InfraRecorder - available under GPL license and can be used to convert MP3 music to audio (cda) format in Microsoft Windows. To convert mp3 to audio (cda) format, all you need to do is to select InfraRecorder » choose Audio Disc » drag the MP3 file to file list » Click Burn the current compilation to disc Using InfraRecorder, you can also compile a CD/DVD, record disc images (ISO, BIN, CUE), record dual layer DVD's, fixate discs and many such features. You can check InfraRecorder at http://infrarecorder.org

When moving mysql database from one server to another or, to test that the data backup works as expected we need to import mysql dump file in the testing environment. Create the database (test-database) in the testing environment and identify the location of the .gz or .sql file. If the mysql dump was a .gz file, you need to gunzip to uncompress the file by typing $ gunzip mysqldump.sql.gz This will uncompress the .gz file and will just store mysqldump.sql in the same location. (more…)

Tar (tape archive) does not compress files. They are used for grouping all files in a folder so that it can be transferred across locations. In order to compress the files, you need to use zip, gzip or bzip2 utilities. gzip, bzip2 are file compression utilities and gunzip, bunzip2 are file uncompression utilities. bzip2 compresses files to a smaller size compared to gzip, but it takes longer to compress the files. Bzip2 uses Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression algorithm (with Huffman coding) and gzip uses Lempel-Ziv coding. so, a file compressed with one utility cannot be uncompressed with the other utility. (more…)

Apache Error log shows the message "Client denied by server configuration" and the user sees "Forbidden Access" when they try to visit a web page. Solution: Search for the apache configuration file (httpd.conf or vhosts.conf if you have configured a virtual host). Check for the directory permission set for the document root of the web site in question and do the following changes. (more…)

Some factors like host environment setup, multiple projects for single/multiple clients, common helpers, cross-functionality between sites etc. determines how the folder architecture needs to be structured. Zend framework offers this flexibility. (more…)

Download the latest version of Zend framework from http://framework.zend.com/download/latest At the time of writing it was 1.10.2 available at Zend 1.10.2 $ pwd /tmp $ wget http://framework.zend.com/releases/ZendFramework-1.10.2/ZendFramework-1.10.2.tar.gz (more…)