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  • সম্প্রীতির ডাক (from old blog)

    সম্প্রীতির ডাক (from old blog)

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    (০৮ ই মার্চ, ২০০৬ রাত ১২:২১) ছোট বেলায় কবিতা লিখে সবাইকে তাক লাগিয়ে দিতাম মন্তব্য করলেন ধানসিঁড়ি। যাক, খুব ভাল একটি কথা মনে করেছেন। অবশ্য আমি ঝাঁক ঝাঁক কবিতা লিখি না, কারণ কবিতায় নাক গলানোর মত এত সময় দেয়ার সময় হয়ে ওঠেনি। থাক ওসব কথা, তানাহলে অন্যরা আবার আমার কথার ফাঁক খুঁজতে শুরু করবেন। “এই…

  • Nixing the X-Powered-By: A Web Header Hide-and-Seek Adventure

    Nixing the X-Powered-By: A Web Header Hide-and-Seek Adventure

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    HTTP response headers are integral to ensuring secure communication between clients and servers on the web. Headers like Content Security Policy (CSP), X-Content-Type-Options, and Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) are essential for enforcing security protocols. However, one header, in particular, raises questions in modern web development: the “X-Powered-By” header. The inclusion of the “X-Powered-By” header in HTTP responses…

  • PHP function to check valid date

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    I have written a PHP function to check a supplied string is a valid date or not. Lets have a look into the code. /** * The function is_date() validates the date and returns true or false * @param $str sting expected valid date format * @return bool returns true if the supplied parameter is…

  • Rich Text Editor, a lightweight jQuery Plugin

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    Recently I am using a rich text editor (WYSIWYG editor) one of my professional web project. This is a jQuery plugin developed by Andrey Gayvoronsky. I am one of the contributors of this project. I choose this RTE for some reasons. My requirements were- It should be lightweight Customizable and extendible This plugin fulfills my…

  • Writing review on the book- “Kohana 3.0 Beginner’s Guide”

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    One year back I have written a post on Kohana and CodeIgniter. In that post, I wrote I like Kohana than CodeIgniter. Kohana is an open source, object oriented MVC web framework built using PHP5 by a team of volunteers that aims to be swift, secure, and small. Kohana is changing rapidly. But still Kohana…

  • Kohana and CodeIgniter PHP Framework

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    CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework. I have been working on CodeIgniter for more than 2 years. I suggested lot of my friends to learn CodeIgniter. Few months back I started working on Kohana PHP framework. The slogan of Kohana is nice – “The Swift PHP Framework”. I liked Kohana at the first sight. I…

  • Validate HTML forms using jQuery Ketchup

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    I was looking for a jQuery plugin to validate HTML forms. Today I was reading articles using Google Reader, and found a fantastic jQuery plugin Ketchup to validate HTML forms, shared by Hasin Hyder. Its simple, very flexible and extendable for its appearance and functionality. More jQuery resources: jQuery Documentation and Tutorial Google AJAX Libraries…

  • How to Fix NetBeans jdkhome error

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    I use NetBeans as the IDE both in Linux and Windows environment. I like this NetBeans IDE very much. In my Windows PC Java Runtime Environment was updated recently. I am getting following error message when I start NetBeans. “Cannot find java.exe in specified jdkhome.” If I click on yes it opens using default version…

  • How to upgrade Ubuntu in command line

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    I was trying to upgrade Ubuntu in command line. I would like to share the commands in this post. There are two simple commands to upgrade the version of Ubuntu distribution. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade These commands perform smart update of Ubuntu.

  • What can we do with .htaccess files

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    Today I found a website regarding .htaccess tips and tricks. I learned a lot of .htaccess tips from that website. I would like to share the URL here. .htaccess tips and tricks part 1 .htaccess tips and tricks part 2 This article was very helpful to me.