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I received an email from Google Analytics Support Team this morning about the release of a new version of the Google Analytics reporting interface. The new version is so much cleaner, faster and easier to use and I am loving it.

Product tour

The following is an excerpt from the email I received:

In the new version, your reports have been redesigned for clarity, greater visibility of important metrics, and ease of use. Here are just a few of the features you’ll notice:

- Email and export reports: Schedule or send ad-hoc personalized report emails and export reports in PDF format.

- Custom Dashboard: No more digging through reports. Put all the information you need on a custom dashboard that you can email to others.

- Trend and Over-time Graph: Compare time periods and select date ranges without losing sight of long term trends.

- Contextual help tips: Context sensitive Help and Conversion University tips are available from every report.

The new interface has everything the previous interface had and more. In addition, links within reports make it easier to navigate related information and explore your data.

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WordPress has just released WordPress 2.2 (Getz) today. I will be downloading and installing it for my blogs in the next few days.

According to the official announcement, WordPress 2.2 has many new features such as:

1. WordPress Widgets
2. Full Atom support
3. A new Blogger importer
4. Infinite comment stream
5. Smart plugin detection
6. Speed optimizations
7. WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari

I just want to say well done to the dedicated WordPress team. Fantastic stuff, and thanks for all your hard work.

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I stumbled upon TIOBE Programming Community Index website when researching about programming languages trends.

My two-cents
Java, C and C++ have been dominating the game for quite some time now, and I think it is going to remain the same for a while. PHP seems to be doing well and more so now with PHP 5’s new object-oriented support. Ruby seems to be doing great too jumping from #19 to #10 in a year. I wonder if Ruby will become the next most popular web programming language.

Source: TIOBE Programming Community Index

5min.com is a very cool web 2.0 site which actually is useful for you. According to their about us page, 5min is a place to find short video solutions for practical questions and a place for people to share their knowledge.

Videos are categorised into 19 main sections with each main section consisting of several sub sections. Some of my favourite sections include Business, Fashion and Tech. 5min, in my opinion, is a hybrid of Yahoo! Answers and YouTube.

5min is also one of the five finalists for this year’s Startup 2.0 contest.

Technorati Tags: 5min, web 2.0, web-20, website, startup, startup 2.0

Question: How do I connect to mysql database server from command line such as PuTTY and ssh?

Answer: The syntax to connect to mysql from command line is as below:

mysql -uUSERNAME -hHOST -pPASSWORD

Replace USERNAME, HOST and PASSWORD with your actual username, host (database server) and password.