SimpleXML doesn’t Work with PHP 5.x: Problem & Solution

November 16th, 2005 SimpleXML is simple to use as its name suggests. However it is a pain when you need to check the value of an element which may or may not exist.

July 3rd, 2007 My blog had this vexing problem where it used to render ugly, really ugly, as the stylesheet wasn't being loaded on Firefox. However after a refresh everything was fine.

October 29th, 2005 A Simple Programming Question for Beginners

September 18th, 2005 I posted earlier about my inability to use Sysdeo Tomcat Plugin with Eclipse 3.1. I found the solution.

August 23rd, 2007 I was watching the mysql queries using mytop just before our server went down. In a flash I realized the cause of our persistent server load problem.

November 27th, 2006 In Simple Thoughts blog and many other blogs worldwide there is a feature to email an article you liked (or hated) to your friends. Recently I noticed that this feature is being abused to send SPAM.

May 25th, 2009 After writing a detailed guide of tips and howtos about Xfce (a free desktop environment for Unix and other platforms such as Linux, Solaris and BSD) we started our expedition on Xfce and soon encountered a problem that we had no feasible and complete solution to. One of our developers was having some problems with the Xfce panels.

January 24th, 2004 The problem I was trying to solve was to resize applets when the browser changes size, so as to always fill the total displayed area of the browser. Googling I found an article from javaworld - Resize applets within browser frames.

January 22nd, 2007 We planned to ship most of the updates for existing customers on Sunday, yes we did work on Sunday too too get your updates in time. However while trying to ship Translator 4.0 update we faced a small problem with the batch file.

January 17th, 2006 HSQLDB, the famous fast RDBMS written in Java, introduced a new feature which affects code ported over from previous versions. From version 1.7.2, in-process databases are no longer closed when the last connection to the database is explicitly closed via JDBC.

July 9th, 2008 Nginx displays a peculiar but logical behavior when handling directories specified without the ending slash. For example you have a directory like http://www.example2.com/dir/.

September 28th, 2007 I faced a vexing problem with the otherwise excellent Mozilla Thunderbird email client. I was unable to forward emails to another account using the rules in Message Filters.

December 5th, 2008 With the IBM Virtual Client Solution, users are free to move about their physical surroundings and maintain secure access to their PC desktop from any client device at any time. IBM came out with their new virtual desktop PC architecture on Thursday.

April 11th, 2007 Today while setting up and trying new application I found that one of the Gnome panels containing Applications, Places and System menu (taskbar for Windows users) wasn't displaying. After restarting the Gnome session I found an error message along the lines of: Error panel already running will exit panel.

December 12th, 2006 When you have sites in multiple languages you may notice, depending on your server configuration, that particular languages may not be displayed properly in browsers. And yet when you save the file and view it they display fine.