Db4o Note: Db4o.configure() != Db4o.newConfiguration()

August 18th, 2008 Db4o is an excellent open source object database for Java & .NET platform by Carl Rosenberger's team. I highly recommend it for rapid prototyping and RAD.

August 5th, 2009 You have probably heard about the progressive disclosure principle of UI design. In Progressive disclosure design you defer advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

March 15th, 2009 db4o is a popular object database available both for Java and .NET. I have used it sporadically over several years and can highly recommend it.

October 23rd, 2006 Open up conf/settings.php and add this line: $Configuration['URL_BUILDING_METHOD'] = 'mod_rewrite'; Believe me, that's all you need to do. Ain't that easy? Note: I am assuming that you are using Apache HTTPD Web Server with mod_rewrite enabled.

September 18th, 2005 In PHP you can register a function to be executed when script processing is complete using register_shutdown_function. In PHP 4.0.6 and below the registered shutdown functions are called after the request has been completed, including sending any output buffers.

November 18th, 2007 Monitoring MySQL queries is a favorite pastime of MySQL administrators especially for performance reasons. Here is a simple bash script to monitor long running MySQL queries in realtime using the ubiquitous 'show processlist'.

October 4th, 2009 I was playing around with the twitter API and I found a way to find the exact number of Twitter users. Note: The number of twitter users is continuously increasing by dozens every second, however it will still be accurate at the time of this writing for the higher order digits.

October 22nd, 2005 No, I am not competing for obfuscated code context. I realized while showing it to someone that Fibonacci series can be written much more succintly using modern programming languages like c, java or php.

May 4th, 2005 The simplest configuration is described. It assumes you already have Tomcat 5.5 and Apache 2.0 (instructions for Apache 1.3 is also provided) installed and running.

July 1st, 2007 Rapidshare is a popular site for sharing files. With free access you can only download 1 file per hour.

May 13th, 2005 Note: My WordPress database name is wordpress. I will use it in the example below.

March 15th, 2005 I have been asked this question several times. Recently Xyling asked the same question in his blog.

April 11th, 2007 Anaconda has a well documented defect where it installs i586 based kernel in i686 machines. It causes problems with several drivers including nvidia drivers.

September 28th, 2009 CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed. However that doesn't provide the required libraries to run Java from browsers (read: applets).

August 21st, 2007 A guide to easily disable IPv6 support on your Linux workstation / server: 1. Add the two lines, if not already present, to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off For Fedora 7 you should add the command to blacklist instead as shown below: blacklist net-pf-10 Note: I haven't personally tested on Fedora 7.