For a client I needed to set up OpenX on Windows/IIS platform. OpenX is written in PHP/MySql and hence I needed to make PHP work on IIS. After searching on the net, I found this article. After following the instructions given I was able to
Earlier I blogged about my new MacBook Air. I am not a Mac fan and my sole reason for buying MacBook was to get a light weight laptop with decent performance. MacBook Air fit that perfectly and from what I read I had the option
If you are a developer, there will be times when you want to automate a users action in a browser. For ex: if you are trying to download a complete website locally (also called web scraping), you will need to recursively fetch pages from the
I have used many utilities for archiving/compressing files during my career. I started off with pkzip during MS-DOS days and later moved to winzip on Windows. Windows starting providing a shortcut for creating zip files starting from Windows XP. Although it works for most use
Here is a script to check free diskspace in C#/.net. It uses WMI logicaldisk object to retrieve information on the system drives. .NET provides ManagementObject class to encapsulate the Windows WMI interface. Here is the sample code: ManagementObject Disk = new ManagementObject(“win32_logicaldisk.deviceid=”c:””); Disk.Get(); if (double.Parse(Disk[“FreeSpace”].ToString())
I wanted a simple tool to backup my system. Although Windows provide a backup tool that was too much for me and I wanted flexibility in file storage and archiving. I wrote a quick script to achieve this job. I used Robocopy to copy and
File copy in windows GUI is pretty slow. Under Windows XP it was almost unusable for large folders. Microsoft improved it with Windows XP SP 2 and then later with Windows Vista & 7. It is definitely better now in Windows 7 but I still
For one of my projects I required the dynamic public of my ISP connection. I blogged earlier about getting this through www.network-tools.com but in this case I needed it in my script. I wrote a quick script to scrape it of the same site. This
I was setting up a local server at home and wanted it to be publicly accessible from a domain name. Unfortunately my ISP refuses to give a static IP and my only option was to use a dynamic DNS server. After checking some out I
WHOIS is a networking protocol that allows you to discover information about a domain. Following information can be obtained from a WHOIS server. 1) Owner information 2) Technical Contact 3) Administrator Contact 4) Registration date, expiry date, last renewal date 5) Registrar of domain WHOIS