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Download Curl library for CodeIgniter, ported to Kohana

I’ve ported the Curl library to Kohana, with kind permission of Alex Polski.
You can download it here: ported to Kohana.

Forced to develop on Windows? Need a better Putty?

I first used Putty Tray. But today I found a tabbed version, the Putty Connection Manager.
Both do get minimized in the taskbar, isn’t this cool?

mySQL: find out distinct values of a column and the number of their occurrences

So, we need to find out different values of a column and the number of their occurrences. Let’s set up a small test first:

– Step #1: prepare the ground
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `test`;

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`.`test_count_distinct`;

CREATE TABLE `test`.`test_count_distinct` (
`id` INT(11) NOT NULL auto_increment
PRIMARY KEY,
[...]

Presentations – the wow factor

We all have to make a presentation sooner or later. But it’s not easy, and there are a lot of hints, advices or tips & tricks to help you in this process. But all assume you’re using something similar to Powerpoint. They all teach you how to create and present the content, very few show [...]

How do I run IE6 and IE7 (even IE8) together on the same machine?

There are explained several options one has when trying to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine.

Google Chrome issues

Google Chrome not implemented issues, problems and errors