I copied one of my email’s content into a LibreOffice document for saving as a .doc or .docx. While looking at the pasted content it was weird to have a lot of empty spaces(tabs, spaces and/or newline characters, whatever) with grayed background…
Category: Miscelleneous
Creating rss feed dynamically and merging it with another rss feed
Recently i generated a rss feed from business listings for one of my client’s website. Also, i merged this listings feed into client’s existing blog rss feed. Here’s how i did it.
How to create/configure an ftp account in EditPlus
To create an ftp account in EditPlus follow the steps listed below.
phpMyAdmin PHP Code Injection Exploit attempt on my server
This morning, when i checked my Give Back India site’s access log i found some scripts/setup.php request attempts. In fact, not ‘some’ but hundreds of them. All requests were made targeting phpMyAdmin’ installations on my server. Here are a few…
Fixing ‘mysql’ is not recognized as an internal or external command in Windows7
Having WAMP installed when i try to type mysql in my windows command prompt it would give me the following error:
How to add HTML tag keyboard and toolbar shortcuts to Notepad++
(skip to implementation) Like most computer users i do prefer to use keyboard shortcuts and while working with web pages in particular, keyboard shortcuts and visual shortcuts in editor toolbars speed up development work considerably. There are HTML editors like…
Adding (Explorer – file browser) plugin to Notepad++
Once i decided to give Notepad++ a serious try as my default code editor the first major thing i noticed was the non availability of explorer like file browsing panel (generally to the left side). After a few bits of…
Resume download of PART extension file in Firefox
In some cases, when a large file had been downloaded through Mozilla Firefox, downloading of file gets interrupted for some reason. The Firefox would tag the download as “failed” and you are left with nothing but a .PART file. You…
WordPress custom permalinks and 404 error
Today morning i found that urls to postings of this very blog of mine were ending on a “HTTP 404 – File not found” page. (It had been working last night for sure) I had got custom permalink configured for…
Hindi language plugin for Joomla
Check this really cool tinyMCE extension to make your Joomla post content to appear in Hindi. It supports as many as Eight Indian languages including Devanagari(Hindi), Gurumukhi(Punjabi) and Bengoli. It is really easy to install and get going.
