Yesterday Swati was reminiscing about how the event now called as foss.in began and what an amazing journey it has been for the past 10 years. Leafing thru the photos we realized that the journey has been more so for Aasim who began it as a 3 year old in ITcom 2000 and has been [...]
[How To] Post data using PHP streams Recently, I needed to work on a project that needed to post information to another site without the user actually leaving the site and I needed to do this more than thrice and to different urls ! And I did it! Any guesses how ? What ? Ajax [...]
Now that I am back from another wildlife photo tour in Botswana, Africa. It became imperative that I finish posting the pictures and experiences from the previous ones. Tweet
[HowTo] Backup and Restore MySql Databases Do you have a backup of your important mysql databases ? No ? Think about it .. What if you have a Operating System / Filesystem crash ? What if your databases get corrupted due to some reason ? What if you accidentally drop your database or some important [...]
[Getting Started] Functional tests using Selenium Remote Control (RC) If you don’t like testing your application, most likely your users won’t like to test it either. If you have read my last post on Selenium IDE or have used Selenium IDE before read on, we are moving into the next level, if you have not [...]
Yesterday I installed WP Word Count plugin and was surprised at the results Wow! Have I really written so much, and most of it non consequential? Doing some rough maths, one printed novel page has about 250 words which makes the count to 800 pages…. Now only if they were worth something Tweet
There is a place on Earth where there is still morning of life and the great herds run free – Serengeti plains of East Africa. This is long over due post but after writing the above quote a couple of months ago it was just lying in the draft…. No particular reason, just as there [...]
I miss the days when people had journals and not blogs, but as I have written before Facebook and Twitter have killed that. Writing a post about birthdays use to be an event in itself. I for one would wait for friends to write their birthday post to wish them and read about what they [...]
We were on our regular morning walk when I noticed a very huge fat earthworm across a road but the moment it moved I realized that it was not a worm but a blind snake. However this was the biggest blind snake I had seen to date!! Thankfully I had a camera with me and [...]
[CakePHP] How to re-size images at run-time This is a helper + controller combo for CakePHP which I often use. It helps to re-size images at run-time and also aid display them. Oh yes! once the image is resized it also caches them. First let’s look at helper method. PLAIN TEXT PHP: class MyHelper extends [...]
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