Twitter OAuth: Simple cURL requests for your own data

Having to include an entire PHP OAuth library every time I want to make a simple API request for some of my own data from a 3rd party app like Twitter really pisses me off. Perhaps this is unreasonable, but it's a problem I ran into for the…

How to view and extract Plesk backups

[http://res.cloudinary.com/hannahwf/image/upload/v1392491830/uudeview_start_bsfo2x.png] Have you ever had a minor developmental nightmare and needed quick access to a Plesk [http://www.parallels.com/uk/products/plesk/] backup? Lost some data or needed a reference point and just wanted to get at a…

YUI2: Javascript Carousel - An update about version 2.8.*

Last year I published two parts of a three part tutorial (doh) on the YUI2 Carousel Widget [http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/carousel/] which worked with YUI Carousel 2.7.0. Since that time, a new couple of new versions of the YUI2: Carousel widget have been released (2.8.…

HTML Canvas: Going Ninja with .Net Magazine's Processing.js tutorial

... [/cc] You can see an example of Processing JS done this way by viewing the full source of the basic demo [ http://processingjs.org/source/basic-example/processingjs_basic-example.html] on the Processing JS homepage. This works really well, except for the drawback of having all your Processing code inline on…

YUI: Javascript Carousel with Custom Navigation - Part 2

1. A Baby Dolphin called Bob 2. Feeding the birds 3. Up close and personal with a tiger…

YUI: Javascript Carousel with Custom Navigation - Part 1

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