A quick tip for those who just started learning HTML. It’s possible to add a line of code in your HTML page so that it’s automatically refreshed every few seconds when loaded in the user’s browser. To make the page automatically refresh itself every 60 seconds, just insert the following code in the <head></head> section …
Office 365 is a set of team collaboration / productivity web applications for professionals, businesses, government agencies and education institutions. It currently offers 3 different plans: For professionals and small businesses, $6 / user / month, basic features For midsize businesses and enterprises, $12 and more / user / month, advanced features For education And …
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Someone approached to sell me a grandfathered .EDU name. I never thought .EDU domain can be traded so I started to research a little bit. Ain’t they owned only by educational institutions of United States? Turns out .EDU names in existence as of October 29, 2001 were more freely registered and thus many non-educational entities …
DreamHost just gave me 5 promo invitations that could be used for new accounts only. Whoever uses one of the invitation codes to sign up with them would get $100 off for a two-year plan. Just use one of the 12-digit invitation code in the “Promo Code” field when signing up at DreamHost: 737871080684 599411300419 …
Given a directory, how to display the contents (directories and files under it) of it recursively and exhaustively? Here’s the code: $dir = ‘/path/to/directory’; // without trailing slash, can be absolute paths such as ‘/home/jim/public_html’ or relative paths such as ‘samples’ getDirContents($dir); function getDirContents($dir) { if (is_dir($dir)) { $dirs = explode(‘/’, $dir); $last_dir = $dirs[count($dirs) …
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I was trying to find a PHP function or class that can convert English words / nouns in plural form into their singular form so that wordcrow.com automatically detects and redirects plural lookup to the singular page. After a while searching on Google, I found this class. This great class (Inflector) was ported from Ruby …
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I’ve been a happy Amazon affiliate for over a year now and the monthly revenues have been steadily climbing up ever since I started promoting their products galore. The most recent month, Mar. 2011 has ended up making me over $400 in commissions or advertising fees. Attached on the right is the screenshot. Considering I …
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When people are replying to a thread, going advanced editing would require an extra click as well as page loading time — very inconvenient. However, at gotalk.org, users would generally want to post a lot of code because it’s a programming language forum in nature. But vBulletin doesn’t come with a CODE button in the quick …
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The quick reply box of vBulletin is by default about 100px or less in height which is bit small for large chunks of text editing such as code. To change the default height of the quick reply box without having to click the enlarge button manually every time, you’ll have to edit the template: Changing …
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By default, only the forum name / title is displayed in the <title></title> tag of the homepage of your vBulletin forum, which is far from ideal in terms of SEO. One should give a much more descriptive title to the home page of the forum other than the mere name of it. To do this: …
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I’m not an expert but I’ve had my own errors and trials along the way so here I am. These are all the tips I believe you should use when you are optimizing for MySQL database performance. Some stuff may be very handy, but they may not be good for performance. Design Normalize first, and …
phpMyAdmin doesn’t show the exact size in MB when the size of your database exceeds 1GB. It just shows something like 4.2GB, truncating everything out in the 100MB precision. So is it possible to get the database size in MB in exact numbers using MySQL query? Yes, it is: SELECT CONCAT(sum(ROUND(((DATA_LENGTH + INDEX_LENGTH – DATA_FREE) …
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Though it does look great, I haven’t given it a try until the other day when I was developing smartbabynames.com. Notice the previous and next link immediately below the boy image at here: http://www.smartbabynames.com/meaning/boy/Langleigh/ They look and feel great. So here’s what I’ve done to achieve the rounded corner box in pure CSS — no …
ASCII is the most fundamental character set that has been around since the early days of command line interfaces. There are 128 (0 – 127) most basic ASCII characters such as a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and all the printable punctuations you can type out by a single strike of your keyboard. As all ASCII characters have …
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You can login to Gmail.com at here: http://gmail.google.com/ I have been a user of Gmail for almost 6 years. I have some tips on using Gmail.com to share with you that may make your life easier. You can sign up and get an Gmail account at here: http://www.gmail.com. It’s completely free. Enable keyboard shortcuts When …
You can export any MySQL database or table into an XML file by the exporting capabilities of phpMyAdmin, the web interface of MySQL. The problem with this approach, however, is that with large tables, you may have to manually export the table more than once by sections into several sequential XML files. A better approach …
To delete all content in any directory, including all sub-directories and files, I’ve been using this: rm -rf somedir/* If it is to delete all content of the current directory: rm -rf * However, it turns out ‘rm -rf’ doesn’t remove hidden files such as .htaccess (Files with a name starting with a dot are …
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The ‘find’ command in Linux systems searches through a directory and return files that satisfy certain criteria. For instance, to find a file that contains the string ‘needle text’ in the ‘mydocs’ directory: find mydocs -type f -exec grep -l “needle text” {} \; The problem of this approach is that it would search through ALL files …
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One of my old Internet friends Brad made a very nice online slide that introduces to you some of the exciting new features of PHP 5.3. I’m most interested in namespace that would make coding in a large project and code reuse much easier, especially for people who find keeping naming conventions a challenge in …
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Was doing something with a regular expression and very oddly the connection keeps being reset every time I refresh the web page. I tried to narrow down the problematic line by removing the code in functional chunks. Finally it comes down to a preg_match() instance with a small bit in the regular expression that’s accidentally …
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