Software Review: Hosted Subversion Analytics ServiceJune 20th, 2007 I was contacted by ProjectLocker to review their new service: Subversion Analytics. I took the service through the paces using their demo account.
How To Get Top Level Domain Name FreeOctober 14th, 2007 Top level domain names like taragana.com or microsoft.com are available for a low price of under 10$ per year. However if you do not want to spend even that amount then you get a top level domain name (like angsuman.co.nr or www.angsuman.co.nr) absolutely free.
Hosted Subversion Service: Advantages and DisadvantagesApril 30th, 2009 Subversion is a highly popular version control system used worldwide. It succeeds CVS and aims to rectify its shortcomings.
Hosted Subversion Services - Comprehensive List & ReviewsNovember 17th, 2007 This is a comprehensive list of hosted subversion subversion (source code repository) service. I did not include the list of hosted subversion service providers who restrict to only open source projects like sourceforge or tigris.
How To Use Vanilla Forum On MySQL Database Without Password SetOctober 23rd, 2006 First of all I want to make it clear that having a MySQL database without a password set (on your root account) is a very very bad idea. However I wanted to set it up on my home machine which has XAMPP installed.
Free Weblog Hosting Signup at WordPress.ComNovember 21st, 2005 WordPress.com has finally opened for free signup by everyone. You no longer have to be a privileged invitee or a Flock user or use my hack to get an invotation.
Akismet, WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin, is GoodApril 7th, 2006 Akismet is WordPress hosted spam filter from Matt M. I have been using it for about a week now.
Guide To AdSense Electronic Fund TransferSeptember 18th, 2007 AdSense supports Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) for direct deposit of you AdSense income in 26 countries. Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) directly deposits into your bank account, in your local currency, to greatly speed up and simplify the payment process.
mod_rewrite Lesson - How To Make It WorkJune 29th, 2006 I learnt a hard lesson today on mod_rewrite. I haven't had time to explore further to find the root cause.
WordPress 2.0 Theme Competition AnnouncedJanuary 2nd, 2006 Update: This competition (and Ah Kiong) appears to be fraud. Kcyap (Ah Kiong) announced WordPress 2.0 theme competition with some exciting prizes funded by him like 60GB iPod video.
Rackspace, world's major dedicated server hosting provider suffers severe outage for hoursJune 30th, 2009 Rackspace, one of the MAJOR dedicated server hosting providers of the world, went down severely for more than an hour yesterday, resulting in with many popular websites going down like eventbrite.com, Timberlake's blog, Malkin's blog and etc. As Rackspace was found quoting,
We are having an issue that is affecting part of our DFW data center.
Linux / Fedora Core: How To Use rdiff-backup To Pull BackupsMay 26th, 2007 rdiff-backup is a popular, free, open source mirroring and incremental backup system for posix based operating systems like linux & Mac OS X. It uses rysnc algorithm through librsync but it doesn't use rsync.
WordPress.Com Goes Down AgainApril 17th, 2006 WordPress.com suffered a hardware failure yesterday bringing all the hosted Wordpress sites down including famous blogs like scobelizer. The message from Matt:
Once More
We had a pretty bad hardware failure yesterday, and though it took longer than we liked everything was restored and has been running the past 6 hours or so just dandy.
How Your Blog Readers Can Send You a Voice Message / PodcastJune 2nd, 2006 So you would like your blog readers to contact you? You have dutifully setup a contact form, probably using the wp-contactform plugin, and yet your are still unsatisfied. You miss the voice of your fans telling you how much they love (or hate) your blog.
Google Adds Referral Earning to AdSense; Changes Terms of ServiceNovember 4th, 2005 Google has silently added an option to display referral links (with images) in your blog or web sites. If anyone referred by you earns 100$ or more then Google credits your account with 100$.