Provided that your user account on the server has the privileges to access crontab thus can create or remove cron jobs, you can use this PHP class to integrate crontab in your application. I created it for many of my own projects that need crontab to do scheduled jobs. It’s pretty straightforward. Don’t know what …
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Making sense is NOT what I’m known for. You are warned. Success is a shadow of rarity. Try to be rare before you try to be successful. 99% of the people takes whatever they can while 1% gives whatever they can. 1% is a rarity. So they are 100 times more likely to get what …
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Few know that those who have web hosting are at the same time endowed with a free VPN (Virtual Private Network, a very safe connection to transfer important data). With a few simple steps by the help of PuTTY, the tiny legendary SSH program, anyone with a web hosting account can have a private VPN …
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I officially signed up with Magento Go‘s Going Places plan for $25 / month and paid $99 for my SSL to be installed. It’s been 3 days and I wish I had better things to say about them. And this is my review. Uptime: 4.7 / 5 It’s too early to tell because I’m only …
Magento Go Review – Sucking Support & $99 Ripoff for SSL Setup Read More »
I coded a lot in Zend Studio 5.5.1, the gold old version that’s insanely popular because it made it so easy to code in PHP. As PHP evolves, ZS 5.5.1 gradually falls behind of the edge and it simply becomes imperative that you switch to the latest version of Zend Studio, the 8. The IDE …
This is the second time I wrote a review of WiredTree and also the second time to have signed up a VPS account with them. The last time it was a 512MB VPS (VPS512) that has now been upgraded to VPS1000, doubling everything, RAM, disk storage and monthly bandwidth (tripled!), yet the price tag stays …
So I’ve tried the Pro version of SEOmoz, an online SEO software application, for a few days and I think I’ve got to write a review. This would turn out to be very ugly. Many years ago the features that this system brings to the table could have been useful for the SEO novice, but …
A quick tip for those who just started learning HTML. It’s possible to add a line of code in your HTML page so that it’s automatically refreshed every few seconds when loaded in the user’s browser. To make the page automatically refresh itself every 60 seconds, just insert the following code in the <head></head> section …
Office 365 is a set of team collaboration / productivity web applications for professionals, businesses, government agencies and education institutions. It currently offers 3 different plans: For professionals and small businesses, $6 / user / month, basic features For midsize businesses and enterprises, $12 and more / user / month, advanced features For education And …
Microsoft Office 365 Review & Screenshots – What will you get? Read More »
Someone approached to sell me a grandfathered .EDU name. I never thought .EDU domain can be traded so I started to research a little bit. Ain’t they owned only by educational institutions of United States? Turns out .EDU names in existence as of October 29, 2001 were more freely registered and thus many non-educational entities …
DreamHost just gave me 5 promo invitations that could be used for new accounts only. Whoever uses one of the invitation codes to sign up with them would get $100 off for a two-year plan. Just use one of the 12-digit invitation code in the “Promo Code” field when signing up at DreamHost: 737871080684 599411300419 …
Given a directory, how to display the contents (directories and files under it) of it recursively and exhaustively? Here’s the code: $dir = ‘/path/to/directory’; // without trailing slash, can be absolute paths such as ‘/home/jim/public_html’ or relative paths such as ‘samples’ getDirContents($dir); function getDirContents($dir) { if (is_dir($dir)) { $dirs = explode(‘/’, $dir); $last_dir = $dirs[count($dirs) …
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I was trying to find a PHP function or class that can convert English words / nouns in plural form into their singular form so that wordcrow.com automatically detects and redirects plural lookup to the singular page. After a while searching on Google, I found this class. This great class (Inflector) was ported from Ruby …
PHP Class: Convert Plural to Singular or Vice Versa in English Read More »
I’ve been a happy Amazon affiliate for over a year now and the monthly revenues have been steadily climbing up ever since I started promoting their products galore. The most recent month, Mar. 2011 has ended up making me over $400 in commissions or advertising fees. Attached on the right is the screenshot. Considering I …
A few Amazon affiliate tips and my earnings of Mar. 2011 Read More »
When people are replying to a thread, going advanced editing would require an extra click as well as page loading time — very inconvenient. However, at gotalk.org, users would generally want to post a lot of code because it’s a programming language forum in nature. But vBulletin doesn’t come with a CODE button in the quick …
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The quick reply box of vBulletin is by default about 100px or less in height which is bit small for large chunks of text editing such as code. To change the default height of the quick reply box without having to click the enlarge button manually every time, you’ll have to edit the template: Changing …
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By default, only the forum name / title is displayed in the <title></title> tag of the homepage of your vBulletin forum, which is far from ideal in terms of SEO. One should give a much more descriptive title to the home page of the forum other than the mere name of it. To do this: …
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I’m not an expert but I’ve had my own errors and trials along the way so here I am. These are all the tips I believe you should use when you are optimizing for MySQL database performance. Some stuff may be very handy, but they may not be good for performance. Design Normalize first, and …
phpMyAdmin doesn’t show the exact size in MB when the size of your database exceeds 1GB. It just shows something like 4.2GB, truncating everything out in the 100MB precision. So is it possible to get the database size in MB in exact numbers using MySQL query? Yes, it is: SELECT CONCAT(sum(ROUND(((DATA_LENGTH + INDEX_LENGTH – DATA_FREE) …
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Though it does look great, I haven’t given it a try until the other day when I was developing smartbabynames.com. Notice the previous and next link immediately below the boy image at here: http://www.smartbabynames.com/meaning/boy/Langleigh/ They look and feel great. So here’s what I’ve done to achieve the rounded corner box in pure CSS — no …
