Live Score Board with AJAX

A simple, no-fuss live score board tutorial. You may have been visiting Australianopen.com's scoreboards, etc. Most of em are in flash, java, etc. But here is something plain and extremely simple.

All you need to know is some PHP, JavaScript and yes XMLHttpRequest.

Building a Tag Cloud

Building a Tag Cloud | Ruturaj's Home Page: "Building a Tag Cloud"

If you've been on http://del.icio.us/tag/ and have been amazed how its done,

The link will help you do exactly that!

MySQL Jobs

MySQL AB :: New Event Feature

The future is right for MySQL, begining from MySQL 5.1, MySQL will feature a "Event" feature, which if you compare to its M$ counterpart MSSQL are termed as "Jobs"

MySQL have added a new table in mysql database, called "event". Which will basically hold all the meta-data for the "jobs"

Check a sample record from mysql.event

            db: tp
         name: e1
         body:  INSERT INTO tx VALUES (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, 20)
      definer: tp@localhost
   execute_at: 2006-01-13 03:42:00
interval_value: NULL
interval_field: NULL
      created: 2006-01-12 19:40:00
     modified: 2006-01-12 19:40:00
last_executed: NULL
       starts: NULL
         ends: NULL
       status: DISABLED
on_completion: DROP
      comment:

Thunderbird 1.5 is out !!!

Mozilla have released their latetest Thunderbird v 1.5.
It has got a lot of improvements like

• Exporting / Importing RSS links as OPML
• Phishing Detection
• Security fixes
• Server-side spam/antivirus support

One of the mails Thunderbird thinks is "Scam"