Early in 2022, I started getting emails from Google, warning that starting from 2023 they would retire Universal Analytics (UA), which is what everybody uses to track views from Google…
Category: Programming
FEniCS differences between Function, TrialFunction and TestFunction
The FEniCS project allows for simple solution of partial differential equations. However, getting started from examples is so quick, it is easy to miss how the inner-workings of it behave.…
Brute force a crackme file password with Python
I was to reverse a file for a challenge, MD5 hash 85c9feed0cb0f240a62b1e50d1ab0419. The challenge was called mio cuggino, purposefully misspelled with two g letters. It asks for three numbers. The…
Does C++ delete operator really free memory?
Well, I have been wondering about this for quite a while now, and I have tried to run some tests to better understand what’s going on under the hood. The…
WordPress function url_to_postid not working with Anspress
With the Anspress theme/plugin, using the WordPress native function url_to_postid() on a question permalink returns the page ID of the base page. For example, url_to_postid( “www.website.com/questions/question/this-is-the-question”); would return the page…
A method for calculating pattern relevance in a text
This article aims at presenting a method for computing the relevance of a given string (pattern) in a text. This algorithm is at the core of my WordPress plugin Smart…
Tutorial: Use PayPal Adaptive Payments API (with Embedded Lightbox)
There are two things I am currently working on: School Integrating my Post Pay Counter WordPress plugin with PayPal, so that site administrators can pay their writers directly from their…
When you start a new project, think big!
As you may know, I am the happy developer of a WordPress plugin called Post Pay Counter. I dare say that that has been my first serious coding project, well…
