Download

Download here version 1.0. It’s .tar.gz archive including 5 files.

Demo

See the demo pages I’ve setup here. The access tokens are saved in session and not stored permanently.

How to use it?

In order to use this class you need to register an application on Twitter. You can do that here. After you register your app, you will need to download the archive file and extract it and upload the files to your web server.

Configuring

Open the file TwitterOauthConnect.php and change the details describing you app, that is the Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, and the callback url to point to the callback.php file. Use the rest of the files from the archive to configure your installation by your needs.

Licence

No license. Use it freely and if you find it useful consider linking to this website.

Contributing

Right now the comments are the only option. Maybe in the future I will consider any public free source control hosting.

1. First, make sure you have a username for your Facebook account, it’s http://facebook.com/your.username

2. Open Pidgin, go to Accounts->Manage Accounts and click Add.

3. From the Protocol list select XMPP

4. For the username field enter your Facebook username (without the “http://facebook.com/”)

5. For the domain field enter chat.facebook.com

6. Leave the Resource field empty

7. Enter your facebook password

8. Go to Advanced tab, and uncheck the “Require SSL/TLS” box.  Also, make sure the Connect port is 5222.

9. Click Add, and your Facebook account is added to Pidgin.

1. Security

The most obvious and important reason you should run Linux is the security the Linux operating system provides. There are no viruses for Linux, and there are no anti virus programs for Linux. The main reason being that virus and malware developers stick to Windows due to its popularity and worldwide reach.

2. Cost

All Linux distributions are free open source software. And, that’s not all, the majority of the software is also free of charge. There are replacements for all popular programs on Windows (some of them better, some of them worst).

3. Stability

Unlike Windows, Linux is known for its stability. Its best suited for servers and other large computers. But it runs on small and handheld devices as well as on servers.

4. Works well on older hardware

Computers with older hardware have no or little problem running Linux. There is a great support for hardware and devices. The Linux kernel is constantly upgraded to support new devices, and drivers are always upgraded to give better support for existing devices.

5. Administration

You can have as little as no administration, which involves only clicking on install button to install new updates. It works out of the box. And on the other hand you have a full set of administration tools you can use to do whatever you want.

Next: Five reasons why you should run Windows

I’ve put together 5 performance tips for the most used JavaScript library, jQuery.

1. Always get elements by #id

This is the fastest selector in jQuery for finding the required element.

Always use it before tag selectors and class selectors. Ordered by speed:

1. $(“#some-id”)
2. $(“div”)
3. $(“#some-id div”)
4. $(“#some-id div.some-class”)
5. $(“div.some-class”)
6. $(“.some-class”)

2. Minimize selection operations

When using a loop, avoid selecting an element or elements in every iteration.

for (var i=0; i<$("#table tr").length; i++){
 ...some code here...
}

Cache the selection like this:

var len = $("#table tr").length;
for (var i=0; i<len; i++){
 ...some code here...
}

3. Insert one instead of many DOM elements

Wrap all your code into one element and insert it in the DOM tree with the .html() method.

Instead of:

var html = '
 <p>One</p>
 <p>Two</p>
 <div>Three</div>
';
$('#someid').html(html);

Wrap the code in a div or other element, and then use the .html() method.

var html = '
<div>
 <p>One</p>
 <p>Two</p>
 <div>Three</div>
</div>
';
$('#someid').html(html);

4. Give your selectors a context

As I said before, the fastest way to select elements is by #id, so, if you must use classes to select elements, give them a context.

Instead of:

$('.someclass').css('background-color' '#FFFFFF');

Use this:

$('.someclass',#someclass-container).css('background-color' '#FFFFFF');

5. Use jQuery chaining capabilities

One of the coolest things in jQuery is the possibility to chain your method calls. Example:

$('#someid').addClass('error').css('color','red').fadeOut('slow');

background

A typical shorthand:

background: #FFFFFF url(image.jpg) no-repeat scroll top left;

Available background properties:

• background-color
  • transparent
  • hexadecimal from #000000 to #FFFFFF
  • predefined colors like: blue, red, green, etc. (with letters)
  • rgb(X,X,X) where X is a number from 0 to 255
• background-image
  • none
  • url(URI) where URI can be relative or absolute path to your image
• background-repeat
  • no-repeat
  • repeat-x
  • repeat-y
  • repeat (includes both: repeat-x and repeat-y)
• background-attachment
  • scroll
  • fixed
• background-position
  • top left
  • top right
  • top center
  • bottom left
  • bottom right
  • bottom center
  • center left
  • center right
  • center center
  • 0 0

Defaults to:

background: transparent none no-repeat scroll 0 0;

That means if you left out any of the properties, the others will have these values.

font

A typical shorthand:

font: normal normal bold 1em/1.2em georgia,"times new roman",serif;

Available font properties:

• font-style
  • normal
  • italic
  • inherit
  • oblique
• font-variant
  • inherit
  • normal
  • small-caps
• font-weight
  • normal
  • bold
  • bolder
  • lighter
  • inherit
• font-size
  • xx-small
  • x-small
  • small
  • medium
  • large
  • larger
  • x-large
  • xx-large
  • number+unit
• line-height
  • normal
  • number+unit
• font-family
  • (list of fonts)

margin and padding

The margin and the padding are the easiest and the rules go clockwise:

margin: (top) (right) (bottom) (left);

A typical shorthands (examples):

This adds 10px margin on all sides of the element:

margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;

This also, adds 10px margin on all sides of the element

margin: 10px;

This adds 10px margin to top and bottom and a 20px margin to left and right:

margin: 10px 20px;

Also any combination of number and measurement unit is possible.

The same rules apply for padding as well.

border

A typical shorthand:

border: 1px solid blue;

Available border properties:

• border-width: number+unit;
• border-style:
  • solid;
  • dotted;
  • dashed;
  • hidden
  • none
  • double
  • groove etc.
• border-color:
  • none
  • hexadecimal from #000000 to #FFFFFF
  • predefined colors like: blue, red, green, etc. (with letters)
  • rgb(X,X,X) where X is a number from 0 to 255

list-style

A typical shorthand:

list-style: disc outside url(image.gif);

Available list-style properties:

• list-style-type
  • disc
  • square
  • circle
  • decimal
  • georgian
  • etc
• list-style-position
  • inside
  • outside
• list-style-image:
  • none
  • url

Defaults to:

list-style: disc outside none;

There are other shorthand out there, but are less used. Any comments are welcome.

$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = 3600 * 3;

This line of code extends your phpmyadmin session for 3 hours.

Make sure your config.inc.php file is writable, to do this change. Then you can make it unwritable again.

<table>
    <tr>
<td class='one'>Text</td>
        <td class='two'>Some more text</td>
        <td class='action'><a style='cursor:pointer'>delete</a></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
        <td class='one'>Text 2</td>
        <td class='two'>Some more text 2</td>
        <td class='action'><a style='cursor:pointer'>delete</a></td>
   </tr>
</table>

And you want to create a click event that deletes a row from a table, and in the same time sends a post or get request to a server that updates the database, deletes the row, you can do this with jQuery like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('.action').click(function(){
       <span style="color: #339966;">//on click, mark the row for deleting by adding a class
       // 'deleting' to the tr element</span>
       $(this).parent().addClass('deleting');

      <span style="color: #339966;"> //make a post to the server, php script for example,
       // that deletes the row from a database</span>
       $.post('deleteRow.php',{
             rowId: 2  <span style="color: #339966;">//send the row id for example</span>
         },function(data){
             <span style="color: #339966;">//when the server is done with the deletion of the row
             // from the database, remove the element from the DOM tree</span>
             $('.deleting').remove();
         })
      })
})

And that’s it. Any comments are welcome.