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Ping.sg has been running an online contest for a budget airline operating in Singapore, Cebu Pacific. We have 10 pairs (total of 20) tickets to Avatar movie* to be given away!There are 2 parts to the contest, online quiz and lucky retweets. Each week we will be announcing 2 lucky winners for lucky retweets. Each ... 
v1.80 is late, but it’s finally here. As usual, the features:Pongs vs ReadsThe new Ping.sg has new metrics, pong and read. Yes, pong is the old one, but the way it is counted is now different. As all of us know, pong is the key factor in determining the popularity of a ping (post). Pong ...
Ping.sg was started as a bedroom project by myself. I was the sole designer, coder, and investor. [More on the history of Ping.sg]It has been 2 years since the project has started and the Singapore blogger community has seen a very steady and promising growth over the years. Membership and readership counts have increased steadily over time.I created Ping.sg to be a platform …
We at Ping.sg have noticed that there have been an increasing number of commercial sites misusing the bloggers’ platform for their commercial purposes.Sticking to our policy that Ping.sg is only for bloggers in the region, we have recently banned tens of sites, linking to commercial entities, from further using Ping.sg services.This is done solely to ...
What a great Ping.sg 2nd Anniversary Party we have had just now and congratulations to the Ping.sg Blog Awards II winners!As I am totally exhausted from continuously missing sleep from the last few days, I’m going to do this in point-form.The party was great!The attendees were great! We have met so many new Pingsters for ...
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md5, sha1, etc are very handy tools for programmers to generate hashed strings from random or fixed keys. A lot of the times, we simply store these hashes directly into databases, setting the field data type as string, or use the hashes as filenames (handy for creating cache files). While there is nothing wrong in ...
This was done and tested on a Linux (CentOS) system running PHP 4. Configure PHP with ODBC support. You should check that it is successfully installed by doing phpinfo(). Obtain the latest DB2 ODBC driver from IBM. You can download it from here. Lookout for Driver for ODBC and CLI. Untar it at a dir. ...
One thing I’ve always really hate about Apple softwares are the lack of keyboard shortcuts on a lot of things. Today, I’m looking for a shortcut for editing of a cell in Numbers (a spreadsheet application in iWork suite) and this is what it says: “Edit content in cell: Select cell and click once, twice, ...
Attempting to ALTER a char column directly to numeric will result in the following error: ERROR: column “COL_NAME̶ 1; cannot be cast to type numeric Here’s how to get around that: Verify data is ok & delete away the old column. I blog about PostgreSQL and other Linux sys admin stuffs on my Twitter (@uzyn) and ...
&# 160; Note: This article is written based on Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Server (Karmic Koala), having previously set up MySQL to run on EBS based on 
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