Most people are not aware of just how easy it is to enhance even the poorest of photos. In this video I will cover bringing faded photos to life, enhancing colors, repairing dark photos, removing objects we don't want in our pictures, cropping, rotating, and more! At almost 40 minutes long, you will learn the tricks you need to make your photos stand out!
Today I am happy to announce the release of MicroMVC at github. MicroMVC is released under the GPL v3 so it is free for anyone to download and use.
MicroMVC is the project that I am most proud of out of all my web apps. It powers this sites video system and other sites where I needed something lightweight and blazing fast.
Along with the new home it has been updated, cleaned up, and outfitted with a couple example controllers that show you how to fetch twitter updates, create posts in a SQLite database, call hooks/plugins, and load views. There is even a video to help you get started.
After several months work I am proud to announce the Code2Design video system is finally up! Featuring 25 videos on HTML, PHP, AutoCAD, and more! Each video is either 640x480 or 800x600 and is avalible to download for private viewing. (Not everyone has DSL in their home.)
The Two videos I recomend the most are PHP Security and Resizing and Sending Images For Email.
PHP security is probably the most advanced video of it's type in the world. It is about 45min long and covers basic attacks like Globals, Includes, and Super Global arrays like $_SERVER and $_GET. More advanced subjects like SQL injection, CSFR, and XSS are covered later in the video. Each attack is not only discussed - but actually shown in action so you can easily follow along.
1) You need to salt your passwords.
"Assume a user's secret key is stolen and he is known to use one of 200,000 English words as his password. The system uses a 32-bit salt (like md5). Because of this salt, the attacker's pre-calculated hashes are of no value. He/she must calculate the hash of each word with each of 2^32 (4,294,967,296) possible salts appended until a match is found. The total number of possible inputs can be obtained by multiplying the number of words in the dictionary with the number of possible salts:
2^{32} \times 200 000 = 8.58993459 \times 10^{14}
To complete a brute-force attack, the attacker must now compute about 800 trillion hashes, instead of only 200,000. Even though the password itself is known to be simple, the secret salt makes breaking the password radically more difficult." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
AutoDesk is giving away free copies of its student programs like AutoDesk Inventor. If you are a student you need to take a minute to register for this great offer! (visit Student Autodesk)
As soon as my month-long fight with my computer-box is over (Curse you SATA, Cheap Video Cards, and ECS Mobos), I plan on releasing some Inventor tutorials and because it is a $4000 program (Full Version) this maybe your only chance to grab a copy!
Please note that you must be a student with a college email address(I think they also allow Highschool emails). Also, you will need a decent video card for this program as it is a 3D modeling program. (64MB video card should be fine - but I suggest a 128MB.)
If you're just learning how to create your own little space in the vast expanse of the World Wide Web you are starting at a great time.
When I began learning, nearly 10 years ago, I had to crack open the books, fire up Wordpad and figure this stuff out by trial and error. If I needed help, it was a long search through various indexes.
Now, there are so many resources on the web that anyone wanting to learn HTML or any of the vast languages out there, they have gold readily available at the click of a mouse. Plus, with Web 2.0 becoming more and more prevalent, instant examples are here.
Case in point is the HTML Playground: http://htmlplayground.com/
The name says it all. A list of web coding tags are available for you to select and have instant examples and sample code to look at and then edit it and see what happens.
This is a fantastic resource for any beginner and one I highly recommend checking out and, well, playing around with!
In my last posting, I demonstrated how to create a header and footer file to be included at the top and bottom of all, or at least many, pages. This makes it easy to modify those parts and have the changes automatically spread across all the pages that share that header and footer file. This is one of the things a CMS simplifies for the user.
But what if part of your header, or footer, file is your navigation system and you want the button or link to change when the page associated is chosen? That means your header, or footer, must change depending on what page it's included on. Actually, that's one of the beautiful things about PHP - since it's commands are processed prior to the display of the page, you can program those changes to happen for you automatically.
As I was reading the first chapter of 2 Thessalonians, I started thinking about a few things; particularly - persecution. Having been born and raised in America, I've never really known "persecution". Because I am a Christian, I may have been made fun of, rejected, or disliked - but I wouldn't consider those as "persecution"; more like inconveniences. However, this chapter explains persecution in one of the ways it should be seen, so I’d like to share with you. ;)
Dear brothers and sisters, we always thank God for you, as is right, for we are thankful that your faith is flourishing and that you are all growing in love for each other. - 2 Thessalonians 1:3
