How To Show A Progress Dialog in Android
OVERVIEW When you need to do some long running task and show a “wait” dialog to the user while the task is running, a Progress […]
Swift – Moving UITextField up when keyboard is shown
Unlike in Android, where the device keyboard automatically handles display management when it pops up, iOS does not have this capability. So as a programmer, […]
The Stupid Concept Of “Soft Skills”
Let me tell you what I find “stupid” about the phrase “soft skills”. Anyway, it’s most likely that the word “stupid” caught your attention and […]
Setup ProFTP in FreeBSD
Instructions for setting up an internal FTP server on a FreeBSD 10 machine. Note that this machine is not setup for public access and hence […]
Registering DLL files in Windows 64 bit
If the DLL is 32 bit: Copy the DLL to C:\Windows\SysWoW64\ In an elevated command prompt: %windir%\SysWoW64\regsvr32.exe %windir%\SysWoW64\namedll.dll if the DLL is 64 bit: Copy […]
Capture and parse JSON data in Swift
The sample code below shows how to get JSON encoded data via HTTP and then parse it for use within the application. For HTTP interaction, […]
Setup HTTP Proxy for iOS App Testing
If you have a scenario where you are doing iOS development and the application needs to retrieve or send data to a locally hosted website […]
PHPAudio – Audio file processing in pure PHP
OVERVIEW There currently exists no PHP library or code to work with audio file formats. The general solution is to use external libraries or softwares […]
Easy Face Detection using OpenCV and Python
A lot of applications and websites incorporate face detection features , specially social network sites and photo/image databases. Using OpenCV, it is very easy to […]
Running PHP as FastCGI with Apache 2.x on Ubuntu 12.x and later
The instructions given below are to be run from the terminal. This is the only list of instructions which actually worked. I have reproduced the […]