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Copy files and directories from and to Kubernetes pods

posted in Architecture on 2020-12-11   Kubernetes copy pods ssh

At work we have a project that uses node:10-jessie image as a base for its docker container. That image has no vi inside so I wondered how to check the content of a file. Luckily kubectl has a neat command to copy files from and to a pod.

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Create your own Covid-19 data tracker

posted in JavaScript on 2020-03-30   covid-19 tracker virus api zeit covid https data github data tracker thevirustracker time johns hopkins university code back end endpoints react created recharts beginning tags tag link countries package sh https c19stats

I'm continuing to experiment with React and TypeScript. The weekend-long project this time was a Covid-19 data tracker. In this blog post I will share how I built c19stats.now.sh. I exposed the data as a public API at the same URL. I guess you, as many other people, follow the situation so you may want to glue your fingers on the keyboard and create something useful around the data. I got lots of fun playing with the diagrams.

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"Exit strategy" by Travis Bible

posted in Cinema on 2020-01-24   cinema short film https www youtube

Two brothers caught in a time loop must traverse a series of maze-like events in order to prevent a catastrophic fire from occurring.

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Running Prettier for specific Git branch

posted in Architecture on 2020-01-14   prettier git bash script branch file awk print echo file awk run prettier line column file mode files project

I'm working on a project in my own git branch. At the end of my working day I want to do one thing - run Prettier so my code is nicely formatted before I submit the PR for code review. Of course I know about the VSCode Prettier extension but right now my editor is kinda broken and I don't want to mess with it. I'm still on my branch and I run Prettier from the terminal. All good but the amount of changes that happened is so big that my 50+ loc updates are like a needle in a haystack. It is like that because apparently there are already malformatted files in the project. It is definitely not possible to understand what I did because of so much noise. So ... I want to run Prettier but only on the files that I touched in that particular branch.

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"The Candidate" by David Karlak

posted in Cinema on 2020-01-12   cinema short film secret society http www davidkarlak https www youtube

The story follows a secret society whose purpose is to find people who don’t deserve to live and to kill them with their thoughts. The tension between the pessimistic protagonist and the liaison of the secret society comes to a head in a riveting twist.

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NADCAST.11 с Мариан Игнев и Павел Иванов

posted in NADCAST on 2018-02-23   http sashido io nadcast

Първия епизод за 2018 е с Мариан и Павел. Поговорихме си за Sashido.io, инфраструктури, наемане на хора и още нещо :)

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Meet Evala - your terminal in the browser

posted in JavaScript on 2018-02-14   shell evala socket terminal app open browser term data web chrome

On my machine I have four applications always open - VSCode, Chrome, iTerm and Slack. I spend most of my time in Chrome and VSCode. My editor is full with awesome extensions and I feel pretty good there. What I am doing for the browser is making sure that I have fewer tabs open and install only extensions that I really use. One thing though I can achieve so far. I can't find the perfect new tab extension.

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Surviving the Web

posted in Must-see on 2017-03-03   smashfind links time cool places popular stuff twitter web read

I'm a proud father of two and programmer for more then 15 years. My kids are small so I'm really into parenting right now. A bit of a problem for me is to stay up-to-date with the latest technologies in the Web. I really love my job but I just don't have enough time to look after all these frameworks, libraries or tools. I used to read Twitter, monitor RSS feeds and spend hours reading Reddit or Medium. However, no time for that anymore.

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Packt Publishing celebrates 10 years with a special $10 offer

posted in Must-see on 2014-07-01   packt publishing book offer years

It has been 10 years since Packt Publishing embarked on its mission to deliver effective learning and information services to IT professionals. In that time, it has published over 2000 titles and helped projects become household names, awarding over $400,000 through its Open Source Project Royalty Scheme.

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Sorry, Chrome killed the terminal

posted in Nodejs on 2014-06-04   yez extension browser terminal node js chrome shell commands running task

That's right. I'm not using the terminal anymore. Instead of that I'm using Chrome. Yes, the Google's browser. There is an extension called Yez! that connects to a Node.js module via web socket. It executes the shell commands and returns the result. And even works under Windows.

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Win Free Copies of the new book - Getting Started with Grunt

posted in JavaScript on 2014-04-15   grunt array winners book top task tasks users tmp shuffle

Hi guys, you would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a Giveaway of the new book - Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner. And three lucky winners stand a chance to win 3 digital copies of this book. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winners.

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Flash CS5 is not working

posted in ActionScript on 2013-12-19   flash cs5 problem

That's one of those blog post which I'm using as documentation. When I find a bug and I fix it I feel that I have to write the whole process somewhere, because if I meet the same problem in the future I'll really want to save some time. Today I open my Flash CS5 and apparently I can't paint on the stage.

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JavaScript template engine in just 20 lines

posted in JavaScript on 2013-12-01   var r push match skills code function template index line tpl

I'm still working on my JavaScript based preprocessor - AbsurdJS. It started as a CSS preprocessor, but later it was expanded to CSS/HTML preprocessor. Shortly, it allows JavaScript to CSS/HTML conversion. Of course, because it generates HTML it was normal to act as a template engine. I.e. somehow to fill the markup with data.

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Flash, nodejs sockets and cross-domain policy file

posted in ActionScript on 2013-06-13   socket port xml policy file server anotherhost error flash player make

Ok, that was a long journey. I took an already build project and I had to make some changes. It's a complex system involving flex applications, nodejs and a mobile site. Before to start making changes I had to setup the project and make it work on my local machine. I spend few days doing this. At the end I successfully compile the flex application and made the necessary corrections. I uploaded the new swf file and of course it didn't work.

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How to Design Responsively

posted in Must-see on 2013-06-10   design responsively developers david walsh write long articles http davidwalsh web designer responsive design big difficult find blog article

It's a little big difficult for me to write long articles. This one is maybe the longest, which I ever wrote :) It collects my experience with responsive design. I believe that the ideas described in the material are important for our work as web designer and developers. David Walsh was really kind by publishing the article on his blog. You can find it here http://davidwalsh.name/design-responsively.

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The Flash Builder debugger failed to connect to the running application.

posted in ActionScript on 2013-06-07   browser debug application flash player run device project time bin debug folder flash builder debugger

I really don't like FlashBuilder. Mainly because I'm losing a lot of time just to setup the project. Usually when I receive the files I need around 10 hours just to compile successfully. The reasons for those problems are different Flex SDK, different directories' tree, wrong paths, missing libraries or fonts. Today I encounter a brand new type of problem.

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Git under windows (console mode)

posted in Architecture on 2013-05-29   git windows powershell file aliases function command status alias set

I'm a Windows user. I also have a virtual machine with Ubuntu installed and coding there from time to time. I use Git a lot and in general I prefer console mode over the GUI. Under Unix everything works just great, but Windows's command prompt requires more efforts from our side. However I found some helpful tips, which could make your life easier.

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Accessing remote Git server under windows

posted in Architecture on 2013-05-28   git push windows server origin https git clone

Let's say that you have an access to remote server which has Git installed. A trivial case if you use unix based OS. But what if you use Windows :)

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A short review of ExpressionEngine framework

posted in PHP on 2013-05-20   short review expressionengine framework s capabilities tech pro account article made project start

I'm going to start a new project with ExpressionEngine. So, I made a short review of the framework's capabilities. The article is available at my account in tech.pro.

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What exactly "Retina display" means in the context of the front-end development

posted in HTML5 on 2013-03-26   retina display means simple explanation great article ll suggest lot searched smashingmagazine check

If you are wonder what exactly "Retina display" means I'll suggest to check this great article in SmashingMagazine. I searched a lot for a simple explanation and that's the best one.

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The Breakpoint

posted in HTML5 on 2013-03-10   devtools addy osmani paul irish breakpoint ep episode ll javascript performance tooling

A bunch of useful things about our lovely browser - Chrome. Dev tools theming, console tips, editing of SASS directly inside the browser.

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Discussion about Photoshop at VarnaLab

posted in Design on 2012-09-05   varnalab photoshop discussion

A screen capture of the discussion about Photoshop at VarnaLab.

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Congo: The Grand Inga Project (Best Short Film of the Year Awards 2012)

posted in Inspiration on 2012-08-24   grand inga project year awards short film congo
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Writing Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests by Dale H. Emery

posted in Architecture on 2012-07-08   good test suite lot tests article http arlobelshee test suite read automated testing checkout dale emery shares programming dale emery driven development changed test driven development

For some time, I bring a lot of attention to the tests of everything that I'm working on. Actually Test Driven Development changed a lot my vision for programming. Dale Emery shares really interesting thoughts regarding automated testing. Checkout here. If you wonder what are the characteristics of a good test suite read this article http://arlobelshee.com/what-makes-a-good-test-suite.

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Dependency Injection in PHP. Create your own DI container.

posted in PHP on 2012-05-12   class key view show arguments array content navigation title skills

By my opinion one of the biggest problems in programming are dependencies. If you want to have a good well written application you should avoid dependencies between your modules/classes. There is a design pattern which could help and it's called Dependency Injection (DI). It allows you to inject objects into a class, instead of creating them there.

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My Friend Jason by Shot at The Dark

posted in Inspiration on 2011-11-10   friend jason dark shot
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Colorize your output in FlashDevelop

posted in ActionScript on 2011-10-08   trace flashdevelop

Did you ever wonder how to change the color of your traces in FlashDevelop. It's possible and it is really helpful feature.

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JSConf.eu 2011

posted in JavaScript on 2011-09-11   blip tv jsconfeu http blip tv european javascript conference strongly recommend shared online s scheduled watch year happened lectures

The European JavaScript conference is really close. It's scheduled for 01 and 02 of October. I wish I could be there. I hope that the videos from the lectures will be shared online, as this happened for the last year. I strongly recommend to watch them. There are available here http://blip.tv/jsconfeu.

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AS3: Tracing in Flash/Flex

posted in ActionScript on 2011-08-16   import flash public str function debug movieclip void trace swf class

Inspired by the article of Dru Kepple I decided to share my experience in Debugging processes in flash/flex enviroment.

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A RobotLegs Book

posted in ActionScript on 2011-07-22   book robotlegs joel hooks finished information read

@Stray and @Joel Hooks finished their book for RobotLegs. Definitely it is something that you should read. More information here.

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Another IE surprise

posted in JavaScript on 2011-05-19   createstylesheet problem createstylesheet k found usage

We all know that the usage of InternetExplorer brings a lot of problems for us (the developers). Did you know that there is a JavaScript method createStyleSheet that you can call only 31 times.

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AS3: runtime font loading (embedding)

posted in ActionScript on 2011-04-25   font field loader import flash swf public static const format font_export_name string font_file_name class

Flash is wonderful technology and has many advantages. Before a couple of years it was really popuplar to use it for displaying fonts that are not installed on the user's machine. Flash is still powerfull tool for such kind of tasks. These days I worked on a project which had to use a lot of fonts. It wasn't possible to embed all of them so I decided to implement runtime embedding.

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Javascript: handling keyboard shortcuts with jQuery

posted in JavaScript on 2011-01-19   ctrl shift f9 document log key jquery

Last few years the JavaScript frameworks are big part of our web sites. I strongly recommend the usage of tools like jQuery or MooTools, because they will save you a lot of time and problems. These days I needed to create a keyboard shortcut for one of the projects that I'm working on. I wanted to catch the Ctrl+Shift+F9 combination. It was just a few lines of code and I decided to share it with you.

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AS3: Using custom Metadata in Flex (part 1)

posted in ActionScript on 2010-12-28   metadata public flex mycustomclass information metadata tags tag as3 flash utils describetype public function mycustomclass

I'm sure that you've already used metadata tags in your flex applications. There are several reserved keywords like [Bindable], [Embed], [Event] and so on (the full list is available here). The function of the metadata tags is to provide additional information to the flex compiler. For example information about embeding assets, dispatching events. This article doesn't explain how to use the default flex tags (you can learn that from here). It shows you how to create your own metadata tags and how to use them.

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Change the quality of all the bitmaps of your flash document

posted in ActionScript on 2010-12-15   problem bitmaps arsthanea check flash provided ve met extension jsfl solutions edit library

I know that you've met this problem. You have a lot of bitmaps in your library and you have to edit all of them one by one. There are several solutions of this problem. One of them is to use JSFL. There is another one - an extension for Flash provided by ArsThanea. Check it out here.

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Deep linking in flash with AS3

posted in ActionScript on 2010-11-14   flash page function hash address deeplinkingclass dl html swf home

Many people will say that Flash is not SEO friendly. Actually that's not 100% true. Flash is just a tool that shows your data. Exactly the same as the HTML. In this article I'll show you how to use ActionScript3 and JavaScript together to make your flash sites SEO friendly and provide a different URL for each of your pages.

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How to protect your SWF file

posted in ActionScript on 2010-10-15   function swf protect void check file import flash public ondatafiledtoload onfailed files string

Is there any way to protect your flash work? To be honest the answer is NO. As you probably know everything that is uploaded on a web server and is accessible from a web browser is downloaded to the users' computers and could be found in the temporary directories. Once someone gets your swf file he could use one of the dozen decompilers to reproduce the .fla and .as files. Anyway, there are still some ways to make stealing difficult.

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Apple App Store Opens its Doors to Adobe Flash

posted in Other on 2010-09-14   flash devices twitter lit ios devices twitter party development tools 3rd party development apple announce removal active tutsplus full article speculation began blogosphere jumped

_"Yesterday saw Apple announce removal of the infamous restrictions on 3rd party development tools for iOS devices. Twitter lit up, the blogosphere jumped into gear and speculation began in earnest. So what’s this all about and what does it mean for Flash?"_The full article on active.tutsplus.com here.

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Duplicate loaded images in AS3

posted in ActionScript on 2010-08-30   duplicate target var rect movieclip function bitmap loader import flash display target parent

During the creation of the latest changes in my portfolio site, I needed to duplicate a loaded image that has to be placed as a material in papervison3d's cube. We don't have duplicateMovieClip in AS3, so we have to use another technique.

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How to use Google Maps API in flash

posted in ActionScript on 2010-08-19   import map flash google maps icon private function adding setting mapevent api

Google offers a lot of free tools for us. One of them is really useful and easy to work with - GoogleMaps API. In this article I will show you how to import a map in Flash and place an icon in a specific place.

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Javascript to Flash communication and vise versa

posted in ActionScript on 2010-08-05   area html text flash javascript

The communication between Flash and JavaScript is really important part of the web sites today. That's why I decided to share how to do it.

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Load MySQL data in Flash with AS3

posted in ActionScript on 2010-07-10   text data city import flash ondatafiledtoload php file onloaddata string url

There are some things that I'm doing in almost every project. Loading of data in Flash is actually one of them. In this article I'll show you how to load information from MySQL database. We will use PHP as a junction between the Flash and the database. You need an Apache server like XAMPP or EasyPHP installed or just a hosting account that supports php.

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Customize ComboBox in Flash (AS3)

posted in ActionScript on 2010-06-17   combo tf data import flash dp additem label customcellrenderer function combo textfield setstyle oncombochange cellrenderer movieclip

In my work as a flash developer very often I receive from the client just one photoshop file with the design of the application/site that has to be coded. In the last project the designer made the ComboBox in the style of the site. So I couldn't use the default look of the Flash's drop down component.

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Code Flex applications with FlashDevelop

posted in ActionScript on 2010-06-07   flashdevelop flex project project9 press f5 project select flex property8 choose project location property8 choose sdk location property8 flex sdk location change flex sdk
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SVET - the big adventure (fantasy flash RPG game)

posted in Other on 2010-03-05   game run game check n run game jump n run rpg jump n fantasy rpg jump latest flash game

svet - the big adventure (flash fanyasy rpg game)My latest flash game. It's a fantasy RPG jump'n'run game. Check out here.

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Embed fonts in all the text fields of your flash document

posted in ActionScript on 2010-02-26   jsfl script flash embed main flash_cs3_extending pdf http livedocs adobe simply ctrl r commangs run command flash commangs run jsfl embedcharactersintextfield jsfl

Very helpful solution that will save you maybe several hours. I used JSFL language and very short script to parse all the items in the library. Then for every item just embed the characters that I wanted. Get the script from here http://www.outset.ws/files/jsfl/embedCharactersInTextField.jsfl. In flash: Commangs -> Run command (or simply Ctrl+R) and point the script file.You can download the jsfl documentation from here http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/flash_cs3_extending.pdf.

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Любими блогове

posted in Inspiration on 2009-10-04   http http www http www plat4m web http www http blog arsthanea http www riznlog http www sephiroth http www smashingmagazine photoshop http www tutorial photoshop http
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Flash CS3 crashes when closing the testing window !

posted in ActionScript on 2008-11-14   textfield crashes testing window flash scrolling text field creating scrolling text mask directly m working bkwld problem applied

I'm working with a class for creating scrolling text field. So I'm using a MovieClip as mask and TextField. When I test the movie and close the testing window Flash just crashes. It's because I have applied the mask directly to the TextField :) The problem is described here. Thank you BKWLD !

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Adobe Flash Player 10 now available

posted in Other on 2008-10-17   flash player

Adobe Flash Player 10 now availableThe new flash player 10.

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Great works from Cinemotion

posted in Inspiration on 2008-08-25   bulgaria cinemotion creating tv adds flash site biggest brands coolest videos bulgarian company made studio found
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Creative navigation by Hellomonday.com

posted in Inspiration on 2008-08-22   hellomonday site creative navigation gudrun og gudrun flash drawing api www red issue navigate trough minus good sites guys
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