Now days many site, bigger or smaller tries to sell there own ad space other than using Google Adsense of course. This gives webmasters additional revenue. These ads can be either text link ads or image ads or some affiliate links and what you can do is to make them drag able using Ajax Library Scriptaculous code snippets. This will give a nice Web 2.0 touch to your site, will make it stand out and more important will attract user attention.

So Today we will learn how to make an ad Draggable. For this, we will use the popular scriptaculous JS library. First lets download the library from there download page. To see how the Code will look, Please see this Example.

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This is NO new news but still I want to write about it as right now I am a little pissed off and secondly but more importantly, I want people to be aware of this and to be careful in installing Megaupload Toolbar as it is spyware !

Megaupload asks people to download there toolbar to get rid of download limits which they put. Now its fairly obvious that there will be some catch into it. So the catch is, after installing the megaupload toolbar, it changes your browser settings. One of the thing it does is to change your 404 error page. Instead of seeing it regular 404 page it redirects you to megaclick site and shows there own error page like this which -

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I had no idea a site like Flixster exists till today when I got a "mail" from them. As per there home page, they are a social networking website where members discuss about movies. Needless to say, the site seems to be huge and popular due to obvious reasons. Movies, sports, gossip are few domains which are very easy to build on due to there universal appeal.

Anyway the post is not about this. The post is about a mail I got today from a so called Flixster member Mr. Marx Malencio. The mail said that he has sent me a PM and I should go to the site to check it with the given link. Here is the message(Click on it to see in full size)

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Edit - There is a very nice conversation going on between some heavyweights of RoR and PHP framework developers as comments of this post and I will highly advice you to read it. If you don't have time to read both article and the comments than forget the article and read the comments, you will learn more from them --

PHP frameworks is the newest buzz word that is spreading the PHP community due to the threat posed by the famous Ruby on rails. Now everyone seems to look like working on such frameworks. The problem with this there is so many frameworks out there with different pros and cons that it is a hectic job to choose the right one. Please note, choosing the “right” framework is fully dependent on personal and project needs. I will not go through what features each has. I will refer to two articles for showing the framework’s pros and cons. You will find a feature chart here and a benchmark report here.

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Since 2 days back, on my Office PC where I have "been given" Fedora Core 2 (Yes, FC2!) I am not able to start firefox properly. Everytime when I starts it, it gives an error -

 
/work/src/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 424:
2607 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

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