Using Photoshop’s Extract Filter Effectively

November 14th, 2005 Lets talk about when to use AdSense - Competitive Ad Filter. It is very rarely used to block competitors.

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.

September 2nd, 2007 I extensively use awk (along with cut and grep) for data processing of log files or for any text processing needs. AWK is an excellent text processing tool / filter and report generator.

August 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A breakthrough by engineers at Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), may lead to more accurate global weather forecasts and a better understanding of climate change. The breakthrough is the development of a high performance electronic device, known as a dual polarized Frequency Selective Surface filter, that is to be used in future European Space Agency (ESA) missions.

April 13th, 2005 I have heard that Python is a great programming language which is so much superior to everything around etc. The following code in python is touted as the world's smallest p2p client & server.

December 26th, 2008 If these men die the death of all men or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me. No I am not here to remind you of an old saying of Bible.

June 19th, 2005 Today I received a rather angry comment from one of my feed readers and I quote: "Come on! There was absolutely no content in the feed. Not even a teaser.

November 2nd, 2005 Ant (java software) from Apache Foundation is a popular build tool (often used successfully with other release management tasks) which replaces make. "Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool.

August 23rd, 2008 This isn't a trick question. For a long time you couldn't delete a property from java.util.Properties class.

July 24th, 2006 You can easily and effectively use your .htaccess file to easily and effectively block comment and referrer spammers targeting your blog(s). If you are using WordPress you can also use my Referrer Bouncer plugin, which is much simpler, to block referrer spammers.

November 16th, 2005 Copy-Protection recently came to limelight as Sony used DRM technology to copy-protect its CD's which makes them vulnerable to viruses and malware. This website allows you to search for music CD in Amazon database which do not have any kind of copy-protection enabled.

December 11th, 2004 Using php 5.x is not documented in the manual, there are lots of questions with few answers, redundant hints etc. Even php 4.x users will benefit from this as it shows how to enable php only in a single web application, instead of all web applications as all the existing docs state. Enjoy!

January 29th, 2007 Now you can easily convert your .NET applications to Java / J2EE and run it on Linux or other Java enabled platforms directly from your Visual Studio .NET IDE. You can use your Visual Studio .NET IDE to build server applications that can run natively on J2EE and hence on Linux and other Java enabled platforms, with the help of Visual MainWin for J2EE from Mainsoft.

September 14th, 2008 One of the common challenges bash script writers face when writing a script which references files in the same directory (or its sub-directories) as the script file. As the script can be called from anywhere, you cannot use the current directory to refer to the files.

March 7th, 2005 Introduction WordPress (a Weblog/CMS software) comes with "nofollow" enabled by default, with no option to disable it! This plugin provides an option to disable "nofollow" in the most efficient way possible without altering any WordPress code. Background Any comments URL's posted by the viewers of a WordPress powered site are automatically tagged as "nofollow".