A good read for newbies and experienced coders alike: http://brainstormsandraves.com/articles/semantics/structure/
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Previous Post Pictorialis changes
I am back in the market looking for a job for myself. Here is the gist of my resume. #EDUCATION I have a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Toledo. I have an Undergraduate degree in physics with minors in English and Computer Science from The College of Wooster. #PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE I specialized in databases. I have taken courses and have 3 years of experience in database administration and database programming. Have three years of experience in C++, C, PHP, Perl, shell scripting, Visual Basic and VSE. Have a working knowledge of Java, Javascript, UML, all of .NET, ASP and WML. Can read most kinds of code and excel at debugging and bug tracking. I work with at least three different open source applications. #SYSTEM ADMIN EXPERIENCE I have over 5 years of experience with system administration in Operating Environments including Windows, UNIX, Linux and Macintosh. I […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress Template Generation System
I have made some small changes to Pictorialis which are reflected in the new download. – Two different methods of creation of thumbnails – Choose a small area of the picture – Chose whole picture – Now has the ability of using NetPBM instead of GD, option in wp-admin/post.php – Better upload code, faster processing – Addition of extra code to weed out posts with no pictures. This blog now produces thumbnails of posts which have pictures and thus pictorialis can now be used as a full text blog as well without penalty. There are some more updates and fixes planned, they will come as and when time permits.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post Kses based HTML checking
Francey of Francey Designs has added WordPress to the list of blog applications that her template generation system works with. The other applications for which her system generates templates include Diaryland, Diary-X, Blogger and Moveable Type. Check out her designs (again) and get her to build some custom templates for your site/blog.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post Announcing Ping-o-matic
Kses are a set of PHP scripts written by Ulf which removes all unwanted HTML elements and attributes, and it also does several checks on attribute values. kses can be used to avoid Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Buffer Overflows and Denial of Service attacks I have modified the original kses distribution scripts to allow the checking of allowed HTML tags. This code will fill in incomplete or incorrectly nested HTML/XHTML tags as well. I am working towards coding an HTML filter and validator and this is the first step. Future enhancements include checking and correction of validitity according to the doc-type mentioned in the HEAD etc. For now, here is the link to the modified kses.php file. For WordPress users, you can simply download this file, rename it to kses.php and upload it to the wp-includes directory of your WordPress installation. For all other uses, please follow the directions inside the […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post How deep is your page? – A topographic map of pages.
Ping-o-matic is ready for deployment! Dougal‘s Blog Service Pinger has its own domain name. Together with Matt Mullenweg, he has created a pinger for the major blog update trackers on one page. There are many major feature upgrades planned for this webpage with many cool ideas to be explored. Major enhancements in the current version: * Your blog name and uri are stored in cookies, and automagically filled in for you when you return. * The pinger output dynamically appears in your browser as each ping completes. You no longer have to wait for all of the pings to complete before your browser loads the page. * Fixed the RubHub ping so that it actually works now. * Improved some of the error output. Another exciting feature of this service will be its own pinging API. This site will act like a “ping aggregator” and will take care of pinging […]
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post WordPress PhotoBlog New Version
I was sent a php script by someone I was helping on the IRC channel and I thought that the method could be really useful to someone else. Try it out yourself. Here is the link. This page basically allows you to display your script online without having to email it or do anything messy. One little disclaimer is that it is available to everyone and is stored on their server for a while. So please be careful with passwords and sensitive information.
[Continue Reading...]Previous Post To RSS or not to RSS, that is the question
There is a new version of Pictorialis out which fixes a couple of issues that were brought up with the Beta and you can download it from http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/pictorialis.zip Fixes for this version include: – Built in EXIF support which does not need pre-compiled EXIF in PHP – There is a selection mechanism for versions of GD which makes sure you always get the best possible thumbnails and pictures conversion. – This also has some file upload fixes which makes sure that the uploaded files do not get erased before the script gets a chance to grab the files. – The installation process has also been better defined with some fixes for the installation troubles reported from the previous version. As in the pervious version, this new version has the following features: – XHTML compliant code – Simple once click addition of photos, auto thumbnail and resizing – Extraction of EXIF […]
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I have long pondered this question and have come to some conclusions on my own. RSS is powerful and very light on bandwidth usage. Aggregation is very effective, simple to use and can be used to gather tons of information with very little processing power and bandwidth. However, there are some weaknesses of RSS which come to mind. RSS is a text based protocol and the design of the site, the aesthetics and the overall experience is muted. Visiting this site and browsing the various features and comments (etc.) cannot be replaced by an RSS feed. I personally use RSS to see if there is any new and relevant information on a blog or site that I frequent and then I visit the site to check it out for myself. So RSS, for me is more about prospecting than it is about aggregating. Many of the newer mutlimedia blogs are […]
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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