Post Tools Wordpress Plugin

9 November 2006 ⋅ 1 min read ⋅ programming

The second plugin for Wordpress — Post Tools — has just been deployed. It’s a very concise collection of methods for convenient fetching posts assigned to categories. For example, I use them to fetch three random quotations for the BlogBridge site front page. Other potential usage is selecting top N posts from a news or announcements category.

Overriding DNS or How to Hack Microsoft

9 October 2006 ⋅ 3 min read ⋅ programming tips

Today I would like to share one extremely useful tip on overriding DNS information. But first, how it may be useful. Let’s imagine that:

You are running a site and planning the migration to a different provider. You wish to move your data first; then switch the name to point to the new location and then leave the old one. The problem is that before you switch the domain name to your new location, you can only guess if the site is working fine or not.
You are building a site for someone else and need / wish to access it using its target domain name. It may be necessary if there are some places where you hard-coded it etc.
You wish to show your friends what a great hacker you are. You open your browser, type in the name of some gigantic site you’ve “just hacked” ( i.e. microsoft.com ). Voila… “Vasya was here.”

Dojo'ing My Way

13 September 2006 ⋅ 2 min read ⋅ programming

This week has started with learning very promising JavaScript toolkit — Dojo. Yeah, it’s been for some time on the stage, but I didn’t quite needed it until now. For the last couple of years I’ve been involved in extremely intensive development, and you know its name. Right, it’s BlogBridge. Mainly, we do some serious Java programming, but sometimes, and Feed Library is a great example, we switch to web development. This is the reason I’m trying to expand my horizons and learn something new in the area.