http://www.somacon.com/ Articles on web development, software, and hardware. en-us Copyright 2004-2006 Shailesh N. Humbad All Rights Reserved. 2008-06-26T16:34:12-04:00 noreply@spambucket.com Technology daily 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://www.somacon.com/p540.php How to alternate table or list row colors in the partialLoop call of Zend. 2008-06-26T16:34:12-04:00 Web Development http://www.somacon.com/p538.php This page describes how to import Excel Worksheets into MySQL via Microsoft Access, the easy way. You can use this same technique to load data quickly into any ODBC data source. The benefit of this method is that the table structure is automatically generated, with every column treated as text. This allows you to quickly load all the workbooks and worksheets, and then you can analyze and modify the data types later if needed. 2008-05-14T09:45:14-04:00 Databases http://www.somacon.com/p537.php Below is a brief example of doing parallel GET requests using the interface to libcurl-multi provided by PHP. 2008-04-20T11:42:30-04:00 Web Development http://www.somacon.com/p536.php The public domain code snippet below shows you how to forcibly redirect a web page to SSL using PHP, if you require the page to be SSL encrypted. 2008-02-15T13:35:43-05:00 Web Development http://www.somacon.com/p525.php Count Unique Characters in Javascript 2008-02-08T16:05:19-05:00 Freeware http://www.somacon.com/p523.php Digital picture frames are getting pretty popular these days, with the price coming down and the quality going up drastically. I myself bought one of these gizmos recently, and am quite pleased with it. The first question I had after I bought it, though, was how should I put my pictures on it in an optimized manner (meaning, without taking up a whole lot of disk storage space while at the same time allowing the images to look pleasing to the eye)? 2008-01-13T22:06:30-05:00 General Interest http://www.somacon.com/p520.php 2007-06-16T11:46:27-04:00 Web Development http://www.somacon.com/p519.php These are my notes for how to install a custom build of PHP 5 on FreeBSD. 2007-06-14T16:20:39-04:00 Web Development http://www.somacon.com/p514.php 2007-05-15T23:21:51-04:00 For Sale http://www.somacon.com/p469.php This page graphically depicts Detroit, Michigan's population changes during the 20th century. Population statistics from the US Census are displayed from 1900 to 2000. The graphics attempt to show how highway policy affected how people chose where to live. 2007-02-03T14:21:40-05:00 General Interest http://www.somacon.com/p468.php In Quicken 2005 and beyond, Intuit has disabled QIF data import on checking, savings, credit card, 401(k), and all other brokerage accounts. However, QIF import is not completely disabled, and there are simple workarounds to import QIF transaction files directly into those account types. 2007-01-17T15:20:53-05:00 General Interest http://www.somacon.com/p464.php A new and improved monthly calendar generator is now available. New options include shaded columns, ruling, custom events, mini-calendars, and custom font sizes. This free, monthly calendar can be printed or saved in PDF format. You can create a monthly calendar for many purposes, such as desk calendar, wall calendar, or monthly planner. 2007-01-15T18:39:52-05:00 Freeware http://www.somacon.com/p449.php A more elegant way to import request variables in PHP. 2006-11-08T23:05:25-05:00 Web Development