Well I got the crazy idea that I wanted to create a port monitor. So basically I can check different methods like ssh, ssl, http, smtp, pop3, imap, and many more are up and running. I know there are a lot of server out there that already do that but why would I want to pay when it’s like 2 lines of code for the basic attempt.
Crazy Image Opacity!
Today I had to find a way to put an opacity onto an image and finally found a script on how to do it on Tareq Alam’s Blog. The client wanted me to scale up a selected image to a specific size, grayscale it, and then set a 20% opacity to it. Gotta love oddness!
Posted in PHP
Leave a comment
Custom Blog Talk Radio Playlist
Through my time with Bully Media Group I did a lot with BlogTalkRadio.com specially in developing custom playlist that were not so dynamic. So I decided to meet the challenge in providing a simple solution implemented as a file based cache that stores the playlist.
This class will determine if there are any updates to the playlist and add it to the file and also pull the feed that corresponds to your blog talk radio account and retrieve the description. This class can easily be converted to use a database for more advanced things like creating a most played playlist or even giving the ability to rank the shows.
Possibly in time I may provide a database solution but for now I will post up the code for the current file based version shortly.
Posted in Blog Talk Radio, Example, PHP, Projects
Leave a comment
First Snip Ever!
Hi all This is my first post ever for Snipsta! This blog will be focused on giving away ideas and new code examples that I think of and feel that should be free to the world. I will also post about my large scale projects to keep people up to date on what they are what they do and create an archive for people to learn about me and my code!
Posted in News
Leave a comment