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Long-form pieces from the Nirvaat team on web development, Laravel, PHP, SEO, digital marketing and what we're learning along the way.

Server side forced reload of a cached file in browser

With the advent of modern browsers, web pages are using more and more javascript and stylesheets to make applications work faster and look better. And this is a…

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Working with Access-Control-Allow-Origin

When developing Ajax applications on local machine you may face this error on almost all browsers that cross referring a link from other domain is not allowed. …

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Setting include path for a domain in Plesk

If you need to use PEAR library functions in your web applications. Sometimes you may need to set the path to pear files for your domain so that the PEAR librar…

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Displaying UTF characters in the FPDF

It is very easy to show UTF characters in a FPDF generated PDF file. Just use the following conversion function and it will work. Assume you have initialized th…

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Exporting Wordpress blog to Blogger

If you ever need to export your wordpress blog to Google Blogger, then you can use a great tool for this I just found - Convert Wordpress Export to Blogger . Fo…

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Apache Keep Alive Directive

Today, I was analysing a website for performance improvements using the Page Speed tool by Google. One interesting thing I found out that it was recommending to…

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Javascript code to convert date to timestamp

This is not everyday that you need a Javascript function to convert the date and time string to UNIX timestamp. But if you do need this like me, then here it is…

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Elance ID - App_Services

Its a real pleasure to get to write this review.. Truth is we kept adding and adding and adding to this project and Rajendra should have gotten 3 or 4 of these …

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Installing Skype on Fedora 14

Download the latest Skype rpm from the Skype website, current version is skype beta 2.1.x. There are some prerequisites which need to be installed for Skype to …

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Installing Adobe Air 2.x on Fedora 14 64 bit

First change to root user: sudo -i Install xterm: yum install xterm Install Fedora 32 bit dependencies:

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