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Coding

Jun 172010
 
C# - Creating a Youtube video viewer in Microsoft Visual Studio

Months ago, I created a computer program for my Group 4 Project via Microsoft Visual Studio C# because our group needed a program to calculate the intensity of solar flares and other information associated with solar flares / coronal mass ejections. One of the features in this program was a Youtube video player so we [...Read more...]

Jun 032010
 

Some background info So what’s Gzip? Gzip is a form of compression (think ZIP/RAR files) that compresses files so that you save bandwidth and the page loads faster. It’s very useful for compressing text since there are good compression algorithms for it, whereas images and movies are already compressed. Thus, Gzip is extremely useful for [...Read more...]

May 282010
 

Sending emails via PHP is quite the interesting function. You can use it to send yourself an email when a visitor submits something via a contact form, or to notify you of sudden changes in your website. For example, you could design a script on another server to check when your site is down and [...Read more...]

May 262010
 

This tutorial is designed for PHP. Basic Info and Code Ok, this page is about identifying browsers. How do we do that? (Copy the code below) <?php $ua = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]; // Here’s the fun part – we’re identifying Mac IE if (stristr($ua, “Mac”) && stristr($ua, “MSIE”)) { // Do something here – maybe a redirect? [...Read more...]