Category: techno-babble

  • Pranav Mistry – Sixth Sense

    This is just awesome! This type of technology will revolutionize the world as we know. I’m sure the applications are great, but what boggles my mind is how smart this young fella is.  Watch the video and enjoy: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtANPtnhyg]

  • Drupal Updating / Upgrading

    Updating or Upgrading Drupal is not an easy task.  Compared to WordPress, where the updating is simply a mouse-click away, Drupal requires you to do certain things that can take a bit of time in extremely extensive sites.  I recently had to update my Drupal installation from 6.12 to 6.14 Now this being my first…

  • Drupal 6 Installation issues

    Drupal 6 requires php directive “register_globals” to be off.  This is not always the case depending on your hosting environment or even your own requirements as Drupal may not be the only thing residing on your virtual server. There are several work arounds for the issue if you come across an error during installation asking…

  • Open Source CMS Comparitive Analysis

    Are you looking for an open source CMS? There are way too many systems out there and everybody has its own choice, providing their own pros and cons about the various systems out there.  I came across a nice report which I felt like sharing with others who may be visiting these open source demo…

  • Mysql – Appending data

    Problem: Appending data from one table to another table where duplicate might exist. Solution: A simple “Insert into table2 select * from table1” query will give errors saying “duplicate records exist”, to go around it, the following query should do the job: INSERT INTO MASTERTABLE SELECT * FROM NEWTABLE WHERE NEWTABLE.`UNIQUEID` NOT IN (SELECT `UNIQUEID`…