Cool Google Maps icons
I came across these today. It's a set of more that 700 icons for using as markers in your google maps. I must say they look pretty neat and will definitely help personalize one's maps. I will surely use them in my next google maps project. There are also free 
TopUp – awesome library for popups
I was looking for a prettier way of showing a popup window in my site and came across TopUp. It definitely looks nicer than others I've seen and is easy to install and use. It's also free to use
For more info, documentation and demos, check out their site!
Beginning android development
I have decided to start playing with android, maybe develop apps or small games. But before that, it's study time
I looked for a few introductory tutorials and made a list:
- The android essential series on mobile.tutsplus.com
- The android fundamentals series on mobile.tutsplus.com
- The android user interface design series on mobile.tutsplus.com
I also found a book which should also prove useful.
I also looked for frameworks that would ease app development, and discovered Corona. It doesn't seems hard to get used to and there are loads of tuttorials out there to help you, both on their site, or on others.
New version of distance finder
You might remember the previous version of my distance finder. It's a small google maps project that helps you find the distance and the route between two points.
I have decided to improve the layout of the project and add new features. Here's the new version!
A major improvement is the fact that you can now choose a 'via' address for the route. Also, the app is now available in both English and Romanian.
More updates will follow as I'm working on improving it even further!
10 Must Have WordPress Plugins
I compiled a list of very useful wordpress plugins. If you think others should also be added to the list, please let me know!
Akismet
Akismet is probably the best plugin that helps you protect your blog from spammers. It's also really easy to use, you will only need an API key which you will receive after registering.
All in One SEO Pack
All in One SEO Pack is a plugin that helps you optimize your blog for search engines. Really useful is you want other to find you! Of course, the best way to improve your blogs chances of getting found in searches is having useful content!
Clean-Contact
Clean-Contact is one of the many plugins out there for easily creating contact forms for your blog.
FeedBurner FeedSmith
If you have a feedburner feed, you will find this plugin useful. It redirects all traffic from your old feeds to your feedburner feeds so you can track them
Google Analytics
You will most likely want to track how many visitors your blog has and some info about them. Google Analytics is one of the best tools for that. This plugin helps you enable google analytics on all your pages.
Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin generates a sitemap of your blog.
ShareThis
ShareThis is a plugin that allows your readers to easily share your posts with their friends. ShareThis supports many social networks and it's look is easy to customize. I found more plugins that offer basically the same features as SharaThis, but I liked this one the best!
SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
If you are a developer like me and want to share some code pieces in your posts, you will need a SyntaxHighlighter to make your posts look prettier!
Twitter Widget
There are surely lots of wordpress widgets that allow you to show some twitter posts on you blog, but I found Twitter Widget one of the best of them. You only need to fill in your twitter username and the number of posts you want to show and that's it!
WP to Twitter
If you have a Twitter account, you might want to share the link to each new blog post there. WP to Twitter does this for you! To use it, you will have to create a new twitter app on the twitter dev site and copy your credentials from there!
Yodacode programming contest
I've found a new programming contest on yodacode.com. It's not very hard, there are 9 puzzles to finish by the 6th of january. You can solve them in one or more programming languages.
How to use Google Maps Street View
My fourth google maps tutorial was published on 1stwebdesigner.com. The tutorial covers another of google maps features, street view.
I have built an app for this tutorial, an interactive visit of Paris. You’ll be able to visit certain locations, walk through Paris or take virtual tours.
You can read the tutorial here and also play with the app.
You can also download the source code.
Cool PHP captcha
While looking for an easy to use captcha to add on a contact form in order to prevent spam, I found this project. It's really easy to use and integrate in your php contact form!
Cool WYSIWYG editor
While looking for a nice simple WYSIWYG editor for a CMS I was working on, I stumbled upon CKEditor. Looks good, has all the features I needed, is compatible with all the browsers and is open source! A very good choice I'd say!
It's also really easy to use. You just have to add a few javascripts and it replaces you regular textareas with the texteditor!
How to convert between ANSI and UNICODE strings?
Useful C++ code for converting between ANSI an UNICODE strings:
Ansi to Unicode:
char *ansistr = "Hello"; int a = lstrlenA(ansistr); BSTR unicodestr = SysAllocStringLen(NULL, a); ::MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, ansistr, a, unicodestr, a); ::SysFreeString(unicodestr);
Unicode to Ansi:
BSTR unicodestr = 0;
SomeCOMFunction(&unicodestr);
int a = SysStringLen(unicodestr)+1;
char *ansistr = new char[a];
::WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP,
0,
unicodestr,
-1,
ansistr,
a,
NULL,
NULL);
delete[] ansistr;
::SysFreeString(unicodestr);
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