Once you have the basics for how online video streaming works you may wonder how exactly to implement Fake HTTP Streaming of FLV files directly though Apache instead of using the xmoov.php script. If you are not in charge of your own server if may be hard to use the Apache module since you’ll have [...]
A simple feature any website can add to their downloadable content is to force a “File Save As” prompt when the user clicks the link. There are a number of ways you can implement this. Some people may do it a convoluted way through PHP or another language but the easiest thing I’ve found is [...]
Often times I find it necessary to restructure data in my MySQL database for various reasons. Usually it is because I have a better data structure in mind to give a site more functionality. In order to perform the changes I need to either move data from one column to another or move the data [...]
I’ve been trying to find a simple, easy to use MooTools 1.2 slideshow class that can be applied to things other than images. This is my solution. I primarily wrote it to deal with images but later I modified it so work with any HTML content. I hope to add more features in the future [...]
While PDF files can be hard to manipulate, there are plenty of PDF tools out there that can be used to perform the functions you need.
If you have ever needed an easy way to convert numerous pages of a PDF to text then you know it’s not something that the average person knows how to [...]
Here’s a quick little piece of code to save some time when you need to do a find/replace on your MySQL tables.
update [table_name] set [field_name] = replace([field_name],’[string_to_find]‘,’[string_to_replace]‘);
With technology these days it’s almost impossible to surf the net without stumbling across some sort of video. It’s certainly a good thing, I personally feel like I’ve learned simple tasks that would have been difficult to pick up on just by watching a short video or gotten a good chuckle on one of those stressful days. A lot of sites out there have started embedding YouTube videos on their site. YouTube does a great job, Hulu does a great job, and a lot of other sites do a great job. However, a lot of times I see sites that should have videos embedded that claim to “stream” video but don’t.