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Create Something Pure – Simon Collison

By Avinash On March 29, 2013 · Add Comment
This is not just any other talk. It’s a pure gem for creative professionals, by Simon Collison, one of the greatest web designers of our time. In this talk, he speaks of freedom, creativity and his pursuit of something pure. He also speaks on the importance of avoiding the noise and [...]
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Importing Filezilla Site Profiles to Linux

By Avinash On August 7, 2012 · Add Comment
Hey guys! It’s been well over a year since I posted anything on this site. Anyway, recently I needed to find a way to transfer a long list of site configuration data from a Windows installation of FileZilla, the FTP client, to an Ubuntu 12.04 installation of the same FTP [...]
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PHP Gallery With Pagination Goodness Within Five Minutes

On March 14, 2011 By Avinash
Familiarity: HTML/XHTML/HTML5 + CSS + PHP Time Required: 5 Minutes or less   You can do really neat things with the raw power of Arrays. I showed you an example of parsing Multidimensional arrays in PHP in my previous post. In this post, I’m going to show you how to create a PHP gallery [...]
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Solving “Write Failed: Broken Pipe” Error

On March 10, 2011 By Avinash
Problem: Write Failed: Broken Pipe Solution: If you ever face SSH Timeout errors while connecting to your server via SSH, here is what to do: If you're using Putty, go to Change Settings > Connections and in the "Seconds between keepalives" box, enter 10. If you're using Linux as the client OS, open the /etc/ssh/ssh_config file and [...]
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A Company Killing Its Own Product

On March 4, 2011 By Avinash
I just came across this website called IE6 Countdown, run by Microsoft with the sole purpose of making Web developers’ lives easier: This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work [...]
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Fun With Python – Develop a Simple Console Game

On February 25, 2011 By Avinash
Since I started teaching Computer Programming, I’ve been trying to come up with very simple, fun concepts to help students understand programming languages as easily as possible. One of such concepts is to develop simple games. Here is an example of a pretty simple console game, written in my favorite programming language — Read Full Article →

Understanding Multidimensional Arrays in PHP

On February 25, 2011 By Avinash
Often I get contacted by people regarding their frustration in understanding how Multidimensional Arrays work. This leaves me wondering why is it that difficult to understand Multidimensional Arrays? Maybe the reason that people have a hard time understanding the whole Multidimensional Array concept is because book authors don’t take the time to explain Arrays in [...]
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Disable The Rich-Text Editor on Posterous?

On February 25, 2011 By Avinash
Is it even possible? Because I’ve been looking for such an option but didn’t find one. I’m really annoyed by the editor because it screws up source codes posted on this blog, even after following the Markdown syntax. If you are able to properly display source code on your Posterous blogs, please help!  
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Linux Like Window Focus on Mouseover (Win XP)

On October 30, 2010 By Avinash
Just a little tip that I think some of you’ll find helpful. As many of you may already be aware, I make extensive use of Open Source tools. For years, I’ve used Linux/BSD on my home workstations and quite a few times have gained success in convincing my bosses to make the switch but you [...]
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Syntax Highlighting in Microsoft Word

On October 19, 2010 By Avinash
If you’ve ever tried copy-pasting source codes into a Word document, you know what a nightmare it is to apply syntax highlighting. Most probably, you have to manually apply colors on sections of source code. While searching for a solution, I came to know about a Notepad++ plugin NppExport that’ll help you copy code from [...]
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