Installing ImageMagick in Ubuntu from source.
wget https://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz tar xvzf ImageMagick.tar.gz cd ImageMagick-* ./configure make sudo make install sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib
Setting up FTP for an Apache website under Ubuntu
Once you have set up a website under Apache, you would need FTP access to the website to be able to upload files. The steps […]
PHP file_get_contents for UTF encoded content
One of the problems of file_get_contents() is that it messes up the data if the file contains special characters outside the standard ASCII character set. […]
Excellent Guide To Keep Kids Safe On The Internet
I came across a great article which details the ways in which parents can keep their kids safe on the internet. This article is particularly […]
Python 2.7 – Working with MS-SQL Server databases
Overview In the previous post Working With MySql databases we saw how Python can be used to work with databases. This post is going to […]
Python 2.7 – Working with MySQL databases
Overview Most modern applications need to interact with a database some time or the other. The most common databases in use are MySQL if its […]
Geocoding An Address With Google Maps API
OVERVIEW One of the most useful features of Google Maps its ability to locate an address on the map. Geocoding is the process of taking […]
Python 2.7 – Fundamentals – Classes & Objects – Basic Theory
What Is a Class Classes are ways of grouping data together so that they can be manipulated in code as a single unit. Imagine various […]
Python 2.7 – Fundamentals – Functions
Sometimes you have some tasks in Python which are repetitive in nature. For instance the steps to calculate the sale price of a product requires […]
Python 2.7 – Fundamentals – Files & Directories – Directory Management
Using import We have examined the basic concepts in core Python. Python has a lot more functionality apart from that. The extra functionality is divided […]