Oliver Nassar
I can be reached at onassar@gmail.com.
For my open source work, check out github.com/onassar
I'm working on a project called imnosy.com.
It emails you when a webpage is updated.
It emails you when a webpage is updated.
- April 15, 2013 Customizing Facebook Share Details (title, url, descirption and image)
- March 12, 2013 Craigslist is 403-ing my requests
- March 5, 2013 What I've found makes a good technical blog post
- March 3, 2013 Firefox is calling the load event to soon on an iframe
- March 3, 2013 Using Zoho Mail as an alternative too Google Apps (Gmail)
- February 24, 2013 Using Twitter Bootstrap Font Awesome in Firefox
- February 23, 2013 [jQuery Plugin] jQuery.Spin Overlay/Spinner Plugin
- February 21, 2013 Convert/remove certain characters within attribute values for a tag
- February 21, 2013 Strip HTML Comments which contain Tags
- February 18, 2013 Restart Apache Automatically through a Cron Job
- February 14, 2013 Regular Expression was returning NULL (limit related)
- February 12, 2013 Compiling Facebook's HipHop PHP on Ubuntun 12.04 (AWS)
- February 11, 2013 Installing Java on Ubuntu 12.04
- February 6, 2013 Restart MySQL Automatically through a Cron Job
- December 10, 2012 Python HTMLDiff Usage Review
- December 10, 2012 PHP HTMLDiff Usage Review
- December 10, 2012 C HTMLDiff Usage Review
- December 4, 2012 Compiling C HTMLDiff program on Ubuntu 12.04
- December 2, 2012 Checking out a local git repository
- December 2, 2012 Multibyte error with character set encoding
- November 26, 2012 Installing ImageMagick 6.8.x on Ubuntu 11.04
- November 21, 2012 HTMLDiff Software Projects and Repos (Open Source)
- November 19, 2012 Creating a simple Git Server on Ubuntu 12.04
- November 19, 2012 Web-based Screenshot Services and Software
- November 19, 2012 Gmail Text Caching and/or Truncation Challenges
- November 18, 2012 Trouble installing HipChat on OSX
- November 10, 2012 Backing up my Ubuntu Web Server Config/DBs
- November 3, 2012 Copying OSX music files over the network
- October 16, 2012 GitHub Project: JS-Pinterest
- October 9, 2012 GitHub Project: PHP-StripeOAuth
- September 27, 2012 EC2 SSH Tunnel
- September 26, 2012 MySQL Error: Invalid Default Character Set
- September 23, 2012 Ubuntu VPN Build Script (on AWS EC2)
- September 23, 2012 Installing a specific PECL-extension version
- September 21, 2012 Labour Day Weekend Project: Switcheroo
- August 12, 2012 Recursive Event Bindings
- August 10, 2012 Twitter Bootstrap: Accordion/Collapse Event Bubbling with the Modal Plugin
- August 10, 2012 Dear Recruiters
- July 19, 2012 Enabling an Apache Virtual Host with Sites Available/Enabled Directory
- July 18, 2012 Checking out an SVN Repository from a local SVN Server
- July 17, 2012 Setting up an SVN Server on an Ubuntu 11.10 EC2 Instance
- July 17, 2012 AWS .pem Keys and Usability
- July 15, 2012 Installing PECL HTTP Package on Ubuntu 11.10
- June 30, 2012 Idea: TurtlePHP Images Plugin
- June 30, 2012 Idea: UML Generation/Parsing Web Application
- June 30, 2012 Idea: TurtlePHP Comments Plugin
- June 30, 2012 OSX Bash Script Execution through Keyboard Shortcut
- June 19, 2012 Idea: JavaScript Exif MooTools Plugin
- June 18, 2012 Idea: AWS EC2 UI Build Script
- June 18, 2012 Idea: YouTube DJ/Mixer
- June 16, 2012 Twilio Incoming Phone Numbers Releasing/Deletion
- June 14, 2012 I got forked!
- June 14, 2012 GitHub Project: PHP-MetaParser
- June 14, 2012 Ideas
- June 14, 2012 Idea: WordPress Administration API Wrapper
- June 12, 2012 Idea: Email action through texting
- June 11, 2012 Proposal: Markdown Stylesheets Directory
- June 11, 2012 GitHub Project: PHP-Query
- June 11, 2012 GitHub Project: PHP-MySQL
- June 10, 2012 Lectures App: Database Schema
- June 10, 2012 Lectures App: Institutions to target
- June 9, 2012 GitHub Project: PHP-Pagination
- June 9, 2012 GitHub Project: PHP-SecureSessions
- June 9, 2012 Terminal Prompt Customization (OSX/Linux)
- June 8, 2012 GitHub Project: PHP-Debugging - Development Functions
- June 8, 2012 GitHub Projects
- June 7, 2012 High Latency during rsync over SSH
- June 6, 2012 Lectures App: Lectures in {city}
- May 10, 2012 CSS3 Transition Property Ordering
- May 10, 2012 Springloops SVN Certificate Validating
- March 28, 2012 Dropbox Mime Types
- March 28, 2012 Coda Plugin Issues
- March 8, 2012 Dropbox powered website builder
- August 9, 2011 Basic Authentication on Apache
- August 7, 2011 Setting up a VPN for my AWS Micro instance
- August 4, 2011 Memcached extension not loading into PHP
- August 2, 2011 VSFTPD setup for my AWS 11.04 Box
- August 2, 2011 AWS EC2 Micro Instance Setup
- August 1, 2011 Memcached/libmemcached for PHP
- August 1, 2011 Logging into my first AWS micro instance
- August 1, 2011 Generating a Custom Policy for AWS IAM
- July 29, 2011 PHP's register_shutdown_function function
- July 27, 2011 URL Patterns: Underrated and tough to get right
- July 27, 2011 Adding a language package (french) to Ubuntu Linux (10.10)
- July 27, 2011 jQuery('[attribute="value"]') vs. jQuery('*:checked')
- July 27, 2011 Securing/validating cookie data: Weird that I never thought about this
- July 10, 2011 MVC Framework Routing (static content vs. dynamic)
- July 7, 2011 "Comments starting with '#' are deprecated"
- June 4, 2011 Access Logs: Getting unique pages and frequency
- June 1, 2011 IE7 and IE8 image onload events
- May 30, 2011 __defineGetter__ & __defineSetter__ in IE9
- May 10, 2011 April 2011 Dev
- May 8, 2011 Getting openFrameworks to work on OSX (command-line based)
- May 3, 2011 Getting VIM to show the line numbers be default (in OSX and Ubuntu 10.10)
- May 3, 2011 c++ Hello World in Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
- April 18, 2011 RegExp for grabbing the background-image of an HTMLElement
- April 16, 2011 Personal-list of most useful web services
- April 16, 2011 You're not a robot, so why am I treating you like one?
- April 11, 2011 Multiple SSL Certificates on one server/IP
- April 10, 2011 March 2011 Dev
- April 9, 2011 Installing SSL on AWS EC2
- April 7, 2011 readystate firing for dynamically loaded scripts
- April 7, 2011 Instantiable classes versus static classes
- April 7, 2011 Connecting an Apple Wireless Keyboard to a new machine
- April 5, 2011 Web Development Flow: Ubuntu, Parallels, Coda and rsync
- April 5, 2011 Reddit's Karma/Community
- April 1, 2011 GitHub repo/project naming conventions
- April 1, 2011 Checking out a git/github repo/project
- March 30, 2011 Accessing Mongo collection from the command line
- March 29, 2011 Device and layout specific JS booting
- March 26, 2011 Type hinting in Javascript using TypeHinter
- March 26, 2011 Installing Git on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
- March 26, 2011 Javascript: Using object-references as keys in hashes
- March 25, 2011 PHP: Accessing constants in INI files
- March 24, 2011 Calculating dimensions of words/phrases programmatically (theory)
- March 23, 2011 "Google Places API Web Service" and an AdSense account
- March 23, 2011 Optimized Method for looping through a MySQL dataset in PHP
- March 22, 2011 -9223372036854775808, NodeJS, Mongo and math
- March 18, 2011 Native/primitive types in JS
- March 15, 2011 MongoDB in nodejs and the update/upsert command
- March 8, 2011 February 2011 Dev
- February 24, 2011 Upgrading to Node v0.4.1 on Ubuntu 10.10 VM
- February 9, 2011 Why I couldn't see my cookies (laptop/parallels/ubuntu related)
- February 8, 2011 January 2011 Dev
- January 19, 2011 Installing MongoDB on Ubuntu 10.10
- January 19, 2011 Installing node.js MongoDB Driver
- January 18, 2011 A better 'ls' for Mac OSX
- January 15, 2011 TinyGrab vs. CloudApp/Cloud
- January 2, 2011 QA Teams: Why I don't like working with them
- January 2, 2011 Installing Python 3.1.3 on Ubuntu 10.10
- January 2, 2011 Maximizing Windows in OSX
- January 2, 2011 Facebook REALLY loves caching static content (css)
- December 27, 2010 Setting up "Find My iPhone"
- December 12, 2010 new Image() in Chrome doesn't include referrer header
- December 9, 2010 Mass svn rename for files
- November 26, 2010 Making Encrypted Google my default search engine
- November 17, 2010 RegEx for extracting a <title> tag from a string
- November 16, 2010 Installing Tidy 2.0 PHP extension on Ubuntu 10.10
- November 14, 2010 RegEx's are so complicated...
- November 11, 2010 Securing my indexes on my Slicehost VPS
- November 10, 2010 Getting a Socket.IO example up and running..
- November 10, 2010 Installing npm (node package manager) on Ubuntu 10.10
- November 9, 2010 node.js: first impressions..
- November 2, 2010 Handling localization in french/english
- November 1, 2010 A year later.. what took so long..
- November 1, 2010 First blog post in a while.. on htpasswd..
- November 1, 2010 Changing hostname on Ubuntu 10.10
- November 12, 2009 jquery vs mootools: my initial thoughts
- November 1, 2009 grabbing an attribute in mootools: .[name] or .get or .retrieve or .getProperty?
- October 10, 2009 IE6 and input type changes: short answer, ie6 sucks, long answer:
- October 7, 2009 PHP: Abstract classes vs static classes; whats what?
- September 29, 2009 Weird discovery: firefox converts $_SERVER, SF doesn't?
- September 19, 2009 Flexibility: Server side vs Client side
- September 8, 2009 Jumping the gun: html5/css3 is not here yet!
- September 6, 2009 Web/application development is like a restaurant; especially the paying part
- September 4, 2009 php.ini error_log directive: finally fixed my code to make it work
- August 18, 2009 Client side framework's should be called client side libraries; here's why:
- August 13, 2009 Progressive enhancement
- August 9, 2009 PHP Reflection class: a gem I found
- August 7, 2009 Dynamic Variables Assignment?
- August 5, 2009 Performance Logging: a technique that works better with ajax
- August 3, 2009 Framework: S^3 (aka S cubed): I'm calling it Smart Setting Selection
- August 1, 2009 Mootools caveat: event.target is not extended by $
- August 1, 2009 Mootools caveat #2: noCache in new Request() is your friend
- July 31, 2009 Why I use Safari.
- July 31, 2009 Professional CodeIgniter: Review (part 1)
- July 30, 2009 Script/Asset abuse: this is getting ridiculous!
- July 29, 2009 "Getting Real" by 37 Signals: Review
- July 26, 2009 "User Interface Design Heuristics": amazing article!
- July 25, 2009 JSONP vs JSON: amazing for API's.
- July 22, 2009 What framework does php.net use? Answer: I don't know.
- July 22, 2009 php's foreach on a string? you can do that.
- July 22, 2009 Caching is easy; releasing them isn't.
- July 19, 2009 What to expect from olivernassar.com