Author Archives: Dinesh

Dinesh

My name is Dinesh Copoosamy - a South African based Web Consultant Qualifications Diploma in Datametrics (UNISA) Oracle Certified Developer (Oracle) Adobe Certified Expert - Flex/Air (Adobe) Skills PHP | SQL | XHTML | CSS | Javascript | Actionscript 3 | Adobe Flex | Adobe Air | Drupal | Wordpress | Social Media Applications & Integration | SMPP

Add JS/CSS Specifics for Facebook Canvas App

Using the same site for web and facebook canvas but want to add some specifics to your app when being viewed as a canvas app…

Dynamically scale Facebook social plugins

Working on a responsive template for a client which has a Facebook Like Box plugin on the frontpage. To have the plugin scale along with the rest of the template I came up with the following solution.

Social River – Drupal Module

A life-stream module which aggregates feeds from a number of services and displays them in chronological order as a single stream. http://drupal.org/project/social_river Sponsors This module was kindly sponsored by NoJoShmo.com and is maintained by me. It is based on the jQuery plugin - jQuery-lifestream by Christian Vuerings

South African History Online

South African History Online (SAHO) is a non-partisan people’s history project. It was established in June 2000 as a non-profit Section 21 organisation, aiming to address the biased way in which the history and cultural heritage of South Africans was represented in our educational and cultural institutions. In 2010 SAHO decided to move from a read more »

Tax boost for software devs

So it seems there is a tax incentive for software developers to claim back 150% of R&D related expenses … including companies creating management or internal business software processes. – read more here Sounds like a good way to stimulate this space though the issue of there being a serious lack of quality developers still remains read more »

Mobile Tuxedo – Resources for Mobile Development

A decent collection of resources from around the web dealing with mobile development. Broken up into articles, resources, UI patterns. Seems to be  updated frequently too.  view site

My first Drupal module contribution :)

Privatemsg Templates | drupal.org

Ideal Developer Setup

My ideal setup would look like this: Computer http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/07/building-a-pc-part-vii-rebooting.html#comments Furniture http://www.anthro.com/furniture.aspx?computer-cart=carls-table-ct08    - Chair is neat, desk may be overkill but what the heck Eyewear http://www.gunnars.com/ Keyboard http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage.htm Furniture, keyboard and eyewear to take care of RSI, Carpal Tunnel, bad eyesight, bad back. Computer to take care of Master Collection, PHPStorm and VM.

Monitoring beanstalk

echo -e ‘statsr’ | socat – tcp4-connect:localhost:11300  http://groups.google.com/group/beanstalk-talk/browse_thread/thread/df970acf6d7cf704?pli=1 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4772770/how-can-i-get-a-list-of-all-jobs-in-beanstalk-tube

Good example on working with Beanstalk in PHP

Content with Style – PHP worker processes with Beanstalk and Daemontools