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If you are looking for a way to show live scores on your blog and/or website then try this Cricket Live Score Widget at widgetbox.
The widget shows all IPL Live Scores and is very easy to use.
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Windows Live Writer is my prefered blog authoring and publishing tool, same for lot of people out there.
It is quiet easy to compose and post using Windows Live Writer and I have been doing that for sometime for my WordPress blogs. But for one new site I am using Drupal for the first time and I wanted to configure Windows Live Writer to post “stories”, “pages”, “forum topics” and “blog posts” but there are several small little details which made it a trial and error exercise to configure Drupal to allow me to post all the above mentioned items.
In this post I will document step by step process to go about configuring Windows Live Writer (WLW) to post to Drupal.
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Loads of widgets, integration with third party tools using JavaScript APIs, high performance AJAX. All this is causing sites to slow down. Factors which nobody cared about, now need to be looked into to ensure that the site loads faster.
I will present some optimization techniques in several easy to use and understand categories. This will allow you to pick and choose one category and focus on it at any one time.
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There are several ways to combine multiple feeds into one and publish the aggregated feed.
In this post I am going to discuss two ways to do that and list out advantages and disadvantages associated with each.
The two very popular tools which allow you to aggregate feeds are:
Here is a video which demonstrates how to combine multiple RSS feeds into one using Yahoo Pipes and then subscribe to the combined feed:
Feedburner Network allows you to create a network of blogs using the RSS feeds for those blogs. It is a very effective tool to create a blog group based on certain themes. This blog is part of two Feedburner networks: India Technology Bloggers and Blogaloreans. If you have a Feedburner account (if you don’t you can create it free), you can create a network or search for a network and join it:
Here is the FAQ page on Feedburner Networks for those interested.
Yahoo Pipes are useful if you have multiple feeds of your own and you just want to combine them and publish a single feed. Yahoo pipes allows you to make your feed available for various feed readers, subscribe by phone and email. The thing which is lacking is the lack of support for monetization and marketing tools to support you leverage your aggregated feed. These are standard with any Feedburner network.
Feedburner Network is best used when it bring together multiple bloggers around a central theme. It allows you to easily market/publicize your network feed using host of tools like Feedflare, chicklets, member badge etc.
You can always combine multiple feeds into one using Yahoo pipes and then create a feed or join a Feedburner network using that Yahoo pipes aggregated feed!
Let me know of other ways you have combined your feeds.
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I installed Wordpress 2.2 version on a new blog of mine on Indian Real Estate sometime back and was trying to add a Sitemap page to it today.
I added the Sitemap page and it gave a 404 error (page not found). My permalink structure was set to “Date and name based”. I switched to “Default” permalink structure and the page would come up. I needed the “Date and name based” option (useful from SEO point of view) to work for me though.
I was looking at the page options (from the admin interface) and tweaked around the “Page Slug” option and named sitemap-propertysamachar instead of sitemap.
Viola! the page started coming up.
I hope this helps people who ran into this issue. If anyone knows why this would happen, then please leave a comment here.
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With web applications pushing the technology to the limits, memory leak issues have gained prominence and need to be dealt with.
To begin with let me clarify that memory leaks are not restricted to Internet Explorer but it can happen in any browser. We are talking primarily about IE as over the course of my time, I have found it to cause this issue more often than any other browser.
Memory leak is a condition where your web application keeps consuming more and more memory as you keep navigating or refreshing. This causes decrease in responsiveness of the application and in situations can crash the browser itself.
Justin Rogers, a Microsoft employee, discusses in detail the patterns of memory leak in his article titled Understanding and Solving Internet Explorer Leak Patterns.
Please read Memory Leak in Internet Explorer - revisited which has code samples for you to try out and see for yourself.
Drip, a memory leak detector for Internet Explorer, is a free open source tool available for download here.
It is an executable which can be downloaded and run directly.
(you can see in the graph above for www.Microsoft.com site that IE is continuously consuming more and more memory)
Start the application and enter the URL of the site you want to monitor. Click the “Auto Refresh” button. It will keep refreshing the site and plot the memory graph at the bottom.
There is a screencast on Diagnosing JavaScript Memory Leaks in IE which might be useful resource to start with.
Drip Home Page | Download Drip
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With increasing use of Ajax, lot of data is rendered using JavaScript and even though you have a friendly “Loading …” message for the user, it is a must to render the content fast. This is applicable even to sites which do not use Ajax but have images on them.
Recently I was working on developing a Google Maps tool which renders lot of content (including images) on the page using JavaScript. Performance was a big issue and one of the things we looked at was compressing the images for the icons.
The tool which we used was http://www.giftools.com/gifcompress.html (GifTools).
It is an online tool to which you can hand the URL of any gif image and it will give you a compressed version of the gif image.
On icons we achieved more than 50% reduction in size (remember icons are small and you can compromise on the quality of the icon without much impact visibly for the user).
The original size was around 1044 bytes which got reduced to 398 bytes.
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For any browser on any machine which I own, the first thing I install is the Google Toolbar. It is a very useful tool and I like to search directly from there as well as monitor various sites, my Gmail, my Google bookmarks and of course PageRank for web sites.
Google toolbar is being used by millions of individuals all over the world. By allowing people to access your web site’s RSS feed through a button on Google toolbar, you are giving your site the ability to be exposed to millions.
I will show you a very easy step by step way to create a simple Google Toolbar button which will allow users to view your web site content. It uses your RSS feed as the source of data (People who do not know about RSS, please visit Wikipedia to know more about it).
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