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Ya, Tamil Movie Fans, I have added a RSS 2.0 feed for sify.com kollywood news. This is an unofficial version. For long, I have felt a need for a sify.com kollywood news feed. For some business reason they have long avoided it. Hence this alternative from my end.

NOTE: I am generating the RSS feed “as [...]

Target Audience: Intermediate-to-Advanced PHP developers

I am making available to LAMP developers, a custom PHP based Framework that I had developed sometime ago. This framework is inspired from Zend Framework and is extremely light-weight when compared to Zend. It provides you with basic classes that abstract database connection, Cookie management and HTTP request management. It uses [...]

Phew! I spent the last couple of weeks, in bits and pieces, to come up with a skill assessment platform. The platform can be extended to assess different set of skills.

As an initial effort, I took the trouble of setting PHP skill assessment questions (still in its fledgling state) to check a candidate’s level of [...]

This is a very generic set of instruction to get one started with SVN. The setup environment is assumed as Linux. To be precise, this should work for Ubuntu.

Make sure you have the required svn libraries and svnadmin tool installed.

Execute the following as a super user:

mkdir /usr/local/svn
mkdir /usr/local/svn/repo
mkdir /usr/local/svn/repo/trunk
mkdir /usr/local/svn/repo/branches
mkdir /usr/local/svn/repo/tags

Set appropriate user-group permissions.

svnadmin create [...]