Year: 2010

Python

Handling JSON in Python

On php, I just use json_encode() and json_decode() to handle JSON data with ease. Python has a built in module named “json” for the same purpose. Here’s the link for the official documentation: http://docs.python.org/library/json.html 🙂 The documentation has pretty examples. Still, I wanted to try things out by myself. I used Python to parse the JSON output of a certain Yahoo! Pipes feed :

import json,urllib
data = urllib.urlopen("http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=a0b9e3295664870ee81711aed6f7ecd6&_render=json").read()
d = json.loads(data)
for x in d['value']['items']:
    print x['title']

import json,urllib

data = urllib.urlopen("http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=a0b9e3295664870ee81711aed6f7ecd6&_render=json").read()

d = json.loads(data)

for x in d['value']['items']:

print x['title']

Output:

masnun@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ python jsontest.py
Sms Plugin
..........
[SNIP]
..........
Profit Spreadsheet
Graphic Web Des. Needed Fast
Customer Ordering Website
Dating Site Profiles
masnun@ubuntu:~/Desktop$

masnun@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ python jsontest.py

Sms Plugin

..........

[SNIP]

..........

Profit Spreadsheet

Graphic Web Des. Needed Fast

Customer Ordering Website

Dating Site Profiles

masnun@ubuntu:~/Desktop$

Personal Work

Created Another WordPress Theme

Post author By masnun
Post date January 30, 2010
6 Comments on Created Another WordPress Theme

I have finally chosen web application engineering as my core subject of specialization. I have always appreciated the beauty and usability of web applications. You can easily paint your dreams on a web page, rather than on a desktop software. As I am still learning about desktop website design from the sites offered from Devio.digital, hence I have been concentrating only on developing mobile web sites. Its been almost three years now I have been doing mobile website design. I loved playing with WML and later XHTML along with bits of HTML. Later, when I realized that I have a good command over PHP, I looked at the web industry. I introduced myself to serious web development through my free lance career. The very first free lance job I got, involved setting a javascript countdown timer. I had to design the page and install the counter with a newsletter subscription form. I was in a mess with HTML and CSS. I was a newbie that time. (In fact, even today I don’t know much designing). Luckily the project was very simple and I didn’t have to code much. But still I got paid $30 🙂 I was inspired and started looking for more and more free lance jobs. Given my lackings in web design skills, I tried to find only projects which required programming alone.You can click this link and learn more. But I had little luck. I always had to play with bits of designing on almost all the projects. Gradually, I started learning HTML and CSS over time. When I joined Leevio, Hasin Vai introduced me to massive designing trends. I was amazed to see the beauty of web designs. Check it out at https://www.akeaweb.com/accessibility-consulting/.

I was using WordPress for my personal website for a long time. I was always interested in the WP API. But somehow I couldn’t make up my mind to do something with the API. Hasin vai inspired me a lot to work on WordPress. Finally, on a good day, I managed to build my first WP plugin — “gaf-text-link”. The plugin was featured by GAF and is available from the affiliates page of GAF (Now, freelancer.com). GAF paid me $100 appreciating my work as a marketing of their service. I was damn motivated to work on WordPress again — because of the money. Whenever I looked at the job listing at my favorite free lance sites, WP related projects were available in a large numbers and many of them involved good price 🙂 My desire to work with WP grew. If you’re interested then click here to buy knownhost wordpress hosting.

I later created another plugin to integrate admob ads into WP. Hasin Vai one day gave me links to a bunch of nice of books on WP. They were great and I really learnt a lot. I coded up my first WP theme which was being used on this site until yesterday night.

From yesterday, I started working to improve my design skills. I started with WP theme design so that I can gather knowledge on two topics from a single work. I have got decent command over CSS based styling now, but I am still falling short in layout designing. My design last night was not up to mark, at least it was not what I wanted. Hasin vai suggested me to use a CSS framework for layout. I had two primary options — fluid.gs for fluid layout and 960.gs for fixed width layout. I chose 960.gs since I wanted my layout to be fixed width. It was cool working with it. It saved me a lot of time and let me do what I really wanted to do! 😀 I am not willing to use raw CSS for layout again 😉

Not only CSS and HTML, I have also worked with GIMP for bit of image editing. I am very new to GIMP. Had to struggle a bit with the interface. I hope I will be able to cope up really soon.

I finished the theme just a few hours ago. I made it widget-ready this time. It’s not bad for me! I will keep digging with designs and see if I can come with something better 🙂

PHP

A reflect() Function For Quick Reflection in PHP

Post author By masnun
Post date January 5, 2010
1 Comment on A reflect() Function For Quick Reflection in PHP

The Reflection API is the perfect way to reverse engineer and inspect php objects and functions. I have written a function to quickly pass params to the Reflection API and get things done.

Here’s the source codes:

<?php

function reflect($data,$return = false) {
    $string = "\n \nReflecting: {$data} \n";
    $string .= "\n====================\n";
    if(is_object($data)) {
        $string .= Reflection::export( new ReflectionClass($data), true );
        $string .= "\n====================\n";
    } else {
        if(function_exists($data)) {
            $string .= Reflection::export( new ReflectionFunction($data), true );
            $string .= "\n====================\n";
        }
    }

    if($return) {
        return $string;
    } else {
        echo $string;
    }

}
?>

<?php

function reflect($data,$return = false) {

$string = "\n \nReflecting: {$data} \n";

$string .= "\n====================\n";

if(is_object($data)) {

$string .= Reflection::export( new ReflectionClass($data), true );

$string .= "\n====================\n";

} else {

if(function_exists($data)) {

$string .= Reflection::export( new ReflectionFunction($data), true );

$string .= "\n====================\n";

}

if($return) {

return $string;

} else {

echo $string;

}

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