Maria's Notes

Dec 23

How people view me after I say I’m Russian - Imgur

How people view me after I say I’m Russian - Imgur

May 16

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 information and detailed explanations should be looked on php.net. I got many questions about “final”, “static” keywords, object inheritance. There are many questions with code examples, where you should guess the output.

Here is a good article about what is covered on exam: http://devzone.zend.com/article/12647

Oct 24

Apartment hunting

Searching for apartment in bay area. Padmapper.com helps a lot.

Oct 10

Happy 101010!

Happy 101010 (42) - the answer to life, the Universe and everything!

Sep 27

“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.” — Unknown

Jul 05

“California’s a wonderful place to live—if you happen to be an orange.” — Fred Allen

Jun 29

Got iPhone today!

Jun 28

“Sorry, dude, someone at the Genius Bar totally sat on your iPad… It was Megan Fox, and she wants to say she’s sorry” — “Deliver Bad News in a Good Way”, Wired magazine, Jul 2010

May 21

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 posts teasers, increasing page views significantly.

I was initially inspired by LinkWithin widget, which I installed on my blog first. LinkWithin is a Javascript widget that collects all post images, resizes them, stores them on its own servers and displays them when you scroll down to the end of the post. Overall, it is a great widget that can be installed on every platform and supports externally stored images. However, there were several issues I couldn’t fix. Here are the few:

So here is my plugin for Wordpress:

May 20

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 following javascript:

- Open Bookmarks list, click on Edit. Select Delicious bookmark. In the link field remove text and paste the code from clipboard.

- Click on Done. And now you will be able to bookmark websites faster on Delicious while browsing in Safari on iPad.