Ajay - On the Road called Life!

After I specified my stand on sponsored themes, woke up this morning to read another aspect that we plugin authors do not receive, the link love that theme authors get, except for a few plugins.
Are you a plugin author? What do you feel about this issue?

The blogosphere has been abuzz with talks about sponsored WordPress themes. WLTC’s Mark took a stand on the listing of sponsored themes at WLTC. While WLTC will continue listing sponsored themes, these will be clearly marked.
Today Matt Mullenweg made his stand clear about the same in a guest post at WLTC.
He also started a WordPress [...]

Well, I’m pleased that my post popular release ever, the now famous Snap Preview Anywhere Plugin has crossed 10000 downloads.
As of this post the number stands at 10076 which means nearly 3300 downloads of v1.2 itself in the last 45 or so days.
Do you have SPA on your blog? What are your reactions to it?

Browsers are equipped to serve compressed pages. Most hosts too have mod_gzip or zlib extensions installed to ensure you can avail of these features.
Compression ensures that your browser receives a smaller packet and so you effectively save bandwidth.
WordPress by default also comes with this feature that enables you to compress the webpages and send them [...]

Mark introduced me to AuctionAds (aff) soon after it was launched. AuctionAds by default is not contextual, but my article guides you through establishing just that.

The past two months has seen a lot of changes to this blog. For one, I’ve changed the look yet again and have also added and removed a few other features.
Cosmetic Changes
I got rid of the header. With the new theme, the header looked totally out of place and occupied a good amount of surface [...]

WordPress 2.1.1 and 2.0.9 have been released.
I have created two upload files that include only those files needed to update your installation from 2.0.7 to 2.0.9 and 2.1 to 2.1.1 respectively.
Read more and download from Techtites »

Friday as usual was choir practice. This time in preparation for Saturday’s Silver Jubilee mass and Sunday 8.30am mass.
Managed to cock up “We are here to praise you”. Guess, I’ve got so much running through my mind now a days that certain older stuff just takes a while to recollect
Saturday was a relatively quieter [...]

I’ve upgraded my Open Picture Window Plugin to version 1.2.
This version comes with support for WordPress 2.1.
Changes are:

Upgraded to support WordPress 2.1.
Opened window now auto-focuses.
If you specify new window dimensions for the same window, the window will resize to the new dimensions.

The current download count for plugin is only 1146. Hoping that the number [...]

Overview:
Add Snap Shots™ to your blog. Snap Shots™ is an open, extensible platform for creating, sharing, and distributing contextually relevant content.

Features:

Generates perfectly valid XHTML code
All options can be set via WP-Admin.
Options can be changed at anytime to customize the preview.
The plugin can automatically add the code to the footer

Quick [...]