My Code of Ethics as blogger

January 13th, 2009 Are you one of those with the new blogger beta? Still searching how to hide the blogger navbar? You known its a cross to bear for your visitors. Well, let me tell you that the new beta blogger uses different CSS tags.

January 21st, 2004 Quoting Paul's very informative email to bloggerdev for my future reference and for others. This provides a quick reference for all blogger 1.0 supported API (official & unofficial).

May 19th, 2007 The latest Google search Trends (picture below) shows WordPress ahead of Blogger. Typepad and Movable Type are far behind and in decline.

November 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.

May 5th, 2006 Kelly Odell posted an interesting marketing plan template which should result in a marketing plan of roughly 24 pages. You should try to answer each square in the template with no more that one page including diagrams and pictures.

July 21st, 2005 Report Summary: As the prevalence and social influence of weblogs continue to increase, the issue of the ethics of bloggers is relevant not only to the blogging community, but also to people outside it. This study explored ethical beliefs and practices of two distinct groups of bloggers--personal and non-personal--through a worldwide web survey.

August 21st, 2006 A Chinese blogger finds Google.com inaccessible around 60% of the time whereas Google.cn is perfectly accessible. Is it coincidence or intetnional? Is Google intentionally blocking Google.com in China and providing intermittent access instead of outright banning to prevent backlash from internet community & activists.

January 12th, 2009 Blog authors now have an exhilarating news with Google blog converters 1.0 being released. Blogger.com was allowing its bloggers to export all the contents of the blog previously.

November 3rd, 2006 We deployed an application on client site yesterday and we faced a really puzzling problem. Some data stored in session variable ( $_SESSION["messages"] ) was returning the data of a global array $messages.

August 8th, 2009 LONDON - A blogger who was targeted in a coordinated attack against websites such as Facebook and Twitter has told the BBC that he blames Russia for the assault. According to a report by BBC News, the pro-Georgian blogger, known as Cyxymu, said he had been targeted for "telling the truth about the Russian-Georgian war" in his writings.

August 15th, 2007 All things being equal can blogging give you a distinct edge in employment? As an employer myself, I think the answer is a definitive yes. Let's see the reasons why.

August 15th, 2007 I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company.

March 17th, 2009 With Blogger templates flooding the web, the users are being spoiled for choices. Just a few years ago blogger (aka blogspot) had a limited templates that could meet the need for clean and minimalist template.  With Wordpress introducing newer and better themes, Blogger was losing its popularity in the blogosphere After the Blogger templates were changed to the XML format they have become immensely popular.

April 20th, 2008 PHP is not only a very competent web development language (and part of LAMP stack). It is also a very capable language for writing (command line) scripts.

November 27th, 2006 In Simple Thoughts blog and many other blogs worldwide there is a feature to email an article you liked (or hated) to your friends. Recently I noticed that this feature is being abused to send SPAM.