Nishanth Blog

Beware of automobile workshop near Technopark

2009-02-14T08:08:00.000-08:00

Last month my car had a problem with front left axel and went to a workshop near technopark called “Auto park”. The mechanic told me to change the axel and the axel cost around RS 2000. I agreed to this and left the car there. After 6-7 hr I got my car repaired and I paid my bill.

After 30- 40 days the same issue reappeared and I gain came back to “Auto park”. Axel has a warranty of 6 months. Unfortunately I lost the bill and they refused to change the axel without it. I thought that what they said is right. I showed the car to another workshop .This time I realized the real cheating. The replaced axel was a duplicate one which cost around RS 1000. Because the replaced axel was a duplicate one they can’t replace it. So please be careful 

Content grabbing problem with cURL

2008-12-17T20:47:00.000-08:00

Read this article on http://www.webringideas.com/web-development/esense-page-implementation-problem.html

Gantt Chart

2008-12-04T09:53:00.000-08:00

After a long break I started writing something in my blog. This time this is about a tool which recently I found from web.

As my life has started its transition from PHP programmer to managing projects I started looking for a tool through which we can manage project. Finally I found one Gantt chart based project scheduling and managing tool. I downloaded the tool from http://ganttproject.biz/ .

This is really a cool tool. We can export data in different formats like HTML,PDF, Image, Microsoft project file, CSV. Also we can import data in text files, Microsoft project file .This tool have the support for PERT charts. So I will say it’s a good choice.

One thing I like to have is the option to set color for the resources 

Jquery fade

2008-02-20T06:34:00.000-08:00

- 1)Rollover the box to stop fading
- 2)On mouseout the fading will start again
- 3)This is a simple script. Just include the js and call below script. Have fun :).

example:


$(document).ready(function(){  $(".fade").fademe({   speed: 1000,   timeout: 3000  });

Code:
Download fademe.js


jQuery.fn.fademe= function(options) {
  this.each(function(){
  var settings = {
   speed: 1000,
   timeout: 3000
   };
  if(options) {
   jQuery.extend(settings, options);
  }
  jQuery.fn.fademe.next(this,settings);
   $(this).hover(function(){jQuery.fn.stop()},function() {jQuery.fn.start(this,settings)})
  });
 }
 jQuery.fn.start=function(element,settings) {
  jQuery.fn.fademe.st =setTimeout(function() {jQuery.fn.fademe.next(element) } ,settings.timeout);
  return false;
 }
 jQuery.fn.stop=function() {
  clearTimeout(jQuery.fn.fademe.st);
  return false;
 }
 jQuery.fn.fademe.next=function(element,settings) {
  if($(element).children("li:visible:first").length) {
   obj=$(element).children("li:visible:first")
   $(obj).fadeOut(settings.speed,function() {
    $(this).hide();
    $($(obj).siblings().find($(obj).next("li"))[0]).fadeIn(settings.speed);
    if($(element).children("li:visible").length==0) {
     $(element).children("li:first").show();
    }
   } );
  }
  jQuery.fn.fademe.st =setTimeout( function() {jQuery.fn.fademe.next(element,settings) },settings.timeout);
 }

Jquery tool tip

2008-02-19T22:17:00.000-08:00

Read this article on http://www.webringideas.com/web-development/jquery-tool-tip.html

Test Credit Card Numbers

2008-02-07T07:09:00.000-08:00

American Express:378282246310005

American Express:371449635398431

American Express Corporate:378734493671000

Australian BankCard:5610591081018250

Diners Club:30569309025904

Diners Club:38520000023237

Discover:6011111111111117

Discover:6011000990139424

JCB:3530111333300000

JCB:3566002020360505

MasterCard:5555555555554444

MasterCard:5105105105105100

Visa:4111111111111111

Visa:4012888888881881

Visa:4222222222222

Dankort (PBS):76009244561

Dankort (PBS):5019717010103742

Switch/Solo (Paymentech):6331101999990016

Helpful information from PayPal

2008 new year party @ kovalam

2008-02-01T22:02:00.000-08:00

It was a rocking party on January 4th 2008. Almost all flippers joined the party except few. All reached beach by around 4 pm.
Hawa Beach was the destination.. It was a nice break from work and start of weekend. Everyone really enjoyed the party. We almost spent 3 hour in sea. We carried a volley ball. But what we played was not volley ball :).
By around 7 pm we had our dinner. What I liked in the dinner was Tiger prawn :).

Charlie's Angels

2007-08-08T08:36:00.000-07:00

Ash, veena and biji

Papanasam beach

2007-05-22T10:48:00.001-07:00

Nice view of varkala papanasam beach.This place is about 45 km from trivandrum and about 16 km from my home town :). I am a regular visitor of this place mainly at off season otherwise beach will be heavily crowded.Kaapil is another tourist destination near varkala, where you can find backwaters on one side of the road and the sea on the other side.

SEO Donts

2007-05-14T08:22:00.000-07:00

Outgoing links
Keep the outgoing links under 100 per page. Too many outgoing links will affect your page ranking.

Flash and Graphics
Search engines won't read flash movies and images so don't over-use either, and be sure each page has enough content to allow the SE's to decide what the page is about. Try to use keywords in "alt" tag for an image.

JavaScript links
Googlebot is not able to follow JavaScript links. If you use them just make sure you have alternative navigation using HTML links.

Single pixel links
Single pixel links are invisible for humans. These links is an attempt to manipulate search engines. So avoid such links.

Sessions
Google won't accept session cookies and will try avoiding URL based sessions.Use fewer parameters in you dynamic URLs and avoid use “id” parameter as Googlebot may think that is session ID.

Hidden text
You will be identified as spammer and banned from SERP’s, don’t use hidden text.

302 redirects
When a URL returns a 302 redirect, it means that the owner of this link asks users to continue to use this address as the redirect could be modified at some later time. The challenge for search engines is to allocate the content to the appropriate address. So try to avoid 302 redirects. When a page has been moved to a permanent new address, Google recommends to use a 301 redirect

One URL and differing content
Search engines get confused what the actual content of the page is. Try to avoid such pages

Cloaking
Cloaking is a search engine optimization method where you serve highly optimized page version to robots and a regular page to your visitors.These cloaked pages will not be indexed.

Duplicate content
Same content on several pages on the site can affect your PR.

Frames
Frames are very, very bad for SEO. Try to avoid them.

Dynamic URLs
Spiders prefer static URLs.Long dynamic URLs are really bad for SEO.Rewrite dynamic URLs to something more SEO-friendly.

Bad navigation
Your website must have a simple navigation. Make sure that Googlebot will be able to crawl your entire site.Most suitable place for navigation links are on the top of the pages since this makes it easy for your visitors and Googlebot to navigate through your site.

Submitting to FFA websites
Dont submit your website to free for all networks and pages (FFA). They may promise to provide a top ranking for your website, in which this will actually have a negative effect to your PR .

Automated link exchange networks
Don’t sign up to any automated link exchange networks

About My favourite Band

2007-05-09T03:58:00.000-07:00

I love this song.

Lyrics
Unknown man
Speaks to the world
Sucking your trust
A trap in every world
War for territory
War for territory

Choice control
Behind propaganda
Poor information
To manage your anger
Dictators speech
Blasting off your life
Rule to kill the urge
Dumb assholes speech
Years of fighting
Teaching my son
To believe in that man
Racist human being
Racist ground will live
Shame and regret
Of the pride
Youve once possessed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61yn5N5VksA

Using MSN’s API with VB.NET

2007-05-01T21:46:00.000-07:00

Open VS and then create a new VB.NET "Windows Forms" project.After creating the project add a reference to Interop.MessengerAPI.dll .

Import the Namespace
Imports MessengerAPI

Create an instance of MessengerClass
Public msn As New MessengerAPI.MessengerClass Public msnwindow As MessengerAPI.IMessengerWindow

Now all methods can be called directly. Here I used two textboxes one for email and one for password.

Sample code for Sign in
Try msnwindow = CType(msn.Window, MessengerAPI.IMessengerWindow) msn.Signin(CType(msnwindow.HWND, Integer), txtemail.Text, txtpassword.Text) Catch ex As Exception MsgBox(ex.Message) End Try

For MSN API events you can add your own handlers.

AddHandler msn.OnMyStatusChange, AddressOf msn_OnMyStatusChange


 Private Sub msn_OnMyStatusChange(ByVal hr As Integer, ByVal mMyStatus As MISTATUS)

  ' code to handle status change 
  End Sub

I like traveling

2007-04-27T11:11:00.000-07:00

These pictures are taken at Gudaloor , a nice place for a vacation. This place is near ooty and one of best in south India..

At gudaloor

2007-04-27T00:00:00.000-07:00

Finaly i got the cd.All pictures wich we took last year was in the cd.It was a nice trip to ooty.We realy enjoyed the two days. Its an must needed break from the work.

Trivandrum team with Iyad and Imthiaz

2007-03-23T22:46:00.000-07:00

Sunil and Pradeep

2007-03-23T22:43:00.000-07:00

Training on window

2007-03-23T22:38:00.000-07:00

Imthiaz

2007-03-20T01:13:00.000-07:00

Flip Trivandrum

2007-03-15T02:32:00.000-07:00

This is my first blog and i am starting with Flip Trivandrum because this is the place where i came to know about blogs.This picture is taken when Imthiaz visited Flip Trivandrum.