By Nitin on May 3, 2010
We visit and revisit web pages. You will find that more than 60% of your web visits are actually revisits of some sort. But web browsers support for such revisitations is limited to bookmarks, history list, URL auto-completion and back button. Here are a few history tools which can greatly improve your experience during web [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged addons, extensions, firefox, history
By Nitin on April 25, 2010
Some of the “quotes” I like from South Park, by Chef. Disclaimer: The following contains coarse language and due to its content it should not be viewed by anyone. Episode 401 Chef: Well look at you cute little crackers with your money and your fancy clothes and your cell phones. It’s almost like you were… [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged chef, fun, south park
By Nitin on March 12, 2010
Today, while I was working on the URL encoding for the recently released Facebook-style Links module, I realized a bug with Link Attachments feature on Facebook. Before I explain, let us reproduce it: Try to attach the following link on Facebook: http://google.com/search?q=blenders%26pride. This URL actually queries Google for ‘blenders&pride’. Facebook converts/encodes the above URL to [...]
Posted in Drupal, Nitin's Blog | Tagged bug, encoding, facebook, fbsl
By Nitin on January 30, 2010
When you need to dump a SVN repository, all you have to do is svnadmin dump REPOS_PATH But wait, then you need to have admin access to the server on which your SVN repository is hosted. Often, that is not the case and you have to contact the company which hosts your repository to do [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged cvsdude, script, svn, tutorial
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 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