Category Archives: micro tutorial

How to Collect the Images and Meta Tags from a Webpage with PHP

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Stoimen

Meta Tags and the Facebook Example You’ve definitely seen the “share a link” screen in Facebook. When you paste a link into the box (fig. 1) and press the “Attach” button you’ll get the prompted cite parsed with a title, … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, web development | Tagged Computing, Facebook, Facebook Inc, html, HTML element, LinkedIn Corporation, Meta element, Meta Tags, Online social networking, PHP, Search engine optimization, search engines, social services, tag, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, Web page, World Wide Web | 2 Comments

Adding a Custom Button to TinyMCE – REVISED

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Stoimen

Driven by the comment of Afraithe I have to apologize about the yesterday’s post. Here’s a much much simpler, cleaner way do add a custom button to TinyMCE. <script type="text/javascript" src="<your installation path>/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> tinyMCE.init({ mode : "textareas", theme … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript, micro tutorial | Tagged Application software, Computer programming, Computing, TinyMCE | 2 Comments

Adding a Custom Button to TinyMCE

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Stoimen

TinyMCE First thing to say TinyMCE is a very popular WYSIWYG online based editor. It’s very widely used in the web, as may already know it it’s part of the default WordPress installation. Out of the web, of course, there … Continue reading →

Posted in javascript, micro tutorial | Tagged CKEditor, Computer programming, Computing, editor, FCKEditor, Google Inc., how-to, javascript, JavaScript programming language, online based editor, opinion, Software engineering, TinyMCE, tutorial, WYSIWYG, yahoo | 3 Comments

From SVG to Geo Coordinates – A Complete Guide

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Stoimen

Why This Task Is Not Trivial? First of all what do we have? There is a vector shape, which may represent a map, which we’d like to convert into a GEO map. In other words there is a SVG file … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, web development | Tagged Algebraic curves, Animation, approaching algorithm, Bézier curve, Coordinates, Cubic plane curve, Curves, Differential geometry of curves, Geometry, Graphic design, html, Interpolation, Mathematics, PHP, Splines, text editor | 3 Comments

Reading GPS Latitude and Longitude from Image and Video Files

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Stoimen

The State of GPS Data from Mobile Devices Most of the mobile devices today support GPS geo tagging. In fact most of them come bundled with navigation software that uses GPS and therefore all the pictures and (maybe) videos can … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, web development | Tagged Android, Apple Inc., Application software, Computing, Container formats, Digital photography, Exchangeable image file format, ExifTool, Geotagging, GPS, iPhone, jpeg, Metadata, mobile device, Mobile Devices, MPEG-4, navigation software, Nokia E71 Smartphone, PHP, QuickTime, Resolution Unit, Smartphones, Symbian, Technology/Internet, web platform | 3 Comments