Have you ever tried to list all registered users in linux? I tried it today. I hit the terminal with users and it responded with few names. I noticed that this is much less number of people than that I have registered in the system. Oh! Where are the other users? I googled for a [...]

In the past few years, PHP has emerged as one of the A-list programming languages, taking its place alongside Java and the .NET Framework as one of the most popular languages for developing web sites. In fact, PHP is currently used to create some of the highest volume web sites in the world, including Yahoo!, [...]

chkconfig is used to add service, activate and deactivate the services during boot. We can say that! . This is a handy tool to set up services to start during boot. This can relieve users from activating services manually.  Enough said about chkconfig! Sometime ago I wanted to start openfire – A Collaborative software by [...]

A newbie in linux with some basic knowledge of linux commands usually get stuck deleting folders in linux terminal. I happen to be newbie and had to face problems when deleting folders in linux earlier. I use fedora. Usually there are folders with many deep rooted sub folders which you might need to delete in [...]

… But first it cracked him. The inside story of how Stephen Wolfram went from boy genius to recluse to science renegade. By Steven Levy Word had been out that Stephen Wolfram, the onetime enfant terrible of the science world, was working on a book that would Say It All, a paradigm-busting tome that would [...]

Stephen Wolfram is building something new — and it is really impressive and significant. In fact it may be as important for the Web (and the world) as Google, but for a different purpose. Stephen was kind enough to spend two hours with me last week to demo his new online service — Wolfram Alpha [...]

Model–view–controller (‘MVC) is an architectural pattern used in software engineering. Successful use of the pattern isolates business logic from user interface considerations, resulting in an application where it is easier to modify either the visual appearance of the application or the underlying business rules without affecting the other. In MVC, the model represents the information [...]

Few months back, I was assigned a project named Foodcollectors.com. This site is innovative in a thought as it brings people from different diversity to share their collectibles. The project kicked off with a good pace and most of the work were done within a week. Dave (The project owner) was happy about the project [...]

I have decided, I will be a frequent writer. I will write no less than a post every day. So I decided to search for a desktop application that will help me post to my blog without much hassle. I googled and found a list of few good blogging applications. Namely Zoundry, RocketPost, WBloggar BlogJet, [...]

Joomla is one of the best OpenSource CMS till date and I am fond and fan of it. I started using it since early 2006 (Earlier I used Mambo – a little). I have learned Joomla all by myself like others. The early days of learning joomla was hectic. I used to code with simple [...]