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Quotations from Fortune the UNIX Program

Amgad — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:00:20 +0000

fortune is a simple program that displays a pseudo-random message from a database of quotations. It is predominantly found in UNIX-like systems, but clients for other platforms exist as well. Quotations are from famous people, jokes, poetry, science fiction movies and a few other sources. Below are a few of them: You should emulate your [...] Related posts:

Creating a New Page Template for a WordPress Theme

Amgad — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:00:32 +0000

Page templates in a WordPress theme define how the page using it is displayed. Nowadays most themes provide more than one page template. As an example the Twenty Ten theme that comes with WordPress 3.0 has Page Template and One Column, no Sidebar Page Template. They are listed in the Page Attributes box in the [...] Related posts:

Displaying an Image Without Locking its File

Amgad — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:00:04 +0000

The PictureBox control is one of the most used controls in Windows Forms applications. And sometimes you might want to delete the image file that is displayed on it. Doing so with an image displayed using the Image.FromFile function will result in a file locked exception. And file will stay locked until the program exits, [...] Related posts:

Opening a File With its Default Program

Amgad — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:00:43 +0000

When developing a Windows Forms application you sometimes need to open a file using the default program associated with it automatically for the user view or edit it. This could be done by just calling the System.Diagnostics.Process.Start function and passing the file name and path as a string. It works with any file type as [...] Related posts:

Creating Your Own URL Shortening Service With YOURLS

Amgad — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:00:03 +0000

YOURLS (stands for Your Own URL Shortener) is a set of PHP scripts that allow you to create your own URL shortening service. Like most scripts its requirements Apache with Mod_Rewrite, PHP and MySQL which makes it easy to install in virtually any hosting account. YOURLS allows you to automatically generate URLs as well as [...] Related posts:

21 Websites You Can Submit Your RSS Feed To

Amgad — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:00:51 +0000

Here is a list of websites you can submit your blog’s RSS feed to: Best of the Web Blog Directory Blogville Blog Directory Bloglines – Web-Based News Aggregator BlogClicker – Blog Traffic Exchange FeedFury – RSS Feed Directory & Index FeedShot – Blog Submission Service Free Feeds Directory Spinn3r – Indexing the Blogosphere Blog Search [...] Related posts:

3 Affordable Stock Photography and Vector Art Websites

Amgad — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:00:08 +0000

As a web developer and blogger I’m always looking for affordable photos and illustrations to use in CodeHill and the other websites I work on. I’ve been using these three stock photography websites for a while now, they provide good quality images for reasonable prices. Stock Photo Stock Photo provides free and paid lifetime [...] Related posts:

Streaming Music and Videos with GNUMP3d

Amgad — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:00:37 +0000

I have been trying different streaming servers the past few days for a project I’m working on. Out of the ones I tested so far none was as easy to install and configure as the GNU Streaming MP3 / Media Server (GNUMP3d). So I thought I should write post about it for those who are [...] Related posts:

Ubuntu Facts

Amgad — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:00:45 +0000

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution that has one of the largest online communities. It is based on Debian the community-based distribution and is a trademark of Canonical Ltd which is also its largest sponsor. Ubuntu uses time-based release cycles, a new version is released every 6 months and every 2 years one of these versions [...] Related posts:

Detect if you are Running a Virtual Machine

Amgad — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:00:55 +0000

Would you like to know if your server’s OS is running on bare-metal or on a virtual machine. imvirt and virt-what are 2 Linux scripts that allow you to do so easily. Both are open source and can be downloaded from their websites and Ubuntu’s Synaptic Package Manager as well. virt-what virt-what is a shell [...] Related posts: