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LaTeX on Windows with MiKTeX and Notepad++

Notepad++ is a versatile text editor and source code editor for Windows. I use it as my default text editor on Windows. For convenience of compiling .tex files while editing we can simply add a run command to Notepad++. This is a simple “how to” for conveniently using Notepad++ as the editor for LaTex (using [...]

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  • Parse RSS feeds with PHP

    RSS feeds are very common today, and at times we want to write a simple script to grab some information from a feed.

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  • Text to Image in PHP with GD

    This is simple script to demonstrate the capabilities of PHP with the GD library, which provides a lot of image functions that can be useful in many applications.

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  • Activate Oracle on XAMPP for Windows

    PHP has got the OCI8 extension, which provides Oracle connectivity to PHP application, and OCI8 uses Oracle Instant Client Package to get Oracle specific functions.

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  • Happy Birthday Blogger

    On this day in 1999, Pyra Labs launched Blogger. Blogger was later bought by Google in 2003. I have been blogging with Blogger for the last 3 years in this blog, and also in my Tamil blog. It has been a wonderful experience for me with Blogger, (though I prefer WordPress these days). Congratulations to [...]

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