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  My first Yii based Application After evaluating various PHP based frameworks for a set of high-profile websites that I’m planning to build, I finally narrowed down to Yii PHP Framework and was very happy with my choice day by day as I’m progressing in it. As both my test ground for an upcoming SaaS based product for which I’m heavily considering [...]

  10 months on
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  Yii PHP Framework Yii PHP Framework was a pleasant surprise for me when I initially found about it. For quite some time, I’ve been intrigued by Ruby on Rails for it’s ease of use and rapid development nature. Though I’m not a big fan of Ruby language or Python for that matter, I’m of course a huge fan [...]

  10 months on
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  Truncating a Log File in SQL Server SQL Server always keeps a log of every activity performed in the Database in a Log file named as DatabaseName_Log.LDF. Over a period of time if the number of operations increased in the database, this Log file will tend to get really heavy and can grow many times in multiples of the actual database size. [...]

  10 months on
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  Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview Microsoft has announced recently that the next major release of their Microsoft Office suite of applications is named 2010 and expected to be released for a Technical Preview (Beta) by July 2009. The last major release MS Office 2007 is actually Version 12. However, the Office 2010 is versioned as 14. This is probably because [...]

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  Mac OS X like font smoothing in Windows Ever wondered why everything looks so beautiful and clear in Mac OS X? It is basically it’s font rendering engine and graphics abilities. Windows is already playing catch up with the font rendering using their own ClearType technology. However, even ClearType can’t stand up to the beauty and clarity given by Mac OS X font [...]

  ~1 year on
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  The worm that threatens to harm computers worldwide at April 1st In all the things that technology can give, some choose to use it for harm and their major wish is about to be granted or may end up as world’s most famous April fool’s day! Major Computer Security companies are already waging a war against the new entrant to their enmity named Conficker. It is a [...]

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  Open Source as an alternative to Corporates Open Source as a implementation is as old as the Internet dating from APRANET. The RFC (Request for Comments) of ARPANET is the first Open Source distribution of specifications that were proprietary. However, Open Source as a term was credited to Netscape the company that once owned world’s most popular browser beside Internet Explorer. Failing [...]

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  Uploading and Linking images and files in WikkaWiki I’ve been a fan of WikkaWiki. It’s the light weight, ultra fast and highly customizable Wiki software. However, there are few glitches in WikkaWiki and some of it’s features like Actions and Handlers can be highly confusing to new users who never used Wiki software or used some standard stuff like MediaWiki (the software used [...]

  ~1 year on
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  Vibrant Ink theme for Eclipse based IDEs After my hugely successful Vibrant Ink theme port for Komodo IDE, NotePad++ and Visual Studio, it’s time to go for Eclipse based IDEs. Please follow the instructions carefully to have Vibrant Ink theme readied for your Eclipse based IDEs like Eclipse 3 or greater, Aptana, Flex Builder, Zend Studio, etc. Download the Zip file that contains [...]

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  Pretty good Open Source alternatives for Proprietary Products We couldn’t thank the Open Source Community or Apache and Mozilla for their initiatives on Open Source that helped shape the Software World well enough. Adding up to that gratitude or vast collection of Open Source products that are available as alternatives to Proprietary Products. Also, please do not think Open Source means free software. [...]

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