Muller Digital | Web Programming

webcal link in IE

nick — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:21:06 +0000

webcal links (eg. webcal://www.domain.com/calendar.ics)will only work in Internet Explorer if Outlook 2007 is installed on the users machine. Office 2003 or earlier do not install the support required to make webcal links active.

OSX automate program, easier than automator

nick — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:16:20 +0000

Sikuli is an automating script builder gui system. So it automates tasks.

It has a lot of potential and could become very user friendly if it was combined with automator.

OSX manage print server from web interface

nick — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:54:10 +0000

http://127.0.0.1:631
CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), is running by default on OSX systems as the print server. The web interface allows you to easily administer the CUPS server. You can even have it send an RSS feed to a printer when your computer starts.

“This page contains both secure and nonsecure items” IE fix

nick — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:09:10 +0000

Use a CGI proxy service on your secure site. Download CGIProxy. Upload to your sites cgi-bin folder (most hosting packages will have that set already). Once uploaded, change the permissions of the ‘nph-proxy.cgi’ file to 755 (rwxr-xr-x) Owner=Read,Write,Excute Group=Read, No Write, Excute Everyone=Read, No Write, Execute.
Visit the CGI script on your secure address: https://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi
Type in the address of the non-secure item you’re trying to show on your secure site. Uncheck “Show URL entry form”. Click “Begin Browsing”.
After the page loads, you can copy the address from the address bar, and it will be using your secure address.
Should look something like: https://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000000A/http/www.nonsecure-site.com/awesome-page.html
Now paste that address in your site and no more IE warning.

.htaccess tutorial reference and cheat sheet

nick — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:31:19 +0000

Best reference of all things .htaccess perishablepress

Post, share, receive, send and download audio files

nick — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:21:53 +0000

Soundcloud is a free audio third-party (a.k.a. “not my problem”) service that allows you to post, share, receive, send and download audio files with anyone, anywhere. Also allows you to manage your audio files efficiently and effectively in “the cloud”.

Google’s gonna school you

nick — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:16:10 +0000

With the advent of Google Wave looking like it could replace Independent Learning Centre. And Google Docs now being used heavily by students — news article link. It’s not so far fetched to assume that students will have laptops running the Google OS while reading on Google Books.

Supporting iPhone custom protocols

nick — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:40:53 +0000

The iPhone Safari browser supports several extra protocols to launch their corresponding apps:
Apple documentation on iPhone integration

sms ex. Text this ( Text this ) For SMS texting
tel ex. Phone this ( Phone this ) For regular phone calls
youtube ex. Singing Shiba ( Singing Shiba ) Starting youtube videos
itms ex. ZipCar App ( Items ) ZipCar App
maps ex. CN Tower ( CN Tower ) Launching maps with address marker

HTML 5 and Push technology

nick — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:12:09 +0000

The ability for a user to be on a site and have the web server cause an action to occur on the site, via ‘push technology‘, is soon to be realized at the HTML 5 leve. Although this type of interaction has always been available; through Flash, Java and Javascript. It’s finally being brought-up to the HTML level as noted in W3C documentation. The Stray Orange blog has a good post relating to HTML 5 push technology.

PHP XML ignore whitespace

nick — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:51:44 +0000

$xml_data = preg_replace("/>\s+<", $xml_data);

Removes all the whitespace, tabs and newlines between the nodes from an XML file. A lot of PHP XML parsers tend to parse the white space, which can cause errors. Adding the function before the PHP XML data handler executes will prevent those issues from arising.