Bollywood gets blogging
May 15, 2008 at 6:20 pm | In General | No CommentsThe impact of the internet is so profound and enriching that people want to express themselves through the various ways. Bollywood stars are also not far behind ; the latest craze being Amitabh Bachchan’s blog. Besides the fact that I am a big fan of Mr Bachchan, I think, the blog idea is wonderful. Its a gateway to connect to your fans in a completely non intrusive way. Its way better than the chain mail fan club.
I hear that there are many other stars going blog crazy. Will scour around the place to find more, especially the ones where the ladies write 
Well this is where Amitabh blogs
Xobni for Outlook
May 9, 2008 at 11:38 am | In General | No Comments
Xobni is my pick of the plugins for Outlook. It manages your emails and does wonderful things. Just try it out with outlook and see the difference, I suggest people with full mailboxes to use this plugin to get organized easily. Click the link below to get Xobni
Xobni: Email organization, search, and navigation for your Outlook inbox
Using XMLRPC interface to WordPress and Blogger
March 21, 2008 at 4:44 pm | In General | No CommentsIm testing the XML-RPC interface to blog sites in order to buld a plugin to post blogs really fast. If this post is published on the blog then , it means Im one step away from finishing my plugin. Yaay!!
If you have developed a web application and want users to post to their blogs using your application, this is the way to do it. Its really simple. Here’s the library I tried. Its really simple and works well for Blogger, but in WordPress, the title of the post doesn’t appear. For wordpress, you can use the MetaWeblogAPI for XML_RPC. Just download the XML-RPC implementation in php from here and follow the instructions in this article. That should just about do it , dont you think ?
Oh and this thing took me less than 20 minutes to do
IT companies rating in India
November 25, 2007 at 3:20 pm | In General | No CommentsFound this pdf via Dataquest. Don’t really know if I can really post this, but what the hell, who am I killing ?
Pani Puri 2.0
July 3, 2007 at 3:34 pm | In General | No CommentsNote : I blog on my personal space at riteshnayak.com/blog . This is a mirror of the content.
Found this great presentation, which is one of the winners of the best presentations in the world, conducted by Guy Kawasaki. Read this post here to view some of the best presentations as judged by Guy. My choice was definitely Pani Puri , its been my staple and my way of life. I cannot imagine a life without it and to think it had a deep spiritual meaning attached to it is completely rewarding experience. Truly 2.0 !!
Back on the saddle
May 12, 2007 at 2:41 pm | In General | No CommentsHad a very refreshing vacation in India’s own Hawaii, aka Goa and am back after a good 5 day break. It was good staying away from technology for almost 6 days and it cetainly is a good feeling coming back to a full inbox and a fuller RSS reader. Wait for my post on my vacation in Goa - will write one soon, as for now back to tech-ing.
Making your first widget for Opera 9
April 23, 2007 at 10:46 pm | In General | No CommentsBarcamp Bangalore also had a session on widgets and their emergence
in the current internet scene. Opera is one of the pioneers in this
field with their support towards the current widget standards and also
its widget platform. What is a widget you ask?
A widget is a
small Web application, and making a widget is just like making a web
page, except it functions like an application and lives directly on
your desktop.
Step 1. Create a file named config.xml to give the widget a name and some dimensions.
<widget>
<widgetname> Hello World </widgetname>
<width>300</width>
<height>100</height>
</widget>
Step 2. create a file named index.html
<html>
<body><h1>Hello World </h1></body>
</html>
Step 3. create a zip file containing the newly
created config.xml and index.html at the root folder. You can open this
zip file inside Opera 9 to test your widget.
step 4. Upload your widget on widgets.opera.com and you are done!
Though this demo is stricly restricted to Opera, as the widget 1.0 standards is put into place, more browsers must be able to support this sort of a mechanism.
This is how your widget would look if styled properly. You can also visit http://my.opera.com/community/dev/widgets/ for more details
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I shifted, remember? so should you
April 17, 2007 at 5:45 pm | In Architecture - Design, Blogroll, Cool Web 2.0 Sites, D/w-BI-Analytics, General, Suggested Reading, Tips,Tricks and code, Web 2.0, Web News, gyaan, rant, socionets | 1 CommentI have moved my blog to my personal space but continue to mirror content here because there are many who still read this blog. I see a lot of feeds pointing to this blog rather than my new space. Please update your bookmarks and RSS subscriptions to my new space.
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Im moving ….. to my personal space
March 28, 2007 at 3:39 pm | In Architecture - Design, Blogroll, Cool Web 2.0 Sites, D/w-BI-Analytics, General, Tips,Tricks and code, Web 2.0, Web News, gyaan, rant, socionets | 2 CommentsIt was long due, but, finally I got my own domain riteshnayak.com and will blog there. I have installed wordpress on my server but couldn’t automatically redirect from here.
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I shall try and maintain both the blogs with common posts, but I cant promise anything with the amount of time I have left to blog.
Post Number 200
March 1, 2007 at 9:26 pm | In General | 1 CommentHey all, this is my 200th post and I thought this would be a great opportunity to acknowledge all those people who made this possible.
For starters, I definitely would like to thank WordPress, my blogging framework, their wonderful software was what inspired me to write more. I just love wordpress and would recommend anyone who wishes to blog to come onto it and check it out.
Next in my list would be all those people who inspired me to write, I am not going to quote best selling authors here, but some of my motivators include Om Malik, Mike Arrington , Alex Russel and of course Ajaxian. These are some of the people I just cant live without.
I would also like to thank P, for dutifully reading my blogs and pointing out mistakes and drawbacks, she is someone whose expectations I can never live up to I would also like to thank my workmates Ash, Saha and Prabhat who have dutifully been listening to me Rant about things before I write about them.
Blogging to me started as a way of assimilating a repository of information that I kept learning over the net. More as a reference to things that I could look up when I needed to. Now its become a part of my existence, many know me through my blogs and I guess its just a part of my identity. Thanks for all the hits 
and keep reading .
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