I’d thought of making a word quizzer as a web application to improve my vocabulary when I took the GRE test a couple of years back. I’d written one in Visual Basic 6 when I wrote SAT , but desktop applications are boring! I got inspired to bring my long standing idea to fruition and [...]
Categories: web
Tagged: quiz, vocabulary, web, word, wordza
What is Alexa rank? Alexa collects statistics about visits by internet users to websites through the Alexa Toolbar. Based on the collected data, Alexa computes site ranking. By examining the Alexa rank of a site, you can get a rough idea of how popular the site is. Many argue that Alexa rank is misleading but [...]
Categories: programming,python,web
Tagged: alexa, alexa rank, programmatically, python, script, xml
I have come across more than one instance when I had to select a random record from a table in a MySQL database. Here is how to do it.
Categories: linux,programming,python
Tagged: database, mysql, query, random record, tip
One of the trickiest and enjoyable parts of starting something new (be it a website, project, band) is naming it! Sometimes a good name can be quite elusive and cause more than the deserved share of brain ache. Here is a list of automated services around the internet that will help you get name suggestions. [...]
Categories: web
Tagged: domain names, name generator, name suggestions, product names, web2.0 names