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Diovo Technology Blog
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This blog will primarily feature technology stuff. But, there are no clear-cut bounadres for subjects diovo will deal with. You can expect things like: Design, Usability, Development, Security etc.
Recent Posts
Geocities won’t be missed
Yahoo!’s shutting down of geocities made news for the past couple of months. Even thought the sweet memories of starting our very first pages in geocities will be lurking around for a long time, I think we are not going to miss geocities much. ...
Why do we Startup?
Did you know that 9 out of 10 startups fail? We are talking about the serious startups. In the not-so-serious type, almost all of them fail. So still why do I want to start a startup? In the grand scheme of things, it does not matter whether I suc...
Recursion & bad examples
If you ask a typical computer science graduate from Kerala to write a program to print the nth Fibonacci number, most of them* will invariably give you the following function: int fibonacci (int n){ if(n<2){ return n; }else{ ...
Fine-tuning the StackOverflow theme
Being a regular user of StackOverflow, I was constantly being haunted by some of the small design issues in the website. Look at the screenshot below (click to enlarge): I have this problem that I get really confused when visiting websites with a lo...
Using sessions in WordPress
WordPress does not use sessions to hold data. It is a stateless application. This means that if you want to use sessions in your plugins or custom modifications of WordPress, you may need to do a little hack to enable sessions. Edit your wp-config....
How to defend against Yahoo! Slurp
I was going through the logs of my web server for the last month and was shocked to see that a whopping 22.93% of the total bandwidth of a particular website of mine was used by the Yahoo crawler called Slurp (I should have known better, given the...
