Free online dictionary

July 29th, 2010

http://a32.me/dict/


It is web based, ajax, searches through 100M+ words very fast.

Source code is available on request. More details are here http://a32.me/2010/06/phpmydict-stardict-web-backend-with-php/

Catsone gmail integration plugin

July 22nd, 2010

http://catsone.com/ is great SaaS recruiting tool used by many companies. One of the HR manager operation is sorting emails received from candidates. To ensure smoothness of the process this emails should be added to CATS system, so other managers can see full candidate history. There is an outlook plugin for this purpose. Assuming outlook is not in favor in our work place, I wrote GMail integration plugin.

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Master/Detail drop down lookup in Excel

June 29th, 2010

Excellent trick when you should have Master/Detail lookup combo box in your Excel form. This is quite often needed. Here is an example:

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phpMyDict – Stardict web backend with PHP

June 26th, 2010

Stardict is a popular open source dictionary program as well as file format for storing dictionaries. There are alternatives of StarDict, some of them better, some worse. But I never meet some WEB application to use dictionaries in StarDict format and interface through the web browser. I found this little interesting and created one…

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View locked and unlocked cells in Excel

April 9th, 2010

Since  last time I’ve become kind of Excel guru ), I want to  start publishing some of my tips discovered.

In this post I will explain how to quickly identify all Locked and Unlocked cells on the sheet using Office 2007. This is very useful for developing complex sheets.

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Twain scanning with Delphi 2009

March 2nd, 2010

Having spent some time with porting scanning application from Delphi 6 to 2009, I want to share with some working twain code. I used very well written component DelphiTwain with some modifications to run in Delphi 2009.

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Ping monitoring

February 25th, 2010

While searching for simple DSL line monitoring tool I found nothing really simple and decent. My goal is to hunt down internet connectivity instability. Since I have linux box inside, it is very easy to achieve.

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Google Apps Premier federated login with PHP

February 1st, 2010

Google supports OpenID authentication or behaves as openid identity provider, using Google Apps accounts. Basically it means, user can use GA credentials to sign in into different services. This is especially useful for companies to unite other internal services with Google Apps single sign-in point. This is related to Standard edition as well.

I have got it working for PHP. Here is the story.

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Bukovel skiing

January 19th, 2010

Ну вот и закончился зимний отдых. В этом году получилось сумбурно, без планирования. Хотели в поехать в Румынию, но из-за проблем с визой отправились в Карпаты на Украину. В город Яремча(Yaremche) с катанием в Буковеле(Bukovel).

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AdvMan

January 18th, 2010

AdvMan – Advertisement Manager, application for adv company to help planning of commercial spots on TV, radio, newspaper.

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