My Personal Blog

Welcome to my blog

Here you'll be able to find useful links (to my mind), interesting code tricks and all my other thoughts on any subject that will be in my head while I'm in administration area of my site :)
Feel free to expose your thoughts on any subject you like. The only limitation is for damn spammers - I'll fight with them with all ugly methods I know.
Hope to update this site frequently.

Australia immigration - common information

http://www.immi.gov.au/ - official site related to immigration to Australia. All about visas, citizenship, living etc. Everything you should know about immigration can be found here.

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/booklets/1119.pdf - the most useful booklet for starting immigration process. What to do, where to apply and so on. Must read booklet.

http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/175/eligibility... - official documents check list with ability to check you score.

Cheat Sheets

Cheatsheets taken from http://www.addedbytes.com

MySQL 5.0 New Features

This is the list of articles found by me or someone else regarding new features (mostly about stored procedures) in MySQL 5
MySQL 5.0 New Features: Stored Procedures and the link at the bottom of the page to PDF file containing extended article.

Stored Procedures and functions - the same in documentation on dev.mysql.com

PNG transparency in IE6

For those who have issues with png transparency - I've found this solution.
With the help of jQuery it adds some JS code for solving this issue.
Just add one one file and call one method on page load and here's the magic :)
http://jquery.khurshid.com/ifixpng.php

another two ways of solving the same issue:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pngtest.htm
http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6

New for me and very familiar for Drupal - jQuery

http://www.rsdn.ru/article/inet/jQuery.xml
Very useful link for those who know russian. Some kind of Beginners Guide for jQuery.

Useful code snippets for me

Simple XML/XSLT Parser
<?php
$xml_filename = 'name.xml';
$xsl_filename = 'name.xsl';
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$xsl = new XSLTProcessor();
$doc->load($xsl_filename);
$xsl->importStyleSheet($doc);
$doc->load($xml_filename);
$content = $xsl->transformToXML($doc);
?>

Domain names

I was thinking about regestering new domain name recently.
Tried to register soel.org (isn't it pretty, yeah?) and found out that it was registered buy reseller just one and a half monthes before. I was even ready to pay for it, but that guy decided to charge an exorbitant price of $350... The world is unfair! :)
Anyway, soel.org.ua is also good. At least it's completely free!

Drupal CMS. Common facts

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites.
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