Using sharethis but disappointed that it doesn’t have shortlink support? If you are someone who is comfortable placing some code in the correct place inside your theme then following will work for you. In comes url-shortener plugin to the rescue. First install and activate sharethis and url shortener plugins. Select your favourite url shortening service in the… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Technology
Mediawiki on dotcloud
Unfortunately, there’s no guide available for installing mediawiki on dotcloud and googling for it doesn’t turn up anything much useful. But, I had to move out LUG wiki to dotcloud. I proceeded with it while refering to drupal documentation. At the moment, I don’t have a guide on installing mediawiki but I can highlight the… Read more »
WordPress Performance Tips
Do you find performance of your WordPress blog to be lousy? And have no clue on where to start with it? There are lots of articles on the Internet which will tell you what to do. So, instead of repeating the same, I’ll cover each aspect and links to articles which provide useful how-to’s on… Read more »
BarCampMumbai5 – The Experience, The Firsts
Sunday February 1 2009 was the day when BarCampMumbai 5 was held with the same old enthusiasm but at a whole new venue – VJTI College, Matunga. The camp was host to many firsts for the BCM as well as for me. First time BCM was held outside IIT-B. First BCM without any sponsorship. It… Read more »
Communication with simple emerging technologies
Seeing a friend giving directions to another friend on how to reach the given location, over twitter made me realise all over again as to how much we can achieve using such simple and relatively cheap technologies available to us today. A GPRS enabled mobile phone and a twitter account is all that was needed… Read more »
BCM4
BarCampMumbai is back again. The same venue, different format. BCM4 is happening on 4th-5th October 2008 at IIT Powai. Yeah, you read it right it's a 2 day event this time around. There are some other changes too, for better and for worse – as you see it. This time around only way to get… Read more »
Technology and customer service
Don't worry I am not gonna bore you with any management theories. Just 2 incidents that happened with me yesterday. Incident 1: 2 weeks back I had lost my cellphone. I bought a new one 2 days back. I went to The Hutch Shop yesterday to get a new SIM card as I needed my… Read more »
Sify Clowns Around
Last couple of days have been really frustrating for sify users in and around Mumbai. Sify has been randomly blocking ports which are not used by an average Internet user. On 12th of July, sify people decided to block port 22, which is used for ssh. It's not such a commonly used port but many… Read more »
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