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Karnataka Assembly Elections

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Today is the polling day for Karnataka state Assembly elections. India is the largest democratic country in the world. It is important for every citizen to participate in the process of electing their representative. Though India is one of the most corrupted countries in the world, we need to play an important role in changing that view. That change should start from each of us. Think and choose the person who has a big picture of your constituency. All our family members have casted our votes … Read more… about Karnataka Assembly Elections

Camel ride in Bangalore

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Its a hot summer outside. Bangaloreans are afraid to go out in the day time though it rained in past couple of evenings. Temperature is certainly ever raising year after year. Blame it on global warming, pollution, green house effect or whatever you feel like, but that is the reality. Before I go on to write another article on ecological imbalance, let me get back to the topic title. Camels are pretty common on Bangalore roads nowadays, not as a mode of transport :) However they are on roads … Read more… about Camel ride in Bangalore

WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5

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It is time for another WordPress Plugin Competition. This is good for the open source community. I am sure there will be a number of new hacks to better the wordpress blogging experience. If you wish to participate in this competition, check our more info on this here. Though the competition is going to run for 2 whole months, to develop a plugin hack, it shouldn't take more than a day work. And again, it depends on the complexity of the plugin you plan to develop. I am looking forward for this … Read more… about WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5

WordPress Coding

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In the wordpress 2.5 and above versions, comments author URL opens up in the same window. This could possibly make your blog reader to get away to other sites. If you want it to be opened up in new window, you need to make the following code changes. Look for this file : ../wp-includes/comment-template.php and take a look at the piece of code which is mentioned as below. function get_comment_author_link() { $url = get_comment_author_url(); $author = get_comment_author(); if ( empty( $url … Read more… about WordPress Coding

Random quotes

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I have included the code to display random quotes on this blog. See it at the top of left side bar. Everytime you click on a new page link within this blog, the already stored quote gets displayed here randomly. So far, I have added about 50 such quotes to the database. If you wish to contribute to the repository I am having, feel free to post the quotes in the form of a comment along with the quote author if available. I assure you to have your quote displayed here on my blog :) Happy reading … Read more… about Random quotes