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	<title>PHP Trivandrum &#187; General Articles</title>
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		<title>Using Bash to take incremental backups on MySQL database</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/using-bash-to-take-incremental-backups-on-mysql-database/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/using-bash-to-take-incremental-backups-on-mysql-database/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The backup plan was to have a full backup of data and structure every Sunday and then difference of the database from last sunday to every other day, rotate the backups every fourth week.]]></description>
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		<title>Session TimeZones and DateTime fields</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/session-timezones-and-datetime-fields/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/session-timezones-and-datetime-fields/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSSQL]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.php-trivandrum.org/?p=1007</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was pondering over how to coax mysql (and mssql) to automagically select local time if a session variable was set with the required timezone]]></description>
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		<title>Cacti and rrdtool &#8211; a boon to the SysAdmins</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/suite-reviews/cacti-and-rrdtool-a-boon-to-the-sysadmins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/suite-reviews/cacti-and-rrdtool-a-boon-to-the-sysadmins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suite Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cacti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rrdtool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[server monitoring]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.php-trivandrum.org/?p=998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cacti templates and scripts built with the idea of getting the sampling data off colocated servers where there is atleast a webserver + php running, and on acute cases where both are unavailable, I would prefer deploying a single instance of nano web.]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL vs MsSQL &#8211; comparisons never end</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/mysql-vs-mssql-comparisons-never-end/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/mysql-vs-mssql-comparisons-never-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSSQL]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Search for the title, and you will land in several sites, which will tell you the views of the author. In fact there may be hell lot of people who would tell you that one out performs the other. But in reality what does that mean ?. If one knows how to optimize the database [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migration from MySQL to MSSQL our solutions &#8211; Continued</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/code-snippets/migration-from-mysql-to-mssql-our-solutions-continued/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/code-snippets/migration-from-mysql-to-mssql-our-solutions-continued/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Code Snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.php-trivandrum.org/?p=967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post, I had specified that a code analysis would be presented later on, which is happening now. Though I am not permitted to abstract the whole database abstraction, which would otherwise divulge the core business logic of the system too, I do expect that the following would be enough to guide a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migration from MySQL to MSSQL our solutions</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/migration-from-mysql-to-mssql-our-solutions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/migration-from-mysql-to-mssql-our-solutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MSSQL]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last post I did had all of my feelings, and despair, and now I am sure those were out of sheer negligence and mostly because I was unaware of the MS SQL product. Though I still do not agree with certain things like the row_count workaround for the limit feature, and escaping of quotes. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lighttpd &#8211; Separate log files for each vhost</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/lighttpd-separate-log-files-for-each-vhost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/lighttpd-separate-log-files-for-each-vhost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lighttpd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shell scripting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I could not resist digging into my administrative and shell experience when I saw that somebody wrote a php script to dynamically split lighttpd logs. Hmm I use php for more complicated stuff. 
I achieved this by putting the following into lighttpd.conf

accesslog.filename          = "&#124;/usr/bin/splitlog.sh"


The following is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speeding up Wordpress home page</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/speeding-up-wordpress-home-page/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/speeding-up-wordpress-home-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speedup php pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/speeding-up-wordpress-home-page/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After about an year, since we launched Asianet News Portal the home page with all the complications had started to show a dead slow performance, and by using our Query Profiler, I could identify the bottleneck as the number of queries, and wordpress itself was telling the status as 48 queries in 6.344&#160; seconds. Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Importance of event logging in server side scripting</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/tips/importance-of-event-logging-in-server-side-scripting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/tips/importance-of-event-logging-in-server-side-scripting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php command line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php wrapper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[script logging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.php-trivandrum.org/?p=903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now a days script driven web applications are getting more and more complicated with background operations and triggered events. Debugging or event tracking is tough once the application is moved into production. Fresh and aspiring programmers are always too cautious to wade into deeper waters, and always go with line by line testing. Almost always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wordpress Super Cache on lighttpd</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/wordpress-super-cache-on-lighttpd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/wordpress-super-cache-on-lighttpd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lighttpd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[super cache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wordpress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/wordpress-super-cache-on-lighttpd.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While trying to speed up Select Articles, I got stuck, torn in between WP Super Cache and lighttpd. Already we at Saturn are using lighttpd on several dedicated servers, and know the potential and benefit of having this over Apache though the flexiblity of having a perdirectory configuration at the programmers choice was a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL Query Profiler; Better late than never</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/mysql-query-profiler-better-late-than-never/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/mysql-query-profiler-better-late-than-never/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysql]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.php-trivandrum.org/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about MySQL is the superior innovation model that’s used to deliver database server software. Rather than relying solely on internal engineers who create and maintain a piece of software (as in a traditional software company), MySQL partners with the millions of active users across the world who take advantage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scott&#8217;s Blog: Stupid Bug Reports</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/php/scotts-blog-stupid-bug-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/php/scotts-blog-stupid-bug-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.php-trivandrum.org/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you make a bug report or feature request to any sort of project please check you have all of the relevant information and if you can get someone else to check it through. Try searching Google first or ask in a mailing list.
For a performance issue check against an older version of PHP to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP; Towards a 5.3 release</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/php/php-towards-a-53-release/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/php/php-towards-a-53-release/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Straight from the php internals discussion:
Items on the list as the key features of this release
1) namespaces
Here we need to make sure that the current state is now in a coherent  state. I think Derick still has some issues with the recent change  by Greg, but even his criticism did not sound all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL Backups and a lot more</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/mysql-backups-and-a-lot-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/mysql-backups-and-a-lot-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years back, I had asked several people through groups, and posts the possibility of backing up a MySQL database programatically, from client side applications which could connect to remote servers running MySQL. There was a lot of suggestions, 
* php script on server to take backup on server
* application code to select [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and More</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/web-20-library-20-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/web-20-library-20-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 04:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Typically, new software releases bear a version number such as 2.0. The version-numbered releases have new features and capabilities for one specific program. This is not the case with the latest round of 2.0s on the Web. They are a conglomeration of technologies, ideas, and approaches that, at least to some, represent a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes &#8211; All about variable evaluation</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/php/quotes-all-about-variable-evaluation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/php/quotes-all-about-variable-evaluation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 02:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The doubt on whether to use double or single quotes for static strings,Â  has been a heated discussion on many a discussion groups. As of late I did a small bench mark, and has found that the encapsulation of variables in double quoted string is a slight higher load than concated string, even when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friendly URLs or furl &#8211; How to approach</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/friendly-urls-or-furl-how-to-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/friendly-urls-or-furl-how-to-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is been a lot of hype of late about having Friendly URLs, or in short furl. What is so fancy about these ? Oh yeah! they help the search engines, they help your visitors. On an after thought, do they help the search engines? I would say no and a big blatant NO.
Why? First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy way to make your website render same across browsers</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/easy-way-to-make-your-website-render-same-across-browsers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/easy-way-to-make-your-website-render-same-across-browsers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Articles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even if it is not yet proved beyond doubt that W3C validation grabs better search engine rankings, it is sure that errors in your code will surely cause problems. Converting website pages to XHTML will help to reach more customers, as the site will work in more browsers and even non-traditional devices.
W3C, the World Wide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security Issues by PHP applications</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/security-issues-in-2006-bagged-by-php-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/general-articles/security-issues-in-2006-bagged-by-php-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHP has become the most popular application language on the web, but common security mistakes by developers are giving PHP a bad name. Here&#8217;s how PHP coding errors have become the new low-hanging fruit for attackers, contributing to the phishing problems on the web.
PHP became one of my favorite languages because of how quickly one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Borland&#8217;s RAD for PHP; to be or not to be</title>
		<link>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/php/borlands-rad-for-php-to-be-or-not-to-be/</link>
		<comments>http://www.php-trivandrum.org/php/borlands-rad-for-php-to-be-or-not-to-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jijutm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Borlandâ€™s wholly-owned spinoff CodeGear is releasing Delphi for PHP, claimed to be the first RAD visual PHP development environment. PHP 5.0 is required. The product is jointly developed by CodeGear and qadram software and is essentially the first production version of qadramâ€™s qstudio, which never made it past pre-beta.
The IDE is a Delphi lookalike, built [...]]]></description>
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