Month: February 2005

There are several projects big and small which I have been wanting to to put on line or start in some form or other but they are all in the genre of things which are always put off for another day.

Since past few weeks I have implemented a practice of one of our programmer presenting mini seminar every Saturday afternoon. These are short 30 min presentation on stuff we find interesting – nothing earth-shattering or revolutionary but we have had presentations on
#1 QWAD application framework
#2 XSS attacks and how to guard against them
#3 Design Patterns which we commonly use in our applications

I want to put these on line – someone just might find them useful

I also want to expand on my WordPress blog which I essentially use currently as the Coppermine Dev Blog to include all the cute tips and tricks that we either invent or improvise for our use and then forget – like how to convert a PNG to JPEG while preserving the Alpha channel using PHP, Dynamic text replacement with font face, font size, and colour controls, the latest modification of PHPlib Auth class….

I want to start a community for Indian Photographers called Chappan Saath – I wonder if any of you photographers have heard that phrase 🙂

Hmmm… I have even run out of time to write more in this BUT on the other hand both the quasi new year resolutions of write more here and keeping the house de-cluttered are working pretty well

There is still hope!

VisitorVile has to be the most entertaining website traffic (read realtime) and web server log analyser around. To quote from the website

“VisitorVille does not represent website visitors simply as numbers or graphs, but as real people in a real environment. You can watch your site traffic as if you were people-watching in a big city.”

I particularly like the cute buses with logos like Google and Ask Jeeves representing respective bots…

Pity it is M$Windows only and has absolutely no trial version for your own website 🙁

Yeah,I know real men just use tail -f

I had spoken, rather written, too soon on Friday when I wrote sun is shining. It rained the entire of Saturday and Sunday and part of yesterday, how ever true to the Yahoo Weather forecast the day today is sunny 🙂

The rains, besides my mood, put a damper on the cotton and mango crop of the region with losses running into 100’s of crores of Rupees. Winter rain is not unusual in Nagpur but it happens in late November or December. Records tell that this much rain has not fallen in Jan since 1911.

Sunday was spent trying to entertain Aasim – somewhere in the midst we managed to simplify the entire philosophy of good and success to “Truth and Perseverance” and that for evil and failure to “Lies and Greed”

Reference to context – LOTR