How Google Friend Connect Works

We figured you might be tracking the conversations about Google Friend Connect and Facebook. We want to help you understand a bit more about how it works on the Friend Connect side with respect to users’ information.

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7 Feb Rose Day
8 Feb Propose Day
9 Feb Chocolate Day
10 Feb Teddy Day
11 Feb Promise Day
12 Feb Kiss Day
13 Feb Hug Day
14 Feb VALENTINE’S DAY

In modern context, Valentines Day is celebrated as an occasion when lovers express their love towards each other. It falls on February 14 and coincides with the day on which St. Valentine was martyred. The popularity of Valentines Day is immense and it is observed as holiday in several countries including United States.
On Valentines Day, lovers exchange gifts and valentine cards. People also donate to charity and gift candies on this day. Flowers are the most popular gifts for Valentine’s Day. Among flowers, rose is most liked and gifted. It is said that red rose is gifted to express love where as yellow rose and other flowers are gifted for pure friendship.
This day is closely marked with mutual exchange of love notes or valentines between the lovers. Previously, handwritten love notes and love poems were exchanged, but later from 19th century onwards-mass scale production of Greeting Cards started. This development also gave rise to the commercialization of thus far a sacred Valentines Day.
The main symbols of Valentine’s Day are the heart shaped outlines and the figures of winged Cupid. Numerous gift items flood the gift shops, as Valentines Day gets closer. Customized valentine cards are also a major attraction of the gifts shops. Greeting Cards sites come with new and fresh valentine e-cards. E cards cover wide themes on valentine like valentine kiss cards, valentine flowers cards, valentine teddy cards, valentine friends cards etc.
Valentine cards are a popular thing to convey the tender emotions of individuals. After Christmas cards, valentine cards are the most circulated cards. This day is more popular in women than men, a source says. A vast amount of information is circulated through various mediums on unique Valentine day ideas and tips, party destinations, gift shops, flower centers etc. Newspapers, TV channels and radio channels air programs and stories related to this day from weeks before the actual Valentine’s Day.
From a week before 14th February, celebration of valentine week begins. Each day has different theme like 7th Rose Day, 8th Propose Day, 9th Chocolate Day, 10th Teddy Day, 11th Promise Day, 11th Kiss Day, 13th Hug Day and finally Valentines Day on 14th.
Lovers wait for Valentine’s Day impatiently. A lot of people propose their feelings of love for the first time to their sweethearts on this day. Proposals are taken in positive spirit on the part of proposed. At the same time, outright rejections are avoided.

PHP Manual Updates

The PHP documentation team is proud to present to the PHP community a few fixes and tweaks to the PHP Manual, including:
an improved, XSL-based build system that will deliver compiled manuals to mirrors in a more timely manner (goodbye dsssl)
manual pages can now contain images (see imagearc() for an example)
updated function version information and capture system (fewer “no version information, might be only in CVS” messages)
… and more to come!
Please help us improve the documentation by submitting bug reports, and adding notes to undocumented functions.

Network / Windows Administration Tips

Network topology: The specific physical, i.e., real, or logical, i.e., virtual, arrangement of the elements of a network.
Note 1: Two networks have the same topology if the connection configuration is the same, although the networks may differ in physical interconnections, distances between nodes, transmission rates, and/or signal types.
Note 2: The common types of network topology are illustrated [refer to the figure on this page] and defined in alphabetical order below:Bus topology: A network topology in which all nodes, i.e., stations, are connected together by a single bus.
Fully connected topology: A network topology in which there is a direct path (branch) between any two nodes. Note: In a fully connected network with n nodes, there are n(n-1)/2 direct paths, i.e., branches. Synonym fully connected mesh network.
Hybrid topology: A combination of any two or more network topologies. Note 1: Instances can occur where two basic network topologies, when connected together, can still retain the basic network character, and therefore not be a hybrid network. For example, a tree network connected to a tree network is still a tree network. Therefore, a hybrid network accrues only when two basic networks are connected and the resulting network topology fails to meet one of the basic topology definitions. For example, two star networks connected together exhibit hybrid network topologies. Note 2: A hybrid topology always accrues when two different basic network topologies are connected.
linear topology: See bus topology.
mesh topology: A network topology in which there are at least two nodes with two or more paths between them.
ring topology: A network topology in which every node has exactly two branches connected to it.
star topology: A network topology in which peripheral nodes are connected to a central node, which rebroadcasts all transmissions received from any peripheral node to all peripheral nodes on the network, including the originating node.
Note 1: All peripheral nodes may thus communicate with all others by transmitting to, and receiving from, the central node only.
Note 2: The failure of a transmission line, i.e., channel, linking any peripheral node to the central node will result in the isolation of that peripheral node from all others. Note 3: If the star central node is passive, the originating node must be able to tolerate the reception of an echo of its own transmission, delayed by the two-way transmission time, i.e., to and from the central node, plus any delay generated in the central node. An active star network has an active central node that usually has the means to prevent echo-related problems. (188)
tree topology: A network topology that, from a purely topologic viewpoint, resembles an interconnection of star networks in that individual peripheral nodes are required to transmit to and receive from one other node only, toward a central node, and are not required to act as repeaters or regenerators. (188)
Note 1: The function of the central node may be distributed.
Note 2: As in the conventional star network, individual nodes may thus still be isolated from the network by a single-point failure of a transmission path to the node.
Note 3: A single-point failure of a transmission path within a distributed node will result in partitioning two or more stations from the rest of the network.

10 programming languages, 10 projects, 12 months

Hello, I’m Sandy and I’m a programming languages junkie. From since I was a young nerd, I enjoyed playing with them, and to some degree I still do. As I get older and more serious about programming, through, I try not to get as subjective about them as I once was, or worse yet, attached to a particular technology too much. Sadly, I found such attitude to be rare, and good objective language evaluations hard to find, especially ones that would cover which disciplines which language is good for, except the obvious ones (like Perl for text processing). A good craftsman knows what tool to use for which tasks, this is pretty much established knowledge, even through some variation of opinions certainly exists. Yet in programming, other factors tend to play a major role in choosing the tool – large corporations support (if the project is a commercial one, or if you want to be useful in your work), personal taste, hype surrounding the language, ease of use etc.That said, as my 2008 blogging / programming project I want to make such an evaluation, or at least a draft of it. My schedule is very tight now, so it might be my only extra-curricular blogging/programming activity, so it better be good. The analogy between programming language and craftsman’s tools may or may not be right, but the experiment seems interesting to me anyway – throughout this year, I will try to build 10 practical applications in 10 different programming languages – 100 programs total. Of course, I won’t manage to write 100 projects of a significant size in one year, neither will I get a good understanding of any of the languages I’ll use for such a short period (not counting those that I’ve already played with before). Anyway, what I surely can do, is to get a good sense of which language feels like, how comprehensive are the standard libraries (having not much time this may be crucial) etc. I may also check out how the language affects the way you can solve a problem in a direct comparison. That’s why I want the 10 program ideas to be really interesting, doing useful and fun stuff, not just dry calculations or simple algorithmic problems. One nice example I saw other people did when doing such comparisons on a smaller scale was a ray tracer, and this is really nice – it combines some number crunching, file handling, graphic file formats handling etc. and the end result is a nice picture, so writing it gives some satisfaction.Here is where your help comes in – I need suggestions which languages to choose, and what projects to work on. Well, to be sincere, my languages list is pretty much set, and it probably will look like this:C++ with Boost / other third-party librariesLisp (SBCL?)Python (I always was a Ruby guy)FactorJScheme (PLT?)ErlangHaskellOCamlSmalltalk (Squeak?)I pretty much like this selection, but feel free to make any suggestions you like, I’m not exactly sure about the C++ part, but it may be a good reference point. Anyway, I’m much less sure about the projects list, besides the ray-tracer example the only thing that comes to my mind right now is a simple unit-testing framework, which is a great test for the language expressiveness and can be bootstrapped rather quickly. So, I’m waiting for your suggestions, and even if no-one will give any, I will try to post the complete list and maybe some first results in a few days.