04Mar 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Join Vteams (NEXTBRIDGE) Network on Facebook

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I have recently request FaceBook to add the Vteams (aka NEXTBRIDGE in Lahore, Pakistan) as a network. To join, you must have an active @nxvt.com email account, just go to Setting -> Account, select network tab. In network name box type "Vteams", enter email address and click JOIN. Check your email and click on the confirmation link Congratulation, you have joined the Vteams Network
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04Mar 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Join Virtual University of Pakistan Network on Facebook

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I have recently request FaceBook to add the Virtual University of Pakistan as a network. To join, you must have an active @vu.edu.pk email account, just go to Setting -> Account, select network tab. In network name box type "Virtual University of Pakistan", select your degree and graduation year, enter email address and click JOIN. Check your email and click on the confirmation link Congratulation, you have joined the Virtual University of Pakistan Network
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28Feb 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

TwitterTweets, a PHP wrapper class for Twitter REST API

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I have just finished hosting my first OpenSource project on Google Code. Its called TwitterTweets. Its a small wrapper API that consumes Twitter REST API. It can be easily included in any PHP script / application to support manipulation of TwitterTweets from a single user. Currently it has the following features Reading updates including or excluding replies. Caching support to store xml/json response locally as a file with cache-timeout Built-in custom Array I will be writing and uploading modules and plugins for Joomla and Wordpress in the coming days. Stay tuned. Project Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/twittertweets Project Discussion Group: http://groups.google.com/group/twittertweets Enjoy!
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19Feb 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

The power of Globally Recognized Avatar (aka Gravatar)

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Gravatar has a very sleak concept but not many people know and understand it. It is one place for your display pictures and you can use the same at any Gravatar enabled website / application. Gravatar is currently used in Wordpress, Movable Type, Drupal, Joomla and Mac OS X Addressbook. Advantages are mainly on the user end where he/she can change one photo and reflect it in multiple places. It includes support for content-rating etc. Here, I will show how it is implemented in PHP [php] $email = "my-email@hotmail.com"; $default = "http://www.somewhere.com/homestar.jpg"; $size = 100; $grav_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=".md5(strtolower($email)). "&default=".urlencode($default). "&size=".$size; [/php] Now use it in your HTML as [sourcecode language="xml"]<img src="<?php echo $grav_url; ?/>" width="< ?php echo $size; ?>" alt="Gravatar" />[/sourcecode] Simple!! More info at the URLs below http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/ http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/php…
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06Feb 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Monitors Subversion repositories for new commits

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As the website says Monitors Subversion repositories for new commits and shows a notification to the user when that happens. Download Commit Monitor @ Google Code. It is a great tool that helps me monitor when a new commit has been made to SVN by a developer working on the same project as I am :), cool na? P.S. Its a Windows tool
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22Jan 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Ubuntu: Setting default gateway / ip etc

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If you want to specify a default gateway or ip address for your Ubuntu installation, try the following steps. Open SSH and type this command [code lang="plain"]sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces[/code] You can edit everything there as shown in the screenshot below (click to enlarge) [code lang="plain"] auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.231 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.77 # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed dns-nameservers 192.168.1.253 192.168.1.226 dns-search nextbridge.org [/code]
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