• Working with Google Maps

    There used to be a time when there was this huge maps craze, it has since passed, but Google Maps remains the most recognized map applications seen on the Internet. Recently, I worked on Google Maps API for a client. This post is a retrospect look at how it went. I’ve not worked with other…

  • Ubuntu Hour in Bangalore

    Woo! After a while, the Ubuntu loco community is awakening in Bangalore again. I had announced a meet up on the mailing list a while back. I had my fingers crossed as to how many would turn up and how it would be. Most people assured me if there are 2 people and the other…

  • Web-based viewer for git

    I’ve been looking for a simple to set up viewer for git that would list out all the git repositories that I have on my git server. It took a bit of a search and I finally discovered viewgit. So far, I’ve found it pretty nice. Setting up viewgit is very simple. Download the tarball…

  • Automatic database backup

    I use git extensively for version control. Its nice to use git since it backs up the code, but the database still remains unversioned. Well, thankfully, XAMPP has a script that does a database dump. So, I wrote a script to do the dump and then commit it to git. Step 1 Create a directory…

  • Baking on Ubuntu while using xampp

    So, I’m a web developer working on Ubuntu. Since I don’t want to get into complications like pinning to have earlier versions of PHP (useful when developing on Drupal), I use XAMPP. Its a bit of a work to get php ready to bake while using XAMPP on Ubuntu. These instructions are probably generic to…

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