Hello Friends, First of all – HAMESA (pronounced as HA-ME-SAA) is Hindi version of the word “Always” and hence the tagline “Always with you”. What is HAMESA? HAMESA is a Windows Phone 8 app that will allow users to calculate the taxi fare when travelling in Kolkata. This app has been written to help you, …
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HAMESA – Always With You
April 27th, 2013 | Posted by in Windows Phone | Windows Phone App - (0 Comments)How to Disable User Registrations in Drupal 6
April 1st, 2013 | Posted by in Drupal | PhP - (0 Comments)
Friends, We all face the issue of spam registrations on our websites. Many of the times, we want to disable user registrations on the website. This post details how the same can be done in Drupal. Drupal allows the following different settings for user registrations – Only site administrators can create new user accounts. Visitors …
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Error Codes and Explanation for MySQL Database Server
March 31st, 2013 | Posted by in MySQL | Troubleshooting - (0 Comments)
Friends, Often while working with MySQL server, we get error codes. It is a painful task to identify the exact error with the error code. This post lists all the error codes and their descriptions for MySQL server. This post does not discuss the solution for each error code, but only the description of the …
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Display Latest Tweets From A Twitter Account Using HTML & Javascript
March 16th, 2013 | Posted by in HTML | Javascript | Twitter - (2 Comments)
Friends, In my last post I discussed about how to display tweets on your webpage in the most easiest way. This post will continue the Twitter series and deal with the situation when you want to load tweets of a specific user on the fly or at run time. The focus of this post is …
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Display Latest Tweets From A Twitter Account Using HTML
March 10th, 2013 | Posted by in HTML | Javascript | Twitter - (4 Comments)
Friends, Social media is one of the most engaging medium of communication today and every blogger wants to display tweets from his/her specific account on the website. This post briefs displaying your latest tweets on your website without knowledge of any programming language. You can just copy and paste the code and start displaying your …
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Hands on Expreience with Lumia 920 – Why should you buy it?
March 5th, 2013 | Posted by in Reviews | Windows Phone - (0 Comments)Hey Friends, Finally, I own a Lumia 920 now!! This post details my hands on experience with Nokia Lumia 920. Specifications Camera sensor (main camera resolution) – 8.7 MP megapixels Camera – Nokia PureView Display size – 11.43 cm Snapdragon™ S4 For detailed specifications, visit here. Look & Feel The moment you have Lumia in …
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How to Start-Stop MySQL Server on CentOS Server
February 15th, 2013 | Posted by in General | MySQL | Utility - (0 Comments)
Friends, Working with Linux Servers and you often need to start/stop/restart services. This small post is to explain how you can start/stop/restart MySQL server from command line on CentOS Server. Stop MySQL Server # /etc/init.d/mysqld stop Start MySQL Server # /etc/init.d/mysqld start Restart MySQL Server # /etc/init.d/mysqld restart Hope you find this small tip useful.
Enable-Disbale Drupal module using Drush
February 14th, 2013 | Posted by in Drupal | Drush | PhP - (0 Comments)
Friends, When working with Drupal, modules are like the bat and ball for programmers. In development phase, we have to disable/re-enable a module hundreds of time before the module is finalized. Drush is a very strong shell script that allows us to do several daily basis jobs in Drupal from command line. Once installed on …
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HTML Equivalent of Special Characters
February 14th, 2013 | Posted by in General | HTML | Utility - (0 Comments)
Hello Firends, A post after long time. While working with non-English sites (Spanish, French, Slovak etc..), we often need to handle special characters. There are hundreds and hundreds of special characters available to use. This post lists down the commonly used special characters relevant mostly to Spanish sites and their equivalent HTML codes. Character HTML …
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Solution: ExecuteNonQuery() always returning -1 when calling a Stored Procedure
December 18th, 2012 | Posted by in .Net | SQL Server - (0 Comments)
Friends, This post details another solution to a very basic problem that we face in our development and tend to miss writing Stored Procedures. We know ExecuteNonQuery() function defined in the SqlCommand class returns the number of rows affected by the query we are executing. Sometimes, when calling a Stored Procedure using the ExecuteNonquery() from …
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