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CakePHP: Problem with Bake.php
2008-02-18 14:24:00
I have XAMPP and cakePHP intalled locally, and have been wondering why my bake.php is not working like it is supposed to be according to the tutorials. It fails to bake and gives an annoying error message in the command prompt. After some debugging with the help of exit() and die(), I found out that ...
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Yahoo Is Obviously Struggling
2008-02-07 05:11:00
In an email to Yahoo workers, Mr. Yang said the board of directors has yet to decide how to respond to Microsoft’s offer to buy the veteran Internet company for $US44.6 billion ($50 billion) in cash and stock. “Our board is thoughtfully evaluating a wide range of potential strategic alternatives in what is a complex and ...
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Wordpress 2.3.3 Released
2008-02-06 06:44:00
It has been 38 days since Wordpress 2.3.2 was released and now finally a new version - Wordpress 2.3.3. Share This
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Update: Microsft Borrowing To Acquire Yahoo
2008-02-06 05:44:00
Microsoft said that it plans to pay USD$44.6 billion for Yahoo , half in stock and half in cash. The company has around USD$21.1 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. Microsoft expects the deal to be completed by the second part of this year. It is also the first time in Microsoft company history to ...
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Do You Watch Superbowl?
2008-02-04 02:34:00
Give a guy any kind of ball, and they will find something interesting to do with it. American football is one good sport which I never watch and in which I think I really need to pay more attention onto. Here are some reasons why: Share This
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Internet’s Undersea Cables
2008-02-02 16:54:00
Holly mama, I wonder how were people able to build these undersea cables. So I know why internet connections in Asia were down because some ships broke some of them. Have a peek here Share This
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Microsoft Acquiring Yahoo for $44.6 Billion
2008-02-02 15:24:00
The hard fact that Google is expanding rapidly and commanding more than 60% of the onlne advertising arena (Google Adwords) has pushed Microsoft to make an official proposal to acquire Yahoo in a deal worth $44.6 billion in cash and stock, at a price of $31 per share, which represents a 62 percent premium for shareholders. (more…) Share This
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What Is Domain Tasting?
2008-01-31 17:42:00
When you run a search on a domain name to see if it’s registered, be prepared to buy it on the spot if it’s available, or else the domain rgistrar will. One of the registrar, Network Solutions has admitted that they do that. If you check a domain’s availability with Network Solutions, the registrar will put it on “reserve” (which effectively means that it registers the domain). This practice has been called Domain Tasting, and there have been rumours of it going on for a number of years. In the end, the only place you can register the domain name is with Network Solutions (since you use it to search). (more…) Share This

Web Developer Tools Roundup
2008-01-31 14:54:00
As a web developer, you definately find times when you found a cool webpage and wonder how they did it. You wonder if there’s a tool that can show you in real-time what is happening or let you access the properties, attributes, HTML, CSS, DOM, JS of a page. Bear in mind that I’m not talking about what happens in the backend like server-side scripting language (Perl, PHP, ASP, CFM and JSP) and database access but more into the looks and user interaction (which i would refer to as the frontend). (more…) Share This
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Wordpress Top CMS in Technorati Top 100
2008-01-28 15:14:00
It ain’t a surprise when I read this today. According to Most Popular CMS in Technorati ’s Top 100, you might not notice but wordpress is commanding a 34 percent of the marketshare in Technorati’s top 100. Although some people will argue that wordpress is not a true CMS (content management system) like other full fledge flabors ...
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Mortgage Loans, Banks, and Mortgage Brokers
2008-01-28 07:37:00
I think it’s simply common sense to assume that mortgage brokers earns a fair share from banks or other lenders to recommend their client with a mortgage loan. But how much? Brokers typically receive up-front commissions of around 0.65 per cent of the entire loan amount, followed by a so-called “trail” commission of 0.20 per ...
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Google Killing Made For Adsense Sites?
2008-01-28 03:58:00
A confidential informant says Google will stop monetizing all domains if they are less then five days old. This potential new policy change by Google could stop all Domain Tasting in its tracks. The Add Grace Period (AGP) is a time period when registrars can delete a domain at no cost, but in this time ...
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Novak Djokovic Won First Grand Slam Title
2008-01-27 19:31:00
Novak Djokovic has done it. He’s the first Serbian and the youngest (age 20) to win a grand slam title. Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open 2008 finals against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (age 22) of France with 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6(7-2). Share This
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Adsense Notifier Not Working Anymore?
2008-01-27 08:40:00
So, it seems that one of my favorite Firefox Addon, Adsense Notifier , which allows you to display your Adsense earnings on the firefox statusbar has stopped working correctly. Although it still gathers how many impressions are served, the rest such as Clicks, CTR, CPM, Earnings and RPC are all showing 0. It has been going on ...
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Maria Sharapova Wins Third Grand Slam Title
2008-01-26 09:22:00
No surprises. As I’ve said previously, Maria will win the Australian Open 2008 against her opponent Ana Ivanovic, and she did. In a match that lasted 91 minute, Maria blew Ana away with straight sets win 7-5, 6-3. Share This
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Popular Web and Social Sites Backend
2008-01-25 17:40:00
A database server is basically a central location where you host your database files. There is no question that in any web application, social websites or web 2.0 sites or whatever, that the database server is like the heart and you can’t live without it. And in recent years, thanks to open source, lots of ...
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Novak Djokovic Fights Back
2008-01-25 13:21:00
Somone needs to get the job done no matter how hard it is. If the rising Serbian Janko Tipsarevic got close to it, then maybe another Serbian, Novak Djokovic can. And he did. As mighty as Roger Federer may be, he’s finally back to earth once more after losing to Novak Djokovic in the Australian ...
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Tsonga Defeats Rafal Nadal
2008-01-24 13:33:00
Tsonga, what Tsonga? If you don’t know him yet, he’s the guy who had defeated the world’s number 2 Rafal Nadal in the Australian Open 2008 with an emphatic 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 win. What is going on here? It was so obvious that Nadal’s hits and returns look so slow and short compared to Tsonga’s which ...
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Maria Sharapova Versus Ana Ivanovic
2008-01-24 07:57:00
So, it’s going to be Maria Sharapova against Ana Ivanovic in the Austrlian Open 2008 final. Maria Sharapova went trough into the finals pretty easily by beating Jelena Jankovic 6-1, 6-3. Ana Jankovic cruise through a bumpy journey, but was into the finals after defeating Slovakia’s Daniela Hantuchova 0-6, 6-3, 6-4. It was really a close ...
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Microsoft Opens Up Windows Vista For Virtualisation
2008-01-23 14:37:00
Microsoft’s decision to allow Home versions of Vista to run inside virtual machines may have far-reaching benefits in the coming years. “This move is a good thing for those computer users who aren’t Microsoft customers (like Mac and Linux users) since they now have a cost-effective way to access Windows and its massive software library,” he ...
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Bill Gates Stepping Down From Microsoft
2008-01-23 14:23:00
Found 2 videos on youtube about Bill Gates who wil be stepping down from working full time in Microsoft to a part time basis. The first video was presented in the 2008 CES, and it’s realy the first time that I’ve seen Bill “acting” on screen and trying to be funny. I even wonder if ...

Planning + Engineering + Sales + Marketing Done Right
2008-01-22 09:43:00
Nintendo is simply a marvelous company. They were the the early innovators of modern video games. Remember the Nintendo Micro Genious and Gameboy? But they were not doing good with their second generation video game console which was the Nintendo Gamecube, where Playstation 2 was obviously the king and Xbox picking up the second seat. Enter ...
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Select Your Sport Wisely
2008-01-20 15:46:00
We all know that sports stars get paid pretty well, live well and “date” well. Just look at all the good male sports players and you can really relate how many nice woman they were with before. It doesn’t really matter if you’re playing golf, tennis, soccer, cricket, basketball or formula 1. Sorry, this rule ...
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Australian Open Day 8: When Shouting ?Come On? Doesn?t Help
2008-01-20 14:37:00
No more surprises. Roger Federer won his fourth round match in straight sets in the 2008 Australian open against Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic (seeded 13) with 6-4, 7-6 (9-7), 6-3. Roger will meet the James Blake of US in their quarter finals. Share This
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Filtering Out Competitive Ads
2008-01-19 19:32:00
If you are a publisher using Google adsense to monetize your site, you may have the occassion of seeing irrelevant or totally useless ads that leads to pages that sucks and deceiving. You don’t want these kinds of ads to appear on your site, and especially when you know that they are low paying pay ...
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Australian Open Day 6 Thriller: Roger Federer Versus Janko Tipsarevic
2008-01-19 14:16:00
It was definately the tightest match that I’ve ever seen Roger Federer played. With what looked like a never ending match which lasted for over 4 hour and 27 mnutes, this was surely going to be one of the greatest match that is going into the record books. His opponent, Sebia’s 23 year old Janko Tipsarevic, ...
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Sun Microsystems Buys MySQL for $1 Billion
2008-01-19 06:30:00
The news are in. Sun is buying the popular open source database company MySQL for $1 Billion . I hope Sun keeps MySQL license terms as it is (free of charge and free to use, except for the enterprise version), provide good documentation, support and user conferences and keep on expanding the user base as MySQL has ...
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Australian Open 2008 Day 5
2008-01-18 19:24:00
It’s now Saturday 2.20am in Perth, Australia and I’ve just finished watching live on TV one of the best day of this year’s Australian Open . Share This
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Win A Free Iphone In Australia
2008-01-16 13:55:00
Thinking of getting or buying the new Apple IPhone? What if you can get it for free by winning it? Will you try it? Click Here for your chance to WIN an Apple iPhone Share This
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2007 Big Tech Buyouts
2008-01-15 19:49:00
See why the tech sector in Silicon Valley so addictive and tempting. Because it’s rapidly changing, FULL of competition, lots of fun and creativity work involved, and well, earning you a few million bucks if you did it right and sold it to the big companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Cisco and the list goes ...
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