Jake (fastdivision.com) was kind enough to offer me a coupon code so that my readers can enjoy the Avalanche Magento theme at 15% discount. In case you haven’t read my review of the Avalanche theme, it is the current sensation going on in the Magento-sphere. In the shortest words, I think it’s the best Magento …
Just found out some dirt cheap GoDaddy coupon code for new .com registrations: INDY500 – $0.99 for 1st year FLOWERS – $1.49 for 1st year leap149 – $1.49 for 1st year Which enables you to get any new .com name for just $0.99 – $1.49 for the first year. Not sure if you can claim …
There are raw strings that contain extraly unwanted whitespaces (tabs, spaces, new lines) that you want to get rid of so as to form a normalized string that has only a single spaces between words and sentences. For instance, you may want to transform this string: Morning is here, sunshine is here. Morning is here. …
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People close to me would know that I play piano for fun – not an advanced player but the best I can do is Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (only the 1st movement, -_-). I think everyone could learn one or two musical instruments and amuse themselves. Music is such a great endowment to us. It dispels the …
It is common to import CSV files into MySQL database. You can do this with phpMyAdmin with small CSV files but with large ones, you would probably encounter the memory error and had to switch to MySQL command line “LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE” to do the job. It looks like something like this: LOAD DATA …
MySQL: LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE only imports 1 or 2 rows? Read More »
Let’s be honest here. One of the most dreaded dreams for any working professionals perhaps is generating timely and professional invoices. Important as they are for ensuring timely payments, it is a pain to sacrifice time and make an effort to track down all the details. If you are having a tough time preparing invoices …
Invoicera Review — Online Invoice Software & Client Billing Software Read More »
The title pretty much says it all. It’s 2 of the most useful AdSense ads tips for bloggers in my opinion. Obtrusive ads have the unnecessary effect of driving away readers after they have found what they needed. Unless you have amazingly great content, the chance of them becoming a loyal reader is rather low …
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Sometimes you would want to check if a string is an acronym or an abbreviation by testing if it only contains capitalized letters from A to Z and nothing else. There are 2 ways to accomplish this simple task in PHP. ctype_upper() Use the native ctype_upper() function and you will know if the provided string …
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Do you know you can actually change the CSS styles of the entire editing area / editor where you create the post content in WordPress? It doesn’t have to be the default styles and since version 3.0, people can freely style the TinyMCE rich text editor shipped with WordPress however they want to by a few …
Lots of people ask this question and most of them probably made the matter complicated by editing the DNS Zone from WHM in the DNS Functions. But they actually should just do it in cPanel which is A LOT easier. Just log in your cPanel which manages the domain that you want to add support …
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This post is dedicated to one of my friends, Coolie (not his real name but he preferred to be called that way among friends), a father and self-entrepreneur who created the outstanding Delphi VCL component for FFmpeg that makes it extremely easy to develop audio and video applications for Windows. For those who are not …
FFVCL – FFmpeg Delphi VCL for Video / Audio Apps Development Read More »
I’ve been with Aweber for nearly 2 years and they are good. But I eventually decided that newsletter is not my type of thing — there are people who are making big bucks by building and maintaining a high profile email list, but I’m just not one of them. So I left Aweber and switched …
Aweber, Mailchimp Alternative – Free Email Autoresponder Subscription Read More »
Recently uCertify approached me and asked me to do blogging on about Zend PHP-5 exam PrepKit. Since this is an interesting topic to me and as I would get a free simulator, I agreed. uCertify produces the preparation kits for many different IT Certifications including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, CompTIA, Adobe, etc. The uCertify PrepEngine looks …
Avalanche 15% Off Promo: Click here to get 15% discount off, then enter code KAVOIR in the box to claim the 15% discount off the Avalanche theme. After digging into Magento for a few months and trying to start my own tangible business (I only deal with digital goods as of now), I failed in …
While you can somewhat rely on the name extension of a file to determine the mime type, it may not always be accurate. For example, .jpg and .jpeg files are very probably image/jpeg files and .png files are very probably image/png files, but there’s always an exception because file extensions can be faked. To accurately …
Other than making your 404 error page user friendly, you can redirect it to your index pages such as the homepage, sitemap, or search page, to make it useful for the users. Instead of relying on them to correct the error themselves, you offer the new orientation. How to redirect a 404 error page to …
It’s not unusual to respond to the user actions by dynamically modifying some content of the page. For example, you can employ JavaScript to change and load another image based on the <select></select> option the user has just selected. This is the snippet you need: <select onChange=”getElementById(‘front_image’).src=’/images/’+this.value+’.jpg’;”> <option value=”1″>1</option> <option value=”2″>2</option> <option value=”3″>3</option> </select> <img …
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My friend Xiaobo has been developing for WordPress for the last 4 years — a truly master he is about the themes, plugins, and any customizations you may need about WordPress. He has helped hundreds of professional bloggers. If you ever run into any problems or are simply in need of a developer like him …
You can save re-usable data in database such as MySQL so you can load them among different scripts / script sessions, though it may be a bit overwhelming for simple tasks because you have to set up a whole database and the connection credentials, etc.. File system is probably a better approach with regards to …
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I deal with quite some code examples across some of my blogs and sometimes they contain too long lines to fit in nicely, which makes it hard to read the latter part of a long line. But you still need to maintain the pre-formatted text with the <pre> tag. The solution is to use CSS …
