Use Base64 to pass parameters in URL with PHP
Even though Base64 encoding is not an encryption, sometimes it can be useful to pass data or parameters in a single string.
Ideal Open Graph Image size for WhatsApp link share
Sharing links with WhatsApp has become a great way to drive visitors into your sites. A nice feature when a link is shared is a little preview of the link’s content, with a title, short description and an image of the designated page. This data comes from scraping the link for Open Graph (OG) data. One of the tags allows you to put one or more images to be shown as the link image.
Get Mime-Type by file extension in PHP
Recently I build a PHP script for dynamically downloading files, and I came across the need to provide the right Mime-Type for each file I set to download. I wrote a function in PHP that gets file extension (with or without the dot prefix) and returns the correct Mime-Type.
C# ASP.NET cdn reference appears without being written in the code
Recently I came across this issue with Visual Studio 2015, while developing a website. I used ScriptManager to load javaScript to my web application. When I inspected the code of the site I noticed a message saying I was trying to load a script with https. A further investigation revealed that the culprit was the script […]
Kill stuck process and tasks automatically – Advanced Task Killer
If you are working with automatic process, interfaces or anything that works in the background (with a new process every time) you probably familiar with situations when something goes wrong (network failure, memory shortage etc) and our automatic process gets stuck.
Make your own smart gas sensor with MQ2 and ESP8266 WiFi Arudino
Building a smart gas sensor for your home is an easy and fun project, which can also help to prevent serious damage. The gas plumbing in my house is rather old, and even though it is checked regularly by professionals from the gas company when they come to replace the gas tanks, I still want […]
Convert Fixed-Width (Flat File) to Tab delimited or CSV
When working with different information systems sometimes you need to convert data files from one format to another. Not all systems can generate or export data in common or standard ways. Lately, I had to convert a huge Fixed-Width file to a Tab-delimited one in order to load it to my system, so I thought I’d share one quick way of doing so.
Keep Regex only matches in Notepad++ (Npp plugin)
I’ve developed a Notepad++ plugin that adds the option to keep only regex patterns in a text file.
When working with large text files and wanting to extract specific data from them, such as log files or data files, it’s convenient to be able to filter out everything in one click.
ESP8266 WiFi events list with Arduino
Using WiFi events on Arduino can be very useful, as I previously wrote in the article Best Practices on Connecting ESP8266 to WiFi Network. It helps in managing the wifi connection in the sketch’s code.
In this post, I wanted to share with you the list (as far as I know) of events.
Make optimization to SQL query with SQL Server Management Studio
Writing SQL queries can be considered by some as a form of art: everyone has a different style of writing and improving them (I’m talking about complex queries). Queries can achieve the same goal while being written in various and sometimes completely different way. While improving and optimizing a query should first and foremost include making sure that everything is written correctly and there are no logical errors, I wanted to share a tool, that some of you might not know, which can help make queries more efficient in times where you’re just not sure how to improve it further.