I’ve wondered about how rails websites like Railscasts created SEO friendly URLs. I read this post by Obie Fernandez which explains how to do this.
I’ve never had to use SEO friendly URLs in my projects so far and I assumed that generating these URLs is very complicated and some plugin might be at work. And [...]
Google has never been much of a heavyweight in the social networking market. Their latest attempt to dethrone Twitter and Facebook is through Buzz, which turns Gmail into a social networking site. My initial impression about Buzz was positive, but having looked at it for the past week, I have had to change my opinion. Here’s a list of reasons why I don”t like Buzz and would much rather prefer to continue using Twitter.
I registered for RubyConf India 2010 this morning. I was interested in the event anyway, but when the proposal for a presentation on Project Fedena by Arvind was selected that definitely made up my mind. The rest of Team Fedena – developers Aslam and Ralu, and designer Jaseem – have also decided to travel to [...]
wp_monochrome is my first attempt at designing a wordpress theme. I’m using it on this blog right now, so if you’re reading this from a feed reader, you might want to drop by and see what it looks like.
It is a simple theme composed almost entirely of shades of grey. The theme works fine in [...]
Just a couple of weeks into being a rails developer, I made the one really, really, really big blunder — I used a find_by_sql in a search page. (Oh, please… stop booing. I was a newbie then.) Now, I’ve realized that I might have to modify the search to add yet another column, and well… [...]
Recently I was trying to find ways to import data from excel spreadsheets into the database in a rails project. We needed to save the data from the client’s excel file into the database. Here’s how it can be done using a rake task.
The file will have to be in CSV format, so you’ll have [...]
Create a simple countdown timer using javascript and HTML that counts down to an event. This example used in this tutorial counts down to the FIFA world cup 2010.
Yesterday, after looking around Google’s Chrome OS, I felt exactly the way I felt when I got an invite to preview Google’s other big launch this year, Google Wave — underwhelmed. Chrome OS is a work in progress and there’s a long way to go yet, but as of now, it’s little more than a [...]
For a few days now, I’ve been working on a wordpress based website where I have to edit quite a few files directly on the server. I used wordpress’ theme and plugin editors for the first day, but it soon became too difficult to edit the files that way and I had to look for [...]
I have moved this blog from its old location on blogspot (http://binarydoodles.blogspot.com) to my own domain, http://nithinbekal.com/.
The posts were moved to the new location a few days ago, but I wasn’t sure what to do with the feeds and that caused quite a bit of delay. I’ve set up the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin to use [...]