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I got the following solution. function mul($a,$b) { if($b==1){return $a;} return $a+mul($a,$b-1); } echo....Read More Our ancestors were using Bluetooth and Wireless technology before 5000 After digging to a depth of 100 meters last year, Russian scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago. So, not to be outdone,....Read More MVC Song Again - Video Version Two Years back i have written a post about the MVC(Model-View-Controller) song in this blog. Yesterday while surfing the web I found a video of James singing it live on WWDC 2003 in youtube. Here is the youtube video: And those who wish to read....Read More What is CDN? In the late 90's where internet start its booming, The content(Web page/Images/Video/MP3 etc....) was delivering from a central server. This affects the loading and response time if large number of users hits the same server at a time. So people strats....Read More Five HTML5 Presentations To Help You Get Started If you want to know more about HTML 5, here are links to some presentations, video recordings and web article that you may find useful. HTML 5 Reference â€“ A official guide to HTML 5 for developers. Preview of HTML 5 â€“ An overview of HTML 5 in simple....Read More PHP session is not working in IFrames in IE browsers Recently I have faced an issue with session in IFrames in IE Browsers. The issue is like session is not sharing between pages inside iframe particularly if you are accessing it in a different domain. The script will run smoothly without the iframe,....Read More HTML5 - New Feature - Storage Tables HTML5 is introducing a new feature called "Storage Tables". With "Storage Tables" can be described as a simple database in the browser. This allows you to store and retrieve a value even when the user has closed his browser and reopened it. Like....Read More Web 3.0 Concepts explained Out of all the Internet buzzwords and jargon that have made the transition to the public consciousness, â€œWeb 2.0â€³ might be the best known. Even though a lot of people have heard about it, not many have any idea what Web 2.0 means. Some people....Read More Overriding Inline css style definitions. One of the most powerful features of CSS is the cascading. Knowing how a browser chooses and applies your styles is invaluable knowledge. There are various methods to apply css to an element. External Style Sheets - All css will written in separate....Read More Google Internet Campaign - The Internet Bus Google Internet Bus Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by admin \| Edit Google India has a launched a very unique initiative to educate the offline population in India about the benefits of Internet. The project is called The Internet Bus. The aim....Read More Announcements Google Internet Campaign - The Internet Bus Google Internet Bus Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by admin \| Edit Google India has a launched a very unique initiative to educate the offline population in India about the benefits of Internet. The project is called The Internet Bus. The aim....Read More AOL Is Integrated GMail and yahoo to Its Home Page Just see a new feature in AOL.COM home page. The Dynamictabs are integrated with GMail, HotMail and Yahoo Mail. Now you candirectly login to GMAIL or Yahoo Mail from AOL.com and accessyour Inbox. AOL Also revamps its home page. . Read More Yahoo Photos Begins Closing Down Yahooâ€™s planned shutdown of Yahoo Photos has begun. The Yahoo blog Yodel Anecdotal reports that they have started to close accounts and transition users over to Flickr. i got an e-mail from yahoo. it is as follows, Dear Yahoo! Photos user, ....Read More View power point presentations Inside GMail Now you can open PowerPoint attachments as slideshows, without having to download anything. Just click "View as slideshow" next to the .ppt attachment you want to preview. Since you can open .doc and .xls attachments with Google Docs and Spreadsheets....Read More Microsoft's New Brainchild - Surface Imagine being able to actually touch your digital photos and drag them around by hand, or use your finger as a Photoshop paint brush. You can do that and much more with Microsoft's first surface computing product, imaginatively named Microsoft Surface. ....Read More Google with its new product - Google Gears Recently, google launched the beta version of there new product "Google Gears". The goal of Google Gears is to allow rich, AJAX â€“ heavy web applications to become fully functional both on and offline. 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One of the most powerful features of CSS is the cascading. Knowing how a browser chooses and applies your styles is invaluable knowledge. There are various methods to apply css to an element. External Style Sheets - All css will written in separate....Read More Top 5 HTML Accessibility Practises. Tabbing Users who do not or cannot use pointing devices can 'tab' through links, and as such, links should be in a logical tabbing order. The "tabindex" attribute allows you to define this order although if the HTML is linear, as it should be, a logical....Read More Top 10 HTML Email Mistakes Following are some of the top mistakes occurs while creating an HTML email. Mistake #1: Not testing your campaign enough. Before you send an email out to your entire list, you should have sent at least 4 or 5 tests to yourself, and to all your....Read More Embedding Fonts In Web Page. Recently i have faced few problem with commercial fonts or dynamic fonts in one of my project.Dynamic fonts are font style files that download right along with the page that will use them.Think of them as an image. That's the basic concept. When you....Read More Need for speed : CSS Compression A powerful advantage of using PHP is that you can compress your files so that they take up less room on your server. There are multiple ways of achieving this, one method is as follows: <?php ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?> Just add that to....Read More Preventing spam on your website without using captcha This is an alternative to the image and audio captcha and it is much simpler than the other two methods. 1. Add an input field to your form, with some interesting name, for example â€˜URLâ€™. <input name="url" type="text" value=""/> 2. Hide....Read More E-mail Pretty Good Gmail Following the footsteps of Google's personalized homepage, Gmail added themes. Once the new option is enabled in your account (as usually, Gmail's new features are slowly rolled out), you'll find a tab named "Themes" in the settings page and you'll....Read More Top 10 HTML Email Mistakes Following are some of the top mistakes occurs while creating an HTML email. Mistake #1: Not testing your campaign enough. Before you send an email out to your entire list, you should have sent at least 4 or 5 tests to yourself, and to all your....Read More How to Search An E-Mail in G-Mail The real power of Gmail search lies in search operators -- words that help modify your queries. Search operators work pretty much the same way within Gmail as they do for Google. In the latest post in the official G-Mail blog, they have mentioned....Read More 9 Reasons not to archive messages Today I read one article about the GMail mail archive (9 reasons not to archive messages). After reading the article I feel what the author trying to explain is correct. But I am going to continue my habit of archiving E-mailsâ€¦But not simply everythingâ€¦. The....Read More 9 reasons to archive your E-mails The GMail Blog is giving 9 reasons to archive your E-mail's regulerly. Archiving? What is that? In Simple.... Archiving just means moving mail out of your inbox and storing it for safekeeping. In Detail.... Archiving moves messages....Read More Gadgets Microsoft's New Brainchild - Surface Imagine being able to actually touch your digital photos and drag them around by hand, or use your finger as a Photoshop paint brush. You can do that and much more with Microsoft's first surface computing product, imaginatively named Microsoft Surface. ....Read More Geeky-Fun Our ancestors were using Bluetooth and Wireless technology before 5000 After digging to a depth of 100 meters last year, Russian scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago. So, not to be outdone,....Read More Google Google Internet Campaign - The Internet Bus Google Internet Bus Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by admin \| Edit Google India has a launched a very unique initiative to educate the offline population in India about the benefits of Internet. The project is called The Internet Bus. The aim....Read More Pretty Good Gmail Following the footsteps of Google's personalized homepage, Gmail added themes. Once the new option is enabled in your account (as usually, Gmail's new features are slowly rolled out), you'll find a tab named "Themes" in the settings page and you'll....Read More Hidden GMail Chat Icons Some Hidden and Known GMail Chat emoticons. Bold and Italics Get bold or italics using Textile-like commands. Surround text with underscores â€œ_â€ for italics, or asteriks â€œâ€ for bold. for example, something like hello* or _hello_ Special....Read More Google Chrome : New & Missing Features Yesterday, google launched Google Chrome, a new approach to the web browser that comes with a few features that can give you a better browsing experience: I like the following features of Google chrome. ================================== 1.) Google....Read More How to Search An E-Mail in G-Mail The real power of Gmail search lies in search operators -- words that help modify your queries. Search operators work pretty much the same way within Gmail as they do for Google. In the latest post in the official G-Mail blog, they have mentioned....Read More 9 Reasons not to archive messages Today I read one article about the GMail mail archive (9 reasons not to archive messages). After reading the article I feel what the author trying to explain is correct. But I am going to continue my habit of archiving E-mailsâ€¦But not simply everythingâ€¦. The....Read More 9 reasons to archive your E-mails The GMail Blog is giving 9 reasons to archive your E-mail's regulerly. Archiving? What is that? In Simple.... Archiving just means moving mail out of your inbox and storing it for safekeeping. In Detail.... Archiving moves messages....Read More HTML Five HTML5 Presentations To Help You Get Started If you want to know more about HTML 5, here are links to some presentations, video recordings and web article that you may find useful. HTML 5 Reference â€“ A official guide to HTML 5 for developers. Preview of HTML 5 â€“ An overview of HTML 5 in simple....Read More HTML5 - New Feature - Storage Tables HTML5 is introducing a new feature called "Storage Tables". With "Storage Tables" can be described as a simple database in the browser. This allows you to store and retrieve a value even when the user has closed his browser and reopened it. Like....Read More Top 5 HTML Accessibility Practises. Tabbing Users who do not or cannot use pointing devices can 'tab' through links, and as such, links should be in a logical tabbing order. The "tabindex" attribute allows you to define this order although if the HTML is linear, as it should be, a logical....Read More How do I include another file inside a HTML file? An include is a section of HTML that isn't a full HTML document by itself. Instead, it is a portion of another page that can be included in complete Web pages using programming. Unfortunately, this is not something that is supported by HTML, so....Read More Why avoiding tables for layout is important Tables are slow ============= In almost every browser out there, unless table widths are specified explicitly, all the text in the table needs to be rendered before the browser can figure out how wide to make the various table cells. This means that....Read More Preventing spam on your website without using captcha This is an alternative to the image and audio captcha and it is much simpler than the other two methods. 1. Add an input field to your form, with some interesting name, for example â€˜URLâ€™. <input name="url" type="text" value=""/> 2. Hide....Read More JavaScript Passing multiple Arguments to a JavaScript Function at Runtime Today I came across with a scenario in Javascript functions that the number of parameters would change in the runtime. When I searched in google I found that, In JavaScript we can pass any number of parameter and get these parameter at run time. JavaScript....Read More Body Background Color ....Read More Preventing Double Payments One of the problems in e-commerce is how to protect the user from making mistakes. It's even more critical when your protection target is on-line payments. Usually, you need to send a request to a credit authorization system, get back a transaction....Read More Reveal The Contents of Password Fields If you chose the "Remember" option for logins in webpages, you can reveal it easily. It doesn't require any software to reveal hidden passwords under asterisks and don't need to waste your time in cracking master password. Simply enter the following....Read More Number Validation Using JavaScript Usig javascript, the simplest way to check whether the details entered in a text field are numeric is to to loop through the string and compare each character to a pre-defined list of acceptable characters. <script type="text/javascript"> function....Read More How do I include another file inside a HTML file? An include is a section of HTML that isn't a full HTML document by itself. Instead, it is a portion of another page that can be included in complete Web pages using programming. Unfortunately, this is not something that is supported by HTML, so....Read More window.open() Method's Return Value To handle references to a window properly, you should always assign the result of a window.open() call to a variable. A call to the window.open() method returns a value of the new window's object if the window opens successfully, or null if it fails....Read More Need for speed : JavaScript Compression This is a continuation to my previous post Need for speed : CSS. I have used PHP to compress my JavaScript files. Why compression and How? Javascript files for larger sites can become pretty large themselves. Gzipping or compressing these files....Read More Javascript Tips & Tricks Version your JavaScript ==================== Include js version in the language attribute, e.g. script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.4"> Useful if you want to "hide" code from older browsers .g. if you use try...catch statements....Read More Most Wanted JavaScript String.prototype Extensions This is the list of 10 JavaScript String.prototype extensions. 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I got the following solution. function mul($a,$b) { if($b==1){return $a;} return $a+mul($a,$b-1); } echo....Read More MVC Song Again - Video Version Two Years back i have written a post about the MVC(Model-View-Controller) song in this blog. Yesterday while surfing the web I found a video of James singing it live on WWDC 2003 in youtube. Here is the youtube video: And those who wish to read....Read More PHP session is not working in IFrames in IE browsers Recently I have faced an issue with session in IFrames in IE Browsers. The issue is like session is not sharing between pages inside iframe particularly if you are accessing it in a different domain. The script will run smoothly without the iframe,....Read More Php optimization tips - Part 1 echo is faster than print. Wrap your string in single quotes (â€™) instead of double quotes (â€) is faster because PHP searches for variables inside â€œâ€¦â€ and not in â€˜â€¦â€™, use this when youâ€™re not using variables you need....Read More PHP Header Location - Page Not found Error. Recently I faced a weird issue with the PHP header location function. I had a line of code in my file like, Code: header('location:mypage.php'); In firefox/geeko browsers it is working fine. but in IE when it tries to redirect the page it is....Read More How to Display Server Load in PHP When developing a PHP application or monitoring a web server, itâ€™s important to know what your server load is to properly identify that there is a problem. For those interested, there is a very easy way to output your load in PHP using the exec....Read More PHP Custom Error Messages This is a continuation to my post PHP Magic Constants. Here I would like to demonstrate a real time example of magic constants. 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There are multiple ways of achieving this, one method is as follows: <?php ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?> Just add that to....Read More Preventing spam on your website without using captcha This is an alternative to the image and audio captcha and it is much simpler than the other two methods. 1. Add an input field to your form, with some interesting name, for example â€˜URLâ€™. <input name="url" type="text" value=""/> 2. Hide....Read More JavaScript equivalent of php function preg_replace Here is a simple javascript function which is equivalent to PHP's preg_match function. Â Â Â function preg_replace (array_pattern, array_pattern_replace, my_string) { var new_string = String (my_string); for (i=0; i<array_pattern.length; i++)....Read More Search Engine How to enable mod_rewrite module in apache How to check weather mod_rewrite module is enabled or not? The very simple technique to check weather mod_rewrite module is enabled or not in you web server. 1) Type in a php file and save it and run that file in the server. 2) And now you....Read More Lucene : A Powerfull Search Engine Doug Cutting, an experienced developer of text-search and retrieval tools, created Lucene. Cutting is the primary author of the V-Twin search engine (part of Apple's Copland operating system effort) and is currently a senior architect at Excite.....Read More Security PHP session is not working in IFrames in IE browsers Recently I have faced an issue with session in IFrames in IE Browsers. The issue is like session is not sharing between pages inside iframe particularly if you are accessing it in a different domain. The script will run smoothly without the iframe,....Read More Reveal The Contents of Password Fields If you chose the "Remember" option for logins in webpages, you can reveal it easily. 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In the latest post in the official G-Mail blog, they have mentioned....Read More How to enable mod_rewrite module in apache How to check weather mod_rewrite module is enabled or not? The very simple technique to check weather mod_rewrite module is enabled or not in you web server. 1) Type in a php file and save it and run that file in the server. 2) And now you....Read More How to surf the web even if web browsers are disabled Ever find yourself sitting in front of a computer that's been locked down by an IT administrator who won't let you install any software or even open Internet Explorer or Firefox? 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Gzipping or compressing these files....Read More Need for speed : CSS Compression A powerful advantage of using PHP is that you can compress your files so that they take up less room on your server. There are multiple ways of achieving this, one method is as follows: <?php ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?> Just add that to....Read More Javascript Tips & Tricks Version your JavaScript ==================== Include js version in the language attribute, e.g. script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.4"> Useful if you want to "hide" code from older browsers .g. if you use try...catch statements....Read More Web MVC Song Again - Video Version Two Years back i have written a post about the MVC(Model-View-Controller) song in this blog. Yesterday while surfing the web I found a video of James singing it live on WWDC 2003 in youtube. Here is the youtube video: And those who wish to read....Read More What is CDN? 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