How to control CSS 3.0 Animations with Javascript / Jquery
The situation – lets say you are using a CSS keyframe animation (I will give an example below) and you wish to make it faster and faster, or slower and slower. The problem: there...
Author: Eran Ben-Shahar
How Facebook spy after you even when you are not on Facebook
Mark Zukerberg was under the spotlight for the recent “spying” allegations and privacy breaches by Facebook apps. I was actually surprised that people didn’t know how far goes the online data collection, and how...
Scalable Web by Stateless Development
Scalability is the ability to grow your web service to many users, it requires a special attention especially since recently there is a popular misconception that “if you host in the cloud, your application...
How to prevent Authors from editing or deleting WordPress posts
A quick-win with WordPress – say you hired authors to posts articles on a blog, and have got a process like the following: The authors post their post under “draft” mode An editor is...
How to crawl to millions of Wikipedia pages
Wikipedia is a great resource for content – it has millions of content pages, and they are all free for you to use. Crawling to Wikipedia can be useful for SEO and for improving...
How to change folders of a WordPress blog
WordPress is highly popular and a very useful framework if you wanted to setup a website in literally 5 minutes. However there is a price for that – as WordPress has got some basic...
Build your own Social Share Widget
Do you want to add social share buttons to your website, but don’t want to use cloud services like AddThis? In this post I will show you how you could do it by yourself,...
Facebook Workplace Review
Facebook launched in October last year (2016) the corporate version of Facebook, a genuine and unique version of Facebook for organizations, named “Facebook Workplace“. I have been using Facebook Workplace while developing a prototype...
The Marble Palace in Saint Petersburg (must see)
The marble palace is a (relatively) small palace built palace was built in 1768 by Count Grigory Orlov, one of the most powerful Russian nobleman of the 1760s, during the ruling of Empress Catherine the...
How come Facebook succeeded where others failed?
Facebook has became a major part of the lives of 2,000,000,000 people, it is the most successful web platform and social media site ever. However, it was not the first one – others were...
Block chain is nice, but not going to “completely change the internet”
We are hearing a lot of noise recently around blockchain, the technology that Bitcoin is based on, and how it is going to completely change the face of today’s internet to “something completely new,...
First nail in the Dacha, last nail in your coffin
The Dachas – the country houses that many Russians own – are one of Russia’s strongest social and cultural phenomena. About half of the people I met in Russia own Dachas, and all of...
The 5 branches of the Russian Museum
The Russian museum of Saint Peteresburg is the second most important set of museums after the Hermitage, and a must see. It consists of 5 different large museums, each one is a master piece...
“Versailles is smoking in the corner” (Yekaterines I palace at Pushkin)
“Versailles is smoking in the corner” is an urban Russian saying to describe the beauty and magnitude of the Yekaterina’s palace: usually small people are smoking in the corner in order not to disturb...
Sherementev Palace Music Museum (must see)
The Sheremntev Palace is placed on the bank of the Fontana river street, just off Nevsky Prospect. It is very hard to miss this beautiful palace, which owned by Field-Marshal Boris Sheremetev – the...
Historical sand statues – Peter and Paul fortress beach
Look at those magnificent sand statues… Once a year, as part of the Saint Petersburg day celebrations, at Peter and Paul Fortress (on the bank of the Neva river, Saint Petersburg) a group of...
How to assess the potential of a .com idea/venture?
I have been looking at the evolution of the .com as a .com web veteran to set some high level thumb rules for assessing new ideas. When assesing new ventures, I would take that...
Old city of Zurich, thoughts about cultural differences and art
We stopped in Zurich on our way to Israel from Japan. Zurich is a small and beautiful town built around the outlet of the Limmat river falling to the Zurich lake. The lake is...
Osaka – a relaxed business center
Just 35km or 30min train drive from Kyoto (with Shinkanzen, the super express train, it takes 15min) and we are in Osaka, a city of 2.7 million people and metropolin of more than 20...
Funny English Translations in Japan and thoughts about English
“The Coke of food for specified health use” – that is probably the funniest translation mismatch I could find in Japan. But it is not the only one… how would you relate to the...
Kinkakuji Cho – the golden temple and Nishiki market (Kyoto)
The golden temple – kinkakuji Cho was originally a villa called Kitayama-dai (北山第), belonging to a powerful statesman, Saionji Kintsune. Kinkaku-ji’s history dates to 1397, when the villa was purchased from the Saionji family...
Nara city – tamed deers, huge Budha statues and good Japanease food
Initially I thought that visiting Nara would be a waste of time, and as the train approached the city it looked as an unpleasant industrial city, but once you get off the train you...
Kyoto day 2: Fushimi Inari Taisha mountain and Nijo-jo castle
Fushima Inari Taisha is a spectacular Buddhist track placed in the southern eastern part of Kyoto, just two stations (3km) away from the Kyoto train station, 5 min walk if you take off at...
Kyoto day 1: Kiyozimu temple and Gion suburb
We started our day by walking from Kyoto train station up north toward the Kyoto national museum, and reached the spectacular temple Rengeoin Sanjusangedo on the other side of the street. This historical place...
Kanazawa city and the castle gardens
From Takayama we continued 120km East to Kanazawa city, a city of about half a million people still it looks more developed and cleaner than Auckland. The journey combined a very slow train journey...
Takayama and Shirakawa Go – small mountain towns
Takayama is a small town (in Japanese standards) of about 100,000 people, placed inside the mountains about 300km east of Tokyo. You can get there by train from Nagoya or buy bus, the train...
Top sites to visit in Tokyo
Top places should not be missed when you are in Tokyo: 1. Imperial Palace East Gardens The imperial palace is closed for visitos but the East Gardens, bridges and historical towers are open to...
Small traffic related ideas to learn from the Japanese
As you may know I’m travelling in Japan at the moment and while travelling I have noticed some road related design differences between Japan and New Zealand. Some of the differences are big so...
Tokyo is not so expensive as people say
So we arrived to Tokyo and after 24 hours here and you already noticed that some things are different to what you have been told. The main surprise is that Tokyo is not so...
Tokyo is such an amazing city!
We landed in Tokyo after a long trip from Wellington and a series of events which made the planned 12 hours trip last for more than 2 days. The extreme weather conditions that hit...
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges II owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. The mirror troubled the depths of a corridor in a country...
The water tank challenge…?
So I wanted to install a storm water tank – to collect all the exgtra rain water that drains from our roof.
Growing our own veggies, in Wellington
Wellington is SO windy, that sometimes you hear people saying – “grow your own? nothing grows here!”. Well, lots can grow here, if you do it the right way.
The respondent: God
In May 2016, a guy named D.S. appealed to the Haifa court for a restraining order against… God. I know that it sounds hilarious but this is an hilarious case that shows – from...
Hashtags scraper apps
This small cool app – “HashLighter“, is a small Chrome browser extension that can scrape hashtags from any website. You can run it on “automatic pilot” mode or just let it collect hashtags as...
Digital properties for sale
Note#1: if you buy anything from the list, you will get a domain name from series A, free to your choice. Note#2: We won’t have time for time wasters – do your own research...
הגירה, עבודה ורילוקיישן לניו זילנד
קורס ביודמי על הגירה, עבודה, לימודים והחיים בניו זילנד קבוצת פייסבוק על הגירה לניו זילנד קורס על הגירה ומעבר לניו זילנד באתר של ליאור טסלה שלום! למה להגר לניו זילנד זה רעיון טוב? הגירה...