OK , so you are all excited about running a 10 minute process and you are happy that
you have set the processing as a background process, while the user can surf along your
website / CMS. If you are are using sessions, not quite smarty !
| Apr 07 |
HTTP sessions and background processes on Apache-PHP |
| Mar 01 |
The (hidden) power of ‘ping’PING
Ping is a Unix utility that sends ICMP ECHO to the server ( destination machine ) from the client ( originating machine ). It takes its name from a submarine sonar search - you send a short sound burst and listen for an echo - a ping - coming back. There is a myth that Ping is actually an acronym for the words ‘Packet INternet Groper’, but there is no proven evidence to support the statement.
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| Feb 02 |
What Rasmus Lerdorf is talking about AJAXAre you blindly following any ajax library to work your way. Take a look what Rasmus is talking about AJAX He follows the rule of simplicity as he described in his framework approach. |
| Jan 14 |
Best practices for faster Web PagesA few best practices for web page performance 1.Make Fewer HTTP Requests 2.Use a Content Delivery Network |
| Dec 22 |
Emacs for PHP1.download php-mode.el from http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-mode/ 2. copy php-mode.el to emacs/lisp/ 3.byte compile php-mode.el file to get php-mode.elc file command: M-x byte-compile-file 4.add following lines to you .emacs file (require ‘php-mode) (add-to-list ‘auto-mode-alist ‘(”\\.module$” . php-mode)) (add-to-list ‘auto-mode-alist ‘(”\\.inc$” . php-mode)) (add-to-list ‘auto-mode-alist ‘(”\\.install$” . php-mode)) (add-to-list ‘auto-mode-alist ‘(”\\.engine$” . php-mode)) done! emacs is ready to support php. try C-c C-f on built in php function |
| Dec 18 |
Multiple SQL Queries in a Stored Procedure.Working on a Thursday afternoon, I came across a problem where we had to return multiple counts (about 10 of them ) in an application. One way was to have multiple stored procedures and call them one by one, but this would mean I would have to make 10 connections to the database and 10 opens , 10 closes, phew !
So I decided to combine all of them into one:
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| Nov 20 |
Very Useful Linux/Unix CommandsWorking on a *nix system is no piece of cake. Especially when you are used to Graphic interface of ‘windows’. The world where mouse is the king. Here is a list of most used / most discussed / most important *nix commands. Mastering this will surely get your confidence level high in the black background and white characters’ world !! My experience says that for starters in UNiX / LiNuX , these commands are enough to get you in smoothly ! :) Read more » |
| Oct 28 |
AWK ! A boon for CLI enthusiastsAWK is a general purpose programming language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams, and was created at Bell Labs in the 1970s I noticed that Erik Wendelin wrote an article “awk is a beautiful tool.” In this article he said that it was best to introduce Awk with practical examples. I totally agree with Erik. Eric Pement’s Awk one-liner collection consists of five sections:
The first part of the article will explain the first two sections: “File spacing” and “Numbering and calculations.” The second part will explain “Text conversion and substitution”, and the last part “Selective printing/deleting of certain lines.” Read more » |
| Oct 23 |
Bad day: whack your bossToo much work ? Slow servers ? Boss going crazy ? Nothing working out ? Feel like killing someone ? ? |
| Oct 21 |
103 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomedinspired from: codesqueeze.com
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