Help thy visitors…

…and they will love you.

I am always on the lookout for new ways to make my blog more accessible and helpful to visitors. And this does not only mean that I write something that helps them but also hold their hand if they stumble into a 404 or want to search my site better.

In my quest for a better and a more visitor friendly blog i stumbled upon these two wordpress plugins which i quite like :

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<mx:DevSummit/> : Register and grab your copy of a free FlexBuilder 3 License

I heard about mx:Devsummit on Twitter when Mrinal tweeted about it and then the details from Raghu’s Blog. A RIA Developer Summit from Adobe is exciting enough but the icing on the cake are the free Adobe Flex Builder 3 licenses that go out to every participant, how cool :)

From the mailer that Raghu sent me:

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Diveagar : A secluded beach on the konkan coast

Diveagar is small secluded beach on the Konkan coast roughly 150 Kms from Pune. I had been once sometime in 2005 and had fallen in love with it’s virgin beach. So in the long weekend of 15th - 17th August, 2008 I decided that it’s time i visit the place again, but this time with my wife and two of my best friends.

The Gallery below is fully interactive. You can drag images and double click on them to magnify them to their full glory.

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I’ll be there !

I’ll be there at SAP TechEd 2008, Bangalore. Will you ?

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Singleton Classes in Actionscript 3.0

Singleton Classes are based on the Singleton Design Pattern and have a single instance of the class throughout the application. When would one need a singleton class ? A simple example would be a database manager class which would instantiate a connection to the database at the application initialization and have methods for data manipulation of the database tables. In such a case multiple instances of this class is not required and will end up consuming memory and other issues.

How does one implement a Singleton Class ?

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Securing your Wordpress Blog from Intruders…

I use StatPress on my Blog for statistics management. According to the Plugin’s page on Wordpress Statpress is “The real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc.”

It also has a nifty view called Spy which lets you view who visited your website from which country and the link they hit. A couple of days back I was quite surprised that someone had tried to SQL Inject my Blog, the following URL String showed up as a request :

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ESME - The Demo

A couple of days back I had blogged about ESME - The Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment, about how it was initiated, who all are involved and what we are trying to build.

As Dennis Howlett mentions in his Blog on SDN, we are a group of individuals from the community who share a dream of making enterprise social messaging a problem solver for the enterprise and though we have not met, we know each other and more importantly completely trust each other.

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Chinpose on your Wordpress Blog…

Introduction

Friday is Chinposin Day. If the previous line did not make any sense to you, then it’s time you read my good friend Blag’s blog on Chinposin.

What started off as an one off experiment is growing into a full fledged avatar management platform with more and more functionality being added every day. With a avatar timeline per user along with it’s feed, Tiltviewer and many more upcoming features all of which can be found on the Chinposin Blog, this was a perfect platform to develope my first Wordpress Widget.

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ESME - A Social Messaging Experiment for the Enterprise…

There has been a lot of blogs on whether Twitter like functionality fits the scope of today’s enterprise. And if so where exactly and how… But this blog is not about any of that…

This started as a seemlessly harmless question from Yojibee on Plurk on the availability of the Plurk API. The thread grew with the involvement of a lot of great guys from the community and now what we have with us is this community project called Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment.

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Please close the door slowly…

…. is what I assume it should have read.

It was supposed to be more or less like a request to the guys who bang the door shut after they alight from a vehicle…

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