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• API: Application program interface
• CRUD: Create Read Update Delete
• DOM: Document Object Model
• HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
• HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
• MVC: Model-View-Controller
• OOP: Object-oriented programming
• ORM: Object-Relational Mapping
• REST: Representational State Transfer
• RPC: Remote procedure call
• SQL: Structured Query Language
• URL: Uniform Resource Locator
• WSDL: Web Services Description Language
• XML: Extensible Markup Language

Sikkim (Lepcha: Mayel Lyang; Limbu: Yuksom, one of the fortified place;^[1] Standard Tibetan: , bras ljongs; Denzong;^[2] Demojongs; Nepali: सिक्किम (help·info), i.e. the Goodly Region, or Shikim, Shikimpati or Sikkim of the English and Indians…^[3]) is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India and the second-smallest state after Goa.^[4] This thumb-shaped state borders Nepal in the west, the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China to the north and the east and Bhutan in the southeast. The Indian state of West Bengal borders Sikkim to its south.^[5] Despite its small area of 7,096 km² (2,740 sq mi), Sikkim is geographically diverse due to its location in the Himalayas. The climate ranges from subtropical to high alpine. Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak, is located on the border of Sikkim with Nepal.^[6] Sikkim is a popular tourist destination owing to its culture, scenic beauty and biodiversity.

Legend has it that the Buddhist saint Guru Rinpoche visited Sikkim in the 9th century, introduced Buddhism and foretold the era of the monarchy. Indeed, the Namgyal dynasty was established in 1642. Over the next 150 years, the kingdom witnessed frequent raids and territorial losses to Nepalese invaders. It allied itself with the British rulers of India but was soon annexed by them. Later, Sikkim became a British protectorate and merged with India following a referendum in 1975.

Sikkim has 11 official languages: Nepali (lingua franca), Bhutia, Lepcha (since 1977), Limbu (since 1981), Newari, Rai, Gurung, Mangar, Sherpa, Tamang (since 1995) and Sunwar (since 1996).^[7] English is taught at schools and used in government documents. It is the only state in India with an ethnic Nepalese majority. The predominant religions are Hinduism and Vajrayana Buddhism. Gangtok is the capital and the largest town. Sikkim has a booming economy dependent on agriculture and tourism, and has the only open border between India and China.

While working with CakePHP & Zend i was excited to know more about what all other frameworks are available for PHP and compare them to see what suffice the need for a particular scenario. I found some good links but wikipedia was the best to provide me all the details of the frameworks, so here is a snap for all the PHP frameworks available.

Going forward i will be posting other frameworks for other scripting languages. So sit back any enjoy.

PHP Framework

As a Project Manager you can get register and share your views about how you manage you projects, or even you can post your concerns among other project managers and find a solution to your problem. It a good platform to learn about new Project Management Methodology. If you are working on a waterfall model and think what is Agile Scrum then there are some good resource on the site which provides you some insight to that.

Overall its fun to be a part of this community

Here are some links that might be helpful to you:

What is this thing called
A Qquick Primer on Social Media
Six Common Mistakes Project

Google came up with a new product in May called Google TV. The main aspect that Google associated with Google TV was the developer ecosystem,  apart from viewing the TV programs you can also Internet TV Application built using Google Mobile OS, Android.

Google is not offering hardware platform like AppleTV or Microsoft Mediaroom, instead, Google has partnered with electronics giant Sony on the hardware side. Google TV launches in the fall inside a new line of Sony TVs, so let’s look at what we can expect to see.

Both Google and Sony has benefited from this deal.

The Google TV is built on the Android platform so it will rely heavily on the Google Chrome browser. With lot more things coming up down the line Google surely wants to take the TV experience to a different level. With Google TV one can watch Photo Slideshow, play games, listen to music and more.

Google will release the Google TV SDK and web APIs for TV. This will enable developers to build applications, which will then be distributed through Android Market.

So wait for the next generation TV and enjoy the new experience.

Now to show only the distinct rows i used the group by clause to eliminate the duplicate records, the records were coming fine but when i saw the paging it was not working right at all. The problem was that the paginator’s “paginateCount” function was also considering the “Group By” clause while doing the counting of the total records. This was crazy.

I searched through Google to get a solution to that and found this link, where people have already reported a his error to the cake developers. The solution that worked for me was that i needed to override the “paginateCount” function and use a different function in my model to get the correct number of total records. I added this function to my model and whola it worked for me. Here is the function that needs to be added model to get things right.

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public function paginateCount($conditions = null, $recursive = 0, $extra = array()) {
		$parameters = compact('conditions', 'recursive');
 
		if (isset($extra['group'])) {
			$parameters['fields'] = $extra['group'];
 
			if (is_string($parameters['fields'])) {
				// pagination with single GROUP BY field
				if (substr($parameters['fields'], 0, 9) != 'DISTINCT ') {
					$parameters['fields'] = 'DISTINCT ' . $parameters['fields'];
				}
				unset($extra['group']);
				$count = $this->find('count', array_merge($parameters, $extra));
			} else {
				// resort to inefficient method for multiple GROUP BY fields
				$count = $this->find('count', array_merge($parameters, $extra));
				$count = $this->getAffectedRows();
			}
		} else {
			// regular pagination
			$count = $this->find('count', array_merge($parameters, $extra));
		}
		return $count;
	}

I was having two apps (i)wishlist (ii) lighthouse

These are two separate apps under the root folder having the directory structure as:
/htdocs
/wishlist
/app
/config
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/lighthouse
/app
/config ….

By default the sessions are created relative to the apps directory, and this was the problem i was dealing with, not a big thing but i spent a lot of time figuring this, but for you its will work like a charm.

Steps that i follow to make the two apps share sessions between them.
1. Edit “core.php” for wishlist and the lighthouse and add the line
ini_set(‘session.cookie_path’, “/”);
This is to direct the CakePHP app to create the session on the root

2. The Session.cookie name should be same for the two apps

3. The Session.salt should be same for the two apps

4. Security.level should be low in both the apps

This is it what is required. Let me know if you are still stuck with the things, happy coding.

City belongsTo => State
State belongsTo => country

In case of Ruby on Rail we can use ‘through’ to create a relationship between the City and Country, but in case of CakePHP we have two things 1) recursive 2) Contain, but in my case both were not working so i searched and found an alternate way of establishing relationship between City and Country so when i run a find on City i also get the Country data in the resultset. Here is the function that i used.

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function unbindAndBind(){
		// unbind State model for entire request
		$this->City->unbindModel(array('belongsTo' =>array('State')), false);
 
		// unbind State->Country model for entire request
		$this->City->State->unbindModel(array('belongsTo' =>array('Country')), false);
 
		// rebind Site and Company models with custom condition for Company model forcing join
		$this->City->bindModel(array
					(
					   'belongsTo' => array(
					   'State' => array(),
					   'Country' => array(
					  			     'foreignKey' => false, 
								     'conditions' => array('State.country_id = Country.id')
								   )
					    )
					),
					false
		);
	}

Select * From @Table [T1] Where
(2 = (Select Count(Distinct [ESalary]) From @Table [T2] where [T1]।[ESalary] <= [T2].[ESalary]))

Replace 2 with 3,4 ,5,6 etc to get the 3,4 ,5,6 etc highest salaried employees

The iGoogle Showcase allows one to either add a celebrity’s entire iGoogle page to his/her own, or browse through the collection and choose different gadgets and themes from several pages. For example, you might select Al Gore’s iGoogle page for his preferred theme and gadgets for keeping up on the latest media news, supporting the Alliance for Climate protection cause or browsing through photos from National Geographic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadav

This talks about the past of Yadav cast. I was thrilled to see that i belong to such a great past.

This module contains objects representing simple registration requests and responses that can be used with both OpenID relying parties and OpenID providers.

1. The relying party creates a request object and adds it to the AuthRequest object before making the checkid_ request to the OpenID provider:

   auth_request.addExtension(SRegRequest(required=['email']))

2. The OpenID provider extracts the simple registration request from the OpenID request using SRegRequest.fromOpenIDRequest, gets the user’s approval and data, creates a SRegResponse object and adds it to the id_res response:

   sreg_req = SRegRequest.fromOpenIDRequest(checkid_request.message)
   # [ get the user's approval and data, informing the user that
   #   the fields in sreg_response were requested ]
   sreg_resp = SRegResponse.extractResponse(sreg_req, user_data)
   sreg_resp.toMessage(openid_response.fields)

3. The relying party uses SRegResponse.fromSuccessResponse to extract the data from the OpenID response:

   sreg_resp = SRegResponse.fromSuccessResponse(success_response)