‘Tis the seasonto not visit websites

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

Ningependa kufikiri kuwa watu wangeweza kwenda kwenye mtandao na kwamba shiny mpya kibaniko simu / kidonge / got kwa likizo ya msimu.

Inavyoonekana, hakuna mtu gani kwamba. Hapa ni kuangalia hits yangu karibuni (si aina bendi, I mean idadi ya wageni hathix.com):

hathix visitors graph
Kama roho sherehe huenda juu, ziara ya Nje kwenda chini.

Kutoka kwa nini nimeona, hii inaonekana kuwa kesi na tovuti pretty much kila na programu: ziara au downloads kasi kupungua wakati wa msimu wa likizo. Kwa nini ni thamani, 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, na kwamba ugly sweta kutoka shangazi yako favorite, hapa ni ya sasa ya mpango: VLC!

VLC ni bure, open-source multimedia program for any operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux, hata Android) kwamba wanaweza kucheza sinema, muziki, zima tisa yadi. Je, mimi kutaja ni bure?

The future of smartphones

Google Android and Apple iOS fighting
Hoja juu ya, Android na iOS. Una kampuni.

Hivi sasa, kama unataka kununua smartphone una chaguzi mbili kuu: iPhone na. Kama wewe ni hisia shujaa, kuna Windows Simu. Si mengi mbalimbali.

Yote ni kuhusu mabadiliko.

Hii mwaka ujao ni kwenda kuona ya kutolewa kwa mpya, bure smartphone mifumo ya uendeshaji kwamba wanaonekana poised na mabadiliko ya dunia ya smartphones – kwa bora. Hebu tuangalie.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu, wildly-maarufu wazi chanzo mfumo wa uendeshaji kwa ajili ya kompyuta 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.

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.

Twitter mafunzo kwa Kompyuta: Sehemu ya 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, pole. As I was saying, Twitter, the “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. Lakini, 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
Inavyoonekana, 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 annoyingyou’re writing code, not killing enemies of the emperor. But I digress.

Sorry for downtimealso, props to WebHostingHub

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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 on the server that hathix lives on.