Twitter (you can follow me here) has the annoying habit of shortening your long and meaningful url to a short meaningless jumble using tinyurl, even when the full url and accompanying text fits into their 140 character limit. For example I posted this article on how you can include multiple jar files in a single jar file in Ant build tool. Twitter automatically shortened the url to this meaningless jumble - http://tinyurl.com/5uclnr. So how can you paste meaningfull url's in Twitter without jumbling?

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The business of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro and Angsuman's Translator Plugin Gold has been transferred over to Wordpress Translator. All future news and updates on Translator Plugin Pro & Translator Plugin Gold will be available from the new site.
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I mean every word of it. I found this simple configuration tip after days of continuously looking at MySQL logs (mytop), top, slow log queries, debugging the hell out of applications, reading tons of MySQL optimization tips (and pulling my remaining hairs in frustration) on the web. Even MySQL optimization tips from MySQL doesn't mention it. And yet this single tip solved all my MySQL headaches and performance problems. Here are some of the problems I faced:

My powerful dedicated server was frequently consuming 100% of the CPU even with moderate load.
Even with tons of optimization and indexes, I found my server idle CPU going to 0%. The key resource consumer was MySQL. The worst part was that MySQL refused to serve new request as all threads were exhausted waiting (for some miracle to happen?).

Does any of that sound familiar? Then read on for the gory technical explanations and the tip.

BTW: My initial reaction to such problems was the standard one. I looked at MySQL master-master replication (this is better than the master-slave replication which WordPress.com does for its sites) to take care of the increased load. Fortunately this single configuration change made my server take at least 10 times more load than before.

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David Remick is New Yorker's editor since 1998. He lead to a near-miraculous revival of the magazine, taking it to profitability and surpassing one million reader threshold. Unlike many magazines of the internet era, New Yorker features probing, lengthy (at times 10,000 words) articles, fine literature, selected poetry, reviews of art exhibitions or of historical biographies, clever columns and sophisticated, refined illustrations. There are barely any articles about celebrities. There are very few photographs. The format is rather rigid. The style is at times highbrow and always superbly intelligent. It doesn't try to attract young and impatient readers, or to appease the advertisers. The humble man behind all these gives some sound advice for budding journalists. Read more (181 words) »

IBM today announced new software and services for mobile devices that closely mimic desktop features formerly found only on the PC. The new software & services can help individuals make better business decisions faster, while connecting friends, work colleagues and teams above and beyond PC era.

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WordPress wins the dubious distinction of Mass 0wnage Pwnie Award for an unbelievable number of WordPress vulnerabilities, over 140 as of today.

It seems like hardly a week goes by without a new vulnerability in WordPress or one of its many plugins. Many of them are actively being exploited to own popular WordPress blogs and use them to serve spam or client-side exploits to unsuspecting visitors. The popularity of WordPress combined with the abysmal security practices of WordPress plugin developers places the entire Internet at risk and is worthy of a nomination.

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The tutorials are an intensive one-day overview of the fundamental concepts of the Ruby on Rails Web programming framework, presented by the UC Berkeley RAD Lab. The tutorials consists of six sections of approximately one hour each.
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Have you noticed the somewhat obscure in this blog?

It is in the menu. It is designed to take you to a random article on this blog. If you are feeling bored then give it a shot. You don't know what you will land up on. Simple Thoughts currently has 2,328 articles and 9,388 comments for you to enjoy mostly on Java, PHP and various other Web technologies.

Let me know if you like our new feature.

Pligg is a popular Digg clone. This week has been a stressful week for many Pliggers due to a security vulnerability discovered and exploited by a few hackers. Pliggers should update to the latest latest version (9.9.5) asap. This release takes care of many security vulnerabilities that the hackers are exploiting.

Zemanta is a nice little WordPress plugin which allows you to discover tags and linkable items within your content as well as images to include. In short it could have a nice little blogger's elf, helping you to create richer content. However it fails in several ways, the most prominent of which is its aggresive backlinking policy.

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