Basically, a wireless router is an access point (AP) with router capability. Sometimes for some reasons you may not need another router to broadcast a network wirelessly. You need an AP and not a wireless router for broadcasting a local area network wirelessly.

Why?

A wireless router has different network ID between it's WAN and LAN connector. That's what routers are for, connecting (routing) two or more different network IDs (in this case: LAN network and WAN network).

What is a captive portal?

There are many definitions out there which are explaining about captive portal like in TechTarget SearchMobileComputing, Answers.com, and Wikipedia. Still haven't got it? Well, have you found yourself connected in a public hotspot such as at the public venues, airport lounges, or hotel plaza? it's so common if we're going to browse to any pages using our favorite web browser we're forced to see a page to accept the Terms of Service (ToS) of the hotspot provider or submits username and password in order to be able to continue browse the web. Those kind of web pages are so called captive portal.

From my previous post about fetching Tweets from Twitter by using PHP we're able to search tweet posts with Twitter API help in RSS format (XML). The specification of RSS itself described here. In order to be able to get information needed from the feed, we need to parse it into other form of data which is easy to process with PHP. In this post I will explain how to parse every items on the feed into array.

If you have your own blog which is PHP powered, you can show your tweets on twitter by using PHP easily. According to GET Search Twitter API documentation and Using Search documentation, we can do any search for tweets related to any keyword provided. The resource URL for searching is:

http://search.twitter.com/search.format

where format is the format we would like to get. It could be rss, atom, or even json. The Twitter search API is very powerful, even you can get any tweets which is posted by someone near you.

Hey! It's a good news, my previously proposed Panada Framework logo had accepted by the author, Iskandar Soesman with a little revision on the logo's text. But now, it's already complete.

Maybe next I will try to propose the Panada chiclet to help others spread the framework whenever they are using Panada Framework.

C# has a DateTime structure to hold date and time value in a single variable. The following script will gives you first and last date of given months in two lines of C# code. Assuming that the first and last dates we're looking for is for current month (now), the code would be like this:

DateTime FirstDate = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month, 1);
DateTime LastDate = FirstDate.AddMonths(1).AddDays(-1);

If you code an C# .NET application using axAcroPDFLib to generate a PDF document, shows it to the user, and found error message on your application at application closing like this (instruction and memory address may vary):

The instruction at "0x0700609c" referenced memory at "0x00000014". The memory could not be read

It was caused by Adobe Reader 9.x axAcroPDFLib bug. The axAcroPDF control doesn't disposed properly during form closing event.

Google has a weather API which is very fast. It is able to show weather forecast of current condition and the following three days on many cities over the world. It is also able to show weather forecast based on longitude and latitude coordinate parameters. The returned forecast is in XML format. The API itself is undocumented by Google and may changed without notice. From many sources on the web, here's the URL of the Google weather API:

http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=[cityname]