Category Archives: micro tutorial

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 | 5 Comments

Few Thoughts on Web Video

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Stoimen

On Air It’s really full of video sharing websites out there, but in fact almost all of them use Flash player to display their video files. This is the reality now, but with the coming of HTML5, perhaps the things … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, web development | Tagged Adobe Flash, Application software, Computing, Container formats, FFmpeg, Flash Video, Google Inc., html, M&A, MPEG-4, Ogg, On2 Technologies, On2 Technologies Inc, player, Plex, Technology/Internet, Theora, Video codecs, VP8, web video field | 1 Comment

Download Images with PHP

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Stoimen

As it seems one possible solution while trying to download images with PHP is to write a “client” to do so. Will it be with cURL, Zend Framework or some other tool – it doesn’t matter. However one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, web development | Tagged Computing, CURL, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, PHP, PHP programming language, possible solution, Technology/Internet, zend framework | Leave a comment

A Memcached Zend_Cache

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Stoimen

Zend_Cache Usually Zend_Cache is used to store cache files on the file system, which can be really fast and useful in most of the cases. However there’s a faster cache mechanism and hopefully it’s supported by Zend_Cache as well. This … Continue reading →

Posted in micro tutorial, PHP, zend framework | Tagged Cache, caching, Computer memory, Computing, Cross-platform software, Memcached, MMCache, PHP, PHP programming language, ram, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, zend framework, Zend_Cache | 1 Comment

More on CSS Optimization

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Stoimen

As CSS files are first downloaded to the client and then executed, the main optimization is to make those files smaller. But that doesn’t mean only minifing! The Minification Process While with minification you can strip all the symbols that … Continue reading →

Posted in css, micro tutorial | Tagged Cascading Style Sheets, Computing, Minification, possible solution, Software engineering, Style sheet, Technology/Internet, Web application, web applications, Web design, web development, web programming | 1 Comment