How to Use TinyURL to Store Huge Data Online Anonymously

December 15th, 2008 You can potentially make tinyurl to host tons of pages of content for you and for free. Hard to believe? Read on for the juicy details and an example.

May 1st, 2009 URL redirection service is not new. Recently it has become extremely popular thanks to Twitter and its draconian 140 character limit on messages.

August 20th, 2008 Twitter (you can follow me here) has the annoying habit of shortening your long and meaningful url to a short meaningless jumble using tinyurl, even when the full url and accompanying text fits into their 140 character limit. For example I posted this article on how you can include multiple jar files in a single jar file in Ant build tool.

November 13th, 2007 PHP supports shared memory which can be used to store and retrieve data across processes. This is also another alternative way to communicate between php scripts.

August 20th, 2007 In ExtJS you can create ComboBox which loads data from the server. You can also code so that new data is loaded from the server in response to an event like changing selection of another ComboBox.

May 30th, 2007 We are currently processing huge amount of sensitive corporate data for a Fortune 500 company as the first phase of a project. You have to be very careful in data processing, much more than any standard programming effort.

March 7th, 2006 RoR multi-table transaction appears to be a mess. You have to create transactions on each table.

August 9th, 2005 As an architect I have often been asked this question by my clients, friends and at work. I would like to answer it briefly once and for all.

June 30th, 2009 A recent study from Google exposes that 8% of computer hard drives are most likely to fail within two years of operation. Well, that implies every twelve computer hard drive would crash within first 24 months of operation.

August 17th, 2006 6 steps to setup your free online store using Google Base & Google Checkout. Click on the "Sign In" link on the Google Base homepage.

August 30th, 2006 AT&T said hackers broke into one of its computer systems and accessed personal data, including credit card information, on thousands of customers who used its online store. The attack affects about 19,000 customers who purchased equipment for high-speed DSL Internet connections through AT&T's Web site.

March 22nd, 2009 A Google designer recently quit decrying Google's over-reliance on data, even for simple design decisions. Is it bad or is the designer plain wrong? I think if a design decision can be reduced to a problem solvable by data then it is absolutely the right way to go.

July 30th, 2009 Well, iPhone is no PC, its just a smartphone with extended capabilities and a copious hard drive should at least allow storing and sending of files. Photos and video can be sent directly only from the iPhone's camera roll.

April 5th, 2008 TechCrunch got it from a source that Google plans to launch their BigTable, their proprietary internal database which is used for Google Search, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB Web Service. Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers at Google.

February 7th, 2009 Facebook has become the most popular social network on the net, even surpassing MySpace. So it is obvious that hackers will now target Facebook more.