By Nitin on July 17, 2009
Often we need MINUS operator as defined by the SQL definitions i.e you have two sets P and Q and you want P-Q which gives all the elements in P that are not in Q. But unfortunately, MYSQL does not have any operator for such an operation (yeah, I had the same reaction when I [...]
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By Nitin on July 15, 2009
Until sometime back, I was unaware of how I could get the value of an auto-incremented field after an Insert Statement. But recently I needed it for two of my projects simultaneously, so I explored the possibilities. As one of my project is in Java and other is in PHP, we will go through both [...]
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By Nitin on July 5, 2009
Recently while working for my project, I came across this situation when I had a 2-D array and I needed to sort it twice on 2 of its columns. Consider the following 2D array: String[][] testString = new String[][] { {"1", "2", "6"}, {"4", "5", "3"} }; Sorting the above [...]
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By Nitin on April 5, 2009
Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) was released on 3rd March 2010, to support the Feeds module. Introduction FeedAPI Imagegrabber is a add-on module for FeedAPI. It consists of a parser which visits the original URL of a new feed item, and retrieves the main image from the post. Once the main image has been retrieved, it [...]
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By Nitin on April 1, 2009
Note: The procedure given happened to me, I do not guarantee you the same, may be I was lucky or you will be. I leave the details of the trip (tiring but exciting) for my next post, and will try to outline the procedure to get the Schengen Student Visa for Internship from German Consulate [...]
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By Nitin on March 1, 2009
Recently, my friend Anurag Nilesh got an intern in Switzerland. As I am going to Germany for the internship during summer, I thought of visiting him and shared my thoughts with him. I was perplexed with his following reaction: Me: yaar, main tuzhse milne switzerland zaroor aaunga.(I will definitely come to meet you.) nilesh: yaar [...]
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