Les Aventures de Techiemaque…

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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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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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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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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