Posted in Software on Aug 30, 2010 0 Comments
Microsoft launched the beta of Windows Live Sync along with Windows Live Essentials 2011, allowing users to sync files and data between PC and PC, and between your PC and the cloud. After the most recent beta refresh, Microsoft will be rebranding Sync to Windows Live Mesh.
Posted in Internet, Web Development on Aug 28, 2010 0 Comments
Make sure you read this before choosing which web hosts you’re going to host your websites with. The following web hosting providers are all offering unlimited domains, disk space plus bandwidth, cheap setup costs and even money back guarantee!
Posted in Video Games on Aug 26, 2010 0 Comments
Halo: Reach will be one of the hottest xbox 360 game this year the title has started appearing on file sharing torrent websites weeks before its September 19 release date.
Posted in Software on Aug 25, 2010 0 Comments
ATI has just released ATI Catalyst 10.8 drivers for Windows 7, Vista, XP and Linux. Aside from the Anti-Aliasing support for StarCraft II, other new features include:
- OpenGL ES 2.0 support
- Video Quality default options
- Performance enhancement for Eyefinity
Posted in Web Development on Aug 15, 2010 0 Comments
So it happens I have a website which was started as a wordpress blog but was later developed into a cakephp site.
http://www.xyzabc.com/ – inititally a wordpress blog, now a cakephp app
http://www.xyzabc.com/blog/ – becomes the new wordpress blog’s address
The challenge
How do I redirect visitors who arrive on the site through bookmarks or not-yet-updated search engine indexes so that they can land on the new wordpress blog address?
Posted in Business, Life and Thoughts, Software Development, Web Development on Aug 7, 2010 0 Comments
I’ve been doing a bit of business + development reading from other people’s blog who are in the software + business sides of things for quite a while. One of my favourite blogs has to be Paul Graham’s blog and especially this post titled: Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas.
Posted in Software Development, Web Development on Aug 6, 2010 0 Comments
NetBeans IDE 6.9.1 is a minor update to NetBeans IDE 6.9 and includes the following changes:
Posted in Web Development on Aug 6, 2010 0 Comments
If you’re developing a wordpress plugin or wordpress theme, chances are you might want to refer to wordpress database schema in order to understand how wordpress hooks and functions interacts with the database.
Posted in Web Development on Aug 4, 2010 0 Comments
Changing web hosts can be a daunting task since it involves moving your files and databases.
Even though most web host will do a cpanel backup for you (provided that you are hosting on linux and running cpanel) so you can deploy the whole cpanel backup in your new webhost and restore everything, there are occassions where you might like to take things into your own hands and do a manual file + database transfer. If so, here are some useful commands to help you.
Posted in Web Development on Jul 28, 2010 0 Comments
OK, I know the title of this post is a bit long, but it does put it clearly what I had been trying to achieve using CakePHP.
Let’s say you have a Product model with unique index Field1Field2 made up of 2 fields (field1 and field2) and each time you insert a new record into Product, you want to make sure that only the unique combination of field1 and field2 is saved. How would you do that?
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