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WordPress 2.9 Roadmap Stress Media Features

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Without doubt, WordPress is emerging has emerged to be one of the most robust and popular content management platform in recent times. This is primarily because of its dedicated development community and fan-base. It has been observed that the WordPress development community take up one major feature at every release and make it as perfect as possible. They keep it highly scalable so that in future releases, they can refine it to the trending user-base. To cite an analogy: in their release 2.8 they totally “jazzed up” the widgets and themes section and (almost) perfected it.

July 8, 2009 0 comments

Adding Links To WP Post Thumbnail Plugin

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Every professional blog must have thumbnails to identify every post. This not only enhances the overall design of the blog, but also adds to the vibrance of the site. It also leverages slightly from the search engine optimization (SEO) perspective.

July 5, 2009 4 comments

Pizza Mania at FusionCharts Lab

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For the information of the rest of the unsuspecting  world, the images below illustrates the process of having Pizza at FusionCharts Lab. It has been long since our RnD team has been discussing about having something like a Pizza Chart (just kidding!)

And after closing down the sole Pizza outlet of Dominoz near our ex-lab, we are doing the same for Salt Lake Sector V.

June 25, 2009 7 comments

Why to Design a Good API

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One of the most important challenges in the world of software design is designing a good API ((An application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, data structures, object classes and/or protocols provided by libraries and/or operating system services in order to support the building of applications. Definition of API on Wikipedia)) . Prominent software product development organizations are known for their wide developer network, extensive and helpful documentation, good support services and obviously: products that are worthwhile. Interestingly, a common thing between all these organizations is a “good product API” (stress: good).

May 15, 2009 0 comments

Clearing Print Queue in Windows

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It has happened with me a number of times that documents got stuck in my print queue like super-glue ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate))!

Perhaps it was the wrong document or maybe the wrong printer chosen. In any case, going to printer options and cancelling/deleting the print would result in all but the last document being stuck at “deleting…” state in the printer queue. Nothing would remove that last document from the list of print jobs. And you know that until that small little document is not cleared off the list no other work can be done without getting distracted!…

May 7, 2009 7 comments

Optimizing JavaScript (part 1)

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In my years of experience in programming, I have observed that certain performance ‘tweaks’ work best for certain languages. This is mostly due to the nature of the interpreter ((Interpreters are programs that execute codes one line at a time. See: Interpreter  in Wikipedia))/compiler ((a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language. See: Compiler in Wikipedia)) involved in executing a particular piece of code.

April 25, 2009 7 comments

Save the planet, switch to CFL

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Through our stages of technological evolution, we have come to a point where in certain aspects, we an say that we have reached a position where being environmentally friendly does not come at a cost.…

April 19, 2009 9 comments

Object Oriented Philosophy

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Wading through the marshlands of object oriented programming, one must at one time realize that there are two fundamental skills that one needs, in order to truly embody the spirit of object oriented paradigm.

The ability to abstract ones thought processes. Perceive the harmony within abstract chaos. …

April 7, 2009 5 comments

FusionCharts In Your WordPress Blog

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I was searching for ways to implement FusionCharts within blogs and finally decided that WordPress would be the ideal place to do so.

If you are not already into WordPress, it is a highly popular open-source online content publishing application based on PHP. You should have a look at http://www.wordpress.org for detailed information. Its theme-based highly configurable and flexibly environment makes it an ideal blogging and content-management platform for most users.

March 10, 2009 6 comments

Calibrate Tablet PC Screen

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It all started when I decided to do a clean install of Windows Vista onto my HP TX 1000 Tablet PC. In order to remove the set of unnecessary applications that come pre-installed in their PCs, many users prefer doing a fresh install of the OS from a standard installation media (not from the recovery disc.)

The issue: Facing error while calibrating the Tablet PC screen in a fresh install of Microsoft Windows Vista.

September 26, 2007 4 comments

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