AppFog and Heroku were one of the most popular PaaS services. But due to the limitations of service many moved out. At first when AppFog came, there were a lot of cool awesome features more than Heroku. For the Free plan AppFog had SSL, Custom Domain and other features. But by the end of February 2013, AppFog removed Custom Domain from free plan. Many customers (including me) got sad, angry and were trying to find another PaaS service.... [READ MORE]

There are millions of bloggers and blogs in the World Wide Web (WWW). 90 % of those blogs are useful. There are a lot of people who would visit those blogs. Since there are a lot of viewers, most of the blog owners would set up ads on their blog to get maximum revenue. Most of the Bloggers (including me) only set up blogs just to get revenue from it. I’m gonna introduce you to a man that has helped a lot of students (including me) of Kerala.... [READ MORE]

Let’s start creating softwares using Python GTK (PyGTK). Python is the easiest programming language ever and If you are coming from other Programming Languages such as PHP, Here is something that you should understand : Python doesn’t have semi-colons for closing a code. function in PHP is def in Python. Spaces from the starting of a line decides the wrapper of the code. { in PHP is : in Python. There is no closing } in Python. Since there is no closing attribute ("... [READ MORE]

There are certain restrictions on some sites such as Country Restriction. Mostly there are sites just for US citizens. For Example The most 99 cent domain offers from GoDaddy is only available to US citizens. They check the country by IP Address. I’m going to tell you how to Change your Country by changing the IP address using a PROXY. This is explained to work on Ubuntu, you can also use this method in Windows & Others but in a different way.... [READ MORE]

Sitemap is a XML file that contains all the links of your site/blog. Sitemap can be manually created or automatically created using some online tools. These Sitemap can be submitted to search engine via the tools they provide or by mentioning the sitemap in robots.txt. In Blogger blogs the sitemap is located in different places. In Blogger Blogs with the .blogspot.com sub domain, the sitemap is in a simple location ie : http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml But on other blogs ie blogs on custom domains doesn’t have a sitemap like the above URL.... [READ MORE]

I made a URL shortening service a year back using PHP & jQuery. It was pretty simple. You should know the concept of URL Shortening. The concept is simple. When a user sends a request to short a URL, PHP will check if the URL is valid. If it’s valid then PHP will make a string of 5 or 6 characters. A folder is created with the name of this string and an index.php file with header function code is created in this folder.... [READ MORE]

As you know AJAX is the method of sending data without refreshing the page. Now I’m going to tell you how to upload images using AJAX in jQuery. For This You need to Download the jquery.form plugin from here. The Minimum requirement for this plugin is jQuery version 1.5 or later. Download Demo A Sample of uploading image using AJAX in jQuery is shown below : <div> Now Let&#8217;s start on the code.... [READ MORE]

I heard that it is possible to use a portion of hard disk as RAM in Windows. I wondered if this trick is available for Ubuntu, so I googled about it and couldn’t find anything related to it. But I found out an AskUbuntu answer of using USB sticks as RAM. I did the same trick on Hard Disk and it works !! This trick can be accomplished with the use of some small commands in Terminal.... [READ MORE]

Here is the ultimate coupon code you were waiting for : 99 Cents for .COM buying or transferring domain worldwide. This offer is applicable to every country. Here are the conditions for this coupon : Plus ICANN fee of $0.18 per domain name per year. $0.99 price for the first year for one new or transfer .COM purchases only; not valid for renewals. Additional years or .COMs may be purchased for $9.... [READ MORE]

If you have created a window using Glade and want to display this window on your Python program containing the event handlers of the Window, then you should follow this tutorial. This small code will load the Glade file and displays the window. Note : The Glade Project file format should be GtkBuilder. Now, let’s get down to the code. Create a Python file named window.py in the folder containing the glade file and put in the following contents :... [READ MORE]