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My online “test community” is now up!

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Hey everybody! My “Web 2.0 style” online test community is now up. Please feel free to check it out & share any feedback you may have. Thanks a bunch!

“International Kevin Appreciation Day”

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Have you hugged a Kevin today?

Yes that’s right, I have decided to be audacious and pompous enough to declare today, March 16 as “International Kevin Appreciation Day”! :p A day ahead of St. Patrick’s Day (which you have probably heard of :D ), I just thought I would take this brief (and albeit light-hearted) opportunity to tell you that, in my humble, though biased opinion, I have to say that Kevins in general kick ass, are cool, and are true (primarily) to the original Celtic roots of their name, which stems from the ancient Gaelic word “caoin,” meaning “tender, gentle, and kind….”

So, on that note, I return you to your “regular programming,” and I wish all of you a very happy and lucky St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow! :-D .

[images obtained from this site]

WordPress plugins and widgets

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

I will make some WordPress plugins and widgets, and already thinking of possibly using them to “plug in” some of the aspects of my app dev work in various capacities, if site requirements call for it or could use it ;) .

Modified a couple of Twitter list titles I follow

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Changed the titles of a couple of Twitter lists I follow:

Changed “Web Designers” to Web/Graphic Designers; changed “Social Media” to Social Media/Tech News.

How to log out a user who closes the browser window

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

I would like to thank Brazilian software developer Daniel Melo for posting this code which helped me to solve a problem which was very pesky indeed, and in need of a solution. The problem occurred during a user’s logged-in session for a chat application I was building. This was the issue: the app is basically a live-chat client, which also shows all current users online, by name. If a logged-in user clicked the “Logout” link, all was good, no problem, his/her name was removed from the list of currently logged-on users. However, if the person just suddenly decided to end the chat session by just closing the browser and hitting ‘X’ (as I myself might do!), the user was still showing as currently online, and NOT logged out (obviously this is an annoying issue). (more…)