Archive for August, 2005
More updates
Lately I have been doing some changes on my blog here and there when I get some time off. U might have spotted the layout change . Couple of my friends who are top rated as Graphic Designers were keen on desiging and giving me a cool layout though I designed one to keep it [...]
As close as it can get
The thrilling Ashes drama continued as the 4th Test match too went down to the wire as England go one up (2-1) in the series beating Australia by 3 wickets at Trent Bridge. England requiring 129 for victory were threatned by the Spin and Pace combination of Warne and Lee. They came really close to [...]
More TALK???
Google joins the IM club with the release of Google Talk which is still on BETA stage. More IMs means more Talk
Run feast
The Kiwis came closer to rewrite the record books when they scored a massive 397 for 5 in just 44 overs against Zimbabwe, the second highest total in a One-day International.
398, the highest score ever was scored by Sri Lanka against Kenya during the 1996 World Cup. But it would have been easily broken [...]
Google Earth
Today I downloaded and installed Google Earth and I should say I was stunned with this app. I'm sure massive amount of work has been put it to develop such a thing. Simply we can type an address and zoom in to that location + the satellite images can be rotated and tilted for 3D [...]
FOSSSL 05
Some of the big names in the LAMP stack will be in Sri Lanka from 7th to 10th of September 2005 for a two day conference and few tutorial sessions. Its quite amazing to see the whole bunch of creators and drivers of the LAMP are hitting Sri Lanka. Specially Rasmus Lerdorf and David Axmark.
If [...]
PHP 6.0
There are few interesting talk going about PHP 6.0. The major change in this release will be the Unicode support.
In the email that Rasmus sent to the PHP internals he has outlined few things about spring cleaning and getting rid of some features in PHP.
Among that removing register_globals completely and removing magic_quotes_* is [...]
Down to the wire
The 3rd Test Match of the Ashes series went down to the wire and is one of the thrilling Test Matches in the recent past. It had everything in it. England dominated most of it though Aussies fought well to save this Test Match.
Day one was dominated by England and they scored 444 in their [...]
Form Generator Class
I wrote a basic class in PHP that will handle all the form processes.
This class can
1) Generate all types of elements of a form and assign default values to it. Almost all attributes of the elements can be set. (Hope I haven't missed any)
2) Validation function can be assigned to an element. Additional parameters can [...]
Warny hits 600
The Aussie Spin King Shane Warne became the first man in the history to get 600 wickets in Test Cricket when he dismissed Marcus Trescothick in the 3rd Test of the Ashes Series against England at Old Trafford. He achieved this target in his 126th Test.
Shane after getting his 600th wicket
