Back to Coventry
April 7th, 2006 // 8:04 am @ Amar
My holidays are finally over. Will be travelling back to Coventry tomorrow. Hopefully from next week, I will be able to write more regularly. With the Office 12 NDA partly lifted, I will try to write a bit about the new revolutionary Office.
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Where have I been
March 15th, 2006 // 7:03 pm @ Amar
I know I have been silent for sometime. I had taken my annual leave and had travelled to my home in India. Am currently sitting at my home and relaxing a bit and enjoying some very well deserved time off.
Won’t be working in SharePoint for a month, and that will get me some good time to mess around with VS2005 and .NET 2.0. So you can guess what I will be blogging about for a month 
I also have to complete some pending post series and will do them in a few days. But will try my best to keep some quality content coming your way.
Category : General
Ray Ozzie on Clipboard for the Web
March 8th, 2006 // 2:03 pm @ Amar
We are so used to Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V in working with any application. But we never wondered why we could not do that in web application. We made do with the standard text copy paste features of the browser.
Ray Ozzie showcased a new live clipboard in the O’Reilly eTech conference which is pretty neat and cool. Frank Gruber of Somewhat Frank has some concerns about a need of standard datastructures to support this initiative. I completely agree with him.
Now all we need is a standardised way of implementing this so that it is not just limited to a single application but can be a truly independent web clipboard capable of sharing data between web applications irrespective of the codebase behind the clipboard feature. The worst case would be that we all start taking this concept and implementing it in our applications in innumerable different incompatible ways. It would be great if Microsoft releases a standard set of functions or at least minimum inter-operability requirements within the next few days, before people start coming up with thier own independent ways. We should be able to extend and implement it as we want, but some base features should be decided upon for everyone’s benefit.
Read the original post by Ray. Also there is a simple web based demo which you can try to check out this cool feature.
Category : General
Websense blocked my site
March 1st, 2006 // 8:03 pm @ Amar
Recently I was unable to access my blog from work as Websense classified it as Adult content. I was pretty surprised by this and tried to find out what happened, as this will essentially block my site from all my readers who are using Websense.
I submitted my site using their Suggest a URL Category Change link and they replied after 24 hours saying that my request has been processed. According to Websense, as my website in on a shared host ( Yahoo Hosting), one of the sites on that IP had been categorized as Adult Content and so all websites from that IP had been blocked. They also mentioned that the new category will be updated in the next database refresh.
I was not sure when this refresh will happen, and was getting worried if this will happen after a month or so, but thankfully, after 2 days, I was able to access my site from my office, hence indicating that the database refresh had taken place. I did find them a bit late in replying to mails, but overall impressed by their turnover time.
The thing which worries me is that why would Yahoo Hosting host my site on the same IP as an adult content site? Ideally they should have been hosting seperately as they are bound to get other sites blocked or blacklisted. If yahoo is not doing so, then I believe Websense algorithm is in a bit paranoid mode, and classifying all new sites it finds as adult to be safe till someone reviews it. Which is not a good thing to do.
Anyways all’s well that ends well. My site is accessible again so no complaints. But am a bit worried about other web filtering companies which I am not aware of and may be blocking my site from many potentials readers. And there is no way for me to find out till someone mails me or till I access my site from those systems.
Category : General
Blog Configuration progress
February 20th, 2006 // 3:21 pm @ Amar
I have decided to halt the configuration process till I hear something back from Yahoo about the permalinks not working. Lets see what they say.
Will be migrating content from my other blogs to this blog next. Instead of migrating all the posts, I will try and copy paste selected posts.
Category : General
WordPress problems on Yahoo
February 17th, 2006 // 1:02 pm @ Amar
I am back to my original blog settings after undoing all I did for the permalink and tags. Seems like, Yahoo is not liking me to edit my .htaccess file using wordpress. It keeps reverting it back to blank. So I am unable to set a url rewrite for category pages, and yahoo gives a page not found error if I choose any format of permalink except the default one. So for now I have rolled back to the default permalink structure which I am not very happy about.
Ultimate Tag warrior is also not working properly. On a force reinstall, it gives Access denied for user ‘
Maybe it is just a wordpress bug or something else. But will wait a bit till I decide what to do. Will send another mail to Yahoo Hosting now.
Category : General
Hello World!
February 16th, 2006 // 7:00 pm @ Amar
Hello everyone. As this is my first post on this site, I will just give a short introduction for a start. I am a geek who loves computers, books, photography, and travelling. I have a blog at www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/amar for a long time now. Been deciding to make the move to a different blogging service or host my own blog for sometime and started to evaluate various blogging systems. After looking at various options, I did find WordPress to be the best overall blogging software, and to my joy, WordPress was accepting invitations to create a blog on this site, but I found that experience very restrictive. I did find WordPress very good and hence decided that it was time I moved on to my own domain. So here we are.
Hope all of you will find my blog and writing interesting. Now I am off to setting up and configuring this blog Will migrate some of my good posts in the coming days.
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