Enjoy the new Wine 1.6

The Wine development team have made version 1.6 available after 16 months of hard work. There are about 10,000 different changes. Highlights include the new Mac driver, complete support for window transparency and a new package for mono. NET support.

Using Google Translate in PHP

After Hacking Google Voice API, We are about to hack Google Translate this time! We are going to write a full featured yet basic class in php to help us use Google Translate. The best part is that it is going to be lightweight and dependency-free.

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Building a simple API using node.js

I have already introduced node.js in a previous article and explained how to install it in another one. Now it is time to go further with it. Basically what we will try to do today is to create a basic yet functional API server using node.js along with restify and mongoose, which are two modules.

Web scraping done right using PHP

The art of gathering information is now made easy these days thanks to web services and APIs. But they don't cover everything, and that is why scrapping is a must. It is not easy to do it, given that there are many ways to do it and that web pages are not the same. Today i am going to show you the right way to scrap and extract any information from any website.

Hacking Google Voice API in Linux

You should have seen voice-aware input zones coming with the new google chrome release about a month ago. Yeah it's a cool way to input text easily without typing for long seconds, with the opportunity to get search results for "laughable clothes" when you say "fashionable clothes". Seriously i cannot see how this is useful, especially when it comes to desktop PCs.

But there's a good guy on the internet who happily made good use of it. He made a shell script that listens to your voice and use Google Voice API to decode it and convert it to text. I will be explaining this hack he made so you all can make good use of it.

Node.js: First Steps

Yesterday, i have been So yesterday I talked about my experience with node.js in which I was impressed with it's usefulness and went through its history and what node.js brings to the table. A node.js expert, Mr. Rafik NACCACHE highlighted a  couple of features that I did not  mention
like how node.js is best used in apps with WebSocket, like real time networking as seen in games, chat, push notification servers, etc... It should be noted though that node.js isn't the optimal option in certain situations like "classical server rendered web".

Enough talking and let's start the action! in this article I will explain how to install node.js along with its package manager on an ubuntu machine and have some test coding.