If you ever needed to search for a specific Unicode smiley (eg. ಠ_ಠ) textfac.es might be your new favorite site. You can click on any Unicode art to copy it to your clipboard and the paste it into your messenger or other app. This is actually Unicode and not ASCII, sorry about that. http://textfac.es/
https://placekitten.com/ Placekitten provides you with placeholder images of cute kittens. You can even specify the height and width of the image via the links for the placeholder. http://www.fillmurray.com/ The same as above but with pictures of Bill Murray. http://www.placecage.com/ With this placeholder service you can get images of Nicolas Cage. You can even specify the type of image you want to … Read More
To prevent that your user signs up with a wrong mail address you can either let the user type it twice into a form or use something like Mailcheck. If you use this library and the user types in “me@gmal.com”, it will suggest “me@gmail.com” as a correct address. https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck
On 3v4l.org you can test your code snippets with multiple PHP and HHVM versions. You can also compare the performance of the different versions. http://3v4l.org/
If you ever wanted to learn flash cards on your computer or smartphone Anki is the perfect tool to do this. You can create your own flashcards and learn them at your own pace. On ankiweb.net you can find additional flashcards to learn. A few flashcards I like are: Software Design Patterns Quotes The ground principle of this is spaced repetition. … Read More
Here’s the code to join a few strings and glue them with a delimiter.
Something that has bothered me for a long time, was that I couldn’t just click on a archive to unpack it when I’m in my file browser. To do that I’ve written a short .desktop file which is a wrapper for file-roller. You can download the .desktop file here. You can now move the file either into the folder /usr/share/applications to … Read More
Did you ever wonder if there was a other way to organise your web projects than creating subfolders in your normal htdocs folder and using the with http://localhost/project1, you’ve come to the right place. In this post I’ll show you how you can create dynamic virtual hosts without restarting Apache or adding anything to the Apache VirtualHost configuration. So let’s … Read More
To get started install the postfix package with apt-get. After the installation the package starts the configuration process. First select Internet-Site and click okay by hitting the tab key. After that you can select your hostname, from which your mails can be sent. With this the installation should be finished. To test this create a new PHP file with the … Read More
I just got my new PC at Work and had to reconfigure everything so I’m in the right mood to tell you how I’ve done it. First of all: My configuration files are on my Github repository https://github.com/nahakiole/dotfilesandstuff You can active the individual configurations with stow. Just go into the dotfilesandstuff directory and type in: stow vim To activate my vim … Read More