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Posted in: pear | ( 2 ) Comments
9 Nov 2009Whether you are dynamically creating urls or changing existing ones, manipulation of urls is a frequent coding requirement during development; doing the same on short urls is easy, but quickly becomes complex for urls which have larger query parameters.
In this post we will see how we can use Net_URL2 Pear package to manipulate URLS.
Posted in: puzzles | ( 5 ) Comments
8 Nov 2009The last programming problem, though not difficult, was interesting for the variety of ways readers tried to solve it. Here goes the second one:
Posted in: php, software, tip | ( 8 ) Comments
4 Nov 2009Posted in: data, mysql, testing | ( 2 ) Comments
3 Nov 2009One of the most time consuming steps in developing a database based application is test data generation. Imagine you have created a shopping cart application for your client, containing dozens of tables and hundreds of fields. Everything is ready for testing, but the problem is your database is empty. You at least require a modicum of test data in the database to proceed with the testing. You can choose to manually enter a small set of random data into the database, but you lose a couple of precious days in the process. What you require is a data generator that automatically generates test data for your database.
Posted in: puzzles | ( 5 ) Comments
28 Oct 2009Programming is about solving problems. To be precise, solving problems using a computing device. I love solving puzzles as do most programmers. Solving a challenging puzzle or a programming problem gives one a wonderful sense of satisfaction. Starting with this post I’ll be presenting a programming problem every week that will help readers take some time out from their routine work and have some additional fun working on challenging problems. Below is a small problem to kickstart the series:
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