Welcome Change and 2009!!!!

What a terrifc year 2008 has been with so many ups and downs!!!

But above all raise a toast to say Goodbye 2008.

And, I remember making few resolutions on 1st Jan 2008 …and when I look back today I am happy but not satisfied.

I have been really busy with lot of things both at personal and professional levels. Some of which I will be writing in due course of time.

Whatever happens, Happens for good. So let’s believe whatever happened in 2008 happened for good and we shall see the positive results in 2009.

So let’s welcome 2009 with more confidence, love and smiles.

I wish all you of and your families a very happy and prosperous new year.

Cheerz
Shri
PS: Back in business

Introducing iWinkr Studio

Ok apologies as I could not write for such a long time.

I took my own sweet time to sharpen skills, polish my courage and above all to dream BIG.

Allow me to introduce to you iWinkr studio

We will soon be launching some simple yet useful products too.

And, yes I promise to write more often now…

Cheerz
Shri

Looking for Open Source Charting system? Here it is

After a bit of research and trying with different charting and reporting libraries in Java, C++ etc, I finally found a library which is not only powerful but extremely simple as well.

Open Flash Chart

I must tell you, I have started using it and it is damn good.

The best part being that it has so much of native support to PHP that anyone who loves coding in PHP should fall in love with this graphing library.

VIsit the above URL link and see some demos of how good it is

Did I tell u that it is totally free, even for commercial use? Simply Awesome. Go check it out.

Cheerz
Shri

If you are reading article, you might also be interested in the PHP and Scriptaculous Book I have authored.

The book gives you insights about effects, drag-n-drop, slideshows, applications, auto-completion, in-place editing and more. Complete code snippets and explanations.

CHECK out and BUY the PHP and Script.aculo.us  book {My Book} at Packt official site
http://www.packtpub.com/php-and-script-aculo-us-web-2-0-application-interface/book

SUN acquires MySQL!!!!

For all those who love Open Source this news should come exciting, SUN Microsystems has acquired MySQL AB, the company behind the world famous open source Database.

As I see, SUN is merging strong in Open Source with Java, Sun Office, Solaris and Now, Mysql. It sure is here to play a big game with Open Source. IT wud be surely interesting to wait and watch how SUN tries to capture the market.

SUN has already ignited with Start-up essentials and to that package,mysql is a bonus.

Cheerz
SHri

IE really Sucks!!!!

Internet Explorer really sucks when it comes to executing JavaScript. I shall detail u d problem as well as d solution {If I find}.

But, for now join me in abusing MS for such a creepy IE stuff

Cheerz
SHri

If you are reading article, you might also be interested in the PHP and Scriptaculous Book I have authored.

The book gives you insights about effects, drag-n-drop, slideshows, applications, auto-completion, in-place editing and more. Complete code snippets and explanations.

CHECK out and BUY the PHP and Script.aculo.us book {My Book} at Packt official site
http://www.packtpub.com/php-and-script-aculo-us-web-2-0-application-interface/book

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!!!

2007 will soon die in next few hours, leaving us with loads of memories. Some of them good times, some really tough.

I am Looking forward for life in 2008.

Wait a min, say a quick Prayer, and Now, raise a toast, and Cheeeerzzz 2008.

Wishing You and Your Family a very Happy and Prosperous New Year ahead!!!

–Shri

One of the best Indian Bands: Indian Ocean!!!!

Indian Ocean is probably one of those Bands who not only give importance to music but to words as well.

The right mix of the rock-style jazz and classical touch makes them my best Indian Band. Susmit Sen, Rahul Ram, Asheem and Amit together can really compose some mind blowing music. I kinda speically like the vocal of Rahul Ram, which is very heavy and suits both western as well as Indian classical songs.

Have any doubts?

Check this video out…I am sure it will touch you.

Cheerz
Shri

Learn how to play with Flash, Mysql & PHP

Its one of those cool tutorials I have ever come across. It helps us in understaning how to integrate and play with Flash, Mysql and PHP.

I am sure it would help you too.

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/brimelow_lee/php_mysql/php_mysql_flash.html

Cheerz
SHri

If you are reading article, you might also be interested in the PHP and Scriptaculous Book I have authored.

The book gives you insights about effects, drag-n-drop, slideshows, applications, auto-completion, in-place editing and more. Complete code snippets and explanations.

CHECK out and BUY the PHP and Script.aculo.us book at Packt official site

PHP and Script.aculo.us Book

http://www.packtpub.com/php-and-script-aculo-us-web-2-0-application-interface/book

Blog Reads….

Since, I am not updating my blog regularly now a days of course, you know I am busy

Anyways, by that time, you can have look at these blogs, I hope you would like reading them.

Web Analytics India Blog : A blog about the latest growing trends in analytics wrt India.  {Its written by Anil, a fellow barcamper and friend}

Its a Free World : Ever imagine, whats happening around us? I know lot of mess. But then what we can do to solve it? Can we make our Ideas work to help humanity? Neha and Poonam, Exploring the unexplored zones.

If you have more interesting blogs to read, share with us.

Cheerz
Shri

Simple Ajax with YUI!!!

For those of you, who want to get started with YUI and Ajax, this would surely prove helpful.

<html><head>
<title>Lets learn YUI</title>

</head>

<body>
<div id="mydiv">

Add some Text or Images if you want to replace dynamically</div>
<a href="Loading.html" onclick="return YUI();">My first AJAX</a>
<script src="build/yahoo/yahoo-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script src="build/event/event-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script src="build/connection/connection-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

//<![CDATA[

function YUI(){

var loadUrl = "Loading.html";

var callback = {

success: function(o) {

document.getElementById('mydiv').innerHTML =  o.responseText;

},

failure: function(o) {

alert("AJAX doesn't work"); //FAILURE

}

}

var transaction = YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('GET', loadUrl, callback, null);

return false;

}

//]]>

</script>

</body>

</html>

This is how one can simply make AJAX calls using YUI. The code is simple and self explanatory. If you need any help with this, please drop in comments.

Cheerz
Shri

If you are reading article, you might also be interested in the PHP and Scriptaculous Book I have authored.

The book gives you insights about effects, drag-n-drop, slideshows, applications, auto-completion, in-place editing and more. Complete code snippets and explanations.

CHECK out and BUY the PHP and Script.aculo.us book at Packt official site

http://www.packtpub.com/php-and-script-aculo-us-web-2-0-application-interface/book

Quick Code for Rounded Corners using Rico!!!!

Quick Code is a new category in my blog, where I shall share the code with lil details

<script type="text/javascript" src="./scripts/prototype.js" language="JavaScript">
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="./scripts/rico.js" language="JavaScript">
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
Rico.Corner.round('ID of ur DIV',{compact:false,blend:false,corners:'all'});
</script>

Code is self explanatory,you just need to pass the ID of the DIV u need make it Rounded Corner. Extra parameters you can pass are Color, etc which of course are optional

Cheerz
Shri

If you are reading article, you might also be interested in the PHP and Scriptaculous Book I have authored.

The book gives you insights about effects, drag-n-drop, slideshows, applications, auto-completion, in-place editing and more. Complete code snippets and explanations.

CHECK out and BUY the PHP and Script.aculo.us book {My Book} at Packt official site
http://www.packtpub.com/php-and-script-aculo-us-web-2-0-application-interface/book

Breaking News!!!!

Read this piece of information Here

DesiMartini.com  has been acquired by Hindustan Media’s Internet group

Cheerz to the team @ Desimartini

–Shri

Looking for serious Hackers!!!!!

Hello Readers,

I am seriously looking for some Hackers to work on some projects, if you are interested/ know of someone, please drop me a mail.

Looking for guys with

1. PHP
2. Flash
3. UI Designer

Not, necessary that they should work full time, can also work on weekends.

If any of the students are interested, I would be more than happy to work with you.

Drop me a mail at chshridharrao@gmail.com

Cheerz
Shri

BarCamp Bangalore Winter Edition is Here!!!

Thats Right!!!!

BarCamp Bangalore winter edition is scheduled to be on 17th & 18th Nov’07.

I will mostly be around the start-up, UI Designing and Hackers Collectives.

If you havent registered yet, you can still do it here. If you also happen to be around, drop me a mail/comment we shall surely catch up.

Advanced Word Count for PHP!!!!!

If you have tried counting words in a string in PHP, you sure must have used “explode” function.

Its a pretty simple function and can be used in N-ways. A general simple function can be written as

$String = "This is my blog";
$words = explode(" ",String);
$num = count($words);

Now, this should give you the number of words (4) and following with the count of number of words{This, is, my, blog}.

BUT, the real problem is if your string is “Hello     World”, the number of words here are 7 and count is also 7. How come? THats coz, of the fact the function explode takes delimiter as a space and will count the spaces, commas, etc also as words.

I have found a better way of doing the same. So here I am sharing with you.

Instead use this function, in which we check wheather the word is having any integer, charcter etc in it or not. If its a space we can royally ignore it

function wordCount($string){
     $words = "";
     $string = eregi_replace(" +", " ", $string);
     $array = explode(" ", $string);
     for($i=0;$i < count($array);$i++)
   {
         if (eregi("[0-9A-Za-zÀ-ÖØ-öø-ÿ]", $array[$i]))
             $words[$i] = $array[$i];

     }
     return $words;
 }

In this way, we can get the words as the user must have typed omitting the spaces and junk characters.

This function will return you a array of words in the string, and further we can even make it only Words++ to count how many words are there. So this function can actually work for 2 purposes.

1. Count the number of Words in a string
2. Get the words in array

Hope you find this useful.

CHeerz
Shri

If you are reading article, you might also be interested in the PHP and Scriptaculous Book I have authored.

The book gives you insights about effects, drag-n-drop, slideshows, applications, auto-completion, in-place editing and more. Complete code snippets and explanations.

CHECK out and BUY the PHP and Script.aculo.us book  at Packt official site

http://www.packtpub.com/php-and-script-aculo-us-web-2-0-application-interface/book