By Nitin on January 24, 2010
Who knows more about the citizens in their own country, Kim Jong-Il or Google? Google tracks everything, your searches, web movement which arises from your search, what places you went last summer (or are planning to go, thanks to Google maps). Google not only knows about you but also understands you much better than your [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged extension, firefox, google, http
By Nitin on January 11, 2010
Although the third party bookmarking and sharing tools are quite useful to analyze the sharing trends on your blog, they do slow down the whole process of sharing. Also, as mentioned in my Sharing and Bookmarking Tools post, I was not comfortable with the small icons available with Bookmarkify and Socialable. WP ShareThisPost is a [...]
Posted in Projects, Wordpress | Tagged bookmarking, php, plugin, sharing, Wordpress
By Nitin on October 16, 2009
Most of the bloggers ignore various security loop-holes in their WordPress installation, thinking that the chances of Crackers intruding their small and unpopular websites are slim. Never even think of this. No one is going to check your page rank or Alexa rank before hacking your site, so better secure it now than to regret [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged apache, htaccess, security, Wordpress
By Nitin on October 3, 2009
Recently, while working on my project FeedAPI ImageGrabber I came across the issue where I had to select HTML elements by a given css class. The HTML element can have a single CSS class: <div class="foo"></div> or multiple CSS classes associated with it. <div class="foo exp tar"></div> Now if you want to select the HTML [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged css, Drupal, php, xpath
By Nitin on September 20, 2009
Updates: Feeds Image Grabber has been released to support the new Feeds module. (3 march 2010) Tutorial for Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) published. (6 march 2010) Demonstration Website is available here. (6 march 2010) I get a lot of requests for this, so here is a tutorial explaining the 3 W’s (What, Why and How) [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Drupal, feedapi, imagegrabber, module, tutorial
By Nitin on September 16, 2009
PayPal is used by a lot of online merchants to accept payments for the products they sell online. PayPal can also be used to accept donations for your technical open source projects or charity organization. Recently, I opened an account with PayPal to accept payments from my clients who reside outside India. Before I started, [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged Drupal, paypal
