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New! Google Chrome now has extensions and bookmark sync.

Gangarasa — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:51:01 +0000

WoW! Google Chrome now has extensions and bookmark sync. New area for developers to play.

Just tried a few recent/popular extensions. They are superb. The Evernote Web Clipper, Dictionary, FireBug and Calendar extensions are worth trying…That’s not all, you can now sync your Bookmarks with Google Docs!!

Setting Upload Max Size via .htaccess

Gangarasa — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:58:25 +0000

Here is an example to allow File Uploads upto 2 GB. You may also have to consider Max Execution Time.

PHP4:


php_value upload_max_filesize 2G
php_value post_max_size 2G

PHP5:


php_value upload_max_filesize 2G
php_value post_max_size 2G

Tip: Searching for Unread e-mail in GMail

Gangarasa — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:52:03 +0000

Finally, figured out how to find those hiding unread messages in my GMail Inbox or other folders. aah! A quick relief. Always hated going down the pages and finding the mails in some 20th or 40th page.

You can just use “is:unread in:inbox” to search all unread mails in the Inbox. Without quotes though!

HTML to PDF from PHP Made Easy!

Gangarasa — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:01:36 +0000

Finally, found two new Libraries that makes a PHP programmer’s life easy. Tested both and they seem to work pretty fine for simple requirements like PDF receipt generation or news letter download or e-Ticket/e-Cert generation.

FPDF (PHP4 and PHP5)
dompdf (PHP5 Only)

Happy PDFing!!

WorldPay Error: Cannot find an available route for the purchase. This may be caused by merchant configuration or remote systems failures.

Gangarasa — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:41:38 +0000

You ever got this error on your WorldPay Installation?

“Cannot find an available route for the purchase. This may be caused by merchant configuration or remote systems failures”

Then, you might be trying to charge something really less than 1.0 USD/EUR/GBP! Yes, that’s what I was doing too! None of the forums had an answer and had to spend 48 hours to find out reason and get it to work. Dear Google: Index this fast!

Thanks to new generation Browsers, JS, Flex…

Gangarasa — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:35:45 +0000

Here are two good sites I came across. Like them both for their brilliant look and speed.

http://www.webappers.com/

http://my.lovelycharts.com/

Happy New Year 2009

Gangarasa — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:20:40 +0000

Hi All,

Thanks and GoodBye 2008

Thanks for giving us stable PHP5 builds and MySQL builds! The time has really turned well for OpenSource, especially for LAMP stack. We wish to do a lot of useful, productive work using LAMP in the new year! Here is a blog dedicated to that!!

Wishing all the readers

A Happy and Prosperous New Year 2009

Dear All :)

Gangarasa — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:57:19 +0000

In the past three weeks, I had a hard time figuring out two things: 1) An efficient way of Parsing large CSV strings and 2) Creating a HTML E-mail that looks nice and similar in major mail clients. I really had hard time finding the right stuff on the net. It seemed to me that, many of the search results that popped up were forums that were no longer active. This is when I thought of starting a blog to log all that I learn from the internet. Wait for more posts here…