Leslie, it was a pleasure watching you all through my teen age days. Your style of comedy was old-skool, spring fresh and just plain hilarious. Police Squad, Naked Gun, Naked Gun 21/2, Naked Gun 33 1/3 were the highlights of my youth movie scene. Watching them over and over again was a Saturday night treat. May […]
Ooma Telo – A Revolution in VOIP Calls
Well it has been quite long since I last wrote over here, well travel, then catching up with projects and family have been the highlight of the last few weeks. One interesting take back is the VOIP phone from Ooma (http://www.ooma.com/). Its just a hub that plugs into a broadband connection and provides a US […]
Fathers Day
A wise man once told me, marriage has many pains attached to it but celibacy has no pleasures. Parenthood is similar, many pains and challenges, but the rewards are so precious. A picture is worth a thousand words so I will say no more Happy Fathers day to all u dads out there, its worth […]
Generate PDF of HTML Content with PHP
This seems to be one of those gray areas, it seems that there is currently no hope in sight. The problem seems to be that the API has to first render the HTML before PDF generation which makes a single step solution impractical. Some options have been to build on top of the WebKit or […]
PHP Externalization of Messages
As part of a project we are involved in there is a need for externalization of messages, both error and labels from the application into an external file. From within Java, this is available as message and resource bundles, and the Spring framework smoothens this process. In PHP this is another story, as the options […]
World Cup Starts Today
Well the World cup ceremonies have started and everyone is pretty excited about the games to be played in South Africa. The web is awash with tools to visualize the results, schedules, and stadiums. It will be interesting to see how all this pans out My favorite is http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario-english.html