Getting started with Symfony – A PHP Framework – Part 1

October 15, 2008   -   PHP   -   33 comments

Hello Friends, Since past few weeks I have been pushed into something which I have never favored i.e. using a framework for my development. Using a framework can become even more harder if you know all the actual HTML, CSS, JS, PHP coding. Then you just wonder WHY? WHY? WHY? Anyways I had to do [...]

How to create an upload meter in PHP? Explained

August 29, 2008   -   PHP   -   16 comments

It was about 2 months back when I started hunting for an upload meter “How To?” guide on net. Came across a lot of links actually but I must say none of them actually gave me what I wanted to have. Some talked of some patched PHP version to achieve the same and some talked [...]

How to get started with web development?

July 27, 2008   -   Web Development   -   9 comments

Many of my friends have asked me on how to start with web development. I am not expert but here in this post I would like to describe a few steps that might help one climb the ladder of web development fast. Kindly feel free to add to this blog post if you think some [...]

Photo Cropper API: How is it achieved?

July 14, 2008   -   Web Development   -   6 comments

Photo Cropper was something which was introduced or I must say became popular after various social networking sites started applying it. This allows users to choose a section from a photo which he wants to upload and show to the world around. I initially tried to investigate how Orkut do this for their users. Further [...]

Photo Tagging API : Easy plugin for your websites and blogs

June 16, 2008   -   Web Development   -   16 comments

Flickr, Facebook and now Orkut. One by One everyone has implemented the photo tagging feature into their social network. Initially introduced by Flickr, extended by Facebook and finally Orkut was forced to implement it too. Last night I tried to look into it to found out what does it take to make one and I [...]

Gmail Type Attachment – How to make one?

May 30, 2008   -   Web Development   -   21 comments

Google and its wide range of web applications have simple changed the way we used to look at internet. Be it the revolutionary fast Google search engine or mail by Google i.e Gmail. You will find enormous amount of threads and forums discussing How do google achieve doing XYZ? or How do they make it [...]

How to configure Ubuntu and LAMP on Windows

May 13, 2008   -   Web Development   -   4 comments

Hello all Linux freaks, Having already looked upon how to configure Apache-PHP-MySQL on Windows, now here I will try to explain in short how to do the same on Linux OS. I personally don’t have a seperate machine for linux. I run Ubuntu on my Windows machine using VM Ware. So before we go on [...]

Web Development – Part 1: Apache, MySQL, PHP

May 4, 2008   -   Web Development   -   4 comments

Hello Friends, Ever since I have started web development and launched Altertunes, many of my friends have asked me, “How and Where to start web development ?” . Though there are infinite tutorials over the internet on web development, I will try to jot down my experiences and learnings here. To start with, I will [...]

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