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How to install missing curl man pages in Ubuntu?

Joys of Programming — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:01:00 +0000

curl is very useful for the data transfer between the client and the server. Curl is available both as a command line tool as well as for programming purposes. In case of working with curl, you may require man pages and if your curl man pages are missing, you must install the concerned package To [...]

How to use a jar file in java programs? (Compilation with jar files)

Joys of Programming — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:13:46 +0000

You may have often come across jar files which you have procured from some website or created yourselves. But if you want to make use of it or make use of certain classes defined in the java archive (jar), you must be able to compile with the jar file. For further discussion, we will consider [...]

How to Install drupal in localhost

Joys of Programming — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:17:33 +0000

Drupal is one of the best content management software for web site development. But you can install drupal in your local machines and test its working. To see how it works, follow the steps given below. You must have mysql,php and apache installed in your machine. Create a database for drupal usage in mysql Download [...]

Create your own Log format with log4cpp::PatternLayout

Joys of Programming — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:36:35 +0000

log4cpp::PatternLayout supports four different patterns of log format. But it also supports user specified format. For this purpose, it gives certain format chracters. Some of them are %d: Date %m: log message %n: line separator %p: priority For more such characters refer PatternLayout. The additional benefit of using a format of your own is that [...]

mysql_config: Check how MySql is configured

Joys of Programming — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:12:19 +0000

mysql_config is a command line tool to find how your mysql is configured. It is useful to find out the information like the mysql socket. If you want to program with mysql libraries in C/C++, the above information on the libraries are quite useful. For information on mysql sockets, you can run the above command [...]

php-config: How is your php configured?

Joys of Programming — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:12:12 +0000

When you install php, your php is configured based on the packages present in your system at that time or sometimes with default value. To check these values, make use of the php_config. php_config gives all the information regarding how your php is configured. As you can see, various useful information like the version, the [...]

How to configure PHP and Apache in Linux and Mac?

Joys of Programming — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:02:13 +0000

You have installed PHP and Apache (Check the installation procedure). But you are facing with the following problems You are not able to configure PHP and apache so that apache can execute the .php files Instead of executing the php files, the browser simply displays the php files like a text Instead of executing the [...]

The need for logging in Software development

Joys of Programming — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:33:27 +0000

Logging and Debugging are the important steps during programming. Though logging is important post-development, especially to find statistics. It can also be used to detect the reasons for a system or a software crash. But logging is not just useful post-development, but it can also be useful during development especially for debugging purposes. How do [...]

Download a webpage using CURL in C

Joys of Programming — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:56:52 +0000

CURL is used for the data transfer to and from a data server. Curl can be used to download a webpage. Given below is the code that can be used to download any webpage of your choice to the location of your choice For this purpose, you must fill the following two constants WEBPAGE_URL : [...]

How to install cppunit in Ubuntu?

Joys of Programming — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:53:46 +0000

cppunit is useful to incorporate testing in your programs. To work with cppunit in ubuntu, you must first search for the packages Now since you have found out the required packages, you must install them.