They are starting Yahoo Hack Day again. They call it, “The hack is back!. Do you want to request an invite to Open Hack 2008, September 12-13? Sign up at www.hackday.org. Hope you can join us at Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale. We don’t mind if you code all night. ” Read the rest of this entry »

As you type the content for your blog post, this plugin looks for Flickr Photos, Maps to any locations that you might mention in the post, any products that are listed or even related news to your blogs post.

If your content regularly mentions some companies regularly, Yahoo shortcuts can bring up latest financial information related to that company.

Relevant search results would also come up for certain terms like in the image shown UNIX Pipes would pop up a Yahoo shortcut with relevant contextual search results. Some bloggers may find some shortcuts annoying and irrelevant to their blogs content, but some might really find it useful. It all depends on what you blog about. Read the rest of this entry »

OK here is the code to convert a comma separated string of integer/ digit value to an array

$csvintegers='1,2,3,4,7';
$listvals=split(",",$csvintegers);
?>

You can always compare whether if an integer is present in a string or not. The code to do so is Read the rest of this entry »

I have a view in HWC where I am using Javascript DHTML date picker script to pick the date and insert into test field. By the way HWC is the PHP-MVC (using codeigniter) application I am working on.

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OK readers, here is a simple method to achieve clean urls with your PHP application developed in CodeIgniter.

Please note that this method is applicable only to applications developed in CodeIgniter. Much of the content has been taken from CodeIgniter wiki but rewritten in my own way. Read the rest of this entry »

Yeah it means nothing in this world is perfect isn’t it . So right now Adsense from the online search and advertisement giant is not functional.

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Die Google AdSense-Website ist vorübergehend nicht verfügbar. Bitte versuchen Sie es später noch einmal.
Wir entschuldigen uns für eventuell enstandene Unannehmlichkeiten.

Le site Google AdSense est temporairement indisponible. Veuillez réessayer plus tard.
Nous vous prions de nous excuser pour le désagrément occasionné. Read the rest of this entry »

Yeah as always I am one complete day late to know about the new release of wordpress. Its really cool. I just downloaded and installed it. As its famous for its 5 minutes install; it has great new features and a neat and clean interface, I think a hundred times better than the previous version thats 2.3 if I am not wrong (2.3.3), yeah I just checked as I am writing this post on the old platform and I just needed to scroll down this post window (my wordpress blog is an auto install by Fantastico provided by my host in Cpanel)

Anyhow right now I am playing with the latest version (2.5) and its simply awesome.

See the difference. Its just obvious. Its on full page for this blog post. Read the rest of this entry »

Hello buddies. I have developed a new website in love and appreciation of my Favorite Nasheed Artists like Sami Yusuf,Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, Yusuf Islam (Yousaf Islam) and many others. Just check it for yourself. The best part is you can download the videos too. I will be looking forward to your suggestions to improve it. But it should be positive criticism and for the sake of improvement. I am really looking forward for such a feedback.

I just love this web 2.0 coffee mug

IMG_1238.JPG, originally uploaded by aralbalkan.

OK I usually work on the wordpress stuff and do all the fancy things with wordpress on these two Blogs of Josh Freedman

His press room at http://www.6seconds.org/press/
His blog is at http://6seconds.org/blog/

I spent my times for release and support my plugin. If you like my plugin and enjoy the support, do consider to make a donation to me. Thank you :D. I am available for hire too

You can view the plugin working at his press room at http://www.6seconds.org/press/

Its showing the 2 different categories’ recent posts. The number of the posts can be defined in the plugin’s only php file.

OK how to do such thing?

I am going to release a modified generic open source version if Josh allows me.

Update 1:33 AM : Yeah he allows me so here is the download material (on full post page).. Read the rest of this entry »

There are many ways for Extracting or fetching desired data or content from an html pages. During my work, i had to build a Miner to get news from multiple sites & update a wordpress blog with the latest news, daily.I had many choices to accomplish this task, few of them are
- Regular expressions
- PHP string functions.
- Using DOM Parsing
- Using Xpath.

First of all i used regular expressions to Read the rest of this entry »