148 posts in this category.
In my post on , I had mentioned that inspite of doing server configuration tweaking, I found that load times were gradually increasing and I was experimenting with an alternative server named . The...
So after the frustrating experiences with my shared hosting provider, I decided to move to VPS hosting once and for all. I knew that this would mean, spending more money, and having to spend more t...
Consider the code below to display a line of text in HTML: Now let's say, we see some developer write it this way: What would you say of the quality of the markup above? Now what if I tell you that...
Last June, when I built the app using , I had . After giving it about 9 months to mature, I thought I will take a look at it again with a fresh perspective on where it stands. The first thing that...
I am an ardent feed consumer. I easily have over 300 feeds in my and read them whenever I get a chance. The feeds include technology blogs, photography blogs, local news, startup blogs, blogs by fa...
When I built the ' ' application, one of the things I had in mind was to see how quickly an application can be built in the most economical way. While the application is working like a charm, a day...
I got this idea of building an application which pulls all the pages mentioned in the trending topics on Twitter. Why would that be useful? Well, it's the simplest replacement for Google News, but...
Once in a while, I look at my Delicious bookmarks to get an idea of what I have been upto in recent time. The ' ' tool was written with exactly that in mind. I began to wonder if my bookmarks can g...
Since the time I have hosted this blog on Wordpress, I am looking for patterns and tweaks to optimize my bandwidth consumption. Most hosting providers charge you for your bandwidth, so it is always...
This post is an analysis of an early document on . The key ideas being discussed in this document are on Hypertext - whether links should be monodirectional or bidirectional, should links be typed...
Today, while I was searching for my name in Google, I saw that towards the end, it showed my in the search results. There is definitely no occurrence of my name in the pages that were listed in the...
Ever wonder why hyperlinks in the World Wide Web (WWW) are unidirectional? Why are links not typed? Why are links many to one and not many to many? Why do browsers have the restrictions that they h...