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Make Your Own URL Shortener

There are so many URL Shortener since Twitter became popular. The 140 character limitation makes a nightmare when someone want to share a long URL. So URL Shortener has been a solution. Twitter also have URL Shortener name http://t.co.

So, there are two option when you want to have your own URL Shortener, write it from scratch or just use (and or modify) open source URL Shortener out there. There are so many open source URL Shortener. And i’m using YOURLS.

The hardest part is searching for a short domain which is available. 😀

So, this is my URL Shortener: http://t.mbe.ms (spelled TEMBEMS or maybe same meaning with chubby in english.. err…CMIIW). But it’s not public. 🙂

 

Multiple Argument in CodeIgniter’ s Form Validation Callback

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CodeIgniter have a powerful form validation class out of the box. We also can create our validation method using a callback. By default, “callback” just accept 1 argument. I didn’t found in user guide, how to make callback accept more than 1 argument.

But, after doing little googling i found a way to do it. For example:

$val->set_rules('field', 'Field Name', "trim|xss_clean|required|callback__example_callback[{$argument}]")
......

function _example_callback($default_argument, $argument) {

.......

See the bold text. Done. 🙂

General

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From wikipedia, general is a four-star general officer rank. And in an “invisible world”, general mean an income level. 4 stars mean 4 digit USD income, more than $1000 in a month.

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Yesterday, i met someone who has been reach general level. But he didn’t tell me his real income. It can be $1001 – $9999. He share about his journey until reach it. More than USD $1000 is come from his laptop. And i was surprised, his income is from internet. He make an business model which i never think about it before. He said that ‘general’ is just 2% from his goal.

Now, i just three-star. And when will i can get five-star? or six-star? or seven-star? even infinite-star?

Hide Friend or Apps From News Feed on Facebook

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Today, facebook and twitter became the most popular social network. Almost all of my friend have facebook and or twitter. Social Network became the next world. We posted on someone’s wall, we share anything in status/tweet, we comment on someone’s status /tweet. It’s like another world in our ordinary life.

But somehow, we want to not following or see someone’s updates/tweet. In twitter, we can just unfollow. And we can remove friends from facebook, but in facebook there is so many consideration. 🙂

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Send SMS using Python Gammu

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Gammu is a command line utility for controlling a phone (or modem) written in C. Gammu can be used for phone management software or maybe a SMS Gateway. Gammu can manage SMS, MMS, Phonebook, Calendar, phone’s file system and Call.

Today, i try to install Gammu and Python Gammu on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. Then, i write some code to send sms using command line.
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