December 2011
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May 2011
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Zend Certified
Recently I received my certificate after passing Zend PHP 5.3 exam. I am glad I passed it, there were some stuff I didn’t know very well about before preparation, like namespaces, late static binding, etc. The study guide that goes with exam purchase is pretty decent. I liked its minimalistic approach, so it just tells you the main points and what topics are covered on exam. All other...
October 2010
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Apartment hunting
Searching for apartment in bay area. Padmapper.com helps a lot.
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Happy 101010!
Happy 101010 (42) - the answer to life, the Universe and everything!
September 2010
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“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.”
– Unknown
July 2010
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“California’s a wonderful place to live—if you happen to be an orange.”
– Fred Allen
June 2010
2 posts
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Got iPhone today!
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“Sorry, dude, someone at the Genius Bar totally sat on your iPad… It was...”
– “Deliver Bad News in a Good Way”, Wired magazine, Jul 2010
May 2010
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Wordpress plugin Related Posts Thumbnails
Today my Wordpress plugin “Related Posts Thumbnails” has been approved and released.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/
Read more information about this plugin here:
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/related-posts-thumbnails/
This plugin has been successfully used for several months in one of my blogs. Visitors tend to click on the related...
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Bookmark on Delicious on iPad
When I see something on web I want to save I add it to my Delicious. As I browse more often using my iPad I needed a way to bookmark on Delicious. The process of adding this bookmarking is similar as described for Instappaper but different javascript.
- Click on + to add current page to Bookmarks. Change the title to “Bookmark on Delicious”. Click Save.
- Select All and copy the...
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My Top 10 Firefox Web Development Addons
Firefox is my primarily web development browser. For regular Internet browsing I use Google Chrome.
As for today the following Firefox addons I find very useful for my work.
Firebug - no need to describe this. Must have.
Page Speed - Firebug extension from Google, that helps to optimize page loading speed.
YSlow - Firebug extension from Yahoo to optimize page speed.
Web developer - lots of...
April 2010
3 posts
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Wordpress plugin "Generate Post Thumbnails"
Today my first Wordpress plugin was released at Wordpress - Generate Post Thumbnails.
This plugin helped me to automatically generate post thumbnails for existing posts on my Wordpress blog and I hope it will help somebody else.
Plugin page for more information:
http://wordpress.shaldybina.com/plugins/generate-post-thumbnails/
“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly...”
– Francis of Assisi
March 2010
4 posts
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Basic Tumblr customization suggestions for better...
I analyzed this blog with Google webmaster tools and found that it is not SEO friendly. Go ahead and check your blog search results at Google: “site:your_blog_url”. Probably, you will see your blog posts, with the same short description and duplicate titles. Here are some tips to improve your tumblr blog if your theme doesn’t support this.
I would suggest to change the...
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Nexus One and iPhone family plan price comparison
Me and my husband have recently decided to buy smartphones. We are actually interested in both Nexus One and iPhone. Each of them has its pros and cons. So one thing that we wanted to see as one of the factors is their price and monthly cost. It’s pretty obvious if you buy one phone - Nexus with T-mobile contract will be the best bargain. However, there is no family plan offers on T-mobile...
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Picasaweb hidden size
I was never satisfied with the size options range of embedded images at picasaweb - 144, 288, 400, 800. I needed something in the middle between 400 and 800. I don’t know, how I didn’t notice it before and why interface doesn’t show it in the embedded options, but there is also 640px image in “s640” folder. So when you embed the image by copying text from Embed image...
February 2010
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January 2010
9 posts
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ClipMenu makes my day
I started feeling lack of such a basic Emacs feature as “Kill Ring” in my everyday computer tasks. What I basically need is to have sometimes access to text I copied in my clipboard some times ago. I tried around 10 different programs for Mac OS and stopped my choice on ClipMenu. I am not 100% happy with it but at least it does what I need and saves me some time. Instead of +v for...
Watch increasing Apple stock on google →
Photos live from Apple →
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Too many options may result in no decision
My brain is telling me: “Nexus, nexus.. or droid, at least”, my heart keeps telling me: “Iphone”
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Not DNS, but country problem
I was so naive when I opened a blog for my mom several days ago. I registered a domain for it, and used wordpress.com as a hosting provider with basic Wordpress theme.
The Blog is about Food, Recipes and Cooking.
For me everything is working fast and perfect. But my mom couldn’t open this blog for several days. I was thinking that providers in her country had some DNS issues. I asked her...
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My Sexy Terminal.app Color Scheme
Colored my Terminal a little. Not so convenient way to do it though. Default LSCOLORS palette is ugly. So I installed SIMBL. When I used TerminalColors, here is the one that actually worked. There new button “More” will appear in customization window with color set. And this is my altered default Pro theme.
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Message to my husband from our friend
Hey my dir frend.
Haw ar yu and your wife duing ther? Zis is yur frend from far away eastern land.
Ve hav very hot vinter zis year. What about weather in yur new great
kantry? Have yu find new frends? Hav yu see svoboda creature with fire
in her hande?
I hav sam kveschens to yu. Some klever people sad that yu kan help mi.
I want to bay x-korobka for mi und mi familia. Did yu know some
underwater stone in baing this vonderfull devise?
Hav a nise day mi old frend!
p.s. перьедай прьивьет Маше.
p.s.s. vodka, medved, balalayka - forever.
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