While working on a side project, I had a need to deploy a web app for a POC. Realized my existing GoDaddy hosting won’t be a good idea this time as I kind of hit the files threshold during migration of a WordPress repo to GoDaddy instance. A few months ago […]
Life without Facebook
Published on :Recently I deactivated my Facebook account for some personal reasons. It was something which was really hard and the addiction to check or spend time surfing Facebook was too compelling, yet I managed to do that somehow. (Did I hear someone patting my back…J ) Life without Facebook, this post […]
Windows 8 Surface RT vs Pro
Published on :Past few days have been very exciting for Microsoft fan boys, I admit I am being one of them. With the availability of Surface tablet, Windows 8 RTM (General Availability), Office 2013 (for MSDN/Technet), Windows Phone 8 event in pipeline next week, things have never been exciting and bright for […]
Resolve Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client error on Windows 8
Published on :I have been early adapter of Windows 8. since the dev preview in Sept 2011. close to 9 months and we still have not seen the RTM which would probably be out in October for general public. So apart from bragging my geekiness i try to earn my bread n […]
How to use Smarty variables in Javascript Code
Published on :Smarty is a template engine for PHP that facilitates a managable way to separate application logic and content from its presentation. This is mostly used in industrial architecture following MVC (Model View Controller) architecture. The application data that contain no information about how they will be presented. They are passed […]
Difference between INT(1) vs TINYINT(1) in MySQL
Published on :The other day while designing a database schema i was suggested to use Tinyint instead of int. Tinyint, never ever used in SQL. So i digged a bit about this datatype. Later i thought probably i can use INT(1) for declaring the database field rather than TINYINT(1) as both might […]
Windows 8 Tablet Preview
Published on :Windows 8 has mixed opinions at the moment. While many appreciate the new look, others find the double interface system a drag. Yet, Windows 8 is pretty much about touchscreen devices from start to finish. Microsoft has taken time to create something that’s amazing. Although it’s not out as yet, […]
Indexing documents in Solr with custom fields
Published on :A lot of time i spent this weekend for indexing documents into Solr. And i was really unhappy with the community support provided by Apache mailing list. I believe Apache has some really nice software packages and frameworks that are very useful for developers and enterprises, but it all boils […]
Installing Solr over Windows
Published on :In the last post, i covered how to troubleshoot Xampp port error for configuring Tomcat Apche Server on Windows. In this post i would be covering on How to install Solr on Windows. Solr is an open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project written in Java. Its […]
XAMPP Installation Error: “Port 80 or 443 already in use.Apache2.2 service failed.”
Published on :XAMPP is a powerful application to setup server on your local machine for testing of your files before you host them to the server. Installation of XAMPP is pretty simple but it went tricky for me. It gave an error “Port 80 or 443 already in use.Apache2.2 service failed.” to […]