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TeacherFinder got a facelift

By on August 5, 2013 in Geeky, Personal, Projects

Recently, I was working on facelifting TeacherFinder (TF). Tonight, I uploaded the new version which includes a better look & feel, together with some updated features for the search engine.

TeacherFinder

The majority of the changes were focused on optimizing the respond time for the requested queries. The searches are now performed a little bit faster, making searching on TF much easier. Finally, the visibility for classified ads was further improved and a number of statistics with regards to the TF visitors became available.

TeacherFinder

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QAWeb – Using Django via SSH for QA Stats

By on August 19, 2012 in Geeky, Personal, Projects

Today, I finished the basic version of a web tool on which i was working the past few months, named QAWeb. This tool is meant to simplify the presentation of QA statistics. I prepared a demo of the tool, I included a detailed howto and I released the source code under the MIT license for anyone that wants to try it. It was based on an older version of django framework by now (1.4) and it used a number of other open source django modules/apps, so it will need some tuning to get it up and running. However there is adequate documentation and detailed steps included for accomplishing that, as long as you are familiar with the basics of django. Source code and documentation, below:

“QAWeb – “Using Django via SSH for QA Statistics”
portal.tar.gz

QAWeb Statistics

QAWeb Search

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Volvo Race 2012 – Fireworks, View from Salthill

By on July 5, 2012 in Personal

Volvo Race 2012 - Fireworks

Volvo Race 2012 - Fireworks

Volvo Race 2012 - Fireworks

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Customizing Firefox UI

By on May 26, 2012 in Geeky, Personal

There are more than one ways to hide User Interface (UI) components from Firefox. The most straight forward is via the userChrome.css file that firefox respects, by default. It is sufficient under the firefox profile directory to create a directory named “chrome” (if it’s not already there) and then write your own userChrome.css file. This file will allow firefox to apply all the modifications you specified and therefore, change the interface according to your needs.

An example file here: userChrome.css (Sample File)

Drawbacks: The userChrome.css file could contain ids, class names, labels, etc…. Inconsistency on these item names between different firefox versions will result to non-fully-functional customizations.

Advantage: You do not have to install any separate firefox add-on (e.g. MenuEditor).

Tools: Build your userChrome.css with DOM Inspector.

Opening the following line with DOM Inspector:

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

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TeacherFinder – Text Link Ads and Ad Preview

By on April 1, 2012 in Personal, Projects

TeacherFinder updated its services and it now offers the ability to submit Text Link Ads. Moreover a new feature was added for Ad Preview, aiming to help the process of Ad submission.

Text Link Ads appear at the footer of all TeacherFinder pages.

TeacherFinder

Text Link Ads appear below all Tutor Ads..

TeacherFinder

Text Link Ads open in an impressive embedded way.

TeacherFinder

Ad Preview will help the users to submit error free Ads.

TeacherFinder

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