A Story of Lycos Customer Support
Recently my 14 years old “hotmail” account was blocked as someone managed to access it to send lots of spam email. MSN blocked my account and asked me to send a code that has been sent to my email account which was at lycos mail. I was surprised to see that my lycos email was [...]
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Executing a SQL without calling a Model in Yii framework
Recently I have started working on Yii framwork. This framework has really inspired me because of the architecture of its model and above all “Gii”, the model generator. It’s now quite easy to call your DB queries via models in Yii without even writing long SQL. But still there is a room to implement your [...]
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How to run SQL Yog in Ubuntu
SQLYog is the best MySQL GUI client for Windows ( to me ). Since I started work on Ubuntu, I was badly missing the tool. Thanks to Andrew Ault for his nice blog. Andrew Ault has written a blog which actually guide you through the process of running SQL Yog in Ubuntu. Have a look.
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Understanding JSON Data
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is the modern way of data exchange. You can find more on JSON here. It is easy to manually create the JSON data. JSON data based on key/value pairs. These pairs can be in the form of object and array too. JSON data enclosed within curly brackets “{ }” and array [...]
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A little tutorial on MySQL UNION and GROUP BY
Recently I have experienced a situation while working on a PHP project with MySQL, where I had to combine 2 SQL result set while grouping with common key for the entire combines result. I found a thread on mysql forums ( http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/182163 ) that solved this problem. Let’s make a messaging example: Table: Messages ============== MsgID [...]
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How to set a vanity URL for your newly created (with 0 likes) facebook page ?
Facebook page is a great modern social platform for the business and public figure profiles. These days it is a must for every business/web site/app to create their facebook pages to market any sort of thing. As we know, facebook offers its users to create a vanity URL for the personal profiles and the facebook [...]
A simple wordpress plugin to extract images from video
Sometimes we would rather want to add only the thumbnails images from a video ( say a youtube video ) in our post. I have written a simple plugin that does the same. This plugin works for youtube.com only this time. From time to time I will be adding more video sites, or you can [...]
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Sencha ExtJS Framework
Recently, I’ve been working on ExtJS framework which is made by Sencha. This framework is actually javascript framework built for developing rich user interfce web applications. While developing a complex dynamic web applications or web sites, we often needs dynamic UI components such as grids, tree structures, tabs and other things which are quite difficult [...]
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Gadani Beach , Karachi , Pakistan
Couple of weeks ago, I went to the Balochistan coastal area which is very near to Karachi. This beach is called “Gadani”. It’s around 100 KM from Karachi in West. Gadani is popular for it’s marble rocks on the beach. Sea waves strikes on the rocks and creates and amazing sound and environment. I had [...]
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How to sync your Google+ (Google Plus) status with Facebook ?
[ Update: Due to the email template of Google+, only limited number of characters go to facebook status, would be fine for shorter ones , bear with us till any developer comeup with any idea ... ] How to sync G+ status with FB ( Facebook ) ? So are you on Google+ yet ? [...]
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