drag and drop upload with user data using HTML5 with FireFox

Drag and Drop event handling is one of the new toys in HTML5 available since FireFox 3.6. You can now let users drag files of just about any type directory onto web page without having to use <input type="file">, let them see the preview immediately without an intermediate upload and upload directly through a new binary XmlHttpRequest. Sending some other data, say a description of the image being uploaded, together with the binary file is a more complex story for which I did not see a solution yet and had to figure out for myself.

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Save time with multi-threading

Multi-threading is not a common topic among web developers, yet today I decided to give it a shot in bash to download and convert to mp3 my favorite ambient music station by Mike G I like to listen to while programing. Problem is, each session is 2 hours so I would like to bookmark sections I like most using Amarok but it does not play well with aac sources. So how do I get the whole 32 part archive and convert each one to mp3 in the most efficient manner? Read more...

Zend with some image manager and TinyMce

If you followed my twits, you would have noticed I've been fighting with TinyMce and a reasonable image manager plugin for it.  Strangely enough, Zend Framework with their enterprise goal, do not have a rich editor feature out of the box which, I believe, is one of the fundamentals in just about any level of CMS.  Dojo Editor is way too limited and lacks important features like inserting and browsing images.
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