Blogging a real career in 2010

Posted on March 25, 2010 by timani

The last thing that you may hear when you think of blogging is, “Hmmmm this could actually be a career.” According to the reliable wikipedia a blog is defined as,

A blog (a contraction of the term “web log“)^[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

So essentially is the act (continuous) of of creating new content and adding to your weblog with frequent posts. Now with that said there are a couple of questions that arise:

What does “Frequent” entail?
Why does how frequent i write matter? Continue reading →

jQuery & URL parameters

Posted on March 2, 2010 by timani

If you have ever had to work with PHP the luxury of becoming used to simple things like request parameter processing can be lost. Sometimes you have no alternative if you are working with a simple HTML file.

Hence comes in this nifty little jquery plugin, it allows you to grab parameters from the url and then process them accordingly. One way that this could be useful is if you wanted to detect a page state or to display or hide an element depending on the state.

You can download the plugin here and its also fairly light too which is good.

Here is an example of the source, its relatively short so i am posting it here and you can give it a try: Continue reading →