Blwyddyn: 2012

‘Tis the season… to not visit websites

Here’s an interesting tidbit from the life of a web developer.

Byddech yn meddwl y byddai pobl yn mynd ar y rhyngrwyd gyda'r sgleiniog newydd ffôn / tabled / tostiwr eu bod wedi cael ar gyfer y tymor gwyliau.

Mae'n debyg, nad oes neb yn gwneud hynny. Dyma edrych ar fy hits diweddaraf (nad yw'r math band, Yr wyf yn golygu y nifer o ymwelwyr i hathix.com):

hathix visitors graph
Wrth i'r ysbryd yr ŵyl yn mynd i fyny, ymweliadau â gwefannau yn mynd i lawr.

O'r hyn yr wyf wedi gweld, mae hyn yn ymddangos i fod yn wir gyda 'n bert lawer pob gwefan a app: ymweliadau neu downloads sydyn gostwng yn ystod y tymor gwyliau. Ar gyfer beth mae'n werth, things return right back to normal once the new year begins.

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Watch videos and play music with VLC

This is a review of VLC, a free multimedia player for movies and music. Download it here.

Happy holidays! To go along with that DVD of your favorite movie, that CD of your favorite band, a bod siwmper hyll gan eich hoff fodryb, dyma anrheg o raglen: VLC!

VLC yn rhad ac am ddim, open-source multimedia program for any operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux, hyd yn oed Android) y yn gallu chwarae ffilmiau, cerddoriaeth, y naw gyfan llath. Wnes i sôn ei fod yn rhad ac am ddim?

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The future of smartphones

Google Android and Apple iOS fighting
Move over, Android and iOS. You have company.

Right now, if you want to buy a smartphone you have two main options: iPhone a Android. If you’re feeling brave, mae Windows Ffôn. Amrywiaeth Dim llawer.

Y cyfan sydd ar fin newid.

Mae'r flwyddyn i ddod yn mynd i weld y datganiad o newydd, systemau gweithredu smartphone rhad ac am ddim sy'n ymddangos yn barod i newid y byd o smartphones – er gwell. Gadewch i ni edrych.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu, y gwyllt-boblogaidd system weithredu ffynhonnell agored ar gyfer cyfrifiaduron wedi bod yn lledaenu sďon eu bod yn mynd i ryddhau fersiwn o'r system gweithredu ar gyfer smartphones. The phones aren’t out yet but folks around the internet say they’re definitely in the works.

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Learn Computer Science with Khan Academy

The young man had finished his arduous training period of ten years. The grizzled old man next to him, his tutor, had devoted himself to teaching his pupil the arcane art, an art known only to a select few. Ten years of intense physical labor, deep within the mysterious dungeons and high atop the silver mountains, had finally prepared the battle-scarred young man. He was prepared to unleash his mastery of the dangerous art few knew even existed.

Computer science.

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Mae tiwtorial Twitter i ddechreuwyr: Rhan 1

Twitter's new Logo, the Blue Bird
Twitter is an extremely powerful social & news network – you just have to learn how to use it.

Twitter is a great social network for catching up on the latest — oh hey, I got a new Tweet! Be back in a second.

Whoops, Mae'n ddrwg. As I was saying, Twitter, y “other” social network, is an incredibly quick and easy way to catch up on all the news that’s fit to type in one convenient place. Ond, in order to fully make use of the #awesomeness that is Twitter, you’ve got to learn a bit. Luckily for you, @I have made one that @you are reading right now. #whatluck

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Why it’s awesome being a developer

Studiofibonacci free icon set of ninjas with weapons
Mae'n debyg, these are a bunch of computer programmers.

Ninjas.

That’s what computer programmers are calling themselves nowadays. The profession (if you can even call it that) goes by a litany of none-too-glamorous names, such as developer, programmer, engineer, technician, and more stuff that doesn’t quite make you the most popular guy in the room. Hence, a lot of, er, programmers (for lack of a better word) go by ninja or such. Which I find slightly annoying – you’re writing code, not killing enemies of the emperor. But I digress.

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Sorry for downtime – also, props to WebHostingHub

A closed box package cartoon clip art
Error 404, elephant not found

tl;dr – hathix.com had some downtime but my super-helpful host WebHostingHub cleared it up immediately. Also, I apologize for the fanboyishness – it’s just that WHH is that awesome.

I was recently working with some so-called cutting-edge web programming techniques (parsing JSON using PHP from client requests using JavaScript and jQuery… told you it was gory) and realized I needed a new version of some software on the server that hathix lives on.

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