Mohanjith's feeds Aggregator for feeds in mohanjith.net http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=TiV28VHH3BGwkVa96kjTQA Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:53:03 -0800 http://pipes.yahoo.com/mohanjith/feeds/ The Gnadenhütten Massacre http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/08/#history During the American Revolution, the Lenape, or Delaware, gro... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:39:48 -0800 Kenneth Grahame http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/08/#birthDay Grahame was an English author best known for writing The ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:39:48 -0800 Cité Soleil http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/08/#article One of the largest slums in the Northern Hemisphere, Cité-S... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:39:48 -0800 In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravat http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/08/#quoteOfDay George Eliot Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:39:47 -0800 Antoninus Pius Is Succeeded by Co-Emperors http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/07/#history When Emperor Antoninus Pius died in 161, Marcus Aurelius acc... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:26:11 -0800 Janet Guthrie http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/07/#birthDay Before becoming the first woman to qualify for and compete i... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:26:11 -0800 Morris Dancing http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/07/#article The morris dance is an English folk dance that emerged in th... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:26:11 -0800 Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/07/#quoteOfDay George Eliot Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:26:11 -0800 Murderball http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/05/#article Originally called murderball, wheelchair rugby, or quad rugb... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:35:38 -0800 Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/05/#quoteOfDay Ralph Waldo Emerson Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:35:37 -0800 Mortsafes http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/04/#article In the early 19th century, a sharp rise in the number of ana... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:25:30 -0800 She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it). http://mohanjith.net/2010/03/04/#quoteOfDay Lewis Carroll Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:25:30 -0800 Monteverde http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/28/#article Monteverde is a small town in Costa Rica founded by American... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:46:53 -0800 But men must know, that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/28/#quoteOfDay Francis Bacon Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:46:53 -0800 Lipid Bilayers http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/27/#article Absolutely essential for all life on Earth, lipid bilayers a... Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:45:44 -0800 The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/27/#quoteOfDay Willa Cather Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:45:43 -0800 Cremation http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/26/#article Cremation is a widespread practice that dates to at least 26... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:37:53 -0800 Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/26/#quoteOfDay Victor Hugo Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:37:52 -0800 Devil's Hole Pupfish http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/25/#article One of the rarest species in the world, the Devil's Hole pup... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:04:35 -0800 Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing—a warfare accomplished, a begi http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/25/#quoteOfDay George Bernard Shaw Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:04:35 -0800 Patch the iPC DVD image – Step 1 – Installing Mac OS X 10.5.8 on AMD Athlon X2 http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/44aR55JNFMw/patch-the-ipc-dvd-image-step-1-installing-mac-os-x-10-5-8-on-amd-athlon-x2.html When booting the DVD it was always stuck at “Still waiting for root device…”, this was because there was no kext for SATA chip for my motherboard (nForce 405 chip). It was simple has adding the required kext to the DVD and rebuilding the Extensions.mkext. Unfortunately you will need a working Mac OS X installation [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=487 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:43:18 -0800 Cuba Leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/23/#history The US Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, sometimes called "GTMO" o... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:58:43 -0800 Prairie Dogs http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/23/#article Named for their habitat and warning call, which sounds simil... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:58:43 -0800 Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/23/#quoteOfDay James Fenimore Cooper Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:58:43 -0800 Chang and Eng Bunker http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/22/#article The term "Siamese twins" originated with conjoined twin brot... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:04:55 -0800 As large as life, and twice as natural. http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/22/#quoteOfDay Lewis Carroll Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:04:55 -0800 Installing Mac OS X 10.5.8 on AMD Athlon X2 http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/GlRZTH7HuIk/installing-mac-os-x-10-5-8-on-amd-athlon-x2.html I managed to install Mac OS X 10.5.8 on an AMD Athlon X2 system after little trouble. I’ll post the procedure to make sure if I have to do it again I can easily refer and someone trying to do the same can save the trouble. This will be composed of a series of posts, [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=469 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:39:04 -0800 Donations widget http://feeds.mohanjith.com/~r/Mohanjith_development/~3/bDIn0Kfm7w8/donations-widget.html Accept donations from your readers via AlertPay, Moneybookers or PayPal. Plugin add a widget with payment forms. You can select which payment options to allow in the widget configuration page. InstallationDownload the donations plugin archive and extract it Upload donations to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress Add the ‘Donations’ widget to your [...] http://mohanjith.com/?p=694 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:56:12 -0800 Accept donations from your readers via AlertPay, Moneybookers or PayPal. Plugin add a widget with payment forms. You can select which payment options to allow in the widget configuration page.

Installation

  • Download the donations plugin archive and extract it
  • Upload donations to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  • Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  • Add the ‘Donations’ widget to your sidebar

Issues and Ideas

Please use the contact form to report any issues and the forum to share your ideas to improve this plugin.

]]> William G. Morgan Invents Volleyball http://mohanjith.net/2010/02/09/#history William G. Morgan invented volleyball in Holyoke, Massachuse... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:43:53 -0800 President Gerald Ford Pardons "Tokyo Rose" http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/19/#history During WWII, Allied forces in the South Pacific dubbed a gro... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:12:39 -0800 Paul Cézanne http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/19/#birthDay Cézanne was a 19th-century French painter whose unique styl... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:12:39 -0800 Keeping Keeley – Lynx UK – Mobile site http://feeds.mohanjith.com/~r/Mohanjith_development/~3/Ui4umaXhl3o/keeping-keely-lynx-uk-mobile-site.html Keeping Keeley mobile website and trailer delivery via mobile Internet run by BlisMobile Media for Lynx Twist. Keeping Keeley is an interactive film promoting Lynx Twist, fragrance that changes. Each mobile device accessing the site was served pages and trailer that was optimized for the device, and the trailer was encoded on the fly. Overall [...] http://mohanjith.com/wordpress/?p=225 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:02:29 -0800 lynxtwist.mobi

Keeping Keeley mobile website and trailer delivery via mobile Internet run by BlisMobile Media for Lynx Twist. Keeping Keeley is an interactive film promoting Lynx Twist, fragrance that changes. Each mobile device accessing the site was served pages and trailer that was optimized for the device, and the trailer was encoded on the fly. Overall campaign as well as the site was a major success, both BlisMobile Media and their client was very happy with the result.

]]> Molière http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/15/#birthDay Molière was a massively popular dramatist, director, and ac... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:30:17 -0800 Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/06/#birthDay Barrett, an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artis... Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:19:04 -0800 "Trial of the Century" Begins http://mohanjith.net/2010/01/02/#history Bruno Hauptmann, a German immigrant to the US, was convicted... Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:16:30 -0800 Movie science vs actual science http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/hLn-DzkDOrs/movie-science-vs-actual-science.html http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=461 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:41:58 -0800 comic William Semple Files the First Chewing Gum Patent http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/28/#history Existing in various forms since at least the Neolithic perio... Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:06:20 -0800 Domains by volume Greasemonkey script http://feeds.mohanjith.com/~r/Mohanjith_development/~3/1VDyFVb4Uik/domains-by-volume-greasemonkey-script.html Domains By Volume is a Greasemonkey Script that was built to finally simplify the process of finding keyword based domain names. Built as an add-on to Google’s Keyword Tool that is used by so many to find relevant keywords and their associated search volume. I was involved in developing the Greasemonkey script, domain look up [...] http://mohanjith.com/wordpress/?p=239 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:03:13 -0800 domainsbyvolume.com

Domains By Volume is a Greasemonkey Script that was built to finally simplify the process of finding keyword based domain names. Built as an add-on to Google’s Keyword Tool that is used by so many to find relevant keywords and their associated search volume. I was involved in developing the Greasemonkey script, domain look up web service and integration with resell.biz and namecheap API.

]]> Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat http://mohanjith.net/2009/12/01/#history Called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" ... Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:36:07 -0800 Custom Open Cart search module – autolink.co.jp http://feeds.mohanjith.com/~r/Mohanjith_development/~3/URdKnbT79NU/custom-open-cart-search-module-autolink-co-jp.html Autolink Japan required custom search module for Open Cart. Open Cart search module was unable to cover search based on multitude of meta data related to vehicles. I created a new search module for Open Cart to enable Autolink Japan clients to search their dream vehicle. Autolink Japan was very happy with the outcome. http://mohanjith.com/wordpress/?p=131 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:45:19 -0800 autolink.co.jp

Autolink Japan required custom search module for Open Cart. Open Cart search module was unable to cover search based on multitude of meta data related to vehicles. I created a new search module for Open Cart to enable Autolink Japan clients to search their dream vehicle. Autolink Japan was very happy with the outcome.

]]> Ronald DeFeo, Jr., Murders Family in Amityville, NY http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/13/#history After the DeFeo family was discovered murdered in their beds... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:28:42 -0800 Dell, Inc. Founded as "PCs Limited" http://mohanjith.net/2009/11/04/#history Using just $1,000, college student Michael Dell founded comp... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:21:26 -0800 iPhone App review plugin http://feeds.mohanjith.com/~r/Mohanjith_development/~3/EPhRLtqsGnw/iphone-app-review-plugin.html iPhone World , an Israel based site contracted my self to build a WordPress plugin that can be used to submit iPhone application reviews. Application details needs to be fetch from the iTunes App store and then stored to be displayed along side the review. They came to me after many failed attempts with different [...] http://mohanjith.com/wordpress/?p=121 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:37:16 -0700 iphoneworld.co.il

iPhone World , an Israel based site contracted my self to build a WordPress plugin that can be used to submit iPhone application reviews. Application details needs to be fetch from the iTunes App store and then stored to be displayed along side the review. They came to me after many failed attempts with different providers and they were very happy with the outcome.

]]> Béla Lugosi http://mohanjith.net/2009/10/20/#birthDay Lugosi, a Hungarian-born US actor, is best known for his por... Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:05:35 -0700 With great power comes great … http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/rhnRZvXt9CY/with-great-power-comes-great.html http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=453 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:40:08 -0700 comic The Copy Squad – Ticketing http://feeds.mohanjith.com/~r/Mohanjith_development/~3/s64NdFQbfmY/the-copy-squad-ticketing.html The Copy Squad contracted my self to modify open source ticketing system eTicket to support their process. Changes were not trivial and involved modifying a product that lacked any developer documentation. http://mohanjith.com/wordpress/?p=117 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:34:14 -0700 The Copy Squad - Ticketing

The Copy Squad contracted my self to modify open source ticketing system eTicket to support their process. Changes were not trivial and involved modifying a product that lacked any developer documentation.

]]> The search for intelligent life http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/E73YwhAfqaI/the-search-for-intelligent-life.html http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=447 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:28:58 -0700 comic Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov http://mohanjith.net/2009/09/16/#birthDay Kutuzov was a Russian prince and field marshal who commanded... Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:01:23 -0700 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (UK) – Mobile site http://feeds.mohanjith.com/~r/Mohanjith_development/~3/ghBEbR-75ss/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus-uk-mobile-site.html The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus mobile website and trailer delivery via mobile Internet run by BlisMobile Media. Each mobile device accessing the site was served pages and trailer that was optimized for the device, and the trailer was encoded on the fly. The ampaign as well as the site was a major success, both BlisMobile [...] http://mohanjith.com/wordpress/?p=229 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:00:45 -0700 drparnassus.mobi

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus mobile website and trailer delivery via mobile Internet run by BlisMobile Media. Each mobile device accessing the site was served pages and trailer that was optimized for the device, and the trailer was encoded on the fly. The ampaign as well as the site was a major success, both BlisMobile Media and their client was very happy with the result.

]]> Breeze Tech shopping cart http://feeds.mohanjith.com/~r/Mohanjith_development/~3/cCOMt8YqTaM/breeze-tech-shopping-cart.html Breeze Tech are specialists in proximity marketing based in UK. They wanted to start an online shop/e-commerce site in order to increase the ease of acquiring their products. On my recommendation they went with Magento open source e-commerce platform. They required a custom theme consistent with rest of the site. They are very happy with [...] http://mohanjith.com/wordpress/?p=105 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:29:18 -0700 breeze-tech.co.uk.shop

Breeze Tech are specialists in proximity marketing based in UK. They wanted to start an online shop/e-commerce site in order to increase the ease of acquiring their products. On my recommendation they went with Magento open source e-commerce platform. They required a custom theme consistent with rest of the site. They are very happy with the outcome.

]]> Using custom error pages in Varnish http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/rlXW5yx2bMA/using-custom-error-pages-in-varnish.html While playing around with the fancy error pages I wanted to use them with Varnish as well. Since there is no means to include a file or serve a file from Varnish (without serving from a back end server), I went with inline C snippet to read and serve the error pages. Please note that [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=391 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:24:40 -0700 Fancy HTTP Error pages – 5xx http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/Jz401vQ-IZY/fancy-http-error-pages-5xx.html If you hadn’t noticed my site was giving HTTP 500 errors last couple of days. The issue was found to be a segfault and it’s fixed now. That got me to come up with a set of funny and slick HTTP error pages. I only came up with HTTP 5xx error pages, I believe HTTP [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=388 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:05:59 -0700 How to customize a WordPress plugin and upgrade http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/lOlwGEffZLk/how-to-customize-a-wordpress-plugin-and-upgrade.html Sometimes you want to make minor changes to WordPress plugins that no body except your self would want. Then comes the issue of upgrading to new versions of the plugin. git-svn is the perfect tool for this. It has all the cool features of the distributed SCM git and ability to pull from subversion (and [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=381 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:42:39 -0700 Davy Crockett http://mohanjith.net/2009/08/17/#birthDay Crockett was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, f... Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:15:48 -0700 So Fo Real – multi site shopping cart http://feeds.mohanjith.com/~r/Mohanjith_development/~3/gIrB1uWEYkM/so-fo-real-multi-site-shopping-cart.html So Fo Real productions went multi site, each site more focused on a particular genre. While doing this they wanted to avoid duplicating content and tasks. I was contracted to modify the Flash player and shopping cart to serve all domains with the tracks specific to the genre. soforealproductions.com and the related sites are now hosted [...] http://mohanjith.com/wordpress/?p=93 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:24:24 -0700 needrapbeats.com

So Fo Real productions went multi site, each site more focused on a particular genre. While doing this they wanted to avoid duplicating content and tasks. I was contracted to modify the Flash player and shopping cart to serve all domains with the tracks specific to the genre.

soforealproductions.com and the related sites are now hosted on a Xen Linux VPS.

]]> BlisMobile web site http://feeds.mohanjith.com/~r/Mohanjith_development/~3/pKxHDgy29G0/blismobile-web-site.html BlisMobile Media started life in 2003 as one of the first mobile media owners at a time when 160 characters of text was about as engaging as a mobile media campaign got. They recently wanted to revamp their web site consistent with their new look. They contracted my self to deploy a WordPress based site [...] http://mohanjith.com/wordpress/?p=85 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:19:19 -0700 blismobile.com

BlisMobile Media started life in 2003 as one of the first mobile media owners at a time when 160 characters of text was about as engaging as a mobile media campaign got. They recently wanted to revamp their web site consistent with their new look. They contracted my self to deploy a WordPress based site and develop a theme that is consistent with their new brand name. They are very happy with the outcome, specially Gregor Isbister (Managing Director, BlisMobile Media).

]]> John Bennett Fenn http://mohanjith.net/2009/06/15/#birthDay Fenn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for hi... Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:08:50 -0700 Jean Paul Marat http://mohanjith.net/2009/05/24/#birthDay Marat was a French Revolutionary leader, physician, and jour... Sun, 24 May 2009 00:10:55 -0700 Dialog GSM has been deceiving the public http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/gmCTqLA5IKU/dialog-gsm-has-been-deceiving-the-public.html Dialog GSM (biggest telecom provider in Sri Lanka) has been deceiving the public about their Family package tarrifs. Their marketing material, customer service representatives and the web site states there is a commitment of Rs. 250 (Local call charges) per supplementary connection and no commitment for the primary connection. Until February it was the case, [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=369 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:28:33 -0700 Twitter Updates for 2009-04-21 http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/N4S1Qaeo0lY/twitter-updates-for-2009-04-21.html Oracle has come to a definitive agreement to acquire Sun. See http://keti.ws/41284 . Wonder where MySQL will head # @hunch is impressive. Checkout http://www.hunch.com/ . But you will have to wait for an invitation. # Sign into my TwitterRemote on http://twittercounter.com/mohanjith so I know when you check my stats! # http://mohanjith.net/blog/2009/04/twitter-updates-for-2009-04-21.html Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:29:00 -0700 Load balanced and High Availability cluster for your web site under USD 60 pm – Part 2 http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/fH_pL-y1rOw/load-balanced-and-high-availability-cluster-for-your-web-site-under-usd-60-pm-part-2.html Update 2009-09-02: Now I’m using a single Linode and a Xen VPS from my very own hosting service. This means the VPSes have one less thing in common; hosting company. As I promised, here is the post that will discuss in detail how I configured my cluster of 2 nodes to host my sites. Setting up SSH [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=273 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:21:13 -0700 Load balanced and High Availability cluster for your web site under USD 60 pm http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/p5fU-5ZvRbc/load-balanced-and-high-availability-cluster-for-your-web-site-under-usd-60-pm.html Update 2009-09-02: Now I’m using a single Linode and a Xen VPS from my very own hosting service. This means the VPSes have one more thing less in common, hosting company. Until recently I used one Linode VPS for hosting all my sites. On 26th March, there was a DDoS attack on one of the Linode [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=258 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:19:45 -0700 How to customize Web Invoice e-mail templates http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/gzYu3QJNH6A/how-to-customize-web-invoice-e-mail-templates.html In the latest release of Web Invoice – Invoicing and Billing for WordPress plugin you can customize the e-mails sent to your clients. You can customize the subject as well as the e-mail content. Please bear in mind that Web Invoice only supports plain text e-mails, but you can do wonders with plain text [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=255 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:06:20 -0700 Web Invoice exceeds 1000 downloads http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/0GSLr-JFPe4/web-invoice-exceeds-1000-downloads.html Web Invoice – Invoicing and billing for WordPress plugin has exceeded 1000 downloads. It has 1172 dowloads to date. First release of the plugin was made on March 15, 2009 and now in less than 1 month it has more than 1000 downloads. Web Invoice is ideal for web developers, SEO consultants, general contractors, or anyone [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=252 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:31:09 -0700 How to migrate from WP-Invoice to Web Invoice? http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/dK9GOQacPFc/how-to-migrate-from-wp-invoice-to-web-invoice.html Web Invoice and WP-Invoice are two WordPress plugins that allow sending invoices and bills. Web Invoice is a fork of WP-Invoice with lot of new features that most people will want. In the current release (1.6.2) they are:Send invoice reminders to customers with a secured link back to the web invoice Moneybookers, AlertPay or PayPal available if [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=247 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:10:53 -0700 SyntaxHighlighter2 WordPress plugin released http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/NHYEumozI40/syntaxhighlighter2-wordpress-plugin-released.html SyntaxHighlighter2 WordPress plugin was released yesterday on WordPress Extend plugin repository. SyntaxHighlighter2 allows you to easily post syntax highlighted code all without loosing it’s formatting or making an manual changes. Main addition is upgrade to SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript 2.0 by Alex Gorbatchev. Also in this release the web master/blogger is given the ability to choose from [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=241 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:04:06 -0700 WordPress object cache with memcached backend for vanilla WordPress http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/YLOI5-clN28/wordpress-object-cache-with-memcached-backend-for-vanilla-wordpress.html WordPress object cache with memcached backend is mainly meant for WPMU and doesn’t work well if you happened to have many vanilla WordPress installations using the same memcached backend like it is pointed out here and here. I have created a simple patch which you can apply against object-cache.php (downloadable from WordPress plugin repository) or here [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=233 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:08:09 -0700 FeedBurner Widget plugin released with MyBrand support http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/EeUi7pT4aGM/feedburner-widget-plugin-released-with-mybrand-support.html FeedBurner Widget 1.2 (WordPress plugin) was released last Friday with much needed MyBrand support. Thank you Alexander Dichev for the release. http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=226 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:38:27 -0700 Read only Facebook – Database write failed http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/9LInrfuF3ks/read-only-facebook-database-write-failed.html To my despair Facebook went read only for a brief period of time (aproximately 10 minutes). I was not able to comment on my friend’s status messages, or like them, or post my own status message; I was confronted with the message bellow. However adding friends, approving requests were working fine. I believe the issue [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=219 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:34:54 -0800 jango vs. last.fm http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/eUx0qkKFC2c/jango-vs-lastfm.html I had been using last.fm for a while and recently tried out jango. Though jango lacks the bells and whistles of last.fm like desktop client, feeds, etc it does it’s job; play music. I like jango for it’s discovery algorithm. It plays music I’d like. With time it has been improving. In contrast last.fm would get [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=214 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:58:15 -0800 Google Analytics for WordPress plugin is incompatible with AddThis plugin http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/e_R5kaWDgOc/google-analytics-for-wordpress-plugin-is-incompatible-with-addthis-plugin.html Google Analytics for WordPress plugin adds an onclick attribute to links when “Track outbound clicks & downloads” is enabled irrespective of whether there is already an onclick attribute. AddThis plugin adds a link with onclick attribute to the post when enabled. This combination causes WordPress to generate invalid mark up. Same would happen if the [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=211 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:42:00 -0800 WordPress plugin Smart Throttle 1.0.0 released http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/yHJghKDt40U/wordpress-plugin-smart-throttle-100-released.html WordPress plugin Smart Throttle 1.0.0 released. With this release Smart Throttle is hosted on WordPress plugin repository allowing users to easily install and upgrade. In this release I have added the ability to configure throttling parameters. You can download the latest release from either here, here or from your WordPress blog under Plugins -> Add New [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=208 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:54:19 -0800 My fight against comment spam on Wordpress blogs – Smart Throttle http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/ovpMo7RCs4s/my-fight-against-comment-spam-on-wordpress-blogs-smart-throttle.html My blog was hit with a comment spam flood which almost brought down the server under load. There were aproximately 30 bots continuously posting spam comments, geez don’t they realize that none of the comments get published. With all the writes to the database, my servers came to a crawling stop. I disabled comments for [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=205 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:22:12 -0800 Subversion to Git http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/RxRjCFiyUbg/subversion-to-git.html My new year resolution was to ditch Subversion and move to Git. I switched to Git as my SCM for all my development work on new year day it self. I did hit some issues because my ignorance about how things are done with Git, however everything was fixed within the day. Now, 20 days [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=198 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:02:52 -0800 Use KernelCheck to build the latest kernel for debian/ubuntu http://feeds.mohanjith.net/~r/Mohanjith/~3/hkZGZCaBYw8/use-kernelcheck-to-build-the-latest-kernel-for-debianubuntu.html I recently found this awesome project called KernelCheck that allows you to build the latest Linux Kernel for your distribution. It requires very little interaction from the user and automatically optimizes the kernel to user’s needs. Currently it only supports Debian based distributions but support for RPM and Slackware based distributions is planned. KernelCheck is [...] http://mohanjith.net/blog/?p=193 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:58:43 -0800 MOHA Chat Released http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mohachat/ MOHA Chat was released tin sourceforge.net . Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:33:44 -0800 MOHA Chat http://mohanjith.net/portfolio/more/chat Chat server and web client usign PHP, MySQL and Javascript. Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:05:45 -0800 Enghala http://mohanjith.net/Enghala Sinhala in English Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:19:53 -0700