mere funde

The blog now runs Wordpress 2.6 and I will be in Hyderabad over the weekend and plan to have a lot of fun

.. to Jeff’s post. Finally. I had almost given up hope but Matt is back with a bang! Now wait for Jeff’s reply.

PS: The post by Matt has apparently been removed

It seems like a nice little battle is brewing between Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror fame) and Matt Mullenweg (creator of Wordpress).

Jeff has just posted an analysis of the Wordpress CPU usage which he feels is unreasonably high and wonders why the WP-Cache has not been integrated into the core structure of Wordpress itself. And I agree with his points. I have seen a number of instances where servers (and websites) running WP crumble upon being Dugg.

I am waiting for Matt’s response. Should be an interesting show

First - upgraded the blog to Wordpress 2.5. The new interface looks cool and features easy navigation to more often used options. Also, the upgrade process was a breeze. You can read about how to do it here.

Next - for the past many days, I have been stuck with a faulty error prone version sort table JavaScript being used by MediaWiki. After a lot of head breaking and seeking help on the forums, I was frustrated by Friday and sought help from a friend at Yahoo. He was short on time and promised to do something today. Anyways he happened to mention that I should use Firebug plugin for Firefox.

I had installed Firebug on Firefox long back when I was experimenting with CSS. I did not know how to debug JavaScript using it. So a google search and a blog post later, I was ready to get my hands dirty. And after an hour or so, I was beginning to see light at the end of the terminal. I had located the error and could now fix it easily.

So here I am, all happy and contended. I would like to add this fix to the script on the next Wiki release. Hopefully my first contribution to the wonderful open source community!! Also, even though the guys on the forum were unable to help me on this one, they have been a wonderful bunch of extremely helpful folks. Thanks everyone - keep rocking!

PS: I know very little about JS, with my programming experience limited to C and VBA. So this particular hack - I am immensely pleased about.

If you are one of those three (lemme count.. one, two, three, yup, thats all) people who do visit my blog and read tolerate the nonsense that I put up here, you would have noticed that the blog was out for a couple of days. Here is an official reason.

I had not been able to post in hindi for quite some while now, and I had done nothing wrong apparently. However, on deeper inspection, I did find out the reason for this. The database, provided by my kind host, used the latin_swedish_ci character set and collation. Because of this it did not support the hindi fonts. So I tried rectifying it by running some basic SQL queries (which is not saying much). So I backed up my database (important), and started fiddling around, and obviously everything went wrong.

So I had to go back to Ashish and ask him to setup a database with the UTF8 charset which supports the hindi character set. After he did that, I setup Wordpress (2.3.3) and imported the posts, comments, images, themes, etc. Only one glitch remains. Due to an error in Wordpress, the tags have been imported as IDs into the new database. I have applied the patch mentioned in the forum [I am so proud of being able to do that!!], but haven’t been able to reimport the tags as of now. Will keep you updated as and when that happens. Till then,

आपको हुई असुविधा के लिए मुझे खेद है

As the last tech job on the blog for this year, I have upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.2!!

Looking forward to 2008.

I once had a discussion with a friend about the use of corporate blogging. I said it was a good for PR and feedback, he did not agree much. Well, whatever be the use, I am a great fan of the style of Jonathan Schwartz.

He admits in this post how his admin screwed up and apologises to Matt Mullenweg (the brilliant guy who brings us Wordpress). Now I am sure that no PR department wrote or edited it but makes you feel that they listen. Meanwhile you can also watch his interesting interview with Scoble.