Monthly Archiv: November, 2009
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Authenticate users without reloading a login page
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This class can be used to authenticate users without reloading a login page.
It can generate the HTML with Javascript that uses the jQuery library to present a login form that is submitted using an AJAX request for verifying the user password.
The class uses a separate database access class to perform a database query to the users database in order to verify whether the user and password are correct.
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Solve quadratic equations
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This class can be used to calculate the roots of a quadratic equations.
It takes the a, b and c coefficients and calculates the roots of the quadratic equation, if it has a solution.
The result may be displayed or returned with a given number of decimal places.
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Perform several operations to manipulate images
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This package can be used to perform several operations to manipulate images.
The main class can perform many types of image manipulation operations, such as: resize images, add alpha channel, flip, rotate, add watermark, apply effects like blur, darkness, brightness, contrast, gamma, gray scale, negate, sepia, sketch, smooth, emboss, edge detection, sharpen, soften, and other types of convolution.
There are also several classes that can load and save images to files in JPEG and PNG formats, or initialize images with given background color or just a make it a transparent canvas.
I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we’ve won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories.
As Hiro Nakamura said when he first bent time and space to land in Times Square: “Yatta!”
In addition to winning in the Overall Best Open Source CMS category, WordPress was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS category. This is significant because we weren’t even in the top 5 last year, and now we’re #2, ahead of Joomla! As is stated on the Award site, “WordPress made its way into the top five for the first time. The fact that it was outranked by Drupal by a very slight margin indicates how popular it has become with users as well as developers over the past year.”
Every day thousands of new people are embracing WordPress to power not just their blogs but entire sites and communities without compromising on usability or scalability (as would be the case with a legacy CMS). Every member of the WordPress community, from core developer to beginning user, should be proud to be part of this momentum: congratulations to us all!
WordCamp NYC was last weekend, and it was crazy awesome to have so many WordPress users and developers together in one place (final numbers to come, but looks like over 700). One of my favorite moments was right at the end, when someone suggested getting a picture of the core contributors (I’d asked them all to stand so people could applaud them when we were doing the closing remarks). Some of them were camera shy and kept out of the happysnap, but here’s a handful of the people who make WordPress what it is.
From left: Matt Martz (sivel), Jeremy Clarke, Shane Froebel (^BuGs^), Jane Wells, Matt Mullenweg, Mark Jaquith, Beau Lebens, Andy Peatling, John James Jacoby (jjj).
Photo by Chris Cochran.
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Display CAPTCHA images and validate forms
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This class can be used to display CAPTCHA images and validate forms that use them to verify whether the user is really a human or a robot.
It can generate an image with a random text taken from a text file.
The text is rendered using TrueType fonts over a background of random faded text letters and background images.
The generated image is stored on a file in GIF, JPEG or PNG formats.
The validation word is stored in a session variable for posterior verification.
This dimensions, the fonts, and the background images are configurable.
The online page will generate the code needed to create a contact page for your site. Just fill out the form to configure the script and the download will work instantly once uploaded to your site. It will allow your visitors to email you by filling out a short form and submitting it. You have many choices to help you match the script to the rest of your site.This latest version 1.6 includes an Image Captcha script to help prevent unwanted spam and abuse. It also includes the prevention of the form being submitted unless all fields have been filled out.
The new system programming language from the legendary Rob Pike, Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer, currently named "Go", has been added to the
Free Compilers and Interpreters for Miscellaneous Programming Languages
page. Unlike the other commonly used system languages today, this one has built-in support for concurrent programming, a must with today's
multi-core processors, and communication between concurrent processes. It is designed to be lean and mean, and have very fast compile
and link cycles. Lovers of C and other lean systems programming languages should really take a look at it.
For those who like to store their passwords, telephone numbers, serial numbers, etc, in a text file, the newest entry in the
Free Secure Password Managers and Password Savers
page lets you do so in a portable yet secure way. Your passwords are encrypted, and the entire file can be placed anywhere (a USB flash drive,
your main hard disk, a floppy disk, whatever). No installation is needed and the whole program is extremely small. And free.
