My Blog has received around 900 page views for the last 7 days! Today I noticed that my blog is loading slow when I tried to post an article and upload some images. The blog was on a cPanel VPS. As you may already know, cPanel is a resource hog and hosting WordPress on a…Continue reading Just Moved My Blog To A Separate VPS Powered By Nginx Web Server
Category: Misc
Allow WordPress Contributor User to Upload Images.
I realized it that a WordPress user who has “Contributor” permission can not upload images to the post when I got a contributor account at our company’s official blog. WordPpress doesn’t have any option in it to give image upload permission for Contributor users. I found the same constrain when I invited one of my…Continue reading Allow WordPress Contributor User to Upload Images.
Annoyed With Ads On Webpages ? Try Adblock Plus!
I am sure many of you guys would have heard of Adblock Plus, a very useful plugin to FireFox and Chrome. However, I have seen quit a lot of friends who are not aware of such a useful plugin. This post is for them. Have you ever noticed ads on right side of the Google…Continue reading Annoyed With Ads On Webpages ? Try Adblock Plus!
Create Your Own Siri Conversation
Just found a new website that gives users an easy way to create fake Siri screenshots. iFakeSiri is made by the same folks as iFakeText, an iPhone text message generator. To generate your own funny conversations, goto the website, select your operator and post the conversation in the correct format. You will also be able…Continue reading Create Your Own Siri Conversation
Vivek’s Blog Gets A Custom and Unique Design
Guys, First of all, Thank you very much ‘Smitha Madhavan’ for persuading me to create a simple design for my personal blog by providing feedback in the perspective of a ‘lazy user’. Those great feedback made me design this template as simple as I can. I spent few hours searching for a simple WordPress templates…Continue reading Vivek’s Blog Gets A Custom and Unique Design
My Personal Website Gets a New and Unique Design!
At last I’ve managed to spend some time for revamping my personal website and come up with a new design. The designing process also helped me to understand more about CSS and jQuery I’d like to say many many thanks for my friends and colleagues who reviewed my new design and provided constructive feedback, especially…Continue reading My Personal Website Gets a New and Unique Design!
How to write a resume that talks about you!
Hello, It has been some months since I joined my new company and I forward them resumes of my friends who are so excited to join me in this great organization when I discussed with them about my experience here. Many of my friends have good technical skills, however I found that my company wasn’t…Continue reading How to write a resume that talks about you!
Git – The distributed VCS that makes a boom!
Version controlling is one of the main tasks in developing an application, no matter how big the application is. The developer will enjoy developing applications when file version control system (VCS) is used. The software life cycle consists of many phases. The major phases are “Integration†and “Maintenanceâ€. VCS is a solution for many problems…Continue reading Git – The distributed VCS that makes a boom!
Speed up your website using GZip Compression
Hi guys! Google and Yahoo! use Gzip compression for faster content delivery. Of course, you all guys know how fast google is . It is the webserver that enables the compression for web pages. Google uses its own web server. However, this can be achieved using Apache webserver as well. If you apply compression, the…Continue reading Speed up your website using GZip Compression
Custom Google Plus URL
Hey! If you want a custom Google+ URL with your own domain,like http://www.vivekv.com/+/about/ , all you have to do is to append this line in your .htaccess file. If you do not have a .htaccess file placed in your root directory ( mostly in public_html ) create one. Please note that this is applicable only…Continue reading Custom Google Plus URL