Re-hashing Physics & Philosophy With Dr. Feyman’s Lectures & Book
2008-07-01 10:16:48
I am re-hashing my physics fundamentals with Dr. Feynman’s lectures. Did I mention how I love reading his books? I have great admiration for Dr. Richard Feynman, next only to Dr. Albert Einstein & Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose.
I am seriously looking to delve into quantum electrodynamics. It is really an intriguing subject.
One of the lesson [...]
5 Minute Guide To Selenium IDE and Selenium Remote Control (Java) Test Tools
2008-07-01 10:16:48
Selenium is a high quality open source test automation tool for web application testing. Selenium runs in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh, Safari on the Mac, with plans to support Safari on iPhone soon. Selenium test scripts are portable, can be run from browsers (using Selenium IDE) or from JUNit [...]
Firefox Download Still Sucks, At Least It Recovers
2008-06-30 01:16:28
Firefox download manager is still flaky, even after three major versions. Often the download stops for no apparent reasons. At least in version 3, you can safely stop and then resume the download, which works as expected.
What is your experience with Firefox download manager?
Free WordPress Plugin To Disable wlw_manifest & EditURI Link From WordPress Blog Header
2008-06-30 00:16:39
Newer versions of WordPress (2.3.1 and above) adds two extra lines to your blog header. They are:
You need them to use Windows Live Writer to write to your WordPress blog. However many, like me, do not use Windows Live Writer. For them such headers are simply junk and add to the size of their pages [...]
Free WordPress Plugin To Remove Generator Meta Tag / Version Information From WordPress Blogs
2008-06-30 00:16:38
WordPress, in recent versions, have forces the display of WordPress as the generator in meta tags along with the version information in the header of your WordPress blogs - . Unlike previous versions there is not easy way to remove it. Unless WordPress is using that to provide support (which it doesn’t), I don’t see [...]
WordPress Plugin To Disable wlw_manifest & EditURI Link From WordPress Blog Header
2008-06-29 05:16:30
Newer versions of WordPress (2.3.1 and above) adds two extra lines to your blog header. They are:
You need them to use Windows Live Writer to write to your WordPress blog. However many, like me, do not use Windows Live Writer. For them such headers are simply junk and add to the size of their pages [...]
How To Safely Redirect /index.php To / Using .htaccess / Apache
2008-06-27 23:46:35
Any PHP based software like WordPress, Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, MODx etc. will serve pages both from http://your-site.com as well as http://your-site.com/index.php. This creates duplicate content for search engines, which may then decide to penalize your site for duplicate content. You can safely prevent duplicate content with the following apache code / directive added to your [...]
Translator Plugin Gold Affiliate Program Introduced (30$ per Sale)
2008-06-27 23:46:35
I am happy to announce an affiliate marketing program for Translator Plugin Gold. Now you can sell your favorite WordPress plugin and earn 30% of the proceeds, a cool 30$ per sale. You can find more details and enroll here:
Translator Plugin Gold Affiliate Program.
Affiliate program for Translator plugins has been a much requested feature from [...]
Twitter Overloaded… Again and Again
2008-06-26 10:46:54
Twitter seems to be having serious scalability issues, a malaise which plagued the otherwise popular service since its early days.
Could this be related to its architectural decision of adopting Ruby-on-Rails? There was a rumor not so long ago that twitter was abandoning Ruby on Rails. While it was denied by Evan Williams, he also mentioned [...]
Twitter Overloaded… Again
2008-06-26 09:17:43
Twitter seems to be having serious scalability issues, a malaise which plagued the otherwise popular service since its early days.
Could this be related to its architectural decision of adopting Ruby-on-Rails? There was a rumor not so long ago that twitter was abandoning Ruby on Rails. While it was denied by Evan Williams, he also mentioned [...]