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ScribeFire improvements 2008-04-13

Wow!! just finished writing the earlier post on scribfire and needto write another about its improvements.
1. Tabbed edit:Now, you can create and edit multiple post at a time ! 2. New control panel:The left control panel is now with new look and features!! 3. Youtube and flickr addon!!!Now, you can share your Youtube and [...]

ScribeFire — Fireup your blogging

Great bloggin tool !

Assembla: Online project, with free svn,file upload,tickets and everything !!

I was looking for an online space where I can securely host my project.Google took me to Assembla after knocking a number of doors. Its an one stop solution for projecthosting.
You can create teams, have scrum meeting,chat, manage your money(!),have wikis, different pages for a project…. etc etc.
Above all, it will allow you to [...]

Firefox round corner css only, no gif

Every border has its own set of native functions support some cool features to the developers. Like IE has gradient feature built in!
One nice feature of Firefox is to support rounded corner without any extra hassle. With no gif at all!
here is how:
-moz-border-radius:20px
Lazy enough? Just copy the code and see yourself!
<div style=’-moz-border-radius:20px;background-color:#ff0000′>
Hello rounded Firefox [...]

Orchid mvc framework tutorial : Basic example showing how to write a simple hello world application

Originally from orchid blog at: http://orchid.phpxperts.net/2008/03/18/creating-a-basic-app-with-orchid/
Ok, lets try to create baby out of orchid
Take her at your place for date:
Copy the orchid folder to a location of choice where you like to host the app.
Make sure she is vergin
There should not be any app folder inside the orchid folder. If any, remove [...]

PHP Active record with relational foreign key support

Many a time i wished  I could find a php active record or active model that will support relational table. Failure on this, I wrote my own and named it as ActiveRelationalRecord.
Say,  I have two tables  posts(idposts,title,body) and comments(idcomments,comment,date). Now, using Active relational record I can do the following:
$arr = new ActiveRelationalRecord();
//$arr->init(’posts’,$_POST);
$arr->init(’posts’,array(’idposts’=>’12′));
$arr->addRelation(’comments’);
//$arr->addRelation(’anotherrelationaltable’);
echo $arr->title ;
echo $arr->body;
$comms [...]

How to set Google analytics on joomla 1.5 to see number of visitors

Google analytics is a powerful tool to know the site visit status. You can easily sign up with google analytics from www.google.com/analytics and register a domain. You will be provided with two codes, one for legacy which has limited features and another is new code with lots of features to enable various kind of graphs [...]

Joomla 1.5 SEO friendly url how to

Creating SEO friendly url in Joomla 1.5 is very easy. You don’t need to download any modules now. Just follow the steps below:
1. Login to Administration panel.
2. Go to Site->Global Configuration from menu.

3. Change the SEO settings:

4. Almost done. Now just rename the htaccess.txt to .htaccess.
Bingo.. you are done !!

How to create polls with Polldaddy

 So, you like have some polls showed up on your site? What should you do ? Design database, design the models and finally passing hours together with image processor to give a nice look.
There  is a easy solution offered by Polldaddy. Create an account instantly in polldaddy, create your poll. You can configure questions in [...]