Maharshtratimes.com (or maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com) is a marathi news website using unicode fonts. But it does not display correctly on firefox browser. The problem is because of a single HTML div which uses justified font style. It displays correctly on IE (which is why it is not getting fixed) - this could be because of firefox’s buggy [...]
Here are some recipes for interpreting stream of bytes as different C types. I will keep adding more to this as I go…
Convert a byte stream (embedded in a string) into 1 byte signed integers:
“\xfc\xfd\xfe\xff”.unpack(”c*”)
=> [-4, -3, -2, -1]
Convert a byte stream (embedded in a string) into 1 byte unsigned integers:
“\xfc\xfd\xfe\xff”.unpack(”C*”)
=> [252, 253, 254, 255]
Here is the updated bookmarklet: Phishy? (tested on firefox 2.0 only!)
1. Drag this link to your bookmark. This checks if the site you are currently on is a phishing site.
2. Drag this link to your bookmark. This prompts for a URL and checks if it is a phising site.
Uses phishtank’s check URL API.
If this [...]
I often get confused between two types of escaping you need to do when developing web applications: URL escaping and HTML escaping. This is a short note about when should you use what.
URL Escaping (or HTTP encoding or URL encoding) is used to escape the characters not allowed to be permitted for a URL (e.g. [...]
The del.icio.us folks have a nifty javascript piece of code which adds a small button to all the mp3 links on your webpage. (This infact embeds a small shockwave/flash script for each link). All you need to do is include the following code in the head section of your webpage:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/js/playtagger"></script>
Here is a link [...]
Find lattitude and longitude of any address
Yahoo just released a new beta of their maps webservice. Here is a small ruby script (inspired by Rasmus’s PHP code ) that I wrote that returns Lattitude, Longitude of the address provided…
require ‘open-uri’
require “rexml/document”
include REXML
url=’http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=yahoomap.rb&location=’
puts ‘Enter Location: ‘
address=gets
address=URI.escape(address)
result=URI(url+address).read
doc = Document.new result
r=doc.elements["/ResultSet/Result"]
print “Precision: “, r.attributes["precision"],”\n”
r.children.each { |c| print c.name, [...]
I promised here that I will polish my library lookup script and post it here, but haven’t yet found any time to do that. I am posting it here so someone could work on it and make it better…
I have tried to look for the ISBN in both SDCL and SDPL, and it inserts the [...]
In the django project settings there is a key called MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES which is a tuple of strings implementing the middleware methods. Django base handler (TBD explain what this class does) reads this setting and initializes three of its own attributes: _request_middleware, _view_middleware and _response_middleware. It goes through the list of middleware classes instantiates each of [...]
I was just about to abandon python and join the ruby camp to be able to use the wonderful rails framework for web application development. (They do have very good documentation and impressive video demo which you should check out!) But then came the announcement of Django. I really like the python [...]
Greasemonkey is a plugin for Firefox browser that lets you assign DHTML scripts to various domains. What’s the big deal you ask ? This lets you correct some annoying problems some websites have or even add some nice features to your regular websites.
There are tons of user contributed scripts for doing fun things, [...]
How will you write a program to find jumbled words ?
The shotgun approach is the first one anyone is bound to follow at first. i.e. For all permutations of the letters, find if there is a match in the dictionary of words. You might do some optimizations to ignore repetitions etc. But this is O(n^2) [...]
