2011
Weird bug during Software Update – Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.x)
Err is human. I know most of us make mistakes. As far as I saw and heard about Apple was really great to hear. First time in my lifetime on Mac I started to see issues. May be it is known for longtime users. But still I love using my mac. This morning I tried to update my mac, I saw a weird bug. You also have a look at the same below:
Finally it is not the end of the world. Apple should have some good people like me to showcase the issues what I face day-to-day in life using a mac.
2010
Blogger: No more FTP support!
Yes, blogger a famous blogging platform is going to stop their FTP Publishing services on March 26, 2010. I was using the FTP solution of Blogger. I was happy using them. Unfortunately this announcement made me feel that I might lose my blogs. I was aware that I would not be able to continue using Blogger as they do not allow subdomains to be added to their custom domain service. I never got down as I had my wordpress handy.
You know what I did? I deleted all my published blogs. Downloaded WordPress and started to install on my subdomain. It took a total of 12 minutes to move all my blogs to my new wordpress layout. Yes, now I am running WordPress 2.9.1 and I am enjoying the same.
I like the new wordpress layout as it is very much sophisticated and easy to install and use. Google Blogspot is coming up with new changes shortly in few months let me wait and see what they have got for me.
2008
Design Patterns
Many a times I have wondered about Design Patterns. I thought it was a complex subject and it needs more stuff to understand them. But eventually out of my experience I have understood that Design Patterns are something which we use them in our day-to-day activities. All the above mean in particular with programming and that too in .NET. Several years before I created a website which hosted all my funny and interesting emails. I had used some design patterns in them. On later stage I came to know that I have used MVC Pattern, Factory Pattern and Singleton Pattern in the website.
As of now almost everything in programming follows a design pattern which helps a lot when it comes to complex programming. All the developers to some extent might be aware of the Object Oriented Programming. But it would be the best if they are able understand the real life problems that they face with OOP. Design Patterns come to rescue over solving some complex issues with ease.
For a long time Design Patterns are in the safe lockers of Architects. Now an awareness was found among the developers to concentrate more on Design Patterns. I was trying to google around an was able to see lots of information about design patterns. I would like to list a few of them for your reference.
- http://wiki.asp.net/page.aspx/276/design-patterns/
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms954629.aspx
Also you can find more than I have listed. I hope this post might find you interesting to have a look into design patterns if you have not looked into it yet.
2008
Posting blogs through email
Today as i was digging through Blogger I found an option of posting blogs through email. The world has become too short. The blogs could be published using mobile, email and what not … sometime in the future kids would ask "Papa! What do you mean by Books?"
2007
Removed Visual Styles – Default Font
Deeply inspired by the simple and plain look of the my website http://www.abrahamdurairaj.info I have changed my blog as well to look so. Plain and simple always look better than the designed ones. I will try to retain this kinda layout till I get bored of the plain vanilla.
Another inspiration was Richard Stallmans personal homepage which looked simpler than mine.
I would like to achieve something via simplicity.
2007
A Note About Indexing
For queries to run efficiently it is important that appropriate indexes be in place. A simple guideline is that all fields referenced in a comparison in a WHERE clause or in the ON clause of a JOIN statement should be indexed. Bear in mind that all primary key fields are automatically indexed, but that foreign keys must have an index added manually.
Well, there you have it. Now that you have witnessed some of the awesome power of SQL, with its greater flexibility and increased capability, it is easy to see why it is the query language of choice for high-end database servers.
2006
Cool site to check your website!
I am just amazed by the thoughts that people get while creating tools. Here is a beautiful website that check the design of any website, popularity of a website and accessibility of the website.
It does about 130 tests on Basic HTML, Frames etc.
Here is the link.
http://sitescore.silktide.com/
Check your website and fix the issues it says … it really means what it says.
Also for your further reference you can use another cool web based siteperformance tool. That is netmechanic you can visit http://www.netmechanic.com for more details.