‘Tis the seasonto not visit websites

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

Þú vilt held að fólk myndi fara á netið með því nýjan / brauðrist síma / töflu sem þeir fengu fyrir the frídagur árstíð.

Apparently, enginn gerir það. Hér er a líta á nýjustu hits minn (ekki band tegund, Ég meina fjölda gesta til hathix.com):

hathix visitors graph
Eins og hátíðlegur andinn fer upp, heimsóknir til vefsíður fara niður.

Frá því sem ég hef séð, þetta virðist vera raunin með nánast hvert vefsvæði og app: heimsóknir eða niðurhal minnka verulega á tímabili frí. Fyrir hvað það er þess virði, things return right back to normal once the new year begins.

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, og að ljót peysa frá uppáhalds frænku þinni, hér er til staðar af a program: VLC!

VLC er frjáls, open-source multimedia program for any operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux, jafnvel Android) að getur spilað bíó, tónlist, Í heild níu metrar. Sagði ég nefna það er ókeypis?

Framtíð 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 and Android. If you’re feeling brave, there’s Windows Phone. Not much variety.

All that is about to change.

This coming year is going to see the release of new, free smartphone operating systems that seem poised to change the world of smartphonesfor the better. Let’s take a look.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu, the wildly-popular open-source operating system for computers 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.

Læra tölvufræði með Khan Academy

Ungi maðurinn hafði lokið arduous þjálfun tímabili hans tíu ár. The grizzled gamall maður við hliðina á honum, kennari hans, hafði helgað sig kennslu nemanda sinn sem Bogagöng list, list þekktur aðeins til að velja nokkrar. Tíu ára ákafur líkamlega vinnu, djúpt í dularfulla Dungeons og hár topp silfur fjöll, loksins tilbúinn bardaga-ör ungur maður. Hann var tilbúinn að gefa lausan tauminn leikni sína á hættulegum list Fáir vissi jafnvel verið.

Tölvunarfræði.

A Twitter Tutorial fyrir byrjendur: Hluti 1

Twitter's new Logo, the Blue Bird
Twitter is an extremely powerful social & news networkyou 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, hryggur. As I was saying, Twitter, á “othersocial network, is an incredibly quick and easy way to catch up on all the news that’s fit to type in one convenient place. En, 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

Why it’s awesome being a developer

Studiofibonacci free icon set of ninjas with weapons
Apparently, 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, hann, programmers (for lack of a better word) go by ninja or such. Which I find slightly annoyingyou’re writing code, not killing enemies of the emperor. But I digress.

Sorry for downtimealso, props to WebHostingHub

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

TL;drhathix.com had some downtime but my super-helpful host WebHostingHub cleared it up immediately. Also, I apologize for the fanboyishnessit’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 jQuerytold you it was gory) and realized I needed a new version of some software á the server that hathix lives on.