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Google uncloaks once-secret server

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Mark Ghosh
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April 5th, 2009
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General

Google uncloaks once-secret server: For those of us that geek out on servers, data centers, hardware design and cool computers, Google recently revealed their server design and provided some insight into their shipping container data centers. I really like their distributed UPS design with 12V batteries to increase efficiency and reduce waste in capacity. Some [...]

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WordCamp India is On!

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Mark Ghosh
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February 21st, 2009
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Business of Blogging, General, wordcamp

WordCamp India is On!. The list of speakers is quite impressive and includes both Matt and Om for various talks including Matt’s famous “State of the Word“. It looks to be a fun and information filled event with quite interesting fare such as SEO, IP rights and other both techie and non-techie topics. As luck [...]

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A Belated Welcome to the New Weblog Tools Collection

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Mark Ghosh
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February 14th, 2009
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Blogging News, General

It has been a week since we put this new design into production at Weblog Tools Collection. Though at first it was quite a change, the design is growing on me.
A few things are still broken (find any?) and the internal code and the SQL queries that run the plugins are still being tweaked. We [...]

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Shubho Nobo Borsho!

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Mark Ghosh
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January 1st, 2009
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Blogging News, General

Well, that is Happy New Year in Bengali. So we wish all our readers a Happy and Prosperous New Year!
Our little blog grew slowly but steadily in the last year and our editors, authors and well wishers have made it possible for us to not only provide you with the most useful and up to [...]

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WLTC Reader Survey Results

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Mark Ghosh
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September 29th, 2008
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General

We recently ran a reader survey to have you answer some basic questions that we had about Weblog Tools Collection and would like to thank all those who participated in the survey. We were not looking for specific answers but were trying to gauge some sentiments and help shape ourselves to serve you better. We [...]

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Are you going to WordCamp San Francisco?

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Mark Ghosh
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August 14th, 2008
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General

I am going to be in San Francisco this weekend, attending the WordCamp on Saturday and staying till Sunday. Since this is my first trip to the Bay Area, I am hoping to meet and catch up with a lot of friends and colleagues. True to my style, I waited till the last minute to [...]

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WordPress Tips for 7/27

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Image alignment within a WordPress post: WordPress 2.5 introduced floating image alignment within text on a post. This feature does not work on certain themes. Thanks to Jason for asking the question and to Sadish for the solution. Final thought: it would also be nice if a few gallery formatting options were available through the [...]

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WordCast Mugshot Contest

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Jeff Chandler
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July 13th, 2008
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General, WordPress

The guys and gal over at the WordCast Podcast is currently holding a Mugshot contest. The contest is all about taking a photo of your favorite mug.
Check out this awesome line up prizes:
4th Place: WordPress mug and WordPress T-shirt
3rd Place: WordPress mug, WordPress T-shirt and Lijit T-Shirt
2nd Place: WordPress mug, WordPress T-shirt, Lijit T-Shirt, signed [...]

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How many Queries are too many?

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Mark Ghosh
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July 12th, 2008
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Blogging, General, WordPress

I have been asked this question quite a few times and I never have a perfect answer. It is obviously an important question to ask but it can be answered in many different ways based on preferences, need for plugins, optimization techniques used and a variety of other factors.
Weblog Tools Collection uses a lot of [...]

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