Date: 09/26/06     Keywords: no keywords

Dr. House MD is probably the best Television serial I have seen. Intellectual, witty and overall humane. The intense drive to correctly identify and treat a patient is something worth emulating by physician’s worldwide, more so in India. At some level I can relate to Dr. House’s quest for perfection inspite of serious obstacles. We [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dr-house-md-the-best-tv-serial-i-have-seen/

Date: 09/26/06     Keywords: no keywords

Ever since I had written a post on how Samy hacked MySpace, I have been inundated with comments asking me how to hack MySpace. It is obvious that the people asking didn’t realize that the actual purpose of the article was not to help hacking MySpace, but to discuss about an intelligent exploit after it [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hacking-myspace-mania/

Date: 09/26/06     Keywords: no keywords

Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL) surged more than 11% to a new 52-week high on Wednesday backed by strong first quarter earnings and underscoring the strength of the company’s decision to grow by acquisition. Oracle spent about $20 billion to buy PeopleSoft in 2005 and Siebel Systems this year, solidifying its place in the market for corporate [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/oracle-surges-11-to-new-52-week-high-thoughts-on-oracle/

Date: 09/25/06     Keywords: java

Many would think at this point I am talking about better AJAX support in the core. While we do need better support for AJAX and I am not talking about DWR, I don’t think that’s what ails Java in its quest for being . At the end we will look at two ways in which [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-java-needs-most-to-be-the-web-20-language/

Date: 09/25/06     Keywords: apache

I am assuming that you have downloaded and installed Apache 2.x on your windows machine. Use the latest version 2.2, if you do not have plans to run Subversion on it. Otherwise choose Apache 2.0.x. Install it with the defaults. You may want to however changes the drive on which it is installed. Anyway so [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-configure-php-5-with-apache-2-on-windows-in-2-minutes/

Date: 09/23/06     Keywords: java

This is a simple commandline Java utility which I wrote down in under 5 minutes to help in checking-in (svn commit) over 500 files which were modified but the dates weren’t changed due to an error in our settings. So subversion failed to recognize it. Anyway this simple utility updates the timestamp of any [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-utility-to-touch-files/

Date: 09/23/06     Keywords: no keywords

Semiologic Theme by Denis de Bernardy ships with several plugins including my original Translator Plugin illegally and without my permission (proof 1 & proof 2). I provide several of my plugins (which consume a significant amount of my time and resources) for free to the WordPress community. However they are copyrighted work protected by Berne [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/semiologic-theme-is-illegally-and-unethically-shipping-old-version-of-translator-plugin/

Date: 09/23/06     Keywords: no keywords

In honor of Fashion Week, this Saturday, AdSense will be workin’ it out. No, not on the runway — w e’ll be doing regular system maintenance from 10am-2pm PST. Even AdSense needs its beauty rest! You won’t be able to access your account during this time, but don’t worry, dahling - we’ll keep serving [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/when-google-gets-cute/

Date: 09/22/06     Keywords: php, mysql, sql, linux, apache

I have started developing an interesting PHP application for LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) stack. I have to say it has been an wonderful experience so far. It is rather simple (really simple) and easy to setup little frameworks (read utility functions in a file) in php for your tasks. PHP has a delicious array of functionalities to use. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/thoughts-on-professional-php-development/

Date: 09/22/06     Keywords: no keywords

A lot of my emails are not reaching for some strange reason which is delaying my effort to provide you with free upgrades. Please bear with me. I am not sure what is causing this. I will now send them using my GMail account and hopefully that will have better reachability. I am not using [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/email-problems-translator-plugin-pro-clients-please-read/

Date: 09/22/06     Keywords: google

Can Translator Plugin Pro get your site unindexed in search engines? No. It is an outright lie, a nasty rumour which is being spread by one of our competitors. This site (Simple Thoughts) is using Translator Plugin since ages. It is highly ranked by Google and other search engines. We served 1686914 pages last month [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/can-translator-plugin-pro-get-your-site-unindexed/

Date: 09/21/06     Keywords: no keywords

I received a mysterious email from PayPal (verified the headers) informing - “The Drop Box feature is now enabled on your PayPal account. You can access the Drop Box using Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) at the following location:” The location is blank. It then goes on to provide me instructions on creating a drop box [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/paypal-drop-box-feature/

Date: 09/20/06     Keywords: blogging, software, google

I am not talking about providing blogging software / service like Blogger. It looks like Google (at least Google India) may actually venture into blogging themselves. Their quarter page advertisement for hiring in Times of India (one of the leading Indian newspaper in English) is very interesting. “Google is searching for writers who choose their words [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-venturing-in-blogging-hiring-bloggers/

Date: 09/20/06     Keywords: browser, web, yahoo

I have been using Meebo, an AJAX based online instant messenger and website communicator, for quite sometime. This is a review of Meebo, what works and what doesn’t. What’s good about Meebo? Convenience - Meebo is a quick and simple way to connect to multiple Instant Messaging services from a single browser window. It supports AOL, Yahoo!, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/meebo-online-instant-messenger-review/

Date: 09/20/06     Keywords: no keywords

We have just released version 3.1 of popular Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress blogs with better performance and bug fixes. This new version will be shipped to all of our new and existing customer within 24 hours (lifetime free upgrade). Please honk if you haven’t received your copy in 24 hours The key features [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-version-31-released/

Date: 09/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

We plan to release a version of our popular Translator Plugin Pro for Movable Type blogs. Currently it is available only for WordPress blogs. If you are a MovableType user, I would appreciate if you can provide us suggestions on features you would like to see over our current features and proposed features for 4.0.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-for-movable-type-blogs/

Date: 09/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

We are in the final stages of testing Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro Version 3.1 for WordPress blogs. The very next release will be 4.0. Version 4.0 will add several much requested features in the Translator plugin. The major features are: 1. Support for non-English blogs including languages like French, German or even Arabian. Currently Translator translates [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/proposed-features-for-angsumans-translator-pro-version-40/

Date: 09/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

Hi there, I am a brithsh businessman and I contact you for a business proposal. I want to to be my co-worker. You are able to be my co-worker and get 10% out of all my transactions only if you have an active paypal account and you are verified and able to receive paypay payments. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/would-you-do-business-with-this-british-businessman/

Date: 09/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

A blogger found a stash of 20, 000 MySpace passwords from a phisher’s site and analyzed the results. Interestingly the most used passwords are: 13 - cookie123 12 - iloveyou 12 - password 11 - abc123 11 - miss4you 9 - password19 9 - clumsy 8 - sassy 8 - summer06 8 - pablobob 8 - boobie 8 - fuckyou1 8 - iloveyou1 8 - tink69 8 - password1 7 - [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/most-common-myspace-passwords-from-20-000-passwords/

Date: 09/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

We are working on a new version of Authenticated plugin. Please let me know the features you would like in the comments or email it to me at angsuman[at]taragana[dot]com. We will provide several features and granularity in the functioning of this plugin. All the reported issues with the previous version will be solved. It will [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/paid-content-plugin-for-wordpress-new-version-request-for-suggestions/