Email Validation in PHP

Many times, we need to validate an email, the end user enters in our web data forms. If you business operations depend heavily on email (atleast as mine does), verifying & validating the customer data becomes a nightmare if you don’t validate the email input properly. Continue reading Email Validation in PHP

Implementing Output Caching in PHP – Solve Perfomance Issues

Cache by definition is transparent storage where results can be stored, so that the future requests can be served faster. With the amount of data handled ever growing, and the necessity for caching has become unavoidable in any decent size web application. In this series, I’d try to bring out various alternatives available in PHP for efficient caching.
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Twitter new UI – What is there..

Finally It’s arrived, the new UI for twitter. It’s more than 2 years looking into the same UI with no life other than the ever moving tweets on the screen. On Tuesday, the CEO unveiled the new user interface. Twitter claims the new UI to be more advanced and improved in terms of usability. It also believes, this move would bring in lot of traffic / visitors to twitter.com. Continue reading Twitter new UI – What is there..

Offline Blog Editor for Ubuntu

I’s just struggling to get a good replacement for Word 2007 as my offline blog editor in Ubuntu. I googled and found several alternatives. Finally, I settled down with the Bleezer. I just thought let me write about the same here as the first post from Bleezer. Continue reading Offline Blog Editor for Ubuntu

It is my IP.com….!

Again it’s been a long time…! Somehow I couldn’t manage to squeeze time to write… This weekend just surfing the net, I landed up in domain.com my favorite domain registrar. As usual I searched for all funny names. It’s been my practice or I’d say a way of killing time. Finally I searched for ‘itismyip’ I got it…! it again made me poorer by another 10 USD. I just wrote a small script to give the IP of the visitor to this site… Continue reading It is my IP.com….!

Making my YouTube Downloader cooler…!

    Yesterday, I posted how to download videos from YouTube using the VB script. Even I downloaded some videos by putting the video links to a text file and calling the script with ‘F’ switch. But I’m a lazy guy to prepare the text file with URLs now. I thought I’ll leave this task to the script itself. I added some code to make the script bit more intelligent. It takes the keywords from you, searches the YouTube for the related videos and downloads them. Sounds cool… J

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Download YouTube Videos easily…

    YouTube, what I need to say more on this website? Anyhow for those who are unaware of it (if any!), this website provides streaming videos to the visitors. Anyone can upload and share their videos. Many number of times when watching a video, we love it to have offline as well. We search for the ‘download video’ link in the page. Oops, you won’t find it. YouTube supports only streaming of videos.

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Creating an Enterprise Mashup…!

    I’s bit held up with other tasks, so was a bit long break in my writing. Now I’ll continue on what I showed in my previous post. Today we’ll see how a Mashup can be used to give powerful reporting feature. I’ll discuss about the charting of data from an enterprise source. Let’s say we’ve a data something like the following table Continue reading Creating an Enterprise Mashup…!

Creating a simple Mashup..!

    As said in my previous post, Mashups are very powerful user-interface when handled with little common sense and creativity. In this post I’ll try to give an overview of how an Mashup (pretty simple Mashup… J ) can be created. Though this is going to be simple, the logic behind this is same for all Mashups..!

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What is a Mashup..?

    Heard this buzz word, If yes, you can rate yourself ‘up-to-date geek’. If not, read on, still in the end of this post you can rate yourself so. Even this post is late by quite some time months since this word came into prominence. Before talking about Mashup, I’d take an analogy to explain.

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