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

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.

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.

So how did I get my Google Voice number from outside US… Yeah I live in Sri Lanka, and I have registered my Google Voice number and use it without any restrictions…!

The meanings of –exclude and –exclude-from are always confusing to me. I’m always confused with the use of ‘exclude’ options with ‘tar’.