Prezi Video With No Audio

22 Apr 2013

I converted a wmv video to a few different formats (mp4 and flv) and still couldn’t get the audio to play in Prezi. However, videos with the following codec settings will work:

codec info

Solution: Open your video with Handbrake and convert it to H264 with AAC as the selected audio codec and it will play just fine.

Start Ser2Sock.c On Boot

16 Apr 2013
Make a shell script saying the following:
./ser2sock -b 115200 -c -w 5000 -p 10000 -s /dev/ttyUSB0 -d -g 3

Follow these instructions: http://jonathonhill.net/2009-04-23/auto-start-a-shell-script-on-ubuntu-server/

Easiest To Set Up FTP Server

09 Apr 2013 http://askubuntu.com/questions/1722/basic-ubuntu-ftp-server

"I'm going to recommend PureFTPD because it's been the simplest and easiest to use in my opinion. You'll need to install it first: sudo apt-get install pure-ftpd once it's installed it'll start itself up."

Useful Bootstrap Links

08 Apr 2013

http://bootstraphero.com/the-big-badass-list-of-twitter-bootstrap-resources

Also, an user named Billy Cravens on Meetup.com left a ton of good bootstrap links (bootsnip looks especially awesome) in this post: http://www.meetup.com/HoustonCFUG/events/79862792/

Twitter Bootstrap:
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

Bootswatch: (free Bootstrap themes)
http://www.bootswatch.com

Wrap Bootstrap (premium Bootstrap themes)
http://www.wrapbootstrap.com

Common Bootstrap Snippets
http://www.bootsnipp.com

Some nice date plugins for Bootstrap
http://www.eyecon.ro/bootstrap-datepicker/ https://github.com/dangrossman/bootstrap-daterangepicker

Bootstrap WYSIWYG editor plugin
http://jhollingworth.github.com/bootstrap-wysihtml5/

Integrating Bootstrap with jQueryValidate
http://alittlecode.com/jquery-form-validation-with-styles-from-twitter-bootstrap/

Nice data grids:
http://www.datatables.net

Integrate Bootstrap with Data Tables:
http://datatables.net/blog/Twitter_Bootstrap_2

HTML5 In < IE9

08 Apr 2013 https://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/

I saw this javascript library in the code for the Mozilla Support page (really well done). It looks like it adds HTML5 functionality to older versions of IE. Looks like it should be really useful in the future.

PHP - Verify File Is Uploaded And Zip

02 Apr 2013
if($_FILES["zip_file"]["name"]) {
$filename = $_FILES["zip_file"]["name"];

$name = explode(".", $filename);

$continue = strtolower(end($name)) == 'zip' ? true : false;
if(!$continue) {
$message = "The file you are trying to upload is not a .zip file. Please try again.";
} else {
$message = "File Is .zip";
}
}

PHP - Loop Through Excel Document and Print Cells

29 Mar 2013
require_once 'excel_reader2.php';

foreach($reader->sheets as $k=>$data)
{
echo "\n\n ".$reader->boundsheets[$k]."\n\n";

foreach($data['cells'] as $row)
{
foreach($row as $cell)
{
echo "$cell\t";
}
echo "\n";
}
}

Head Tracking In The Browser

17 Mar 2013 http://learningthreejs.com/blog/2013/03/12/move-a-cube-with-your-head/

Had no idea this was even possible, but that's an example of head tracking in the browser done with WEBRTC.

Demo: http://jeromeetienne.github.com/tquery/plugins/headtrackr/examples/demo.html

Check If Time Is Between - Python

16 Mar 2013 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1907196/how-do-i-check-if-its-monday-to-friday-and-the-time-is-between-10-am-to-3-pm

From an user named miku:

>>> import datetime
>>> d = datetime.datetime.now() 
# => datetime.datetime(2009, 12, 15, 13, 50, 35, 833175)

# check if weekday is 1..5
>>> d.isoweekday in range(1, 6)
True

# check if hour is 10..15
>>> d.hour in range(10, 15)
True

# check if minute is 30
>>> d.minute==30
False

Prevent Character Escaping - Python

15 Mar 2013 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2042342/network-path-and-variables-in-python

If you want to use network paths without adding extra slashes, you can use python's raw string function.

Here's an example of something you want to make a raw string:

source_path = r"\\mynetworkshare"

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