Archive for September, 2005
WAMP -> LAMP
I have been quiet in my blog in the past week as I have been seriously involved in putting up a Web Server at office. I easily got the approval when I wanted to put up LAMP (Linux – Apache – MySQL – PHP) on that. It has been a good experience as it was [...]
Beyond port 80
I should say that I have broken the port 80 barrier lately as I wrote a basic socket server using PHP. Its the first time ever I have written something else like this coz till now I have been more keen on developing Web Applications and was stuck on port 80 and Apache Web Server. [...]
Opera is now FREE
The Opera Browser has become free as the ad banner and licensing fee has been removed. Earlier it was free to download with an ad banner and users had to pay a licensing fee to get rid of the ad. This prevented most users from using Opera. This step taken by Opera will make users [...]
MySQL GUI tools
I have been playing around with the MySQL GUI tools lately specially with the MySQL Query Browser and its really easy to play around with SQL queries. I did use PHPMyAdmin effectively though I simply like the Query Browser. MySQL Migration Toolkit and MySQL Administrator are the other two GUI tools available. If you haven't [...]
Older ears on younger bodies
Portable Music players are everywhere now. Most of the people have an ear bud attached to their ears either as MP3players or Mobile phones which have become a part of their day to day lives. Its excessive use can lead to hearing loss. Following is an imporatnt news to read on whether Headphones are linked [...]
Google Sitemaps
Google Sitemaps helps Webmasters to index their pages in the Google Search engine. The web crawling process is not really an updated process where the crawlers or AKA 'spiders' visit the sites and follow the links to gather information about the updated contents on a site. Using Google Sitemaps the Webmasters have more control where [...]
England regain Ashes
England have regained the Ashes after 16 years by winning the series 2-1. England required a draw of the last Test at the Oval to make sure that they win the series.
England scored 373 in their first innings where Andrew Strauss scored 129 and Flintoff scored 72. Warne ripped through the top order of the [...]
How small can it get?
The new pencil-thin Apple – iPod nano with the storages between 2GB-4GB has been the talk amongst the guys here lately. Its simply amazing..
Rasmus @ FOSSSL 05
Here are the links to Rasmus's presentation @ FOSSSL 05
PHP 5 Tutorial – Rasmus Lerdorf (7th of Sep 2005)
"PHP – Scripting the Web" – Rasmus Lerdorf (9th of Sep 2005 – At the Conference)
Last day of FOSSSL 05
It came to the last day of the FOSSSL 05 where David Axmark did a tutorial on 'MySQL 5.0' and Greg Stein did a tutorial on 'Programming Google'. Both session helped me in a great deal. David introduced all those new features in MySQL 5.0 and gave a good overview of MySQL Cluster.
Greg who [...]
