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Coming up: Android/iPhone application to send free SMS using GPRS
Aug 26th
I am now working on the creation of a mobile phone application for Android and Iphone which will allow you to send free SMS using the PHP API which I created a month back . This is the domain I never explored before, so will take a bit longer to come up with something useful. Hopefully, I can finish it by the end of this week, so that mid of next week, I can release it here.
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Flash draw-on-sand application with source (.fla)
Aug 6th
Flash CS3 Source code and PHP script to export drawing to JPG.
I made this flash app a year ago for my college NITK Surathkal’s cult fest Incident’s website. But I did not find time to add all the features I had thought of. The plan was to have this drawing canvas as the background of the website for beach events, but I later decided to keep it simple.
Joomla Multiple registration forms plugin for Community builder
Aug 1st
This Community builder plugin enables adding of multiple registration forms to Joomla. It is tested to be working in Community builder 1.2 with Joomla 1.5.
Install this plugin into Joomla through the community builder plugin installer and enable it.
Defining multiple forms
Click on this plugin under the plugin management tab and in the params section define the forms in this format:
form_name1:field_name1,field_name2
form_name2:field_name1,field_name2
- form_name is a identifier for the form you are creating. Keep it unique and without spaces. This form_name has to be passed as a GET parameter to the default CB registration page to show up only the fields you want.
- field_name1,field_name2 etc are the names of the fields under the Field management tab in CB.
andLinux andWindows7
Nov 7th
I have been doing PHP on Windows till now, but a week back I realised that I wanted something which Windows couldnt give me. The pcntl_fork( ) function was not implemented on windows. So I had to either do PHP on a remote shell or install linux on separate partition. Remote shell wasnt a bad idea because I already had an account on freeshell.de and they had all PHP functions enabled. But there was not Gnome/KDE and I had to settle for vim. Then I decided that I will run Linux through VMware. I had tried this even before, and knew that it would be painstakingly slow.
Luckily I came across andLinux when I was googling for vmware. I thought I will give it a try .. 200 MB wont take much time. The installation was quick, just keep “next”ing and Voila , linux is installed in 5 minutes.
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Hitec city (Hitech) & Kondapur
Jun 28th
The reason beahind writing this post is this: I got recruited into Oracle through my campus placements. And I got to know that I will be posted in hyderabad within a month. The offer letter said that I am supposed to report to Hitec city by June 29th 09. And I was curious to know whats so HIGH-TECH about this place. So I Googled to find the wikipedia entry and a couple of blogs. But that did not quench my thirst. So I decided to fill in this gap and write a detailed post. Here it comes , the hitchhikers guide to hitec city…
HITEC stands for Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy City. It is “the” technology hub of Hyderabad… situated about 15 – 20 kms from the main Hyderabad city.
Let me be frank, in the first month I stayed here, I couldn’t figure out how to spell the name of this city. Some call it Hightech and others use hitech. And you will find different anagrams of it on the hoardings. But the guys at the post office have no issues whatsoever in whatever spelling you choose to put in the postal address.
Accomodation :
If you are looking for a place near Hightec city there are 2 choices you can consider.
1. Either stay in Madhapur which is closer to the Hyderabad city but has lesser number of flats available for rent
2. Look out for a rented flat in Kondapur which is farther from Hyderabad city but is a total residential area and has better choice of rented flats available.
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Flash Widget(with source) to display live updates
Jun 15th
Hey all
This is a small flash banner to display messages from an XML file and auto refreshes to show new updates. Just thought of sharing it.
It is a dynamic XML powered flash CS3 swf file with a few customizing options.
It is useful for displaying your website updates or showing dynamic chat messages.
It auto refreshes the text content with a time interval specified in the xml file. The time gap between each message being displayed can also set in the same xml file.
The swf initially loads updates_setup.xml (shown below) More >
Dataone Usage Meter
Jun 10th
Hello all,
I have been using the windows vista sidebar a lot lately and found a gadget for every purpose from love calculators to email alerters. Yesterday I came across the eftel usage meter and then felt that there must be a gadget for my ISP too. So I created this small gadget.
Vista Sidebar Gadget
The dataone usage finder vista sidebar gadget is a must if you use the BSNL’s Dataone broadband connection. It will automatically login to your dataone account and retreive the off-peak and total bandwidth usage and calculates the bandwidth remaining in the current month. More >