bipin karmacharya

Products geeks love

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:51:51 +0000

Found bunch of cool stuffs worthy for a true gadget geek. Apple fan, social media addict or just gaming activist, this list of product will give some truly geek feel. So don’t be let to serach around the stores around for them.

Apple’s Marketing

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:22:40 +0000

Funny way to depict owning Apples’ products:

MicroSoft’s Facts

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:02:13 +0000

Some facts from M$:

Square poem

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:34:44 +0000

The title of the post may be confusing. Even though go through the verses of the following poem:

Did you find any thing special on it? Well the poem by Lewis Carroll is square i.e. the poem can be read vertically as well as horizontally meaning same.

Trackback:http://www.futilitycloset.com/2009/05/18/7669/

Google’s April Fool Gag

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:21:14 +0000

See the Google’s April Fools Gag In Japan, Some Sort Of Wacky Keyboard Drum Kit

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-april-fools-gag-japan-2010-3#the-problem-with-keyboards-with-a-lot-of-buttons-is-that-they-dont-really-fit-on-your-desk-1#ixzz0jp3Zr2SR

PHP sites

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:35:27 +0000

Below is the lis of sites that I use most commonly as reference while working. Hope it may be helpful to you too.

http://www.php.net/

This site will be the essence for all the PHP programmers. Its the online manual containing syntax, code snippets and explanationation to each function deployed in the PHP programming. Wiki,forum etc helps for every individuals requiring help in the confusion.

http://roshanbh.com.np/

Its been well managed and has been running couple of years back. Most of the post are explanatory and comes along the demo and even downloadable codes. It also contains tutorials on various topics like ajax, CSS, htaccess, webservices etc. Its been acknowledged as good tutorial blog across many sites. Beside this it is a site from my country Nepal.

http://net.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/php/

It is another site consisting loads of well described posts on PHP or web apps based on PHP.It offers tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve you design and build websites to perfection. It also covers HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails.

http://perishablepress.com

The nice thing to mention about it is the site is clean, well presented, simplicity. Mainly aimed at WordPress it also has posts on blogging tips, site security as well as graphic design.

http://www.mycodetools.com/

This site is compilation of many libraries and tools from which the web developers can enjoy to implement them in their tasks so as to complete them faster and efficiently and produce well defined website. It lists the latest technologies which are must for todays website become unique and better in competition of others. It not only covers PHP but also has links related to CSS, html, flash etc.

http://www.milesj.me/blog/archives/topic/13

Milesj.me combines all the aspects and fun of a blog, with topics ranging from development, entertainment, media, gaming, personal stories and items out of the ordinary. It also like a resource hub full of documentation and downloads for Miles’ open source scripts, packages, and also contains a database of many other resource related links and websites.

http://www.codediesel.com/

A blog of a PHP/ MySQL freelancer cosisting most of the posts articles, tutorials,tips related to PHP. Many web apps devloped are being well described and codes used displayed making the reader to understand and implement it easily. Beside PHP he also has included the posts on Wordpress, opensource.

Wordpress Functions

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:49:31 +0000

Below is the list of some of the mostly used or needed functions while customizing the wordpress theme. Though its not the complete list I’ll be adding in coming days:

Author Template Tags

Author - the_author();

Author Description - the_author_description();

Author Login - the_author_login();

Author First Name - the_author_firstname();

Author Last Name - the_author_lastname();

Author Nickname - the_author_nickname();

Author ID - the_author_ID();

Author Email - the_author_email();

Author Website URL - the_author_url();

Author Link - the_author_link();

Author AIM Screenname - the_author_aim();

Author Yahoo IM ID - the_author_yim();

Author Posts - the_author_posts();

Author Posts Link - the_author_posts_link();

Author List - wp_list_authors();

Category Template Tags

Post Category - the_category();

Post Category in RSS Format - the_category_rss();

Page Category Title - single_cat_title();

Category Description - category_description();

Category Dropdown - wp_dropdown_categories(’arguments’);

Category Link List - wp_list_categories();

If In Category - in_category();

Category’s Parents List - get_category_parents();

Category Array - get_the_category();

Comment Template Tags

Comment Count - comments_number();

Link to Post Comments - comments_link();

Link to RSS Feed of Post Comments - comments_rss_link();

JavaScript for Pop-Up Window - comments_popup_script();

Link to Pop-Up Window - comments_popup_script();

Comment ID - comment_ID();

Author of Comment - comment_author();

IP Address of Comment Author - comment_author_IP();

Email of Comment Author - comment_author_email();

Website URL of Comment Author - comment_author_url();

Mailto Link to Comment Author - comment_author_email_link();

Link to Website URL of Comment Author - comment_author_link();

Type of Comment - comment_type();

Comment Text - comment_text();

Comment Excerpt - comment_excerpt();

Date of Comment - comment_date();

Time of Comment - comment_time();

Comment Author’s Name Formatted for RSS - comment_author_rss();

Comment Text Formatted for RSS - comment_text_rss();

Comment Link Formatted for RSS - comment_link_rss();

Comment Permalink Formatted for RSS - permalink_comments_rss();

Date & Time Template Tags

Post Date (xml) - the_date_xml();

Post Date - the_date();

Post Time - the_time();

Date (and Time) of Last Modification to Post - the_modified_date();

Time (and Date) of Last Modification to Post - the_modified_time();

Post Time (PHP) - get_the_time();

Current Page Month & Year Title - single_month_title();

Post Calendar - get_calendar();

General Template Tags

Blog Info - bloginfo();

Blog Info RSS - bloginfo_rss();

Blog Info (PHP) - get_bloginfo();

Blog Info RSS (PHP) - get_bloginfo_rss();

Page Title - wp_title();

Get Posts - get_posts;

Archives List - wp_get_archives();

Page Link List - wp_list_pages();

Page Dropdown - wp_dropdown_pages();

Login/Logout Link - wp_loginout();

Register/Site Admin Link - wp_register();

Query Posts - query_posts();

RSS Enclosures - rss_enclosure();

Search Query - the_search_query();

Link Template Tags

‘Edit Post’ Link - edit_post_link();

‘Edit Comment’ Link - edit_comment_link();

Page Links - wp_page_links();

Yearly Archive URL - get_year_link();

Monthly Archive URL - get_month_link();

Daily Archive URL - get_day_link();

Previous Post Links - next_posts_link();

Permalink Template Tags

Permalink Anchor - permalink_anchor();

Permalink (PHP) - get_permalink();

Permalink URL - the_permalink();

Permalink (formatted for syndication feeds) - permalink_single_rss();

Post Template Tags

Post ID - the_ID();

Post Title - the_title();

Post Title (Attribute) - the_title_attribute();

Single Post Title - single_post_title();

Post Title (RSS) - the_title_rss();

Post Content - the_content();

Post Content (RSS) - the_content_rss();

Post Excerpt - the_excerpt();

Post Excerpt (RSS) - the_excerpt_rss();

Previous Post Link - previous_post_link();

Next Post Link - next_post_link();

Post Nav Links - posts_nav_link();

Post Meta - the_meta();

Post Tags - the_tags();

Post Count - wp_count_posts();

Web Development

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:32:42 +0000

Websites has come along a long path, they have become one of our basic needs. There are various factors to be kept in mind before launching a website to its viewers resulting today’s web development become complex. Today while going across one of my favorite site I found an image showing the ingredients of today’s websites, and the components which have become essential for a website to be complete. Full credit to the developer and the site for such pictorial demo of website like a route of any transportation mean.

Source: http://www.saturngod.net/wp-content/uploads/Web.png

Twitter

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:20:51 +0000

Today most of the user-generated content evolving from an individual to big companies when broadcasted using various kinds of medias draw attention of others. So, everyone has started to broadcast their creation to all around them using medias like phone, internet, papers, televisions etc. Every media has their own pros and cons. Over the past couple of years there have been plenty of activities through Twitter. Twitter is a micro-blogging web apps where people can share anything being bounded to 140 characters. People around the world are using Twitter with different intentions to share their ideas, connect with fans, promote their brands etc. Researches show the growth in use of the Twitter and its users are increasing rationally every month. Averaging almost 50 million tweets per day or say 1 billion tweets per month it has crossed 10 billion tweets with a private tweet. It has outplayed many other web apps in respect to the user involvement in their daily life. Many apps have been developed on basis of Twitter as well as many application has been created to compete with it. Yahoo has Meme while Goggle has started Buzz with similarities. Twitter has been adding feature to bind its user. Whatever the reason may be Twitter stands like trend to communicate and has gained massive popularity and is on the way to create many records.
Some interesting observations regarding Twitter:
- December 2009 was the first month Twitter processed more than one billion tweets (with 1.036 billion tweets).
- January 2010 had 16 times as many tweets as January 2009.
- The activity on Twitter has doubled since August 2009.
- January 2010 saw more tweets per day (39.5 million) than the whole of September 2008.
Image courtesy Mashable

Different browsers

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:45:01 +0000

Browsers resembling mode of transportation.

http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1802516