Year: 2012

‘Tis the season… to not visit websites

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

Gur mhaith leat smaoineamh go mbeadh daoine dul ar an idirlíon leis an lonracha toaster fón / tablet nua / fuair siad do shéasúr saoire.

Cosúil, dhéanann aon duine go. Seo a breathnú ar mo amas is déanaí (nach bhfuil an cineál banda, Ciallaíonn mé ar an líon cuairteoirí chuig hathix.com):

hathix visitors graph
Mar a théann an spiorad Fhéile suas, dul gcuairteanna ar láithreáin ghréasáin síos.

Ón méid atá feicthe agam, seo cosúil le bheith ar an cás le láithreán gréasáin go leor i bhfad gach agus app: cuairteanna nó íosluchtú sa laghdú géar le linn shéasúr saoire. Chun an méid is fiú, 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, imreoir saor in aisce ilmheán do scannáin agus ceol. Íoslódáil anseo.

Laethanta saoire sona! Chun dul in éineacht leis an DVD ar do scannán is fearr leat, go CD de do banna ceoil is fearr, agus go geansaí gránna ó d'aintín is fearr leat, anseo i láthair de chlár: VLC!

VLC is saor in aisce, foinse oscailte clár ilmheán d'aon chóras oibriúcháin (Windows, Mac, Linux, fiú Android) go Is féidir le scannáin a imirt, ceol, na naoi iomlán yards. Raibh a luaigh mé go bhfuil sé saor in aisce?

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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 agus Android. If you’re feeling brave, níl Windows Fón. Éagsúlacht nach bhfuil i bhfad.

Gach go bhfuil thart ar a athrú.

Is é seo an bhliain seo chugainn ag dul chun an scaoileadh nua, córais oibriúcháin saor in aisce smartphone go bhfuil an chuma poised a athrú ar an saol na smartphones – chun feabhais. A ligean ar ghlacadh le breathnú.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu, an wildly tóir- córas oibriúcháin foinse oscailte le haghaidh ríomhairí has been spreading rumors that they’re going to release a version of the operating system for 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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A teagaisc Twitter do thosaitheoirí: Cuid 1

Twitter's new Logo, the Blue Bird
Tá Twitter an shóisialta an-chumhachtach & nuacht líonra – tá tú díreach a fháil amach conas é a úsáid.

Tá Twitter líonra sóisialta iontach chun breith suas ar a dhéanaí - OH hug, Fuair ​​mé Tweet nua! A bheith ar ais sa dara.

Whoops, tá brón orainn. Mar a bhí á rá agam, Twitter, an “eile” líonra sóisialta, Is ar bhealach thar a bheith tapaidh agus éasca chun teacht suas ar nuacht na go cuí le cineál in aon áit áisiúil. Ach, d'fhonn a dhéanamh go hiomlán úsáid a bhaint as an awesomeness # Is é an Twitter, tú agam a fhoghlaim le beagán. Luckily ar do shon, @ Déanta agam ceann a bhfuil tú ag léamh @ ceart anois. #whatluck

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Why it’s awesome being a developer

Studiofibonacci free icon set of ninjas with weapons
Cosúil, 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, sé, 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. Ach digress mé.

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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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