This article is the continuation of our PHP Form Tutorial Series. If you are not yet familiar with our previous stones, it is highly recommended you go through them first: Inserting, Retrieving and Security. The scripts that you saw in our previous stones were solely for introduction purposes only; we highly discourage using those scripts in any live application. Now, in this article, we introduce validation of form data including security and filtering. Download File [...]

This article contains a simple shell script which on execution will back up your linux system. If you are not familiar with Backup or Restore, I highly recommend you go through our previous stones on Backup your Linux System, Restore your Backups and Tips on Backup and Restore. Since, the entire posts on Backup was based on GNU tar, the following script will be using tar utility to backup. You might be wondering why to [...]

Following great response in our Tips and Tricks for Facebook Chat (Save History/ Video Chat/ Send Files), we noticed a large number of users searched for facebook smileys or facebook arts for their facebook statuses or comments. So, we decided to dedicate a whole post of common symbols and signs that can be easily added in facebook/twitter statuses. Just copy these symbols and paste them in your status. At the end of this post, you can also [...]

In my last two php posts, I showed you how to insert and retrieve values from the database. In the scripts done in those stones, we have not used any kind of security and those scripts were only meant to learn those topics. In this stone I will try and teach you how to secure our form from various attacks like XSS, SQL injection etc. Before diving into the code, I would like to talk about [...]

Continuing on the series of linux backup stones, I give you Tips for Backup and Restore. These are short but essential tips on Backup and Restore in Linux.   1. Before you backup your system, be specific of what type of data to backup, (Is it a Full or an Incremental or a Differential Backup?), where to backup (Flash drive, Hard-disk, Over Network) and what to Backup (just the home folder or the root itself). [...]

Everyone likes the motto, “Keeping it Simple” and the whole idea of a Graphical User Interface or GUI is based on those 3 words. Gone are the days when we use to type complex commands to do tasks, people love the power of doing complex tasks with a simple click and the attraction towards it is fairly obvious.  In this article I will teach you how to create simple User Interfaces using JAVA, so let’s [...]

In my previous post on Backup your Linux System, a brief introduction on Backup and the three types of Backup were explained. Once we have backups of our important documents, we should be able to restore those backups. Ergo, in this post, I will explain how to restore backups using the GNU version of ‘tar’ Backup Utility. But, before you begin reading this post, I highly recommend you to go through ‘Backup your Linux System’ [...]