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2010 Predictions and Resolutions

Syam Kumar R — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:32:12 +0000

The Web Design, Development and Technology

SEO

Social Media

and more…

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All About 2009

Syam Kumar R — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:03:43 +0000

Design, Development and Hacks

Social media – Facebook, Twitter, and the rest

Linux, Open Source and Free Software

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft

Failures

and more…

PS 2009 on Wikipedia

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It’s BarCamp Time Once Again!

Syam Kumar R — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:30:50 +0000

We are holding BarCamp Kerala 7 on 20^th of December 2009 at Kristu Jyoti College of Management and Technology, Chethipuzha, Changanassery, Kottayam.! If you are in Kerala and you call yourself a techie, BCK7 is a must attend event for you.

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OpenDNS vs. Google Public DNS

Syam Kumar R — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:00:58 +0000

Google launched a Public DNS service yesterday. They claim that by using their public DNS, you can:

Speed up your browsing experience.
Improve your security.
Get the results you expect with absolutely no redirection.

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How to Move Your WordPress Feeds to a Sub-domain

Syam Kumar R — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:57:31 +0000

You can easily offload your feeds to an a external service like Feedburner. But what if you want to serve feeds for categories, tags, authors and single posts, just like WordPress by default does? This article explains how I moved all feeds to feed.webmasterview.com. This is not offloading, feeds are still in the same server, but this helps you to have separate web logs for feeds and keep your main apache access log uncluttered with feed requests.

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Setup a separate sub-domain for media files in WordPress

Syam Kumar R — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:11:02 +0000

You can move everything in your wp-content to a separate domain or sub-domain (for example: media.example.com ) hosted in the same server. For this, create a sub-domain first, using your web control panel or by editing apache configuration and adding A records to DNS manually. After DNS propagated, copy all directories from your existing wp-content to the document root of your new (sub)domain. Set WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_CONTENT_URL in your wp-config.php

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How to remove cruft from your apache log

Syam Kumar R — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:03:07 +0000

Keeping an eye on apache logs is an essential part of a webmaster’s job. Checking the logs help you detect performance problems and security issues. There are many log analyser software available to do this job effectively and create graphs, charts and other visualisations. Still, there are times when you need to check data directly from raw logs. But not all entries are useful. Access to a web page creates log entries not just for that page but for the JavaScript files, CSS files and images included in that page. This makes difficult to find information easily from raw logs. Separating such entries from main access log would help you to analyse data easily.

There are two ways to remove cruft from main log.

Conditional logging.
Separate (sub)domains for media and feeds.

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Monitor your Search Engine Rankings with KPMRS

Syam Kumar R — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:00:25 +0000

The eagle eyed amongst you might have noticed a brand new website ranking tool called KPMRS.com, Keyword Position Monitoring Report Service. This service is a milestone in keyword search monitoring with additional features to monitor Social networking popularity of your site, Back Links tracking, and even monitoring your website performance on search engines. The striking feature of the site is that it allows you to check your website rankings for particular keywords on popular engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing, extensively.

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Binny’s Plugin Week 2 starts off

Syam Kumar R — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:56:39 +0000

Binny V A, a freelance web developer based in India, started off his second round of “Plugin Week“. Last year, he released 6 WordPress Plugins in a week. He is going to do the same this year.

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Adsense Payment delay in India

Syam Kumar R — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:16:25 +0000

Recently, Google started sending adsense payment cheques to India via Blue Dart Courier service for no additional charges. Before this change, I used to get cheques via India post without any problem. But I had to request a reissue for April and May checks. The June check (which includes the April payments credited back) has been issued on 22^nd June. I am still waiting for it. I checked the Blue Dart site using the tracking number google gave and the status was Consignee’s Address Incorrect:Unable To Deliver. I am not alone. A lot of Indian publishers are complaining about non-delivery of cheques.

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