Archive for March, 2010

Create read-only user – MySql

Most useful for second or third level support people where people have skills to check db directly but in case you do not want them to make changes, Read only user can be created for them in Mysql DB. Here are two simple steps: 1. Create user 2. Grant privileges Now user can login from [...]


Facebook Application Crash Course

Facebook Application Crash Course View more presentations from Xavier Ochoa.


URLEncode and URLDecode – jQuery Plugin

Already written what is URLEncoding and Decoding all about. This post is just a try to understand a jQuery plugin for doing URLEncode and decode using javascript code. In case you need to send some variable url encoded or receive some variable encoded this plug-in can be used. Here is an example using this script.You [...]


window.open in IE (invalid argument)

I was struggling with this issue and I found some hope on some blog and then thought the same way and fixed the issue. Issue was quite simple but took significant time. It was a webpage from where we wanted to open a new web page using javascript function window.open(). The standard syntax of this [...]


Moving files (Unix/Linux)- Some tips

Moving files from one machine to another machine is the most common activity for system engineer profile. Most common examples are moving backup files, log files and some time moving a large setup files which are created per transaction. Generally these types of files are placed on bug servers and moving them is easy because [...]