http://blog.aakash.me litter bin of gibberish thoughts, ideas & code Mon, 31 May 2010 20:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You open facebook. Check your feed, find some new posts, videos and photos. Cool.. you even press like or comment on few of them. Now you go to twitter. Some more cool content for you. Also you notice some posts from services like youtube, flickr, blog feeds duplicated(from facebook) in your ... http://blog.aakash.me/index.php/2010/02/redundant-data-issue-with-social-sharing/ Okay.. enough iPhone, I need a change, something new to play/hack with. WinMo is his own world of stylus and task managers. Nokia phones are not for geeks :) Blackberry still doesnot have a decent touch-screen phone and its hack-ability is known to be very low. I am left with the Android which ... http://blog.aakash.me/index.php/2010/02/from-iphone-to-android/ Finally done with the 3rd major iteration of the WP Likes plugin. You can see it in action on this blog. Improvements all around and everything is smoother. I will enlist a few- Renders in one line and more refined customization. No more 'you and' being appended everytime. Differentiates between people and ... http://blog.aakash.me/index.php/2010/01/wp-likes-3-0-a-glimpse/ A very happy new year to all of you. 2009 was great, learnt many new things and good lessons of life. However the last month of 2009 was not so great . Got my elbow fractured + had university exams. There are a lot of things that need my attention- ... http://blog.aakash.me/index.php/2010/01/happy-new-year/ Ever wondered what have you been doing over the last few days, where the time is being spent on?  Well if you tweet a lot, this twitter tool can help you. TwitVerbs- http://twitverbs.appspot.com/ It gets the verbs from your tweets and lets you know when you have been doing what! Like when ... http://blog.aakash.me/index.php/2009/09/analyse-what-have-you-done-in-past-from-twitter-and-twitverbs/ I have been taking note of all the feedback posted by you guys for WP Likes intial 1.0 release. So with 2.0 I tried to fulfill most of your wishes. Here are the highlights of this release- Finally an admin panel to tweak common settings like- whether to display on front page / ... http://blog.aakash.me/index.php/2009/07/wp-likes-2-0/ Atlast I am able to port the  "likes" feature from facebook to this blog using only the wordpress API, no dirty hacks! Currently it allows visitors dropping by your blog to 'like' your posts if they find it interesting. Of  course only once, they can unlike it if the did so ... http://blog.aakash.me/index.php/2009/04/i-likes-this-and-so-does-wordpress/ [Windows Server 08] Recently I moved from joyent to a dedicated server at softlayer running Windows server 08, reason being my free trial with them was over. I had already done a lot of testing with a unix based server and wanted to try out windows server and IIS7. I have ... http://blog.aakash.me/index.php/2009/03/windows-server-08-iis-7-php-and-wordpress/ So how was my 3rd sem result? lots of people have been asking that. Have a look it yourselves- http://screencast.com/t/lqxIRc937 Today's a historical day in my life! For the first time in life I failed in an exam and that too not in one subject but 3. Will have to write ... http://blog.aakash.me/index.php/2009/02/back-the-backs/ Atlast I am on wordpress. feels great..lot more flexible.  I plan not to update the older blog at http://aakash-bapna.blogspot.com and continue over here. Hello WP! http://blog.aakash.me/index.php/2009/02/hello-world/