Introducing Google Chrome Frame

Written on September 28, 2009 by Zaki and No one have comment

Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer. With Google Chrome Frame, you can:

  • Start using open web technologies – like the HTML5 canvas tag – right away, even technologies that aren’t yet supported in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8.
  • Take advantage of JavaScript performance improvements to make your apps faster and more responsive.

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Facebook Chat with Pidgin IM

Written on June 21, 2009 by Zaki and No one have comment

Did you know you can add Facebook Chat protocol to Pidgin IM using a 3rd-party plugin made by Eion Robb (he also made Skype for Pidgin). Get it now from http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/.

This is a Facebook chat plugin for Pidgin and libpurple messengers. It connects to the new Facebook Chat IM service without the need for an API key. It was created by Eion Robb in May 2008 and has had major code additions by Casey Ho and Mark Doliner who joined the project at the end of 2008.

Install Apache2, MySQL5, PHP5 and PHPMyAdmin on Ubuntu

Written on June 17, 2009 by Zaki and 10 peoples have comment

This is a collection of guide how to install Apache Httpd Web Server complete with latest PHP (as Apache mod), MySQL for Ubuntu. As a bonus, I even through in an additional guide to install PHPMyAdmin. Please do note that most of this guide can be found elsewhere which is listed at the bottom of the guide.

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31998 is evil

Written on June 17, 2009 by Zaki and 2 peoples have comment

Did you know, in Linux (especially under EXT3) you can only have less or equal to 31,998 subfolder under a folder.

There is a limit of 31998 sub-directories per one directory, stemming from its limit of 32000 links per inode – Wikipedia

Script To Clean Up Aptana Temporary Files In Ubuntu

Written on June 05, 2009 by Zaki and 3 peoples have comment

Sometime you might get irritating with the amount of temporary files appearing in all your project when code using Aptana IDE but here a bash script that can help you automatically remove those temporary file without much hassle.

> cd /bin
> sudo vi cleanAptana

Then paste the following script

find . -type f -name ".tmp*" -exec rm -f {} \;

You might also need to change the chmod first before using the script

> sudo chmod 0777 cleanAptana

To execute the command.

> cd /var/www/myproject
> cleanAptana