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New Google Invention, Wave

June 1st, 2009

As usual, when google come up with a new solution or tools, or feature, the come with a big one. Something that effect all of us, effecting the way we interact with the internet. This time, google come with a brand new idea, Google wave. Even it still in development phase, not released yet, but it seem promising. A new tools for communication and collaboration plus it will be opensource, that perfect. They already provide the sneak peek at http://wave.google.com, in case you want to prepare your self, the already provide some documentation at http://www.waveprotocol.org/, cant wait for this one. Now i just wondering, what the others will come up with?

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Fix disabled readfile function in PHP

June 1st, 2009

Recently i had a problem with my blog. Actually the problem was on the server sever side where my blog hosted. I use a theme that require or use timthumb plugin. Maybe you already knew, i used it to generate and display thumbnail image, pretty good. The problem is the timthumb plugin use readfile function to read the image file and i dont know for sure why, my hosting service administrator just listed it as a disabled PHP function.

I do the ritual, search for a solution, and the only alternative i found is to change the the readfile function. There are some function alternative i think, combination between fopen and fpassthru worked on some server (it works on my private/offline server) but file_get_contents function works best. Read more…

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