Category Archives: General

Rajnikanth’s new fan page

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Gangarasa

Rajnikanth, the name that could make titles feel proud, has a new type of fan page. It’s as simple as rajni and equally magical! It works only after you unplug yourself from the internet! How you do that is left … Continue reading →

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Extending ls command

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Gangarasa

How to generate list of files and their size in bytes? Comma Separated List (CSV) $ls -l | awk ‘{ print $5 “,” $9 }’ > list.tsv Tab Separated List (TSV) $ls -l | awk ‘{ print $5 “\t” $9 … Continue reading →

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UPDATEs without a WHERE?!

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Gangarasa

It’s quite common that programmers (non-framework) write UPDATEs without WHERE clause and cause unexpected problems. This perhaps can make their job inconsistent as well and not just the database Well if you’re a programmer follow some simple techniques to save … Continue reading →

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Flexible Client-side table sorting using jQuery

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Gangarasa

I found these plugins to be very useful. Not sure if there is a new version of it. Worth trying. tablesorter: 1) http://tablesorter.com/docs/ 2) http://tablesorter.com/docs/example-pager.html

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Setting Upload Max Size via .htaccess

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Gangarasa

Here is an example to allow File Uploads upto 2 GB. You may also have to consider Max Execution Time. PHP4: <IfModule mod_php4.c> php_value upload_max_filesize 2G php_value post_max_size 2G </IfModule> PHP5: <IfModule mod_php5.c> php_value upload_max_filesize 2G php_value post_max_size 2G </IfModule>

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Tip: Searching for Unread e-mail in GMail

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Gangarasa

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 … Continue reading →

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Thanks to new generation Browsers, JS, Flex…

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Gangarasa

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/

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Happy New Year 2009

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Gangarasa

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 … Continue reading →

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Dear All :)

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Gangarasa

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 … Continue reading →

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