labs @ involutive

Involutive.com : new corporate website unveiled

paolo — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:27:44 +0000

Today we have released the new corporate website, redesigned and updated.
Visit involutive.com to consult our portfolio or to view our solutions.

A tour will be better of thousand words!

Dojo-0.9 gfx basics : shapes and surfaces - theory

paolo — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:20:06 +0000

Goal of the post :

introducing base dojo gfx objects : shapes and surfaces

Basic objects: shapes and surface
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Dojo-0.9 gfx basics : fill property - theory

paolo — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:43:38 +0000

Read more on dojo

Goal of this post:

fill property
- examples

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Dojo-0.9 gfx basics : color, stroke - theory

paolo — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:07:07 +0000

Read more on dojo
Goal of this post:

dojo.Color : how to create a color object
- examples
stroke property : how to create strokes
- examples

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Increase website traffic with Google language tools

paolo — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:41:27 +0000

Original article

The goal of this article is to show how to exploit Google imperfect translations to increase your website traffic.

Disclaimer : this is only a hack and you should not use this idea in your site because search engines may not like it :P … but hack is always a good thing ;)

Here you can find a sample PHP 5 Google translator API class useful ( read it if you plan to apply the idea described in this article ).

Google bot indexes relevant content of each page of your website, and so each word used in your texts could be a valid keyword to be found in search engine’s results. This simply means that producing more relevant content chances to be found grow.

Your site’s language is only your main language? What would happen if you translate your pages in more than one language? Simple, you’ll get more daily visitors!
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Labs @ Involutive offering free daily updated socks4 , socks5 , anonymous proxy lists

paolo — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:54:36 +0000

Hello to all,
at Involutive we have developed a fast PHP application to analyze and validate huge lists socks4 , socks5 and anonyous proxies . It is based on this PHP 5 class, released some days ago, based on libcurl binding for networking connections. Our intention is to release a PHP 5 class API that interfaces with our anonymous hosts lists helping you to easily anonymize your applications.

You can find lists here and use them for free!

Enjoy freedom!

PHP class for fast sitemap creation using GNU / Linux and Wget

paolo — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:01:42 +0000

Sitemaps are of primary importance in Search Engine Optimization ( SEO for friends :) )

PHP Wget Sitemap Generator class takes advantage of wget to get a local mirror of the target site and then generates the url list for the sitemap via local directory listing.
Wget is highly configurable so read the man page of best options to use (replace exec function argument).

The code:
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Google translator API ( PHP 5 class )

paolo — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:50:39 +0000

This PHP 5 class API is developed on the base of a tool that I wrote some years ago.
Simply works querying Google translation tools with the text and language pair choosen.
I find it useful because of Google haven’t released yet an API for its translation tools.
Here the code!
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Openlayers integration in an Ajax based game

paolo — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:51:26 +0000

This article is an extension of a more general one that you can find here .

As described by OpenLayers‘ develpers “OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers. OpenLayers implements a (still-developing) Javascript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference — OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community. OpenLayers supports implements most of the industry-standard methods for geographic data access, such as the OpenGIS Consortium’s Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) protocols.“.
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WarWide: a web2.0 online multiuser strategic browsergame

paolo — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:36:55 +0000

WarWide is a web2.0 online multiplayer browsergame that implements features and strategies which are similar to Risk, Civilization and Age of Empires.

WarWide is still in heavy development beta and it’s available only to italian users, but, very soon, an english version will come to the light.

Once registered a player becomes emperor of one of thousands cities of the real world and have to grow it up, recruit military units ( soldiers, granaders, tanks, jeeps, … ), create armies and with a map tool similar ( powered by OpenLayers ) he can move his troops towards enemy territories and conquer them winning battles.

Now let’s take an overview of tools used for WarWide development:
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