http://www.phpfour.com/blog Views, ideas, & sharing of PHP, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, Web 2.0, AJAX, Usability, and Web Standards related matters. Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:34:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nothing to say much, check the image below: Utilizing boring time during load shedding hours http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2008/04/27/power-situation-bd/ I still receive a good number of hits to my first (10 jQuery Essentials) and second (jQuery Essentials - Round 2) collection of jQuery plugins. So, I have been thinking about making the next post in the series for quite some time. Time has always been the killer of ideas, ... http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2008/03/06/jquery-essentials-round-3/ AJAX has become the core component of many web applications around us. And its fairly easy to handle AJAX now a days, with the help of various javascript libraries (ex: jQuery, Prototype, Mootools, YUI, etc). But there is one security issue that web browsers impose in doing AJAX calls - ... http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2008/03/06/cross-domain-ajax-using-php/ I have been feeling the need of a business PDA for the last couple months, but couldn't find one that would balance both my desire of functionality and the budget constraint. I wanted to keep my schedule handy, arrange my daily tasks properly, listen to music on the go, browse ... http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2008/02/10/i-mate%e2%84%a2-pda2k/ This is a wrapper HTTP class that uses either cURL or fsockopen to harvest resources from the web. It supports a handy subset of functionalists of HTTP that are mostly needed in day to day coding. Scripts who need to communicate with other servers will find it useful. If you're ... http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2008/01/20/php-http-class/ Although its a bit late to post a "happy new year" entry, I want to thank all the visitors who paid a visit to my blog last year and wish you a Happy New Year ahead. It's been a great year with many ups & downs in my life, alas ... http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2008/01/20/new-year-ahead/ I would like to let you all know that we've just launched the new website of Right Brain Solution Ltd.. I would like to personally thank all our friends, families, associates, and well-wishers - for all their support and patience. Please have a look at the site and let us know ... http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2007/11/09/launch-of-right-brain-solution-ltds-website/ I am going to take some of my time out from my regular job as CTO of Right Brain Solution Ltd. and will work at Trippert, Inc. as Development Manager, starting from this month. My primary responsibilities will include software development and project management on various company projects. I am very ... http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2007/11/06/trippert-here-i-come/ I have been trying to remove the open_basedir directive from my php configuration to allow seamless CURL operation in my server (Plesk based). As the first step, I edited the /etc/php.ini file and set the directive to none. It made the master value for open_basedir to none. But even if, ... http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2007/10/12/turning-local-open_basedir-off/ I have been meeting some people lately who are confused with their life - not sure what they should do, not sure whether they are in the right path and very often, not sure what to do next. Having these thoughts in mind makes one's life miserable, and they need ... http://www.phpfour.com/blog/2007/09/23/inspiration/