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A colleague of mine asked me to check out Preview Seek, new search engine which is still in beta. The search screen was quite bland, and I didn’t expect much from the search results. I put in a search request for “Test� and the results page was quite a stunner. The results were categorized properly [...]

Here’s something amazing…. a 500GB drive which transfers data at speeds up to 4GB/sec, works on windows and MAC, can come in sizes up to 4TB !! Link: Live From CES: Quantum Disk From Atom Chip Corp. – Gizmodo

This is something which PHP programmers should know. Of late, while I’ve been taking interviews for PHP programmers, I’ve realized that many programmers don’t have a clue about the difference between the two. Difference between “require()” and “include()” in PHP

After Delicious’ frequent downtime, I went out looking for another social bookmarking network, and landed up at blinklist. Blinklist imported all my delicious bookmarks and I was up and running here in a few seconds. My BlinkList is available at: http://www.blinklist.com/vinuthomas/ BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookmarking engine

Here are some Rapid Development Frameworks for PHP: Prado PHP Framework: PRADO is a component-based and event-driven framework for rapid Web programming in PHP 5. PRADO reconceptualizes Web application development in terms of components, events and properties instead of procedures, URLs and query parameters. Cake PHP: Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which [...]

Here’s a cool way to check which portions of your pages are being clicked by viewers. The author of this article has used Javascript to capture the mouse clicks on the screen and save the location to the database using Ajax. “One of the more interesting aspects of Ajax is the ability to track a [...]

fileNice is a simple remote file browser which uses PHP and Ajax to display files which are in your dump folder. fileNice generates links to the filesto paste in your web pages and also allows you to upload your images directly to flickr. A great tool to have if you’ve got tons of stuff uploaded [...]

Just upgraded the blogs to WordPress 2. My old theme broke during the upgrade option. I’ve reverted back to the Blix theme for now till I get the other theme working properly on WP2. WordPress 2 is up for download at: http://wordpress.org/download/

Here are two tutorials from IBM on objects in PHP 5. The first articles describes the fundamentals of objects and classes in PHP V5, from the very basics through to inheritance, for experienced object-oriented programmers and those who have not yet been introduced to objects. Link to article: Getting Started with objects in PHP V5 [...]

A good article on debugging Javascript while programming with PHP & Ajax. “Javascript is a powerful tool in the web programmers toolbox however, it’s also one of our greatest headaches. Dealing with browser inconsistencies is always a source of great pain. You test on multiple platforms, find everyone you know with a mac running safari [...]