Starting anything without checking for trademarks can put you in trouble at some point of time or other. It may be possible that in your country the trademark may not be available but somewhere in other part of the world some third person may have registered a trademark that collides with your name.

Always do a preliminary trademark search before you

* Register a Domain Name
* Register Business Names
* Selecting New Product or Brand Names

Initially it would cost no less …

I was having having nightmares with mysql rand() function. Rand() function works well in pulling out rows randomly from the datbase and works well if you have a quite few hundred records. Ironically, it desperately slows down when you have a large table dataset above 10,000 rows.

This is the traditional way of using mysql rand() function.

SELECT * FROM TABLE ORDER BY RAND()

I have observed the execution time crossing more than 1 sec with mysql when you use this function on …

I have always been fond of finding a suitable mobile phone for senior citizens with poor eyesight. Many aged persons lose the interest for mobile phones just because they are not comfortable to operate the mobile phone without wearing eye-glasses.

Dont forget that senior citizens also form a good consumer market. I am very disappointed that many mobile phone companies dont focus on senior citizens comfort while making a mobile phone.

Here are some the good mobile phone that are suitable for …

Installing Webmin (server control panel) for Debian/Ubuntu is dead easy.

Just follow 3 steps.

1. Go to Root> console and download Webmin using wget command

wget http://webmin.com/…./webmin-X.YYY.tar.gz

2. Just follow the steps during the installer.

3. Once installation is finished, just point to URL you will get the webmin login screen.

http://localhost:10000/

http://ip.address:10000/

Thats it!

I was amazed with the simplicity of the CakePHP framework. Its so easy to understand the model view controller and just within minutes we can break down the application like a blog into pieces.

Just i was experimenting i found that making custom layouts with the framework is bit hard to find after i made search in the web. I decided to publish here. You can download and install latest cakephp framework here: cakephp.org

Just a quick tip on basics of CakePHP …