Archive for the 'internet' Category

Bypass Blocked Websites

Friday, July 18th, 2008

// Oops you can’t access Youtube, Facebook, Hi5, MySpace, among others at school or work. Sound familiar ?? Social networking sites are often blocked because users are subject to unwanted spyware that can compromise their computers, track your online activity, degrade PC performance and for security reasons. I think teens used these websites more than [...]

Blogspot V/s Orange

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

As every morning,{basically as soon as I wake up}I come to check 3 blogs.
Carrot, Yash, And Island Crisis.
But today its a special day.
I don’t know who is to be blamed.
WordPress blogs open up perfectly.

I thought that perhaps there is approblem with blogspot.com
To confirm I tried opening Island Crisis

Same Problem.
Thanks to the guy who gave us [...]

http://get-my-ip.info/

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Displays your IP address and with a simple Google maps mashup to display where you’re from.

The Beast Reborn Firefox 3

Monday, June 16th, 2008

“And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in [...]

3-g-iphone.com launched

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Web2.0 design style done in my spare time after buying 3-g-iphone.com domain, using :

YUI css grids for layout - 950px wide
YUI utilities - for DOM manipulation
YUI animation - for accordion effect for features
YUI connection manager - for ajax calls to fetch latest news
Magpie RSS parser - to parse iPhone RSS feed from engadget
jQuery cycle plugin [...]

yui 2.5.2 out

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Fresh from oven, read the announcement and grab it !
Still wondering whether it’s too hot or not for orange.mu website.

my top 10 websites everyday

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Before starting work everyday and while waiting Eclipse (PDT) to patiently build my projects, here are my favorite websites I must visit ranked in my personal order of preference :

http://del.icio.us/popular/ - Helps me find interesting links for day-to-day work such as a new javascript framework, php tips/tricks, etc. Prefer it over digg
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/ - Get the [...]

orange.mu, 1 month after

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

It has been 1 month since www.orange.mu was launched and overall I’am quite satisfied with the new portal, compared to the old Servihoo one.
The main features which I’am very satisfied, from a technical point of view :

built on bleeding edge technology (does anyone hear memcache here ;-))
almost all pages are valid XHTML 1.0 transitional (i [...]

Birth of an IP address

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

It’s the replay of the BGP route changes when I start announcing a new subnet. First, I announce through only one provider, then removed the route briefly to do some tests before finally announcing to every one. The red object is me and the numbers are other networks (ASN). There is one provider which is [...]

Expression Engine : Daily posts at specific time

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Problem :
You want to display a particular post everyday but only during a time of the day, very useful when you’ve got a schedule you want to display.
Solution :
Post your entry but make the entry date a fixed one. For example, the post has entry date 2007-01-01 but with the time you want the post [...]