Should Loader Script Be Used for Slow Loading Sites?

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'.

February 7th, 2007 As a javascript developer using onload often you will find that other script authors too love to use onload. Unfortunately onload accepts a function name and your reassigning will prevent others from using onload.

November 12th, 2007 AdBlock Plus is a controversial Firefox plugin to prevent ads from displaying on web pages. There is a simple procedure to detect (and take appropriate action) AdBlock Plus.

June 22nd, 2007 While Twitter is an useful service and pretty enjoyable too, it has become blindingly slow to the point of being unusable, the price of popularity I presume. Now you can look in my twitter profile to find out everything, which I decide to write about, I am doing.

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 28th, 2009 Google is having its I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco this week. So expect a lot of updates in the keynotes they are addressing meanwhile.

December 21st, 2007 strip_tags() in PHP has several problems. It doesn't recognize that css within the style tags are not document text.

May 15th, 2008 A short survey on your programming language preferences, shouldn't take more than 1 minute of your time. Please participate and let others know too.

August 2nd, 2008 PayDotCom has recently introduced an widget which you can use to promote PayDotCom products on your website. The widget is definitely eye-catching so I thought I would give it a try.

February 27th, 2006 Google has newly introduced Google Pages which allows you to create your webpages with AJAX interface (Web 2.0?). It is quite a slick product, provides 100MB of space, file uploading etc.

July 12th, 2006 Whew! Finally I have transferred my site to a sparkling new dedicated server. It was a very eventful journey.

August 10th, 2008 nginx [engine x] is a high quality, light footprint (much ligher than Apache HTTPD), high performance HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. nginx is distributed under BSD license unlike its competitor Lighttpd.

October 8th, 2007 PmWiki is a popular wiki software which uses the file system to store wiki pages. We use for our intranet and to document our processes and systems.

September 5th, 2007 Here is the live feed of visitors from our side. You can also see it on the right sidebar.

March 17th, 2006 Javascript doesn't natively support trim on strings. It is however very easy to implement with regular expressions.