- October, 2004
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using google api from PHP
Now available for your downloading pleasure, is my GoogleSoap class. have you eveer felt the sudden need to use the Google's web APIs through PHP ? Worry not as help is at hand. You can use the GoogleSoap class to make your job easier. I have put the code and related documentation/examples in the public domain, so you can hack it up further. Some rudimentary instructions are included in the README file, I will add more to it as and when time permits me. Any additions/suggestions are always welcome.
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why code maintainance sucks
I have had to work on updating someone else's code for a few days now. The code was a headache to read because
- It was not formatted to conform to my coding standard ... in fact it did not conform to any coding standards.
- There was no version control ... oh wait, yes there was version control. It was version control by commenting out unwanted code. So I had to scroll through screenfuls to commented out code. I must take a moment to thank the programmers of Anjuta IDE, which helped me a lot a with their excellent syntax highlighting. Here is how you delete code.
- Did I say there was no version control. There was a version control system. It looked almost like this
- There was no comments.
- There were spelling mistakes in variable names
- PHP code and HTML were mixed
- there was more .. i have forgotten it.
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Hyperlinks with LaTeX
I am big fan of Texinfo for writing articles or any other documentations work (yes, I do sometimes try to write the specification document). For a few weeks now, I have been trying to learn LaTeX, sice it can be used to typeset good quality presentation slides and letters too.
A problem that I faced when writing the articles in LaTeX was on how to make a hyperlink to a webpage. I was using latex2html to convert the latex file to HTML format. LaTeX comes with a hyperref package which can be used to create links. It has a
\hrefcommand which can be used to create hyperlinks, but the links did not come out in the HTML page. I found that this was a known problem with hyperref and latex2html. However, the solution, as I found out, is much easier. The command to use is\htmladdnormallink{link text}{universal resource locator}You have to include the package html in your document to use it\usepackage{html,makeidx} .... The text of this article can be downloaded from our \htmladdnormallink{web site}{http://www.example.org}.Defined tags for this entry: geek stuff, programming
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