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Here’s some good news for Amazon’s EC2 users:EC2 now supports Static IP addresses using Amazon’s Elastic IP Addresses feature. Each account can allocate up to 5 Elastic IP addresses to be used (you can contact Amazon to get more). These IP’s can be allocated to one instance which will replace the dynamic IP for that [...]
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Stumbled across this interesting article at Leo Büttiker’s blog which tells why pagination on a web app is a database killer: On the view of your database the worst thing you can do in your web app is paging. Paging is horrible in the view of performance. To explain let me take a little example: [...]
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Adobe has just announced the beta version of Photoshop Express, which is an online service which allows users to perform basic editing and apply effects on your uploaded images. They also provide 2GB of image hosting. Photoshop Express was created with Flex, Adobe’s free, open source framework for building RIAs. Flex applications provide a consistent, [...]
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Firefox 3 seems to have stabilized, and is ready for the masses to test it out. The final version should be out by June according to this news report from Reuters: “The program’s creators told Reuters on Thursday that the privately-held company’s trial version of Firefox 3 browser is ready for the masses to use [...]
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Did you know what the function register_shutdown_function does in PHP? The manual defines this function as : Registers the function named by function to be executed when script processing is complete. This function runs at the end of any script execution – it also runs if your script exits prematurely due to some errors. This [...]
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Just found this “Billie the Vision & The Dancers” over at last.fm. Pretty good music from this band. Luckily all their albums at last.fm have free downloads of the songs. Listening to Absolutely, Salutely while writing up this post. Go ahead and check out their albums at last.fm : I was so unpopular in school [...]
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Asido is a PHP image processing solution, with “pluggable” drivers(adapters) for most environments. Asido is still in starting stages with the following drivers supported, with more on the way: GD ImageMagick MagickWand Some of the image manipulation features which are currently available in Asido are: resize watermark rotate copy crop grayscale convert To check out [...]
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If you’d like to work on your favorite PHP apps on your S60 phones, here’s PAMP – Personal Apache, MySQL and PHP. This is implemented on the Symbian OS using Open C, which is a set of industry-standard POSIX and middleware C libraries for S60. To install PAMP on your S60 mobile, you’ll have to [...]
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