I wrote a little application that allows you to play music from Pandora right from your dock. It does not take up a tab in your web browser, and it supports playing while minimized, which Safari does not. You can get it here: http://www.farmsoftstudios.com/pandora/
If you like the alternating table backgrounds that are in applications like iTunes, and want them in your web application, there is a simple way to do so in PHP:
<table>
<tr class=”title”>
<td></td>
</tr>
<?php
$i=0;
foreach($row as $r){
if($i&0){$alt=‘ class=”even”‘;}else{$alt=”;}
echo “<tr”.$alt.“>”;
//other table stuff in here
$i++;
echo “</tr>”;
}
?>
</table>
These days, I consider the failure to use version control a professional malpractice. I’m also a zealot when it comes to deleting dead code. In fact, I derive quite a bit of enjoyment out of deleting existing code. Unused code, old code, mockups, things that were started and never finished, things that someone thought they needed and never did—I’m delighted to delete them all.
Quoting from the latest PHP|Architect (August 2008) article, I found Jeff Moore’s writing insightful as well as helpful. A strong contender for clean code, he suggests deleting stranded, dead, or depreciated codeblocks. As far as his suggestion for version control, I would completely agree. I maintained/wrote an entire project without version control (along with two other developers), and I sincerely hope that I never have to do that again. It was a total disaster. FTP overwrites, deleted code that had dependancies, and no way to roll back equalled extreme project management headaches.
My Advice: Use Version Control. Period.
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To block an ip address from accessing your linux box, you can use the following iptables rule:
iptables -A INPUT -s 222.124.24.131 -j DROP
If you just need to block a certain port (i.e. port 22 for SSH), you would do it like so:
iptables -A INPUT -s 222.124.24.131 -p tcp --destination-port 22 -j DROP