Archive for the ‘Technical’ Category

Intgrating Mailchimp with codeigniter website

August 28th, 2010 | Posted by sucheta | 1 Comment
This article assumes that you have working codeigniter website. First of all create a mailchimp account for yourself. Get the API keys & Info by logging into your mailchimp account & going ...

Enabling MySQL Slow Query Logging

August 5th, 2010 | Posted by sucheta | 53 Comments
While determine why your MYSQL database is not performing upto the mark slow query logging is a necessary and actually the first step. The results contained in this file, combined ...

Computing hash of a file

July 5th, 2010 | Posted by sucheta | 3 Comments
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Allowing UniversalXPConnect privilege

July 5th, 2010 | Posted by sucheta | 1 Comment
While developing the firefox extension I wanted the UniversalXPConnect privilege so that I could create a hash value for my extension. There are many ways to do it – the ...

Quick Tip: Get more efficient with jQuery’s getScript!

June 8th, 2010 | Posted by sucheta | 5 Comments
A nice post explaining how & why to the getScript() jquery function http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/development/quick-tip-get-more-efficient-with-jquerys-getscript/ var act221 = new gigya.services.socialize.UserAction();act221.setUserMessage(”);act221.setTitle(‘Quick Tip: Get more efficient with jQuery’s getScript!’);act221.setDescription(“Read more on Dhruvs Blog”);act221.setLinkBack(“http://www.dhruvluthra.com/quick-tip-get-more-efficient-with-jquery%e2%80%99s-getscript/”);act221.addActionLink(“Read more” ,”http://www.dhruvluthra.com/quick-tip-get-more-efficient-with-jquery%e2%80%99s-getscript/”);var image221 ...

Locating firefox extension

May 31st, 2010 | Posted by sucheta | 12 Comments
While developing a firefox extension the most cumbersome task is to test each and every update every few minutes. As for testing we need to follow the steps - 1) Create a ...

Resetting the MySQL Root Password: Windows Systems

May 29th, 2010 | Posted by sucheta | 5 Comments
Had installed MySQL on a PC quite long ago and then forgot what the root user password was. Found the following instructions to be helpful - Log on ...