Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and envi... objects, devices & buildings around the world.
Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that ...

So, why go free? No, we haven’t decided to become a no... we’re not just super-nice. What we are is ambitious. A... with and talked with many people in the Pachube communit... they’re ambitious too.
The “Internet of Things” is a big idea (tho

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a... create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and... car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there... predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

Today's coders may know how to whip up a PHP script or a... create a mobile app for both the iPhone and Android, and... car's GPS (which has been done, it turns out). But there... predecessors knew that today's programmers don't.

I've been semi-silently working on something new. A comb...
* semantic markup
* smart data
* an rdf clipboard
... e is up, and today I created a first teaser/intro video.

How can we produce designs that can be appropriated for ... we design for unintended uses?

Among the little features I like there's the tag cloud w... tags metadata (each time two tags appear in the same pos... relationship stronger) to highlight other tags while you...

The trick to great design is knowing how to think throug... that users don't have to. In The Obvious Interface, Robe... of Designing the Obvious, presents over 30 stories that ... put good design principles to work on real-world web app... interfaces

Midata - access and control your personal data
BIS is working with leading businesses and consumer grou ...
The three main objectives of midata are to:
secure broad private-sector participation in the pro ...
... omers create rich, new ‘person-centr

What are Personas?
Personas are easy-to-install, easy-to-use themes that ch ...

Many of my customers hold data in Excel files. Then, whe...
Since the PHP allows you to create an OLE compatible COM ...
Before we start, let’s introduce input parameters of t ...
* $file – (string) absolute path to the Excel data ...
... 36.}

This class can be used to edit and save a paragraph of t... page.
It associates the necessary Javascript event handling co ...
When the user finishes editing the generated Javascript ...

Name: DOMIT XML parser
Base name: domit
Description: A Document Object Model (DOM) compliant xml ...

Microdata is a proposed feature of HTML 5 that allows se... information to be embedded within the markup of a web pa...
Why PHP Microdata?
One of the most interesting features of the Microdata sp ...
The library allows one to parse out the structured Mi

PHP SandBox
Run and Edit PHP/HTML/JS with this online interpreter

I’ve been thinking about individual features of variou...
To start with we’ll redirect all requests to a single ...
view source
print?
... _route_) that contains the directory portion of the URL.

Chapter 34. HTTP authentication with PHP
The HTTP Authentication hooks in PHP are only availab ...
running as an Apache module and is hence not availabl ...
In an Apache module PHP script, it is possible to use the
... header() function fo

Javascript files can be included and executed on the fly... loading the page or in run-time. This means that HTTP re... without the use of XMLHttpRequest or iframes. This post ... of my experiments with the inclusion of external javascr...

Javascript files can be included and executed on the fly... loading the page or in run-time. This means that HTTP re... without the use of XMLHttpRequest or iframes. This post ... of my experiments with the inclusion of external javascr...

This scripting language interpreter is implemented in PH... execute user-supplied JavaScript-lookalike code server-s... compromising security because everything runs safely in ... of course much slower than a real interpreter, but is us... integration

This scripting language interpreter is implemented in PH... execute user-supplied JavaScript-lookalike code server-s... compromising security because everything runs safely in ... of course much slower than a real interpreter, but is us... integration

take advantage of the pic2shop: custom URL scheme to lau... the barcode, and get the barcode digits back in your app...

Piggy Bank is a Firefox extension that turns your browse... platform, by allowing you to extract data from different... them together.
Piggy Bank also allows you to store this extracted infor ...

Piggy bank runs scrapers it grabs from arbitrary third p... formal technical, as well as social rituals and supporti... mechanisms for controlling the risk this creates.
Formal technical mechanisms certainly means finding a wa ...
Social mechinisms (and

If you had just survived a plane crash, it is not inconc... first thoughts would be a long line of expletives, as we... when the Continental Airlines 737 in which he was travel... runway in Denver.

Traditional health systems serve a key role in protectin...
Novel Internet-based collaborative systems can have an i ...
Mobile Internet usage is growing rapidly worldwide, maki ...
We present a brief summary of some promising mobile appl ...
These early

Traditional health systems serve a key role in protectin...
Novel Internet-based collaborative systems can have an i ...
Mobile Internet usage is growing rapidly worldwide, maki ...
We present a brief summary of some promising mobile appl ...
These early

Uses the new File API supported by Firefox 3.6. Enables ... html element and turn it into a hotspot for receiving fi... explorer!
Each file will be sent as a binary AJAX-request with cus ...

PostItNotes
Summary: Display yellow Post It Stickies.

Popcorn Maker is a creative tool that makes authoring in... pages as easy as point and click.
Popcorn Maker brings the power of popcorn.js and its plu ...