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If you are seeing Out of Service message when you go to Digg.com, it is probably because they are pushing their redesign live. I got a glimpse of the new design this morning when trying to access the site. Looks like new features such as Videos and Podcasts will be introduced soon too. [Edit] Digg.com [...]

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Saw the above screenshot on Worse Than Failure: Curious Perversions in Information Technology website, and I found it so hilarious that I couldn’t resist the urge to post it up here. That’s right; every “dynamic-looking” page was, in fact, static. It was going to be a long maintenance contract… Source: When the Query String Is [...]

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A while ago, I wrote a post about my eZ Publish extensions for Flickr and YouTube. I have been meaning to upload them onto official eZ publish repository but didn’t really get to doing it until I received a comment a few days ago which reads, “I’m exactly looking for these extensions. I couldn’t find [...]

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I am sure you have heard of all the hype about the fastest growing social networking site, Facebook. Facebook has become very popular, so much so it even creates new jobs in IT & T industry. How do I know, I hear you ask. Have a look at this job ad on CrunchBoard – Facebook [...]

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Problem: You have the following URLs for your website: www.example.com/about-us.html www.example.com/services.html www.example.com/contact-us.html However, you would like to hide file extensions from the end users, and allow them to access to the files using the following URLs: www.example.com/about-us www.example.com/services www.example.com/contact-us Solution: The solution can be achieved by using Apache’s mod_rewrite. Create an .htaccess file in your [...]

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Source: xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language Technorati Tags: funny, humor, programmer, cartoon

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Last week, I was asked to give my two cents worth on the process of learning PHP and therefore I came up with the following. Introduction to PHP — Learn what you can and can’t do with PHP, how similar/different it is to other programming languages, what is object-oriented PHP, etc Installation — You will [...]

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First, we had Directory Listing Followed by Free 4 All Links Then there was a hit with The Million Dollar Homepage And then came Color Cubes And today, in “web 2.0″ age, we have Tag A Cloud Technorati Tags: evolution, link farm, web 2.0, www, links

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Recently, a few people have been approaching me with their interest in learning PHP and today, I came across this article PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner via Digg. Talk about timing! This area is intended for everyone new to PHP. It opens with a series of informal, entertaining tutorials written by Vikram Vaswani, [...]

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The source code of Facebook (a popular social networking website) homepage was exposed on the Internet yesterday due to server misconfiguration. The following is an unofficial response made by Brandee Barker from Facebook: Some of Facebook’s source code was exposed to a small number of users due to a bug on a single server that [...]

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