It’s been said time and again that The REAL Programmer automates his job that they are Long Term Life Planners and have Attention to Detail
Here is just an example of ways in which one can automate processes.
I use Seagull Framework for developing faster, secure and feature rich Web based Applications Today, I had to update the Database to fill some blank columns in a table named sgl_permision
I first tried to edit them through the Seagull’s Web based Admin Front end It was taking too long.Then I tried to edit the …

Here is a Google Toolbar Custom Button to Search php.net for all LAMP Developers
Its a Button which you can add to your Google Toolbar.
It makes your life easy by enabling you to highlight text on a web page and search for that text on php.net. with ease.

select a text in a web page.
Right click for the popup menu
Click on the label send to PHP Reference

It will search the entire php.net site for the selected text (can be a function name, class name, news or just about anything PHP) and show …

Here is another Google Toolbar Custom Button to Search with the Google Experimental Search Left Hand Search Navigation enabled.
This experimental Search enables you with the following as documented in Google Experimental Search Home Page
Search deeper in a particular type of content—patents, products or news, for example. Google searches across all kinds of content, then ranks results by relevance.
If you want to …

Here is a Google Toolbar Custom Button to search your Web History through Google.
Requirements:
Google Toolbar must be installed in your Browser with the PageRank feature activated and Web History in your Google Account enabled. Google has Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Therecould be Toolbars for other Browsers also.
You can check and install Google Toolbar from http://toolbar.google.com
You can learn more about Google Web History from here
Click here to Add the Button to your Google Toolbar
Its a single XML file and you can download the XML file and view its …

Getting Eclipse to wiork on Ubuntu for all my Development Work proved to be very tricky.There are issues related to permission compatibility and what not.
Here is what worked for me.After installing and uninstalling Eclipse and deleting the Workspace for quite a few times, I first removed all the Packages with the search term eclipse from the Synaptic Package Manager (Top Bar -> System Menu -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager)
Then I used the steps as explained in the iteratively documented tutorial at Ubuntuforum in the following url
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378
After doing …

Getting Eclipse to wiork on Ubuntu for all my Development Work proved to be very tricky.There are issues related to permission compatibility and what not.
Here is what worked for me.After installing and uninstalling Eclipse and deleting the Workspace for quite a few times, I first removed all the Packages with the search term eclipse from the Synaptic Package Manager (Top Bar -> System Menu -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager)
Then I used the steps as explained in the iteratively documented tutorial at Ubuntuforum in the following url
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201378
After doing …

Out of several LAMP/WAMP stack packages available in the market I prefer XAMPP from http://apachefriends.org when Working on a Windows machine for my Development Environment.
The XAMPP for Windows can be downloaded from the following linkhttp://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
I download/keep the zip archive of the Basic package XAMPP Windows 1.6.4 which has the following components
Apache HTTPD 2.2.6, MySQL 5.0.45, PHP 5.2.4 + 4.4.7 + PEAR + Switch, MiniPerl 5.8.7, Openssl 0.9.8e, PHPMyAdmin 2.11.1, XAMPP Control Panel 2.5, Webalizer 2.01-10, Mercury Mail Transport System v4.01a, FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.23, SQLite 2.8.15, ADODB …