Suprglu is a kewl way to piece your web together.
I have done mine at http://mjuneja.suprglu.com/
Category: software
bookmark_borderwebDAV
I wonder why i had not known about webDAV, though it has been around for so long. I needed to have the capability to create a document in word and save it directly to a remote server. The solution i had in mind was to use smb/cifs [samba, in this case]. Then a new requirement cropped up, the file was to be stored in a database on the remote server and not in the file server. That meant I had to write my own smb server, which would get the file from word and save it to a database. I was about to start working on this, when i discovered webDAV.
Smb/cifs has a lot of legacy, while webDAV is nascent and promising. And since webDAV is based or rather an extension of HTTP, I decided to try it.
WebDAV made my task very easy, thanks to microsoft for implementing webFolders.
Now i am planning to move most of my documents that i access from multiple location online, and access them via webDAV.
Read more about webDAV at http://www.webdav.org
bookmark_borderRuby on Rails
It took me ten minutes flat to get my first mini application running. A basic screen to view and edit a database table content using a browser. Much of it was done by the code generating scripts that come with RoR. I still have to explore the more involved features…. have heard a lot about RoR’s unit testing features and… will check it out soon.
bookmark_borderhow do you read blogs?
As the number of blogs that i read daily increased I tried using a RSS2IMAP tool to read the blogs. But it was very unmanageable and used to clutter my outlook. Later I discovered bloglines. It is very convenient and has a lot of very useful features.
Now i never miss a post and do not have to have any software running on my own pc for it.
bookmark_borderGoogle Launches Sitemaps beta
Google’s Sitemap beta.
It is something similar to the ping service provided by most of the blogging softwares.
So if you have a site make sure to add a sitemap to help google crawl all the pages. You can use Sitemap Generator to create a sitemap and submit to google. Read more about it at the sitemap faq.
This particular line from the faq caught my attention:
We don’t guarantee that we’ll crawl or index all of your URLs. However, we use the data in your Sitemap to learn about your site’s structure, which will allow us to improve our crawler schedule and do a better job crawling your site in the future. In most cases, webmasters will benefit from Sitemap submission, and in no case will you be penalized for it.