You can download it here: ported to Kohana.

Both do get minimized in the taskbar, isn’t this cool?

-- 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,
  `title` VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `date_created` TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
  `date_updated` TIMESTAMP NOT NULL
      DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
      ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
);

-- using NULL insert for a timestamp column is
--    just like using NOW()
-- @link http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/timestamp.html
INSERT INTO `test`.`test_count_distinct` ( `title`, `date_created` )
VALUES
  ( 'value',   NULL )
, ( 'value 1', NULL )
, ( 'value 2', NULL )
, ( 'value',   NULL )
, ( 'value 1', NULL )
, ( 'value 2', NULL )
, ( 'value',   NULL )
, ( 'value 3', NULL )
;

Now let’s find out how many different values are there in the `title` column, and how many times each value occurs:

-- Step #2: do work
--          here is where we find out
--          different values of `title` and
--          the number of their occurrences
SELECT
        DISTINCT `t`.`title` AS `title`,
        COUNT( `t`.`title`) AS `cnt`
    FROM `test`.`test_count_distinct` t
    GROUP BY `title`
    ORDER BY `cnt` DESC
;

And the result will look like:

+---------+-----+
| title   | cnt |
+---------+-----+
| value   |   3 |
| value 2 |   2 |
| value 1 |   2 |
| value 3 |   1 |
+---------+-----+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

You can get the code here.

After trying the various solutions on the internet, I learnt that the simple is the best.

1. IE6 standalone install (best choice)
   • download the IE6 standalone kit from evolt.org
   • unpack the archive in a convenient place on your computer; be careful to keep all the files into the same directory
   • create a shortcut to iexplore.exe either on the desktop or in the QuickLaunch bar
   • Congratulations, you’re done!
   • please note that until IE8 is a stable release and gains a small market share I am not interested in testing web apps for it, so this is the reason I chose this solution to be the best one for me
2. Use Internet Explorer Collection
   • download the IE Collection kit (note: at the time of this writing, the IE Collection has 42.4 MB, and has reached 1.1.0.1);
   • this package contains various versions of IE:
     • Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.0.6001.18241)
     • Internet Explorer 7.0 (7.0.5730.13)
     • Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2800.1106)
     • Internet Explorer 5.5 (5.51.4807.2300)
     • Internet Explorer 5.01 (5.00.3314.2100)
     • Internet Explorer 4.01 (4.72.3110.0)
     • Internet Explorer 3.0 (3.0.1152)
     • Internet Explorer 2.01 (2.1.0.46)
     • Internet Explorer 1.5 (0.1.0.10)
     • Internet Explorer 1.0 (4.40.0.308)
   • choose the version of IE you want to install
   • All set up!
   • please note that this solution does not work with Microsoft Vista
3. Use IETester
   • download the IETester kit from the My DebugBar page (note: at the time of this writing the kit has reached version 0.2.3 and has 24 MB)
   • please note that you need to have Windows Vista or Windows XP with IE7 installed if you choose this solution (ithese 2 are the configurations known to work)
   • install it and you’re ready to go!
   Happy coding / testing!

• it doesn’t love youtube videos
• suddenly and unexpectedly crashes with no particular reason, after normal browsing
• it is unable to render XML files properly

• doesn’t remember the last session tabs