Tadalist is Slow!

June 23rd, 2008 Tadalist is a popular free online todo list manager with sharing capability but without fine grained permission control. Here is a list of 5 must-have features missing from Tadalist (add yours below): 1.

June 22nd, 2007 While Twitter is an useful service and pretty enjoyable too, it has become blindingly slow to the point of being unusable, the price of popularity I presume. Now you can look in my twitter profile to find out everything, which I decide to write about, I am doing.

February 6th, 2008 You have surely seen Flash pages which displays an animated loading icon which goes away after the page is loaded. Is the same concept appropriate for content heavy web pages too? What are the pros & cons?

November 18th, 2007 Monitoring MySQL queries is a favorite pastime of MySQL administrators especially for performance reasons. Here is a simple bash script to monitor long running MySQL queries in realtime using the ubiquitous 'show processlist'.

December 16th, 2005 It has become a fulltime jobs of some morons to reverse hype Java for several years now. First it was "Java is slow" myth which was perpetuated.

March 8th, 2006 The MySQL database supporting this blog was consuming massive amount of CPU, which effectively lead to site going down 3-4 times this week. I knew an obvious culprit.

April 12th, 2007 WordPress is a popular blogging software. As a design decision it stores the blog content in database and uses php to fetch and display the pages.

April 18th, 2005 An example of wrong usage of AJAX aka XmlHttpRequest based web applications - TinkingTeam Corporate Website. Here the menu content is dynamically fetched using Ajax.

February 10th, 2007 Barack Obama, US presidential candidate, has taken a huge leap forward from his contemporaries by creating his own social networking site, in addition to maintaining his presence in YouTube and MySpace (possibly unofficial) and other places. I just registered and created a blog to test the site.

August 27th, 2007 One of the good reason is that one (or more) of the servers you ping after you publish a post has gone down or is overloaded. When you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies the configured ping servers that your site has been updated.

December 16th, 2005 Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow.

October 21st, 2005 This tip comes from Pete Freitag: Always, always set autocomplete="off" in the input tag. For example: <input type="text" name="cc" autocomplete="off" /&rt; Otherwise, if people have the form completion feature turned on their credit card number will be stored in plain text somewhere on the computer (in the registry, or elsewhere).

November 30th, 2005 Most of the changes in WordPress 2.0 are internal. However you will notice improved admin interface and some nifty features and some pain.

September 5th, 2007 Joshua has come up with very "specific" and very interesting rumors from "reliable sources" about the Google Phone: 1. the phone will run on a Linux distro 2.

July 7th, 2006 Google has passed Microsoft in popularity since beginning of 2005. What is even more surprising is their rate of growth and slow decline of Microsoft.