I’ve had my own company called WebGear since 2000. I’ve never bothered with getting my company “known” to the world, as I was full time employed with Web Power for over 10 years. Now that I am freelancer in web development, I did put some effort in the WebGear brand. I bought the webgear.nl domain […]
I ran into a very nasty issue with iOS7 on an iPad today: My webapp would render way too wide, causing scrollbars, where it would fit perfectly on older iOS versions. Turns out that the culprit is in the meta-viewport tag. This is what I had: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, user-scalable=0"/> This is […]
I’ve written a small plugin for the excellent fabric.js canvas library. Here’s the code you need, add it to your page after fabfic is loaded. fabric.Image.filters.BrightnessContrast = fabric.util.createClass(fabric.Image.filters.BaseFilter, { type: 'BrightnessContrast', initialize: function(options) { options || (options = { }); this.contrast = options.contrast || 0; this.brightness = options.brightness || 0; }, applyTo: function(canvasEl) { var […]
Here’s a one-liner to check/validate the syntax of all your PHP files at once. It simply runs php -l on all files with extension .php: find . -type f -name "*.php" -exec php -l {} \; | grep -v 'No syntax errors'
This is mainly a note to self, maybe it helps someone else. Here’s a one-liner to replace a string in a lot of files at once: Replace replaceFrom with replaceTo in all writable files in the current directory, recursively: find . -type f -writable -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/replaceFrom/replaceTo/g'
My Smart Roadster is featured in Dutch car magazine Autoweek. Here is the video that goes with the article.
Here are some pictures of my Smart Brabus Roadster. The pictures were taken and photoshopped by my friend Oskar de Waal.
I’ve written a CodeMirror plugin for the new TinyMCE4 WYSIWYG editor. You can read all about it here, there’s a free download as well.
Here’s how you can configure your Apache webserver for a REST API, without using rewrite rules (thus: you don’t need the rewrite engine). Simply add the following line to your <VirtualHost>: AliasMatch ^/api/rest/v1/(.*)$ /var/www/[mywebsite]/htdocs/api/rest/v1/index.php In index.php, you can read the parameters like so: <?php $path = preg_replace('~^/rest/v1/~', '', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']); $parts = explode('/', $path); […]
Here’s a handy function for adding a new parameter to a URL: function addUrlParam(param, value) { var url = location.href; if (location.search.indexOf(param) != -1) return url; var hash = location.hash, sep = url.indexOf('?') == -1 ? '?' : '&'; return url.replace(hash,'') + sep + encodeURIComponent(param) + (value ? '=' + encodeURIComponent(value) : '') + hash; […]