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How To: Create an IE Specific Stylesheet

How To: Create an IE Specific Stylesheet

If you are a web developer you know how painful is to write a webpage that behaves same in all the web browsers. Generally the webpage created for Firefox behaves pretty much the same...

Taking Backup of your Website and WordPress Blog

Taking Backup of your Website and WordPress Blog

Recently we updated viralpatel.net and moved to WordPress 2.8.4. The process of upgrading the wordpress went smooth. The wordpress installation you are running your website on must be updated regularly to avoid any kind...

Google gets Patent for its Homepage

Google gets Patent for its Homepage

Google has received a design patent for its Google Search’s Homepage. Google had applied for the patent five years ago and finally yesterday US Patent Office approved this patent (D599,372) for the design of...

Java Garbage Collection Simplified

Garbage collection is a way in which Java recollects the space occupied by loitering objects. By doing so, it [Java] ensures that your application never runs out of memory (though we cannot be assured that the program will ever run out of memory).

What if the Facebook is a Country?

Facebook has made its way from a small social network website running in a university to a giant mammoth of 250 Million users worldwide. Buzzpoint, a social media marketing firm based out of Los...

Shell Script to Rename & Move files in Unix

Problem Statement: I have few files in source directory. I have to move them to another destination directory. The source directory have *.txt files that needs to be moved to destination directory. The destination...

Knowing $_SERVER PHP Variable in a better way

Knowing $_SERVER PHP Variable in a better way

$_SERVER array in PHP is very useful in getting lot of information about the PHP script in execution as well as the server/request details. $_SERVER is an array containing information such as headers, paths,...