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Decoding Art Clokey Google Doodle

Google Doodle always amazes each one of us which their extra ordinary creativeness. Be it the Guitar Le Paul's birthday or today's Google doodle on Art Clokey's birthday. When I opened twitter this morning found that lot many people are discussing about the Google Doodle being made in flash. Howev

Show loading icon in JQuery Ajax request

JQuery is the most used Javascript framework. It's exceptionally simpler and famous. The best part of JQuery is that it has very nicely done documentation and lot many resources available online. Lately, while doing one of my codeigniter I used JQuery and wanted to share a little snippet of code

mysql.sock path in Mac OS X

In my last post I discuss how to enable PHP over Apache in Mac OS X lion and today I bumped into a new problem. The problem is that when you install MySQL on Mac OS X and try to connect it via PHP, you will get an error. This error is thrown due to the fact that the path of the MySQL sockets are dif

How to inspect css hover , active property using firebug

I am sure that while Design and Development of a website you definitely want to see the :hover property of an element using your favorite addon in FireFox called Firebug. But I have found that many newbie developers do not know how to see this property. Default settings of firebug shows only the "De

Zen Coding – a new way of writing HTML and CSS code

Good news for all the web designers and developers, if you already not aware of Zen Coding. It’s a new and awesome way to write your HTML, XML, XSL. The concept of Zen Coding is based on a powerful abbreviation engine. It allows you to expand code which you originally write as abbreviations. You h

Add PHP GD support to apache in Ubuntu Linux

PHP GD library is used to created images on the fly. This library is not installed or activated by default when you first install Apache on Linux. But GD library is used widely while developing websites. For eg. if you want to create a captcha image for a registration form, then you are going to use

Creating dynamic menu with re-order option in wordpress

WordPress is a powerful CMS for a website and it provides features which makes it easy to use CMS. Navigation or Menu is one of the key point of the website. People tend to change Menu names, links, reorder them ever now & then. In a normal website it is a tedious job to change menu every time y

How to reset lost MySQL password

There are times when you get stuck with a lost password of MySQL database. And yes it becomes difficult to recall one with the computerized brains of ours :) In this post, I am going to show you how you can rest a lost MySQL password. Using this procedure you can reset the lost password of root o

Now play AngryBirds in desktop browser chrome

AngryBirds is undoubtedly a famous game. It’s one of the lightweight games being played by most of the smartphone owners. I have been an Angrybird addict for a long time now. I was more than happy when I found that it is available to play on Desktop as well. And the good news is that you do not ha

Update your Facebook status using PHP and Graph API

In this article I am going to show you how you can update your Facebook status using simple PHP code and Facebook Graph API. This is the most naïve way to use this, you can extend this to make your own script to update your status from mobile, via cron job, via email or whatever you think makes sen

MySQL: Increment an existing record in the table

This is a small tip which can help you optimize your MySQL query. Since you do not have to first “read” the record, instead you can increment it right there. I have seen some newbies doing the read and then increment process, which uselessly increases a select query to the database, each time yo

Building Mobile websites – Presentation

Having a mobile website for your business adds value to your business and increases the reachability. This presentation explains why one should have a mobile website and what is the advantage of that. I have discuss several tips on how a Mobile website can help your business. Also discussed the t

MySQL Optimization from a developer’s point of view

Undoubtedly a Web Application’s backbone is a database. Apparently, the Web Application’s performance is dependent on the database’s overall performance. However, some developers blame Database Administrators for non-performing of the web application to the end user. In fact, the role of de

Presentation on HTML5, Web Storage and Web workers

I had given this introductory presentation almost 1 year back on HTML5, Web Storage and Web Workers. I thought it would be great if I can share it on my blog. I would love to talk about these topics again, if you have any questions, just leave a comment. Html 5 a step towards semantic

Check if PHP is running in safe mode or no

Lately, I have been playing around with PHP configuration. And I realized that the runtime configurations do not change using ini_set function, if you are running PHP in the safe mode. A simple check in PHP can tell you this. Notice the code block below and which allows to check this.

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