When I got Linux Pro Magazine, issue March 2008, there was a DVD included "Mandriva 2008 Power Pack". I have an old machine and I decided to give it a shut and try this Linux distribution. ...more

Last week I was working on a web page with several ajax calls. The process was something like this: The first time the page loads it has some javascript in it. Then based on user's selection, some ajax calls would be made to the server and the server returns a block of page and that block would be inserted somewhere inside the html body. The returned block also has some javascript in it. ...more

If you have a vocabulary with several terms in your drupal 5 web site, you may want to show list of recent items in that vocabulary in a block or a page. I tried to do this with views module, but I could only show nodes belong to one specific term, and that was not what I had in mind....more

There are many version control programs out there. But I think Subversion recently has become the first choice for programmers. It is easy to install, easy to use and most importantly, it is free.
When it comes to client programs, there are many choices out there. I played with several client programs and I want to share my experience with you.
Note that the platforms I use are Windows XP and Linux (Centos 5). Why do I use Centos? That’s another article for another time....more

Since couple of months ago I switched to Eclipse. Especially for PHP. Before that, I worked a little with Delphi for PHP. Although I'm a Delphi fan and I have been using Delphi IDE for more than 10 years, but I found Delphi for PHP lacks many good features of Classic Delphi. The components (VCL for PHP) is a great start, but again it is still on its first stage and honestly, I think Code Gear rushed into bringing it to the market. There are many bugs and we should yet wait for a stable version. After Delphi for PHP, I found Eclipse with PDT plugin which is a plugin for PHP development....more

I don’t care about Liberals. In other words, I don’t like them at all. But the one and only thing which scares me a lot is the decision about supporting religious schools from Conservative party.
What are earth they are thinking? I don’t believe something like this is happening in Canada. Maybe they have forgotten the religious power and how dangerous is was. After so many years moving forward, are they really want to jump backward? ...more

It was the first weekend of June in Toronto. Usually at this time of year, the weather gets warmer. But that weekend was totally different. Wind was blowing hard. Rain drops were so big and powerful, and thunderstorm was making weird noises, like we had a war going on here. And there she was standing. You couldn’t read anything from here face. Not depressed, not hopeful, maybe something in between. I was standing right beside her. She looked at me and started to talk. ...more

It was a lovely Saturday afternoon on April 2007 in Toronto. I went to downtown with one of my friends. Lots of stuff was going on there. On the south-west corner of Yonge and Dundas Street, you could see two drum players playing together, and there was a man with a cassette player standing right beside them, playing some kind of evil music. His face was painted in black and whole his dress was dark. I wish I had my camera with me. Right behind them was a table with a group of young men, at most 16 years old. All of them were black people. The sign said “Free Information about Islam”....more

Last week I wrote about music, and what I have experienced last year. It was about Khash and his music. As I promised, I’m putting a few sample of this great music for you to enjoy…

**** Demonic Sufi ****

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It was only one week ago. I was going to bed, like most of the nights that I watch 11 o’clock news before turning off the TV, I did the same. And that was the time when the shocking news hit me. “Shooting at Virginia school”. First they said 21 people killed. Among them were one professor and the rest students. It is that simple. In one or two sentences we can give the news of 21 people, 21 lives, “Done”! Is it really that simple?...more