August 2007
11 posts
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Magician with stick in his hand
There is one Indian Portal which writes articles like … who is the hottest item girl, Sharapova in sizzling red etc etc, but it won’t write that today (Aug 29) is National Sports Day. That is why Arjun awards as well as Khel Ratna awards are given today. Why do we celebrate Aug 29 as National Sports Day ? It is coz, its birthday of a great guy, who can be compared to Pele, Sir Don...
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Don’t Eat My Cookie
Uhmmm, will you guys understand if start writing about XSS ??? If you understand, good, if you don’t, great, as it tells that you’ve so many other things in your life to worry about than mere security on a web site. But, in order to understand what I’m writing here, you’ve to know little about XSS - Cross Site Scripting. XSS, in simple terms is a computer security...
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Fire-up your fox !!
Before firing up my fox, I want to write few lines about the synonym of internet - Internet Explorer MSIE has been the most widely used browser. It had usage share of about 95% in 2004. The share was very high coz of few reasons like … Most of the desktops run on Windows. IE is the default browser in Windows and most of the users dint give a damn about what they are using as long as it...
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Register ? Globals ? What ???
I deal with little PHP at my work. Some of my teamies also deal with php. One of my teamies who left for some other company, created a great application which is a shopping cart with certain _damn_cool_ features. He used php do some stuff. Someone else wanted to see that tool again, and another teamie tried installing it on a laptop. He was reading Installation Manual for the application, where I...
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Alice, Bob and Lahycxpajyqh
Wondering what’s that L.. word in the title ? You guys are supposed to use Google search engine once in a while. … … Okay, okay. You really don’t want to search now and find what the hell is that. What if I give you a couple of hints ? Julius Caesar was a great Roman political leader. Julius Caesar was one of The Nine WorthiesStill no idea what’s...
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No patch for human brain
Life is good. It’s so good that I’m happy with everything that’s happening around me. I’m happy for clouds showering on my head as soon as I enter heavy traffic where I can’t stop or find a shelter. I’m happy for my boring life to think about silly things. One of those silly things is one silly bug that crept into one advanced application in a Great Company....
Ashtasiddhi
I saw a very beautiful idol of Lord Ganesha hiding somewhere in the living room of my uncle’s place. I thought to capture it and show it to you guys. I loved the photo too. After capturing the photo, I wanted to know more about the favorite and most-worshipped Hindu God. Best place would be some old person, but, I wanted to know unbiased version. So, I jumped to Wikipedia, where a good...
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MySQL db Password ?
Note: There is nothing new in the following post. Just some redundant info that can be found on web. I’m from a project which calls itself a research lab. I’ve never done a serious research till I came out of the project to help a teammate who was doing some other project. When I was in lab, I use to suggest my teamies to use MySQL rather than heavier databases from MS or Oracle....
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GME - Mashups Made Easy
Note: Following content deals with computer related stuff. Reader discretion is advised. Mashup. What is a Mashup ? A mashup is a web page or application that integrates complementary elements from more than one source Yes, thank you. I understand the {English} definition. But, give the definition of in Lay Man’s English. Okay, here is your definition. Mashup is a web...
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Free {legal} alternatives
Note: Following content deals with computer related stuff. Reader discretion is advised. Most of us in India use WinTel machines. WinTel as in Windows -Intel machines. Yes, you are wrong. I’m not going to campaign for Linux right now. I’m going tell more about software rather than Linux. Windows is also a cool OS to have if you can pay for it. As far as I know many people when they use...
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Coding Conventions
Note: Following content deals with computer related stuff. Reader discretion is advised. I was helping(read as ‘trying to help’) a teamie in coding today. That actually made me to touch “My-Bic = Easy Ajax“ for coding a web application in PHP which includes lot of Ajax. I told my teamie that use of My-Bic “framework” makes Ajax work very simple. It’s true...