GIT Ignores and Symfony
How a Symfony plugin generates Git or CVS ignore files for autogenerated models, forms, filters, and other project directories, with optional commit staging.
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Use Greasemonkey to extract your Facebook Phonebook
A Greasemonkey userscript walkthrough for exporting Facebook friends’ names and phone numbers as CSV when the API cannot provide that data.
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A Gmail timestamp bug displayed an email as sent in the future, showing how invalid timestamps can surface in user-facing date formatting.
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How to build a client-side RSS aggregator with Yahoo Pipes, JSONP, and jQuery when server-side scripting and cross-domain requests are unavailable.
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A beginner Android project covering SDK setup, GPS location updates, Flickr geotagged photo retrieval, permissions, background downloads, and Gallery display.
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