Binny is one of the very few social networking programmers I know of. Most of the programmers and coders that I know spend hours in front of the computer and have close to zero social life. But Binny is different in the fact that he attends almost every tech related camp in Kerala in spite of his busy programming schedule.
Binny is now on a mission to challenge himself by creating one plugin a day all this week. Thats about 5 plugins in this week, considering the fact that he does not like working on Saturday and Sunday.The contest already started off and so far he has given us these plugins
My cousin and I were trying to figure out ways to escape/reduce the problem of recession. Every person I have been talking to have worries over recession and especially those in IT related services.
They are a worried lot, with huge housing loans over their heads, with their net worth in the marriage market falling. These computer professionals are seeing an uncertain future.
But I think there are 5 ways you can actually benefit from a recession! Presenting TheAnand’s 5 ways to benefit from a recession.
Music does wonders to all of us. But can it help in boosting our productivity? I had sometime back stumbled upon on some article where the author said that jazz is the best companion for the freelance writer. Unfortunately I did not note the URL or the specifics of the article.
But since the start of this week, I have been trying out almost every variety of music out there and test my productivity with it. I initially started of with my own site which had some common genres of radio stations online. I hate playing music on the system since it limits the type of music you can listen to.
Finally after a rocking BlogCamp Kerala, its time for a BarCamp Kerala now. This is the third BarCamp in Kerala. For those you asking what is barcamp?
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants.
And as all BarCamps, this will be a unconference. Something that will go against every rule of a normal conference. No boring long speeches, no boring presentations and sit still talks. At unconferences you are supposed to:
Below are some of the ways which I think everyone should follow to get the their basics of SEO right.
Now Showing: SEO basics for the beginner newbie who just wants some traffic for his site a.k.a FREE Search Engine Optimization Tips.
Before starting off, some boring theory for you(boring, but essential):
Guess what I found when I searched for myself on Google?
Looks like Orkut is being integrated into google search results now. That is good news! Suppose I want to find any other blogger or a friend, I only need to do a google search with his name. Neat, but it seems that the results are personalized to the person signed in. Which means you will probably not see it when you do the same search unless I am in your friends list at orkut.
Blogging from Desktop Blog Editors are something you should consider using for all your blogs as they take blogging to an all new level of productivity and time saving.Desktop Blog Editors are already used by a lot of bloggers and they tend to make things easier for a lot of people.
So, do you use a blog editor apart from the ones on your wordpress blogging platform? 
Popular desktop based blogging softwares include Windows Live Writer, Post2Blog and some firefox based addons like performancing or flock browser based ones.
The possible advantages I can think about using these blog editors and tools are:
