Archive for December, 2008

Putting site temporarily down and redirecting users to a maintenance page.

December 31st

Today I needed this trick. I was having some problem with one of my sites. I want to turn the site down while I am fixing it. But as the site is made with scatter html, php pages, it is not easy to centrally control maintenance mode. But I believed, this is possible by .htaccess [...]

Setting multiple homepages in Firefox, Flock and IE7

December 30th

All you know that we can make any site as our browser’s homepage so that the page is opened automatically when we start the browser. But what is the way when I want to like more than one page to be started along with the browser? Here is the solution.
Internet Explorer 7:
It is easiest one. [...]

Purchased a new Modem….Anik modem is dead :(.

December 27th

Today I have purchased a new EDGE Modem for internet access as my previous modem died yesterday. The new modem’s brand is Histon. My old one was Anik modem. Today morning I visited Anik’s head office and showed my non-functioning modem. After a few minutes of testing, they said it is dead. But I it [...]

Participated in Workshop titled “IT Project Management”

December 19th

I just returned home after completing a workshop titled “IT Project Management” which is organized by bdjobs. It was a day long workshop that was started from 9am and continued till 5pm. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Fahim Bhuiyan who is currently serving as a Manager in a leading strategy and technology consulting firm [...]

cPanel 11.24 VPS Optimized(?)

December 18th

Yesterday I have got the mail from cPanel about some changes in cPanel. Though the changes were applied in CURRENT & EDGE tree, yesterday they entered into RELEASE tree. As I use RELEASE tree I have immediately updated the cPanel’s version. I have monitored the server almost whole day.
They claimed they have released the [...]

How to submit a form using PHP (cURL, fsockopen)

December 11th

There are situations when you want to send data using POST to a URL, either local or remote. Why would you want to do this? Probably you want to submit data to an optin form, but without taking a valuable visitor away from your site. Or maybe you want to send data to several applications for various purposes, which would be impossible to do in the usual manner. So how can we deal with this problem?

My first plugin in wordpress plugin repo

December 10th

May be nothing to be exicited. But its still a moment to remember. Today I have published my latest plugin in WordPress plugin repository. Though I have made two more open source plugins, I did not put them in the repo. But I wanted to put my latest plugin (Blog Post Reordering) to the repo [...]

WordPress Blog/Post Reorder

December 7th

Until this plugin takes birth, the blog posts of WordPress were arranged on post’s date/time basis. The latest post will be in front and the earlier posts will sink.
From a few days, I was planning about this plugin. I am excited at this beta release of it.
Usage:
Using this plugin, posts can be reordered or reorganized. [...]

Installation and configuration of SHOUTcast is fun!

December 5th

Today one of my online junior friend requested me to install and configure SHOUTcast for him. Though I had no previous experience on it, I became interested to take the challenge. Before starting, I dug internet a bit and found a helpful tutorial. I started the work and found it is very easy. It took [...]

Red5 installation never been easiest!

December 2nd

Several times I have tried to install Red5 Streaming server in my linux box and I successfully failed during every try.
Today from morning I again started to try as success was my sheer determination. I planed I would surely find out a positive result. But no hope. I again failed to install it.
Later, while searching [...]

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