Author: Shishir Raven
How to write articles faster?
Tip 1 : Write More. Write Daily. Practice Translates to Speed. Writing helps in Vocabulary Expansion & Maintenance and it with daily practice it makes it easier for your to translate an Idea to Words. Writing daily has some great benefits Your Ideas get improved exponentially. Writing in the form of Journal helps you gain…
PHP Function for Generating Random Number & Random Digits placeholder.
While developing a SMS sending Tool, we wanted to provide the developers to use placeholders such as. {{random_number_7}} or {{random_string_8}}When these placeholders will be used in the bulk SMS sending program they will be replaced by a random number of 7 digits and random string of 8 digits respectively. Behind the scene we had to…
How to Automate Backup for PHP & MySQL Project on Google Drive.
Taking backups is a way of ensuring that if your computer crashes you won’t lose hours of valuable work. I have a habit of building rapid prototypes and project of hundreds of ideas and I usually do not get time to take their backups on a regular bases. Considering the current situation when the Corona…
Image Optimization in PHP
Why should I care about Image Optimization? Faster loading page is what we all need, this is the reason why we use google search. It simply loads faster than any other search engine. Web-pages contain images and images are one of the components which contribute most to the size of any webpage. More heavy the…
How to access your localhost from Anywhere
I develop a lot of things for the web. And when you do so you do not code live you usually develop on your localhost and then you have to upload it online so that you can give a demo to your client (or show progress to your boss). To avoid of hassles of uploading…
Zip only specific extensions on Linux/Debian
Case Requirement: I wanted to download only the PHP files in the existing folder structure leaving all the images, js and other folders. Zip Command Zip command to Download PHP and HTML Files.
Debian 10 Buster, Installing LAMP and PHPMyAdmin
Writing this guide to help anyone who would like to install LAMP Debian 10 with MySQL (not maria DB). I found great help on the internet and I would be using articles. I tried to use Tasksel for some reason it just did not work. It would have been wonderful to install everything from a…
Finding the heaviest files or folders in Debian.
Keeping the server clean is quite an activity and for me where my companies DNA is to create SAAS based platforms. Users are responsible for most of the uploads. I needed a quickly find out which folders or files are taking most of the space on our server and I found the following command. Basically…
PHP 7.3 LAMP Setup on Linode, Simple steps
PHP 7.3 is just shy of 10% faster than PHP 7.2 in the popular PHPBench. PHP 7.3 is 31% faster than PHP 7.0 or nearly 3x the speed of PHP5. I am faced with the requirement of updating my existing server which runs on PHP 5.6. And I am doing it in steps. This post…
How to duplicate a tree-like nested structure in Database
What do I mean by a nested tree-like structure? I simply mean that each node either has a parent_id as 0 which means it is a tree node. Or the node is a child of another node such in which parent id is the id of an existing node. This is a basic pattern to…
New Gutenberg updates just rock 🤘
I really liked the Gutenberg editor since it was launched. The primary reason was the control it gives in terms of layout. But still, there were still some things missing like Groups were missing so if I had to apply color or apply a class to a whole section, I could not do so. So…
Fixing the WordPress “500 Internal Server Error” while upgrading the server to 7.3 in Cpanel
In Cpanel, I upgraded the server to 7.3 and started receiving 500 Error. I Could quickly fix the error by enabling the following extensions. I hope it helps you!
How to sort tables in google docs
Sorting feature is not available in Google Docs for table by default. Free Addon called “Doc Tools” can help you do the Job. Detailed steps given below. Steps to Install Addon. 1. Go to Add-ons Menu and click on get Add-ons 2. On the Popup that opens search for “Doc tools.” and click on the…
Adobe After Effects, Hide/Show layer and Shy Layers to manage the layers better.
I am beginner at learning after effects and after learning the basics about animation and shapes layer I found that very quickly layers to many very quickly. One think that helped me in managing them better is to hide layers which I am not working with and showing only the ones which are important. Two…
In Cinema 4D how can I scale my object only on the on 1 axis , currently it scales universally.
It can be solved by just shifting from Model mode to object mode. See the Video.
Ultimate Guide to Blocking countries by IP
Why would you block a country by using IP’s? One of the most common reason to block a particular IP on the website is due to SPAM and Hacking attacks. This is a problem is growing and seriously effects the performance of the website. But is it true that certain countries are responsible for these…
Guidelines on choosing a Website Template
Are you on a position where you are trying to choose a template for your project but wondering which one to pickup. There are thousands of Website template which are available online but when you get down to choose the right one you get confused. The following are a few things that I believe would…