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 our customers. I am happy that we finally got it out of the door (blame me for the delay). We will include more of our products in near future.

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These add-ons are so useful that I cannot work for a single day without them and so I would suspect most web developers and QA Engineers. These plugins / add-ons makes Firefox a formidable web development and testing platform. They are:

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I am looking for a decent online project management software with Gantt charts. I tried several online project management software, some free, some partially free with paid upgrades like BaseCamp, Zoho etc.

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I have been an avid user of Mambo and now Joomla since 2001. taragana.com is designed using Joomla. Unfortunately we haven't been able to maintain the site very well, our fault not Joomla's.

I wanted to re-design the site to highlight our products and service, and to cope up with our plan for several micro-site development in 2008 in addition to delivering a nice look. Let's look at my 5 simple requirements for CMS:
1. We should be able to easily embed custom code (php) to embed widgets (or snippets as Modx likes to call them) in certain pages.
2. We should be able to easily modify the pages, preferably from the page itself (think AJAX editing).
3. Ability to create micro-sites which differ structurally and functionally from main sites
4. Flexible hierarchy and menus
5. Automate Sitemap (Google & regular) & RSS feed generation, nice permalinks & SEO optimized URL
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I like to say that Comment Guard Pro will be the final plugin you will ever need for WordPress comment spam protection. It contains 18 pluglets for protecting you from comment spam, an open API for you to write your own pluglets, detailed live statistics (AJAX updated) and more. We have combined years of experience of ours and the community in comment spam protection, used extensive data from Comment Guard plugin which we deployed on our sites and few beta sites for a year to develop this plugin.

I am happy to say that the much awaited Comment Guard Pro is now released for internal testing so we can fine tune the settings before release. We should be able to release it in mid-December.

Comment Guard Pro was born out of our frustration in dealing with Comment spam. We gave excessive stress on quality and functionality in this product. No real comment should ever be lost. You shouldn't have to pore over Akismet or any other comment spam moderation queue to find out false positives. Comment Guard Pro is designed to give you peace of mind and save you time to allow you to focus on blogging (and your life).

Scott Schiller has re-created the classical Araknoid game with DHTML. It is elegantly done and a fun to play.

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Here is the live feed of visitors from our side. You can also see it on the right sidebar. FEEDJIT gives you real-time traffic data on your blog. No registration is required. See it after the break. Also how you can get one for your blog.
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In ExtJS you can create ComboBox which loads data from the server. You can also code so that new data is loaded from the server in response to an event like changing selection of another ComboBox. However it also means that the filtering is done remotely which is slow.

In ExtJS ComboBox automatic filtering is a nifty capability where the ComboBox items are automatically filtered to show only the values which matches the text you typed so far. It can also auto-fill the rest for you. This powerful capability comes at a price for remote mode. Every time the data is filtered by sending a query to the server which can be slower than local query.

In many use cases the full data is already on the client side, fetched during the initial loading of the ComboBox. Subsequent filtering can be easily done on the client side. Let's see how we can solve it.

Update: I have also filed a defect in ExtJS forum to hopefully incorporate the functionality in the core with suggested solutions. The defect details has been provided at the end of this post.
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Simple things should be simple. While starting with ExtJS, I saw a screencast on Grid which used a rather dubious method of making an AJAX call using an actual form element. I hunted for a better option and I came across a better option - Ext.data.Connection. Here's an working example on how you can easily make AJAX call in ExtJS library.

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One of the main challenges of managing multiple dedicated web / database servers is the ability to centrally monitor and manage them, automate tasks which requires out-of-band access like rebooting the server or find out if the server is dying and arrange for replacement ahead of time etc. Unless you are a very big web service provider, chances are you are using dedicated servers from one or more of dedicated web hosting providers. For example, I use two dedicated web servers from LayeredTech (not recommended) & EasySpeedy.

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