Misc

Spara beta version is launched

Posted by amit on May 24, 2010 at 9:22 pm

We have beta launched Spara - a free online service for taking backups of your Facebook data. This should be a godsend for people who have a lot of data in their Facebook profiles.
Spara is available here

Installing PHP 5 on FreeBSD

Posted by amit on December 23, 2009 at 11:31 pm

A tutorial on installing PHP from the FreeBSD ports for Apache and MySQL.
What you need to add to the httpd.conf file and which of the PHP5 ports to choose.
Choosing which port to use
In the past there were several ports for PHP such as /www/mod-php5, /lang/php5-cli, and /lang/php5. Since the release of PHP 5.1.14 there is [...]

Getting Apache installed

Posted by amit on December 23, 2009 at 11:30 pm

Installing Apache2.2
Make sure you update ports and then run the following commands:
# cd /usr/ports/www/apache22
# make install clean
That will install apache2.2
Configuring apache2
Lets edit the httpd.conf file:
# vi /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf
Scroll down and change the following settings. The optional settings I will put OPTIONAL before the setting:
OPTIONAL: Listen 80 - You can change this default option if you have [...]

A perfectly normalized database is a timebomb waiting to explode..

Posted by amit on March 6, 2009 at 4:56 am

Once upon a time, God came down on earth in the form of E.F.Codd and gave us the Holy Tenets of Database Design.
Among the most important thing that every database designer or application developer had to learn was
“Thou shalt design your database so that it at least fulfills the conditions of 3NF (3rd [...]

Finally upgraded to latest WP version

Posted by amit on February 26, 2009 at 5:12 am

Been a couple of years since I installed WP blog on my site. That was version 2.0.x . After much dilly-dallying decided to upgrade to the latest version 2.7.1 , then plugged in a new Theme and now the blog looks cool.

First blog entry on my own website

Posted by amit on November 24, 2006 at 9:18 pm

I am moving my blog which is hosted on blogspot to my own website. It gets very cumbersome to manage multiple websites and it makes more sense to concentrate traffic in one place rather than spread it out.
This site was hosted on asp for the last couple of years, I switched it to php as [...]