“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” – Warren Zevon
So, I upgraded my wordpress blog and installed iPhone app, and I am now ready to blog from my phone.
I hope I will have no excuse to not blog now.
Update: wordpress app is crashing a lot. I wonder if it’s a known problem.
Update: Problem fixed by itself.. hmmm
Put this module anywhere, it will automatically detect the jreviews tags, review name or provided keywords (no need for jreviews with this option) and display latest related MyBlog posts.
Tested on Joomla 1.5.x, JReviews 2.0.4 RC3 and MyBlog 2.0.1 build286
See it in action here. ‘Related blogs’ display latest related posts based on iPhone.
Download: MyBlog Keyword Posts
Project funded by: Matt
I recently deployed a Gtalk badge and got rid of the buggy plugoobuddy chat window. I am happy to say that, this badge is keeping my status as accurate as it can get. For the first time I was chatting with more than one visitor at the same time. I have no idea whats the problem with plugoo but never use to keep my status accurate.
The only problem with Gtalk badge is it doesnt allow chatting right from the page, but instead you need to click on the badge for a popup chat window. This is ok, but I would like to see a Gtalk badge written in iframe so that my visitors can chat without a popup window.
Anyways, I decided to move to Gtalk badge because I wanted to be able to chat with my website visitors right from Gtalk (thats one and only thing I use) .
I installed a cool wordpress iphone theme from contentrobot.com that allows this site to open in a very simplified iphone web browser friendly way. The over all load time is less than half and it even automatically detects the client.
Over all a two thumbs up for the plugin+theme!
Ok, so I ran into an old friend of mine who also happens to be in IT industry as a hardcore .Net Programmer. We talked for a while, most of it of our old times and then moved to whats going on in our lives right now. We both were surprised to hear that none of us is actually doing the things we always wanted to do (create a cool app and make lots and lots of money). So we decided to spare sometime off our usual hectic work and work on creating something cool, something to be proud of or something that would make someone’s life little easy 
We both pitched some ideas to each other then finally decided on a simple idea of mine (which I wanted to do since quite a long time) that would save a lot of time and money for new and experienced freelancers. We talked about making a hosted application which will be tailored for Freelancers and freelancers only that will allow them (including me!) to manage, administer and analyze their freelance business. Basically a combination of Project Management tools and custom report generation.
The birth of FPMS (Freelance Project Management Suite)
We started jotting down some features and ideas that we can incorporate into this system, especially for phase 1 of the project. We decided to use .Net as the technical platform (he managed to convince me 
!) and ajax for richer user interface.
The launch date
We already started development of FPMS long time ago and we expect to release beta 1 as an MSI (not hosted) which people can deploy on their servers with ease very soon.
Pricing
Welcome to the Free world
Support
Community driven
Well, its true that mobile IM will hit big in the coming years. People will need a better way to stay connected with work, family, friends not only on call but also online with their avatar. On my recent search on available services that lets me stay connected on IM, I couldn’t find any. But I heard there is an application in T-Mobile Sidekick that lets us stay always on (not sure how far that is true).
First of all, sorry for putting such a lame concept diagram below… anyways, I began to wonder the complications, the companies (especially communication companies developing mobile apps) might be facing in getting something like this in the market. The only major problem I could think of is in keeping the data connection always on. So here’s a high level simple architecture of what I think can solve this problem. Basically, the intermediate server will store the session between the device and IM server keeping itself transperent. When someone trys to talk to the device, the intermediate server can alert the device and also send the message to the app sitting on the device. This way the user can maintain an Always On state even when the app is not open or device is not active. Any thoughts?
Update: I came across this iPhone/BlackBerry application BeejiveIM that let users stay connected (Always On feature) on their favorite IM client on the go. The service looks very promising but its little expensive $16 plus either Microsoft Exchange Server Connectiviy or subscription to MobileMe (both could be little expensive). It emails the user (via puch email feature) whenever a contact trys to initiate the conversation. Besides that, it has many other features that makes it a popular pick among various IM clients available for iPhone and BlackBerry.
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Seriously, I began to wonder, how many startups are now coming up with stupid names that don’t make sense? The answer is almost all. Earlier, naming your company/website was supposed to the most important tasks. The name was supposed to reflect the service you do or the products you sell. While its still the case, but startups are now finding cute, cuddly names more attractive and responsive. Twitter, zoho, hulu, zivity, twine, drobo, smibs, orkut, wallop and many more. This clearly means that name isn’t that important these days. Whats more important is the service/product you provide. Of course that doesnt mean you will name your company achmadinijad
With no clear indication on how difficult this could be, I went ahead and started moving a drupal site to a different server (on a different domain). I first followed the standard procedure that I do in Joomla. That is, getting all the files to my local, exporting the databases from phpmyadmin to my local and uploading the files to new server and importing the database to the new server and finally, changing the configuration settings (settings.php in drupal). Turns out that, thats how actually it is done in drupal too but depending on the intial site setup it could be really troublesome for few to figure out the right settings and permissions.
After working on a simple move for more than an hour, I finally realized that the old drupal site was using clean urls and inorder for it to work on new server I must change the .htaccess file to map to new domain. Well that makes sense. So for someone who plans to do that now or in future, here are the quick steps:
If you get stuck anywhere dont hessitate to comment.
Thats it. couple of steps and the site is totally on the new server and domain. This is a good practice for people who first load the site on test server then want to move to deployment server after completion. But anyways, if you need any assistance, do let me know.
Would you like to be welcomed by your parents on your visit to them with a brief message on the new Insurance Policy from AIG that can transform your life? Well, imagine this, you walk into your parents place and at the door your dad comes up and the first thing he says; “AIG now offer detailed and personalized risk reports based on your daily habits. Join today and you could also qualify for a $500,000 grand price!…. [pause]….Hey son, come on in.. how are ya?”
That is how I feel when I see ads on my favorite sites. Forbes, Entrepreneur, Wired, AskMen, or whatever.. I dont understand how come ads are now the welcome screens? It annoys me so bad that I just feel like closing the damn window. I know its a great palce to put an ad, great for the company but reall? Do you want to annoy your visitors?
This mod was only tested on Joomla 1.5.
Description: Displays latest posts based on provided keywords in the backend. See screenshots to get an idea.
Version: 1.0 Beta
Detail Desription: Well, this module lets you search through your fireboard forum based on couple of keywords and display the results in a nice, cleaner module format. You can create unlimited content items right off with your forum posts. Its highly configurable and easy to install.
Installation: Just like any other module. If you need help, ping me or add a comment.
Download Now: Fireboard Keywords Posts Module
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