How to create and embed youtube playlist
YouTube has pretty nice playlist feature with lots of powerful options. You can add multiple videos to a list and play them together on YouTube read more
Selenium webdriver test automation – quick start guide using python on Mac
Selenium is an excellent tool which automates browsers. One of the commonly approach is to use Selenium webdriver which has API in many languages like Python, Java, etc. This read more
How to create Linux instance on Amazon AWS/EC2
One has to make couple of choices while installing Linux on AWS/EC2. These can be which flavor of Linux to install, which version to choose, read more
How to use phantomjs to create site/url snapshot thumbnail
PhantomJS in a scriptable webkit written by Ariya Hidayat. Chrome and Safari are based on webkit. This is the formal definition as per the official site: PhantomJS is read more
How to hide a post from home and RSS feed in wordpress
Sometime we want to hide a post from wordpress home page. One not-so-good alternative is to create it as a page. One drawback of that read more
VI mini cheat sheet – handy commands reference
I use vi quite frequently (Ubuntu/Centos Linux and Mac) for many of my editing needs in addition of couple of other editors (eclipse, intellij, etc). read more
How to capture php code or file include output in a variable
Sometimes we want to reuse a php function or include a file and want to capture the output (from echo, print, etc.) of that function/file read more
WordPress SEO – beginner guide
Most of the SEO (Search engine optimization) can be done with very little effort. Ideally speaking there should not be too much effort in SEO read more
Mac brew (homebrew) – beginner survival guide
Many command line tools (e.g. wget, pstree) don’t come pre-installed on Mac. Homebrew is one of the easiest ways to install and manage these missing read more
How to use CasperJS to automate website testing
CasperJS is a navigation scripting & testing utility for PhantomJS, written in Javascript. Its a pretty handy utility to automate functional testing of a website. I’ll read more