Daniel Guerrero Thoughts

Realtime notifications – Pusher

danguer — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:05:54 +0000

Recent webapps keep pushing into realtime notifications, starting from web chat (for example Facebook Chat), notifications of new items (Twitter), progress status update (for example encoding a file). The first solution was to provide an ajax poll; which can’t scale …

Upload S3 files directly with AJAX

danguer — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:21:25 +0000

One great feature of S3 is that you can upload directly to your s3 bucket through a POST action, the flow is very simple, you only need to generate some params of where is going to be uploaded and the …

Base64 Binary Decoding in Javascript

danguer — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:36:44 +0000

Currently all the base64 decoders in javascript are for strings, not suitable for binary data, the common example is if you uses a canvas element and get their base64 representation ( canvas.toDataURL() ) usually you will upload and in the …

Login through Google+ and OAuth API

danguer — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:27:10 +0000

One of the common scenarios is to login through an external account like Google+, Twitter or Facebook. In this code snippet I will show how to login using Google+ API First you need to register your api at https://code.google.com/apis/console/, register the …

Using php for analyzing apache logs

danguer — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:51:26 +0000

Apache has a nice feature that is to send the log output through a pipe. This avoid to configure syslog or create a listening server in php for syslog forwarding logs. The changes in apache are really simple, you just …

Installing php-fpm and apache2

danguer — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:07:53 +0000

I’ve readed a lot of tutorials of using nginx and php-fpm. I’m still using apache2 much more due the .htaccess easiness that allow with rewriting and password protect (despite using other modules like mod_svn, etc) Even I haven’t found a …

Recipes for using SVN library in PHP

danguer — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:28:03 +0000

The SVN library in PHP allows to work with SVN through a working copy or directly to the SVN repository files: http://us.php.net/manual/en/ref.svn.php The problem is there is really few documentation for the direct access functions to repository (svn_repos_* and svn_fs_*) the …

NFS client “Permission Denied” on Debian unstable

danguer — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:07:19 +0000

While I was trying to access to a master NFS server in lenny from a squeeze client, I was having “Permission denied” when I tried to write any file; as there are other NFS clients with the same configuration this …

Flex 4: Getting bitmap data on a spark clipped content

danguer — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:45:30 +0000

Recently I was working on a project where I need to get the bitmap data from a container which had a scroller. From Flex 3 I tried to simply get the content directly from container; but I noticed that I …

Yahoo Widgets 4.5

danguer — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:43:05 +0000

A lot of time ago (about a year and a half) I worked briefly with Yahoo Widgets (previously named Konfabulator), as result I published a Small Widget: FangIT Server Stats. Unfortunately due lack of time I couldn’t finish some features …