Date: 03/04/08     Keywords: php

Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations. It was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is a small patch against the PHP core, that [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/php-security-through-suhosin-or-hardening-patch/

Date: 03/04/08     Keywords: software

To join “Free” Software Foundation which preaches that all software should be free you are forced to pay at least 120$ per year. My simple question for FSF & Richard Stallman is: Why should we pay to join “Free” software foundation? When software (which requires human labor which costs money) should be free, as they preach, then [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-hypocrisy-of-free-software-foundation/

Date: 03/04/08     Keywords: no keywords

We now have a forum dedicated to the viewers of this blog. Please use it to discuss technical topics of interest to you, issues that you would like me to address or by others, questions you would like to be answered. I will use it to mention thoughts and news snippets which are not fit [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/we-have-a-new-forum/

Date: 03/04/08     Keywords: web

UnrulyMedia is a new UK based entrant in price-per-view (viewing the video not page) video advertising on the web sites and blogs. UnrulyMedia is different from traditional campaigns in that it pays only when a view is registered in the targeted area. For example, if a video ad is targeted for US audience, only views [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/web-video-advertising-unrulymedia-a-review/

Date: 03/03/08     Keywords: cms, web

Our website ( taragana.com ) needs to continuously adapt to our growing business. The old website was based on Joomla CMS, which despite its strength, was pretty hard to easily customize for our complex needs. We needed a solution to enable us to easily create microsites for our products with distinctive look, embed functionality with [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-version-of-taraganacom-released-using-modx-cms/

Date: 03/03/08     Keywords: spam

I am very happy to announce the much-awaited release of Comment Guard Pro for WordPress blogs. Comment Guard Pro is designed to unobtrusively protect your blog against all types of comment spams - trackback spam, pingback spam, robotic spam using comment form, human submitted spam (where the spammers actually goes to your site to spam [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-wordpress-comment-spam-protection-plugin-released/

Date: 03/03/08     Keywords: web, spam

I have received dozens of spams from ContactThem Network affiliates who follow this simple template: Hi, We’ve seen your website at http://blog.taragana.com/ [Full URL here] and we love it! We see that your traffic rank is [######] and your link popularity is [##]. Also, you have been online since [#/#/####]. With that kind of traffic, we will pay you up to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/contactthem-network-perfects-distributed-spamming/

Date: 03/02/08     Keywords: no keywords

We are making extensive changes on all our sites, so we expect few links to be broken here and there. Please let us know if you find any broken links or any feature non-functional. We appreciate your feedback.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/changes-changes-and-more-changes/

Date: 03/01/08     Keywords: php, templates

The most common use of this is to display the current year in the copyright message dynamically. Anyone who really knows PHP should be able to do it easily. However not everyone who has to use PHP knows PHP, like, for example, people using snippets in ModX or modifying templates in WordPress. Here is the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-display-current-year-in-php/

Date: 02/29/08     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft finally realized (at least publicly acknowledged) what we have known all along. It blinks and reduced the price of Vista, while acknowledging the fact that Vista sales is poor in retail segment. The main segment of Microsoft’s revenue with Vista has been in selling OEM versions. However it is only a matter of time [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-realizes-truth-about-vista/

Date: 02/26/08     Keywords: web, spam

March 3rd is our D Day. We will launch a new version of our corporate website. We will also launch Comment Guard Pro, a WordPress plugin to eliminate comment spam from blogs. We will also formally launch our new forum and customer support site. This is a big big event for us. All our product [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-d-day/

Date: 02/26/08     Keywords: no keywords

Steps to apply for Non-Immigrant US Visa from India

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-apply-for-non-immigrant-us-visa-from-india/

Date: 02/24/08     Keywords: java, linux

A simple tip for newbies - how to get Java stack trace, the invaluable tool to debug java programs, in Linux: - Type the Ctrl key followed by \, in short Ctrl \. I just used it to debug a persistent problem where a server process which automatically fetches data from a third-party site was inexplicably hanging. All [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-java-stack-trace-in-linux/

Date: 02/24/08     Keywords: google

Simple Thoughts blog now boasts a new and improved search facility, thanks to Google customized search. Now you can get the search results on our site with our look and feel, without having to go to Google. Take it for a spin and let me know if you like it.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-search-for-simple-thoughts/

Date: 02/24/08     Keywords: web

Translator for Web sites is a much requested feature from our clients. We have started development on it. However design-wise we had some limitations in being able to provide the same level of functionality and configurability as Translator Pro or Translator Gold, that is until Friday last week. The original architecture was originally getting too [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-innovation-for-translator-for-web/

Date: 02/24/08     Keywords: google

I recently came across an instance of Google Proxy hacking with one of my clients, which removed his index page and other pages from SERP (Search Engine Ranking & Positioning) and he lost the page ranks (went down to zero). We were asked to protect his site against Google Proxy hacking, a really dangerous technique [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-proxy-hacking-how-your-page-rank-can-be-stolen-pages-removed-from-serp/

Date: 02/16/08     Keywords: technology, java, security

JPC is a pure Java emulation of an x86 PC with fully virtual peripherals. It runs anywhere you have a JVM, whether x86, RISC, mobile phone, set-top box, possibly even your refrigerator! All this on top of security and stability of Java technology and cross-platform capability. JPC creates a virtual computer upon which you can install [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pure-java-emulation-of-x86-with-fully-virtual-peripherals/

Date: 02/15/08     Keywords: java, web

Interesting articles and announcements emailed to me - 1. Compilation of BlackBerry Tips, Guides & Resources - link. This is a meta-compilation i.e. compilation of other compilation, obviously a link-bait. Nevertheless may prove useful. 2. Developer Summit in Bangalore India from May 19-23, 2008 with tracks on .Net, Java & Web 2.0 - link. 3. Pownce now [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/interesting-articles-announcements/

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: no keywords

We have opened a forum for all our products and blogs. I haven’t officially announced it yet. Please check it out, register and leave your feedback and comments. Looking forward to hear from you. Share This

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/we-now-have-forum-for-you/

Date: 02/13/08     Keywords: linux

Please read the original article - How To: Load Balancing & Failover With Dual/ Multi WAN / ADSL / Cable Connections on Linux. It contains detailed information with a sample script. Viliam Kočinský modified my script to send email when routing table changes. Also he is starting the script as a service from /etc/init.d. Read [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/load-balancing-failover-script-for-dual-multi-wan-adsl-cable-connections-on-linux-with-mail-on-failure/