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22Jul/090

Develope a Mortgage Calculator and Win Up to $10000

If you are a programmer, a creative programmer, I have a good news for you. Mortgage Loan Place is having a programming contest - The "Super Sexy" Mortgage Calculator Contest. You can have a chance to win $10,000 of extra pocket money by developing a mortgage calculator. The winner's calculator will become the centerpiece of the tools section on Mortgage Loan Place.

Mortgage Calculator Contest

10Jul/090

WordPress: 2.8.1

WordPress 2.8.1 is now available for download. The main changes in WordPress 2.8.1 is mainly to tightens security for plugin administration pages and also to fix many other bugs.

The upgrade is not a compulsory and it is recommended as some admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked.

WordPress Version 2.8

7Jul/090

BigDump: Alternative to phpMyAdmin to Import/Restore Large Database

Recently I was facing problem on restoring database with a lot of data into MYSQL using phpMyAdmin. The restoring process keeps interrupted due to the connection between browser and server time's timeout and also due to the timeout in PHP script. Only partial data is restored and I kept dropping the database, increase PHP timeout, increased memory limit, and tried to restore again. But it still failed.

5Jul/090

Java: Mortgage Payment Calculator

Mortgage Payment Calculator is a tool to calculate the monthly repayment for a fixed rate mortgage. The calculator is written in Java programming language (Java Applet) and can be ran at any web browser. You must have Java plug-in installed on your computer in order to run this web application.

2Jul/090

Gmail: Drag and Drop, Hiding and More

Gmail developers make more enhancement to the Gmail labeling. Previously, Gmail has the new label menu added with shortcut keys, now it comes with drag and drop, hiding and more features.

Gmail Labels

18Jun/090

Sitestimator.com: New Badge Released

Sitestimator.com, a website value evaluation tool, has developed and released a new badge. The new badge comes with new design, one of most famous ads size on the Internet - 125 pixels height and 125 pixels width.

17Jun/090

Google Adsense: Can I place small images next to my Google ads?

You may have seen people to put small images next to Google ads with size Medium Rectangle (300 x 250) and Large Rectangle (336 x 280) to gain more clicks and to get higher click thru rate.

Google Adsense: Can I place small images next to my Google ads?

16Jun/090

Java: Stop A Thread Correctly

In Java programming, it is very common to use threads to perform multi tasks simultaneously. Starting a thread is pretty easy but stopping a thread might be a headache for some programmers, especially when the thread needs to run a task that takes some times.

12Jun/090

WordPress: Version 2.8

WordPress.org has released its latest WordPress Version 2.8, named for noted trumpeter and vocalist "Chet Baker". WordPress Version 2.8 is now available for download.

WordPress Version 2.8

10Jun/090

Wolfram|Alpha: A Computational Knowledge Engine

Wolfram|Alpha is a computational knowledge engine. Unlike regular search engines (Google, Yahoo and Live) which return a list of relevant websites on queries, Wolfram|Alpha processes the queries to return an actual answer.