When I published my previous story, I found out that the message “build on the fly” is more than applicable to this very moment.
The problem was: TubeLoem plug-in, which suppose to convert YouTube ID into embedded video, did’t work. Instead of YouTube video visitors could see “[yt]…[/yt]” string, where “…” was YouTube ID of the […]

“Some people like to climb mountains, I like to build planes. In the air. … You never know what come across over there…”. Ad by EDS (Electronic Data Systems).
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This is a really good visualization of what is going on in programmers’ world. This is exactly what “make changes on the fly” means.

Actually, I […]

Since 1917 October Revolution in Russia, western civilization has been associating Communism with violence, blood, murders and other extremely evil things. However, this perception is not even close to idea of Communism, as it was studied in Soviet Russia.
Today I see multiple examples of how this idea works and I consider it as a proof […]

VESTI (Russia) — Russian scientists presented a new electro-magnetic impulse generator, which is capable of producing multi-billion watt impulses.
The name of this device is “Nika” and it can generate a power, comparable with a modern nuclear plant.

There are two working devices, one of them is so small that can be arranged on the table. But […]

Translation: Top Secret. Schema of assumed geophysical changes as a result of Earth gravity field correction by A-241/Bis device.
Signed by Head Of KGB, Andropov; February 26, 1973.
Disclaimer: I don’t know if it’s a fake or not. I found this on leprosorium.dirty.ru (closed community of “dirty clowns”).

URL is one of the most important things when it comes to search engine indexing. Compare http://www.yourdomain.com/category/name_of_article_with_keywords to http://www.yourdomain.com/text.php?id=237364. Which one has more chances to be better indexed? Obviously, the one with keywords in URL.
I’m going to explain how to do it in PHP, provide example source code and explain how it works.

There are two […]

There are tons of literature written about this topic. Lots of books and articles. Why write another one? To save your time and share my 5 years of experience in Business Intelligence tools development and quality metrics.
This article explains the most simple and efficient software quality metrics, how they drive software quality, how to read […]

User interface was always a challenge. For developers - to make sure that all the great features they made are accessible, for users - to figure out what all these buttons, headers, fields, lines and such mean and what to do with them.

In summary:

Self Adjustable Graphical User Interface is an interface, which memorizes user’s actions […]

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One more interesting site I found recently is Global Ideas Bank, intended to collect ideas from different field of human life. The site is a collection of ideas and articles about interesting things. Every idea is […]

There is a great site which explains how to do all kinds of things, dangerouslyfun.com. I was always wondering about gaussian guns principles and simple ways to make them… and here we go:
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I found the tutorial with video explaining how to make simple gaussian gun at dangerouslyfun.com, so, I guess, I’ll spend some […]