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That would be one AMAZING thing Specially if you still retain all the KNOWLEDGE you gained in your last life. That'd allow you to build up on it and take yourself to new heights ..instead of starting from scratch all over again as a new-born.

A bit of self advertising I've been dabbling in WordPress plug-ins for a while now and have successively come up with quite a few. Here's the list so far. If you find them useful, feel free to grab them off my site and use in your own blog. Some of them are Sidebar Widgets, which means you'll need a widget enabled theme for WordPress. The others are simple plug-ins meant to perform other tasks. Here's the list... GARR (Google AdSense Referral Rotator) - A sidebar widget, this sits in your WP sidebar and keeps displaying random AdSense Referral buttons (as per your settings) upon every page-load. curreX: AJAX based Currency Converter - Another sidebar widget which can be really useful for those who run Foreign Exchange / Banking related blogs. This little tool takes an amount as input along with source and destination currency units and provides you with the converted rate. The exchange rates are fetched on-the-fly from Yahoo! Finance making the conversions dead-acurate. Unitary: AJAX based Units Converter - Yet another sidebar widget that can be serve as an invaluable addition to scientific blogs. This one converts between thousands of units of Length, Area, Volume, Speed, Weight / Mass etc. It's designed in a similar fashion as the last widget - both looks and functionality wise. TailHitter: A cool plug-in that automatically inserts HitTail Tracking Code in each of your blog posts and pages. For those who didn't know, HitTail is a service similar to Google Analytics but with a twist. HitTail keeps track of ONLY the hits you get through major search engines and builds up a long list of "recommended keywords" around which you can build / fine-tune your content to draw further traffic. LiveSig: Most ardent bloggers are surely aware of Lorelle on WordPress which is one of the most valuable resources on the net on WordPress and blogging in general. Her signature has always stood out as a beautiful example of calligraphy and adds a different dimension to her blog by effortlessly imbibing that much-needed "personal touch" to all her posts. The signature in question has intrigued me since I came upon her blog quite sometime back and I've wanted one of my own ever since. MyLiveSignature is a cool new service that enables you to create such a signature for yourself online and for FREE. Consequently, came LiveSig - my brand new plug-in which inserts such a signature right after each of your blog posts. That's it for now... more to come soon Feedbacks & Comments will be much appreciated. Cheers, m^e

The title says it all - am hunting for a freeware tool that'd allow me to search a BLOCK of text (as opposed to a line of text in most editors) across multiple files and replace it in all those files. Has anyone come across such a tool. I Googled and found a few paid ones and even gave a try to their trial versions - but all of them seemed buggy and ill-designed. It'll be really great if someone can suggest such a tool. Regards, m^e

Hey guys, I've been working on a AJAX powered CMS for quite a while now. Am done with most of the important aspects - except one, i.e. plug-ins. I've studied how apps like WordPress utilise API Hooks to add in plug-ins (hooks offer various injection points in the main CMS's code, where a plug-in can inject it's own code).What I couldn't figure out is how to create one. Anyone here done this before? Can you gimme some examples or guide me to some tutorials on doing this?Thanks,m^e

Dunno about the Kontera ads - but I did find a solution that suits my purpose well, i.e. to create Modal Pop-up boxes using CSS and some JS. There's a short tutorial which shows you how to do it pretty well... Here you go: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

The post title summarises my query - how do I create pop-up windows that are embedded inside a page? Broadly, there are two kinds of JavaScript pop-ups.. one is that ultra annoying one, which pops out a new instance of a browser window and displays something there (usually an ad) - made infamous by all the warez and porn sites. Second one, which has come to be quite well-known of late is the kind you see in recent versions of WordPress (in the Visual Editor) as well as LightBox based galleries. Here a small window (or rather a div) pops-up embedded in the middle of the page. It's a floating div that can be dragged around anywhere. A similar notification window can be sighted even in the recent versions of IPB when you receive a new PM. This is exactly what I want to create - but I dont have no clue how to go about it. I tried searching for "embedded" "pop-up" etc. but always got tutorials for silly JS popup windows...Can anyone help shed light on this? And don't ask me to study the lightbox code - I already did. But my JS is so pathetic I couldn't do much with it. If you can point me to a good tutorial that shows you how to do this it'll be great ;)Cheers,m^e

You can do it on your own. In the top menu of this board, in the drop-down under Free Web Hosting, you'll find an option called Change Domain. This will cost you 15 credits though. All you need to do is visit that page, enter your forum username & password and the new domain name and hit Submit.

WB !! Good to see you around again

True. This has me confused too. As far as I know the enum keyword hasn't been deprecated from any of the supporting languages and nor are there any signs of being so. An enumeration list if used wisely, is by far one of the most useful tricks in a coders bag. However, a lot of the recent OOP based languages have introduced similar named classes that somewhat behave the same way as simple variable identifiers, with added enhancements. For example, in .NET string is a variable type declarator. Syntax: string myString; At the same time there exists a class called String, which you can use in a similar fashion.Syntax: String myString;myString = new String(); In the second case a lot of member functions are available under the String class with which you can do some cool stuff with the string stored in the class. I believe in your example, Enumeration is also a class that helps you build enumeration lists just like enum but provides additional iterative methods like hasMoreElements() & nextElement() which wouldn't be available to an enum list under normal circumstances. What baffles me is the use of enum as a variable name . I don't see how that is possible. enum I believe is still a reserved keyword. I'll see if I can find an explanation for this. In the meantime if you come across any, do write back. It'll be interesting to know how this works out.

Was away for a coupla days.. just came backLet me work on the ideas you guys have suggested and see if I can spot the problem..Regards,m^e

Hey guys, I've been working on a AJAX based CMS for a client for the last few days and am in the final stages of deployment. I've run into a slight problem here. The site is supposed to be in Norwegian. The back-end uses the tinyMCE editor for adding in content, which is stored in MySQL. Now this presents no problem at all and the content is displayed just fine in the browser.. Problem arises when it comes to the site menu. It is a drop-down menu script from DynamicDrive, which reads off the menu items the same way from MySQL as the content and builds up the menus dynamically.. this is where it's messing up. The Norwegian characters in the menus are not being displayed properly.. in most cases, you can see that ugly "?" which turn up when your browser / page-encoding doesn't cover the displayed character set. Now it can't be a problem with MySQL coz all these fields are declare utf8_general_ci. Also when I send in the page headers, I made sure to send in.. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> .. so that the page encoding is set right. What baffles me is WHY the content should appear fine and NOT the menu items !! You can take a look at the demo site here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Any ideas how to fix this? Cheers, m^e

BTW. I did the widget upgrade on WP 2.1 - and I didn't face any of the problem u described above. Could it be an issue with another WP version ?

Aha.. thanks for the heads up

I've been scanning through a whole lot of blogs these days and quite often I come across really interesting tidbits from all around the net.. here's a recent discovery called Ajaxload.info. If you're implementing ajax scripts in your site and was to show those funky animated loading indicators instead of a vanilla "Please wait... loading" message, then this is the site for you... Here's my review from my site: Read the full feature...

If you ask me - I'd recommend you to use BitDefender.. my personal favourite for past 3 years. It's pretty cheap compared to many of the major / well-known AVs with a way better virus detection engine. Also far less resource hungry than the likes of Norton. It's been topping the list on Top Ten Antivirus Review for past 3 years consecutively. In case you don't want to pay for it, version 8 of the product has been declared FREEWARE and can be downloaded from the official Bitdefender Site.

I just came across this great free DNS service called OpenDNS which can prove to be an effective solution for all those broadband users suffering from high address resolution latency. For most part our own ISP's DNS Servers are pretty much ill-configured and in my case gives up on me quite often. Here's an excerpt from my article at Chaos Lab.. Read the full feature...

We have an existing credit transaction system like that in place. However, you cannot purchase credits for money - instead supposing someone has a severe computer related problem and wants an immediate solution (without waiting for the forum members to reply at their own pace) he/she can offer a certain Credit Reward to anyone who can help that person out. The most eligible recipient is decided by the person who announces the reward. However to guarantee the safeguard of the recipient, the announcer must transfer the credits reserved for the award to our credits bank. In short, we act as an escrow service in such cases. Once the announcer has managed to solve his/her problem the credits are transfered by us to the recipient.

According to recent new updates on InformationWeek, a moderate sized Denial of Service (DoS) attack which in all probability originated in South Kora, nearly took down 3 of the 13 Root Nameservers that collaborate and manage the internet traffic worldwide. When a single company is the target of a DoS, it hurts only that particular company. However, a DoS attack on the root servers mean attacking the very core of the internet infrastructure and can take down the substantial parts of the net in one go. Fortunately for us, those three servers were heavily strained, but managed to withhold from being snubbed out completely. According to Ben Petro, a senior vice president of NeuStar (one of the companies which manages one of the root servers), the servers had almost reached their "pivotal point". The main attack hit the roots at 5:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, and reached its maximum sustained traffic at 7 a.m. It started to subside around 10:30 that morning and was still going on -- though rather weakly -- at 7 p.m. Tuesday. What saved the day, according to Petro were the warning signs which came early on Monday night, between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. in form of a small-scale denial of service attack. Most likely the attackers were testing out their targets. Read the full article...

Yup.. it's one mother of a handy tool. I'm thoroughly enjoying it.. and using it is so simple once you get adjusted to the IM based interface. Albeit it's a far departure from your standard point & click interface, but considering the fact how fast your job is done, it's well worth it. Anyways, we spend a whole lot of useless key-clicks on talking utter nonsense with out buddies on our IMs - why not devote a couple to getting some actual work done??

Niru: This seems to be an internal problem with the MySQL database server at Xisto and has got nothing to do with your own site. I've been getting a lot of complaints from various members. The tech-support has been informed.. so it should be a matter of a short while before it's rectified. Please bear with us till then.. ;)Regards,m^e

Guys... you HAVE to try this service and see for youself. It's simply terrific. I'll quote my review on it from ChaosLab. Read the full feature.

GWT is really powerful no doubt - but to easily bypass all the browser compatibility issue and repeated cross-browser coding required for AJAX, you could use the easily implementable and lightweight JavaScript library called Prototype. With Prototype, you hardly need to know the inner workings of AJAX.. all the required functions are pre-coded into it. All you need to do is create a new Prototype AJAX object and pass it the required parameters. Further details on Prototype can be found here: http://prototypejs.org/

I just came upon this site called i6networks who're providing free web-hosting with some amazing bandwidth and diskspace. They offer you 5GB Disk-Space and a monthly bandwidth of 1 TerraByte. Yup .. you heard me right. It's cPanel based hosting with the usual assortment of pre-installed scripts as we provide at Asta. No Ads either !! There's a catch though - not anyone and everyone can get hosting. You're supposed to have an established site which is into at least 2 months of operation. That's their only criteria. If you meet that, they're willing to host your site on their servers for free. What eludes me is that... a person who's seeking hosting space in the first place wouldn't be eligible for their hosting anyways... and someone who's got a site a couple of months old and established decent reputation wouldn't really want to shift over with lock, stock & barrel unless he/she is really greedy and eyeing that much of diskspace and bandwidth. Secondly, new sites wouldn't have bandwidth requirements like that anyways.... and larger sites who really have that kind of requirement wouldn't wanna take up the immense headache of shifting & consequent configuration/downtimes either... What say you? It'll be great if someone can actually provide us with a review of their services.. Cheers, m^e

Thank you for the vote of confidence in us and as always ... have a thoroughly enjoyable stay.

Thanks guys for rolling it off...turbopowerdmaxsteel: It'd be convenient if you can provide me with the WHOLE Search String and not just the keyword variable passed to it.Anybody else with Search Strings for stuff like XOOPS, Plone, Drupal etc. ?