Free Ajax URL shortening service with 1 letter domain!

Hey geeks! Today I will share with you my new Free Ajax URL shortening service with 1 letter domain! It is simple to use, just make POST or GET request to this url:

How to start Android Studio Windows 8 64bit?

Quick tutorial on how to start Android Studio version 0.1 in Windows 8. You can download Android Studio from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/studio.html

Google April Fools jokes 2013

Here you can see all Google April Fools jokes for 2013. If you know something more, please write about it in comments.

Symfony 2 and ZipArchive - class not found!

It was crazy. I was trying to make my ZipArchive work and I know now, that it was already working just Symfony2 did not knew about it!

Fatal error: Class 'Demo\AcmeBundle\Controller\ZipArchive' not found 

php5/ext/pcre/php_pcre.h:29:18: fatal error: pcre.h: No such file or directory while installing php zip

I was trying to use ZipArchive, but i got an error:

Fatal error: Class 'ZipArchive' not found

Then I started to Google how to install zip extension on my Ubuntu Apache 2 server. I have PHP version 5.3.10 and in configuration it says, that zip is enabled. This information you can get with these 2 simple commands:

How to use template engine in Symfony 2?

Symfony 2 comes bundled with Twig template engine, so you definitely want to use it. Twig template engine has everything what you need to keep your business logic out of templates and stay on MVC pattern, which is used in Symfony 2. The best thing about Twig template engine is that in many cases it is even faster than raw PHP, because finally it renders to raw and optimised PHP code.

How to join 2 SQL tables with PHP? Examples and visualisations

Often you need to join data from 2 tables. You can do it with several SQL queries and PHP, or just use JOIN functions. The JOIN keyword is used in an SQL statement to query data from two or more tables, based on a relationship between certain columns in these tables. Most popular joins are INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN and FULL JOIN. It's always good to know the different.