First go to settings->Privacy settings. Select the following option -

“I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers”.

Then go to appearance->editor and select Header.php. Here...

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Here is a simple example of using pl/sql in oracle

– To enable output
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON;
– declare necessary variables
DECLARE
caseNumber    NUMBER;
name    VARCHAR(200 BYTE);
grade    VARCHAR(1 BYTE); 
BEGIN
– Lets consider we have a package named “SamplePackage” and it has a procedure named
– “SampleProc” which has...

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If you are looking to get all table name and column in a oracle schema you can use the following query

SELECT * FROM DBA_TAB_COLUMNS WHERE OWNER = 'schema_name' ;

If you want to get column names of a specific table then you can use the following query

SELECT * FROM DBA_TAB_COLUMNS...

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Found a great function for image resize in php. It requires php >= 4.3.0.
I found the source in
http://www.akemapa.com/2008/07/10/php-gd-resize-transparent-image-png-gif/

<?
function resize($img, $w, $h, $newfilename) {
    #
    //Check if GD extension is loaded
    #
    if (!extension_loaded('gd') && !extension_loaded('gd2'))...

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Here is a very simple structure of how to use curl with post method –

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://example.com/target.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);	
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST , 1);// setting up to use post method
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array("fieldName1"=>"data1","fieldName2"=>"data2"));							
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

I created a cron job which needs to run every 5 minutes. So it was sending me 12 emails per hour and my inbox got overwhelmed by email pretty soon. I had plesk control panel and plesk won’t let you leave email field empty so I started to look...

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Its a mystery to me, why it is so hard to create a wild card sub domain in plesk. Any way here is how it is done.

First go to Domains>domain.com>Dns Settings
Then go to “Add record” and add the following record

Record type: “A”
Domain Name: *.domain.com
IP Address: ip address...

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There are lots of help out there about how to edit a file in linux, how to use vi, vi command list. But what I failed to find is a simple article which will just tell me
how to open a file using vi, go to edit mode and finally...

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Here is a good article on how to store file in mysql using php

Blobbing Data With PHP and MySQL

This is a simple email address validation function. It can be used as a spam guard in the contact forms. It takes the email address and checks for DNS record of the domain name. So, from an email address like: sample@domain.com, it looks for DNS records against sample.com....

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