A perfectly normalized database is a timebomb waiting to explode..
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 […]
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How not to name a boolean variable
Out of personal experience and reading other people’s code, I have come to realize a small but very tricky issue about how NOT to name […]
Moving from Mantis to Flyspray for issue tracking
i have recently shifted from Mantis to Flyspray for issue tracking. I have been using Mantis for over a year now and its a very […]
How to prevent CDialog closing on pressing Escape key
MFC CDialog classes have a default behaviour of closing if the user presses Esc key anytime while the dialog has focus. To overcome this behaviour, […]
Automated member registration for phpBB
A lot of websites may require phpBB plugged-in as an add-on to the main site. In such a case if the main website already has […]
Fetchmail using PHP and Dojo
Fetchmail was written to let me check POP3 emails anywhere using just a browser. It was also an exercise to run the latest version of […]
Handling the International date line issue in Google Maps
Those who have worked with Google Maps have faced the problem of plotting markers on the map for places which are close to the International […]
Amazing javascript
Since the last couple of years, with the advent of AJAX , Javascript has got a new lease of life and has gone from becoming […]
Installing Apache 2.0.* with PHP 5.* in Windows
Much documented as the above process is, a lot of people still get stuck in some part of the installation process or the other (me […]
The forgotten world of dmoz.org
For programmers who often have to search out tech articles or code, the first item of choice is generally google. Some of us have a […]