Google search advanced query operators

June 20th, 2008

This is the ultimate reference for all the Google search query advanced operators   http://www.google.com/help/operators.html


Google analytics and Ajax

June 16th, 2008

Last week, my colleague approached me with a quite interesting task. He is promoting our company website and wanted me a solution where in he can monitor the user enquiries through Google Analytics. Interestingly the site used Ajax for the enquiry form, so the page was not getting redirected to a thank you page, which […]


Were there ads on orkut user profiles ?

June 11th, 2008

I have seen ads on community pages but I am noticing ads on user profiles in Orkut.. Have you people seen it before of is it a recent change ?


BSNL EVDO set to make a revolution in wireless broadband

June 2nd, 2008

I was really fed up of my Tata Indicom (VSNL) Broadband as it failed for thenth time from yesterday. I had another 10 minute call to customer care toexplain the issue and hear and do the same old ‘BULL SHIT’ trouble-shootingsteps. Internet connection has become one of a lifeline for me as it makes me […]


A casual visit to BIA – Bangalore International Airport Devanahalli

May 31st, 2008

Today I had a plan already in mind, have a long bike ride to BIADevenahalli (Bangalore International Airport). The airport started fullyoperational just a few days ago.My plan was slightly affected by rain as I had to seek a shelter forabout 45 minutes. While coming back I was fully drenched !! Enjoy the snaps.. By […]


Create a new MySQL user – Howto?

May 22nd, 2008

There are few ways you can create a new user for a MySQL DB. Using grant command to create a new user and assign privileges to access a DB. Use the create user mysql command followed by grant command to set access privileges. Directly editing the mysql DB using insert, update etc (which is a […]


Internet Marketing Tools !!

April 10th, 2008

This page will have common Internet marketing tool links. If I have missed at the moment, comment and do let me know. Google Adwords Keyword Tool External https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Google Adwords Traffic Estimator tool – External https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox


Starting LAMPP automatically on startup

April 3rd, 2008

For starting LAMPP automatically on startup, add the following line to you /etc/rc.local file /opt/lampp/lampp start where /opt/lampp is the location where XAMPP files are kept. You will have to substitute the path to your XAMPP in the above command. Do let me know whether it worked for you 😉


Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction

March 26th, 2008

Error messages are quite annoying for any one, I am not an exception for it.. This is the latest one I received when I was testing a webservice client using PHP NuSOAP library.. Well my client’s webserver is still running on PHP4 so I cant use the built in SOAPClient for PHP5 🙁 I resolved […]


Is your application vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)?

March 18th, 2008

Well.. One of the security tests you need to do in your web application is to verify that it is free from cross site scripting vulnerability. read more about cross site scripting (XSS) at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_site_scripting Here is the simple test to verify whether your web form is vulnerable to XSS or not. Just type in […]