Date: 07/18/07     Keywords: database, sql, java

HSQLDB is an unique high performing, high quality Java based relational database which can be very easily extended with simple Java static functions. Here we will see how you can easily extend the database capability with a real-life example. I wanted to do a case-insensitive LIKE comparison, specifically get rows where the column data contains the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tip-how-to-extend-hsqldb-rdbms-with-java/

Date: 07/17/07     Keywords: spam

A spammer finally resorted to heavy quoting of scriptures from Bible just to get in his comments and a heavy one at that. But there’s more much more. First lets see what he had to say: Name: Master Conqueror | E-mail: Master@Conqueror.co.jp | URI: http: // www. congress check. com | IP: 75.126.248.223 | Date: July [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spammers-do-bible-thumping/

Date: 07/17/07     Keywords: no keywords

Some of you have come to me saying WordPress recommends BlueHost and so why it isn’t working well for them, their implicit expectation being that because WordPress recommends BlueHost, it must be the best for WordPress. That is far from truth. The real reason WordPress recommends BlueHost is because WordPress and BlueHost have worked out a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-wordpress-recommends-bluehost-for-wordpress-web-hosting/

Date: 07/16/07     Keywords: xml

It is never a good idea to mix syntax with semantics. When comparing JSON with XML this is what first came to my mind. XML provides a syntactical as well as a semi-semantical layer for data transfer. And that makes it a complicated choice. But that is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. There [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-power-and-versatility-of-json-over-xml/

Date: 07/16/07     Keywords: software

Chuq Von Rospach is an Adobe Photoshop veteran. Recently he had series of bad experiences with Adobe Photoshop customer support. In essence what was promised on Adobe’s site wasn’t honored by Customer reps, what customer reps said wasn’t honored by another group, resulting him paying much more for the software than he should have. I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/an-alternative-to-adobe-photoshop/

Date: 07/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

Stalking appears to be the most appropriate way to describe my recent experiences. First of all Twitter (I love the service) has changed the message from so and so is your friend to the eerie message so and so is following you. I am sure girls will have a fun time with such frequent messages. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-twitter-enabling-stalkingtwitter-trivia/

Date: 07/15/07     Keywords: java

Firefox has the annoying habit of popping up an error message after 5 seconds (10 seconds for Firefox 2.x) when running Javascript code. This causes lots of irritation because a) some script genuinely need more than the default time, b) the error message pops up repeatedly after every 5-10 seconds thereby severely ruining your browsing [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-how-to-increase-default-javascript-execution-time/

Date: 07/14/07     Keywords: no keywords

This question was posed by a visitor of this site. Here is how you can change the default home page location in Firefox and everything you can do with it. Go to Preferences (normally under Edit or Tools menu) and click on Main tab. Here you can do several things. Simply empty the textbox titled Home Page and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-how-to-change-the-default-home-page-location/

Date: 07/14/07     Keywords: browser

In Firefox when you click on a file to download / view the browser comes up with a prompt which allows you to either open the file with a specified program or save it to disk. You are also given the option to “Do this automatically for files like this from now on”. Once you [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-how-to-change-do-this-automatically-for-files-like-this-from-now-on-option/

Date: 07/13/07     Keywords: java, web

Unicode offers flipped versions of standard English characters. You can use a small javascript based utility to get flipped version of any word or phrase. The flipped text can be copy-pasted to any (unicode capable) editor, your web page or blog. View source to see the actual translations. ˙suoıʇɐlsuɐɹʇ lɐnʇɔɐ ǝɥʇ ǝǝs oʇ ǝɔɹnos ʍǝıʌ ˙ƃolq [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-flip-english-text-using-unicode-%c7%9dpo%c9%94iun-%c6%83uisn-%ca%87x%c7%9d%ca%87-%c9%a5sil%c6%83u%c7%9d-dil%c9%9f-o%ca%87-%ca%8do%c9%a5/

Date: 07/13/07     Keywords: php, mysql, sql, web

This is a very interesting presentation (see below) on the technologies used to make Digg, the challenges faced along the way and how they overcame it. I would recommend it to any Web 2.0 startup architects. In short Digg uses multiple MySQL slaves with a single master, multiple load balanced PHP servers which connects to random [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/digg-technologies-used-challenges-faced/

Date: 07/13/07     Keywords: programming

This is what I call quality programming! John Resig released JQuery 1.1.3. The key improvements are: 1. Improved speeds, with DOM traversal over 800% faster than in 1.1.2. 2. A re-written event system, with more graceful handling of keyboard events. 3. A re-written effects system (with an accompanying [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/jquery-113-is-800-faster-20-kb/

Date: 07/13/07     Keywords: web

Poromenos, a greek student, has written a nice tutorial on Python, a rapidly growing and ever popular Web 2.0 language. I think it will take you somewhat longer than 10 minutes to go through all the examples. Also it is more of a cheatsheet than a tutorial. Having said that it is still a nice [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tutorial-learn-python-in-10-minutes/

Date: 07/13/07     Keywords: web, hosting

Any growing business has to eventually move to high end web hosting solutions like Colocation, Dedicated Web Hosting, Managed Hosting or Fully Outsourced solution. Let’s look at the advantages and disadvantages of each solution. Colocation In colocation your hosting provides provides you space (rack) to place your own servers and bandwidth. You are responsible for purchasing and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/understanding-colocation-dedicated-hosting-managed-hosting-fully-outsourced-solutions/

Date: 07/13/07     Keywords: no keywords

I had several reports from users that the site is inaccessible from certain ISP’s including but not limited to CableVision. I did everything to figure out what went wrong without much success. Yesterday and today Jan Dembowski kindly helped me to get a handle on the problem. Apparently a router in Savvis.net ( 216.39.69.234 ), [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/working-on-site-accessibility-dedicated-web-hosting-provider-lookout/

Date: 07/12/07     Keywords: java

All these three languages are generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. It appears Java is currently having an upswing while Ruby is having a downward trend. I hope it is just normal fluctuations for Ruby and not the expected sh$%-hits-the-fan reaction when Ruby starts getting adopted in the enterprise ( sorry couldn’t resist [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blog-buzz-java-vs-php-vs-ruby/

Date: 07/12/07     Keywords: web

Simple Thoughts blog is ranked 6th worldwide by BlogPulse. BlogPulse is a service of Nielsen BuzzMetrics. What is BlogPulse? BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-thoughts-ranked-6th-by-blogpulse-nielsen-buzzmetrics/

Date: 07/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

We are few days away from redesigning this site. Here are few thoughts on what we want to achieve with this redesign effort. I think they will be useful to anyone looking for redesigning their blogs. 1. Faster page load times. We want low computational overhead for generating each pages. This requires eliminating unnecessary or marginally [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/9-blog-redesign-ideas/

Date: 07/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

I am going into hibernation for a couple of days. I will be back during the weekend with full force Take care.. ciao

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/out-for-the-week/

Date: 07/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

I never thought I would see an iPhone smoothie. Ah well, never say never again. Watch the video to find out what happens when you put iPhone in a blender. Will it make a good smoothie or not? Continue after the break for more interesting uses of iPhone. I hope you haven’t forgotten all other uses [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/making-iphone-smoothie/