Category Archives: Rants

Sat 16 Jul 2011

CSIA Website, debug=”true”

Posted on July 16, 2011 at 11:37 AM by shirish in Programming, Rants, Review | 1 Comment

We frequently hear reports about “hackers” successfully bringing down some of India’s premier websites. The IPL-T20 website was once “defaced” and the hackers politely left a message stating that they had exploited a common SQL injection vulnerability.  It’s no surprise … Continue reading →

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Tue 4 Jan 2011

Using MySQL User-Defined Variables in PHP

Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:23 AM by shirish in Rants | Leave a comment

User-defined variables are a neat way to have Dynamic SQL queries — statements that accept parameters and possibly produce different result sets based on different parameter values. They’re defined in a MySQL query as follows – SET @varname=’value’; eg. SET @varname=’value’; … Continue reading →

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Sat 18 Sep 2010

Bad Decisions

Posted on September 18, 2010 at 3:08 PM by shirish in General, Rants | 1 Comment

It’s September, and it’s still raining here in Mumbai. The monsoon this year has been largely great. No major mishaps, and the reservoirs are probably full enough to supply water for a year. Yeah, right. Every year, the monsoon puts … Continue reading →

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Mon 1 Feb 2010

Whatever happened to Peace, Love and Classic Jeans…

Posted on February 1, 2010 at 7:43 PM by shirish in Rants, The Usual | Leave a comment

The Hunt for the Perfect Jeans Trust me, it’s terribly hard to find a pair of classic Levi’s Jeans. It’s as if I belong to a lost generation of people whose clothing needs are no longer given attention by the … Continue reading →

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Tue 5 Jan 2010

Just when you thought things on the FB Homepage couldn't get worse…

Posted on January 5, 2010 at 9:55 PM by shirish in Facebook, Rants | 2 Comments

Is it just me or Facebook is making people dumber? I think it’s just me. I don’t see others complaining about the increasingly annoying trend: People on FB are joining Groups and becoming “fans” of weird Pages. People now create … Continue reading →

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