requires only that you place a small flash object in the web page.
Via xarg.org
The script is very simple in use – just run php migrate.php myscript.php or php migrate.php directory/ and see if youll get any warnings. If you get none, the script thinks your code is ok Running php migrate.php -h displays help.I have placed the script on github – http://github.com/smalyshev/migrate
Several developers are having problems with the creation of shortcuts pointing to the application in Setup Projects created using Visual Studio 2010. Shortcuts are created the same way of VS 2008, but the problem with VS 2010 is a bug with icons management. Even if you set an icon (either a .ico or a .exe file) for the shortcut, the installer creates a shortcut with an ugly icon that looks like a blank document. This same icon is used also in the add/remove panel. (more…)
Have you something free for download to offer? Don’t offer it completly free, ask for a tweet! This is in absolute the solution for ask popularity for your work.
“Give to the things you like” with a social-style button. A centralized micropayments system could pull more donations and promote the micro-donation business model thanks to the one-click approach (like App Store).
I really hope this business model could grow in our huge-gratis-world (HGW), the web.
Version control is one of the main aspects of a good software project. When choosing one of the Version Control Systems (VCS) on the market, one should consider the benefit of using a distributed system (like Git, Bitkeeper or Mercurial) instead of a centralized one (SVN or CVS). This articles outlines pros and cons of both architectures.
MantisBT is a free popular web-based bugtracking system feature list. It is written in the PHP scripting language and works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL databases and a webserver. MantisBT has been installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, OS/2, and others. Almost any web browser should be able to function as a client. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License GPL.
via Mantis Bug Tracker.
When we released our report on the colors of the social web, based on data analyzed by our Twitter theme tool, we were surprised that blue was such a dominant color in people’s profile designs. Was Twitter’s default color influencing their design decisions? Or is blue really THE most popular and dominant color online? …We decided to look at the colors in the brands from the top 100 sites in the world to see if we could paint a more colorful picture.
It is not an advanced benchmark but the two lightweight web servers seems to be almost the same, Lighttpd seems a little bit better.
The only certainty we have now is the superiority of these servers in deliver static files against apache.
via Benching Lighttpd vs Nginx static files and Apache vs Lighttpd