Feb
6
The new version of MyGallery!
I’ve simplified this app a lot, with focus on efficiency and usability. As I’ve mentioned in the last update post, I was going for Deviantart portfolio-like thingy, because of efficiency of that layout, but of course with my own functionality.
Jan
25
I’ve started to code a little table rows search snippet in jQuery, and it ended up being a plugin :) So, little snippet explanation, and plugin documentation waiting on you in full article.
Jan
22
As I’m browsing through the interwebz, I’m too often stumbling upon an annoying, or just cheeky things on various websites. Many of them are completely useless, and websites without them would be much more user friendly, and nicer place. So here is some list I’ve put together. Enjoy, and try to avoid that in future :)
Jan
17
Behold math & algorithm nerds! You can create an eye candies too :) There are few not much known desktop applications on creating various fractals and vector like graphics with just few right lines of code. This article is a quick introduction to two of them: Apohysis & ContextFree.
Jan
8
Recently, many websites has fall due to lack of security, and many of them stored users passwords in pain text (rather no comment here), pretty useless md5, or unsalted sha1.
In every of those cases it is highly dangerous for users, since lack of security in here can cause the new owner of their private data to crack their passwords, thus be able to steal their identity on other places of teh interwebz. Good, strong, and different passwords for any website could solve this problem, but who would be able to memorize that… That’s why I have created this little web app, called Password generator.
Dec
14
Oracle is trying to buy Sun, which is the owner of MySQL project. The problem is, that without MySQL, Oracle would make a lot more money, thus there is a big issue about MySQL project safety. Please, read this message from Michael Widenius, the creator of MySQL, and decide if you want to help saving MySQL.
Dec
2
Some time ago, YouTube has introduced an HQ & HD streaming. Wider player was next logical step, but their implementation was a bit weird (triggering was somehow random o.O). After a few chaotic steps – for a while – there was nice, friendly player, wide and high as it could be, and everything was fine. And than, they have decided to fucked it up with pointless padding on sides, creating a black bar on each side, which was driving me crazy. Instead of returning it back, they’ve tried to make it look better, so the rounded corners were added O.O
Nov
16
Well, another one of my interests will have its own gallery on Darsain.net :) You can find there various videos of special FX, animated graphics, and related “moving” stuff created by my…
tl;dr: checkout the Motion graphics gallery.
Just one thing concerns me, and that is the download speed limit of my provider, which may not be enough for smooth streaming without loading. But it have to be enough for a while, till I’ll make some time (and mood) for hosting provider change, which is on my to do list at least for a few months by now :)
Oct
28
As I’ve found some bugs in it, and I didn’t consider files uploading enough comfortable, I’ve decided to update this little thingy. New version is creating less mess on FTP (js & style folders were moved into system), few bugs are fixed, few functionality clearance, but most important thing is new file uploader. I’ve implemented the GREAT jQuery Uploadify plugin, which is creating THE most comfortable file uploading experience EVAR! :)
Oct
17
First, lets take a look on what problem will this tutorial solve, so you can decide if you want to read more :)
We will write 2 functions for creating thumbnails from random image (png, jpg, gif). First function will take thumbnail width and height set by you, and cut the “most important” part from the image (I’m assuming, that you are creating thumbnails of websites, so center top is the area I’m talking about) according to thumbnail ratio, and resize it into your thumbnail in exact size that you’ve set. Second function will take max thumbnail width and height set by you, and resize the image so it will fit your max values, but with preserving its original resolution ratio.
