Tech Force One is my web log related to technologies, I use day to day.
Multi-User Blogging »
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- I recently set up a multi-user blogging software, for one of my clients. I googled for a while and came across a useful article, comparing Drupal and WordPress MU. I chose WordPress MU because I wanted some thing quick and with lot of features. WordPress MU installation was a breeze. I then add few themes and plugins. AdSense Manager was very easy to configure and Google Ads started showing up within minutes.
I had an issue creating sub-domains. I am using a shared account at Host Gator. I am not sure if I can use the script found here to dynamically create sub-domains, for every blog. For now, each blog is pointing to a sub-folder. For example: http://domain.com/blog1 instead of http://blog1.domain.com, which would have been much cooler.
I also found that some WordPress themes, like Stardust, are not compatible with WordPress MU.
Open Handset Alliance gains 14 new members »
14 new members join the Google’s Open Handset Alliance (OHA) to develop/ use Android. You can get the latest list of members here. Don’t expect to see Nokia there…yet. However, I do believe that Nokia too will join OHA, albeit little late. The new members include big players like Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, Asus and others. I am sure Android will make good progress rapidly.
Nokia completes Symbian acquisition »
Symbian is the most widely used smart phone OS. Nokia acquired Symbian so that it can open source the OS. 2008 has been a good year for mobile phone developers. With the iPhone SDK, Android and now with the Nokia announcement, we have a good choice of mobile platforms to develop applications. The mobile hardware too is getting better, the new Nokia N97 can support upto 48 GB of storage, WLAN, 5MP Camera, 16:9 widescreen and lot more features.
While talking about Nokia, also check out OVi
Good Site for Web Design and Development »
Check out Six Revisions. It has pretty useful articles on UI design.
Firefox Extensions for Web Developers and Designers »
Click here for some nice firefox extensions that you would need to make things easy during web development process. I use Firebug, Web Developer, MeasureIt and Colorzilla. Of course, FireFTP is a great choice for FTP.
Mono 2.0 released »
Mono 2.0 has been released! For some of you who don’t know much about Mono, it is a cross-platform, open-source, .Net development framework. Simply put, we can now also code applications using .Net Framework on Mac and Linux.
