Category: Technology

Feed for Aamir Khan’s Blog 11

Feed for Aamir Khan’s Blog

http://feeds.feedburner.com/aamirkhan I am scrapping the html of Aamir Khan’s blog to create feed. I am using feedburner to reduce the load on my server. The scrapping script isn’t perfect yet. It doesn’t show date properly and doesn’t show number of comments. I am working on it will fix it very soon. As of...

Every Project Needs a Hero! 13

Every Project Needs a Hero!

A study by Standish Group reports 80% of the IT projects fail due to over budget, late, missing functionality or due to combination of these. Worse 30% of software projects are so poorly executed that they are canceled before completion. There are uncountable reasons for a project to fail and enough has been...

Simple mash of Twitter and Google Maps 3

Simple mash of Twitter and Google Maps

Got inspired by Twittervision mapping your tweets on Google Map. They don’t have a widget to put the map on your blog. Nevertheless I wouldn’t have used their widgets as they slow down the site. I hacked a piece of code in php/js to achieve the same on my site. Geo microformat L:lat,lan...

Every Quote About TATA’s Nano Almost 12

Every Quote About TATA’s Nano Almost

“We can not make a Rs one lakh car. Our engineers have said they cannot do it.” – Shinzo Nakanishi, MD Maruthi Suzuki India “Since, a promise is a promise the standard dealer version will cost Rs 1 lakh” – Ratan Tata releasing the Nano to the world An official of Hyundai Motors...

How to bypass IE warning messages when accessing an html file from local file system 14

How to bypass IE warning messages when accessing an html file from local file system

I usually code my HTML/JavaScript in a simple text editor like notepad++. I usually open it in IE ( Internet Explorer) or FF to test it. Firefox doesn’t have any problems in opening the local files. But IE doesn’t believe my local files. Every time I open a local html file using IE...

Bug Fix for Sortable Table – Sorting Date functionality 0

Bug Fix for Sortable Table – Sorting Date functionality

Sortable Table is a great javascript library for client side sorting of HTML table. Its under Apache 2.0 license so its very compatible. Recently I faced a bug when sorting date columns. It was not sorting the dates properly. After some debugging I got to know that the library assumes the date format...