Date: 10/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

I love North America, as a continent, because they comprise 64% of the readership for this blog. Asia is second at 22% with Europe following at 7%. I miss Africa USA alone comprises 58% of my worldwide traffic. India is second at 12%. This weekend there may be a slight disruption of service as [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-i-love-north-america-statistics-web-hosting-and-more/

Date: 10/22/05     Keywords: web

I send GMail account invitation to anyone who asks for it. So when I received yet another request for GMail invitation today I wasn't too surprised. The message was innocuous and definitely not from a bot. Habitually I check the websites of whoever comments on my site. This wasn't an exception. Imagine my surprise when I realized the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished-with-spammers/

Date: 10/22/05     Keywords: web

I use and test my web applications and blogs primarily on Firefox these days. I do however occassionally look at Internet Explorer. Mostly they are nearly identical with few known differences. This time after I uploaded a new logo for this blog I was in for a nasty surprise. My logo looks awful under Internet Explorer. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/transparent-is-gray-to-microsoft-internet-explorer/

Date: 10/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

Choongyong reports that Gmail now uploads attachments in background. So uploading attachments first before writing your email should ensure that your attachments are getting uploaded while you are busy writing. It should speed up your time to send, esepcially when you have big attachments. Good tip Choongyong.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/gmail-uploading-attachment-first-speeds-up-mailing/

Date: 10/22/05     Keywords: web

Here are some amazing AJAX powered Web Services ranked as I like them. The list includes online word processor, spreadsheet, calendar, wiki and chat client. TiddlyWiki - An amazing web application. It is "a reusable non-linear personal web notebook". In plain english it is a wiki which is contained in a single file, doesn't require any [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-high-quality-ajax-web-services-web-2-applications/

Date: 10/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

This tip comes from Pete Freitag: Always, always set autocomplete="off" in the input tag. For example: <input type="text" name="cc" autocomplete="off" /&rt; Otherwise, if people have the form completion feature turned on their credit card number will be stored in plain text somewhere on the computer (in the registry, or elsewhere). Link Upside Protects people using credit-cards from public computers like in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/turning-off-auto-complete-for-credit-card-input/

Date: 10/21/05     Keywords: blogging, rss, spam

It appears to me full content RSS feeds are actually helping and compounding the splog (spam blog) problem. Splogs or spam blogs are blogs which are created by using syndicated content of other blogs, automatically aggregated, to increase their PR and AdSense dollars. Splogs don't add value to the system, rather devalue the whole blogging [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/are-full-content-rss-feeds-compounding-the-splog-problem/

Date: 10/21/05     Keywords: rss

I wouldn't re-hash popular arguments for / against providing full RSS feeds here. I would just like to point out a simple capability with most RSS readers, I have tested with, that can be leveraged to keep both camps happy. Interestingly the solution comes from the other extreme alternative. Solution I realized popular RSS readers like FeedReader [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rss-feeds-full-summary-feeds-a-solution-for-both-camps/

Date: 10/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

Blogger Rajneesh thinks its funny to outsource homework to India. In reality homework do get outsourced to India rather frequently. If you glance at rentacoder you will find several homework assigments up for outsourcing. In fact they have a Personal Project / Homework Help category. At present there are 88 open jobs in Homework category.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/outsourcing-homework-to-india/

Date: 10/19/05     Keywords: google

I have recently added BlogAds to my site on the first right navigation bar. I started getting ads. Now the fun began. The ad is jumping around for no apparent reason. Sometimes it is where it should be (below the Google ad block on the right), other times it goes down random lengths or it [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/stumped-by-jumping-blogads-mystery/

Date: 10/19/05     Keywords: software, java, web, apache

With its latest release of the software, Apache announced that Geronimo 1.0-M5 Java application server has passed all the compatibility tests and has gained official J2EE1.4 certification of the Java server software standard. Apache Geronimo 1.0-M5 is completely integrated with the Tomcat Web server and includes a developer preview of web management console submitted to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/open-source-java-application-server-geronimo-passes-java-2-enterprise-edition-14-certification/

Date: 10/19/05     Keywords: software, java, security

Unisys is putting Open Source Java software technologies (J2EE stack) directly on the mainframe using a native Java virtual machine. Why? to improve the scalability, security and transactionlity integrity of J2EE apps; to make it easier for J2EE and mainframe assets to communicate with one another; and to provide n-tier Java/J2EE and mainframe developers a “back door” entry point [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/open-source-java-software-stack-j2ee-goes-mainframe/

Date: 10/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

Recently Samy [samy at namb dot la] released a worm ["Samy worm" or "JS.Spacehero worm"] in MySpace, popular social networking platform like Friendster, which caused him to be added as hero to millions of MySpace users ("but most of all, samy is my hero.") as well as add him as their friend, all without their [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hacking-myspace-code-and-explanations/

Date: 10/18/05     Keywords: web

Online self-publishing house Lulu has announced the Blooker Prize - first-ever literary award for "blooks," books based on blogs or Web sites. The Lulu Blooker Prize (www.lulublookerprize.com) is the first contest to honor blooks, a hybrid literary form that has evolved in recent years from web sites, particularly the web sites known as blogs. "Blooks are [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-blooker-prize-worlds-first-literary-prize-for-blooks-books-based-on-blogs-or-web-sites-announced/

Date: 10/18/05     Keywords: php, java, web

Biblical Curse Generator - Now you would never run out of juicy insults, O thou denizen of the underworld, with this javascript based curse generator. Lets also see how you can make one for your weblog. If you like modern curses better - php based random North Korean insult generator should be your staple diet, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/get-insulted-menu-biblical-or-north-korean/

Date: 10/18/05     Keywords: java

I had to sort and uniq (create a unique set of strings) a large list with lots of duplicate. My options were to write it in Java or download cygwin and run: cat file ¦ sort ¦ uniq > result Cygwin download never works for me. After I spend lots of time selecting a juicy list [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-software-1-line-sort-uniq-utility/

Date: 10/18/05     Keywords: php, programming, java

No, I am not competing for obfuscated code context. I realized while showing it to someone that Fibonacci series can be written much more succintly using modern programming languages like php and java. Here is the php version: <?php for($current = 1, $last = 0, $i = 1;$i < = 100;$i++) echo ($current = $last + ($last [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fibonacci-series-in-1-line-php/

Date: 10/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

With my experience and yours I want to compile a list of safe and reliable computer hardware to use to buy / create / maintain your computer and peripherals like printers, UPS etc. This is a work-in-progress. I have based it on my experience with purchasing several assembled computers in India . The views are unbiased. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/computer-hardware-recommendations-for-india/

Date: 10/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

I have 5 PC's equipped with Samsung 52X (Max) CD-ROM Drives for around 2 years. It was a horrible mistake to make. This is my list of troubles with them. Read on before you make a purchasing decision with this crappy product. Machine 1: CD-ROM Drive doesn't work. Machine 2: Works only when it feels like; doesn't [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/samsung-cd-rom-drive-worst-buy/

Date: 10/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

My computer was having garbled display. First the mouse droppings which the refresh wasn't eliminating. Then slowly more and more disturbing visual elements started covering the screen - lots of lines and dots and colors. It is as-if someone decided to add tons of noise to my screen. It progressively and rapidly worsened till it was [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tips-on-recovering-from-garbled-screen-in-windows/