The HungryCoder

Have GrameenPhone (GP) bought the media?

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:33:57 +0000

In recent months we have noticed several news on corruption about GrammenPhone. They were involved to illegal VOIP business which was discovered by RAB and BTRC in 2008. It happened more than once. Last year we have also noticed they illegally sacked too many regular employees and employed low paying employees as replacement. Today we have [...]

Best contacts importing script written in PHP

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:08:39 +0000

All you know letting visitors/users invite their contacts is one of the cheapest but proven way of marketing. We can get it by placing a contact importer script in our site and requesting users to invite his/her friends by providing email address and password. The script will then contact the server and download contacts from [...]

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

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:40:54 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:19:36 +0000

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 :(.

admin — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:39:09 +0000

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”

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:32:48 +0000

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(?)

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:01:49 +0000

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)

admin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:49:44 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:24:30 +0000

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

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:28:39 +0000

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. [...]