I set up ajaydsouza.com as an experiment to test this new blogging software called WordPress exactly 15 years ago. I never thought the site would continue till this day. But it did survive. I am glad that this site has remained the place I can pen my thoughts, talk about my life and proudly release my work. I started writing in the early days of blogging and before Facebook. In the beginning, this blog was a place I wrote about my life, blogging daily on many occasions. But then, work caught up, I became a lot less frequent. Today, most of my posts are about WordPress plugin releases with a sprinkling…
Featured in Mumbai Mirror’s Bloggers’ Park
Imagine my shock, surprise and excitement to find out that my review of Slumdog Millionaire was featured in Mumbai Mirror’s Bloggers’ Park. Mumbai Mirror is a newspaper focused for Mumbai that comes along with The Times of India. Though I must say that I didn’t see much traffic coming out here because of the article, I am pleased that my review was considered newspaper worthy 🙂 Thank you Mumbai Mirror! And, thanks to @rahuljrark of Cool Tricks N Tips for pointing this out to me.
Live on the Bleeding Edge of WordPress with SVN
Live on the Bleeding Edge of WordPress with SVN explains how to keep your WordPress Blog running the latest sub-version build of WordPress. It is highly recommended that you do not use the sub-version builds in a production environment. They are meant for testers.
WordPress 2.6 to 2.6.1 Upgrade File
The optional 2.6.1 release meant that blog administrators had to once again work on upgrading their blog software. I’ve compiled a list of changed files according to trac that you can use to upgrade your 2.6 blog to 2.6.1. Read more and download
Why You should Comment on my Blog
Inspite of the fact that my comment policy (has anyone read these?) is a little “strict”, I’ve been very liberal about comments and trackbacks on this blog. My comments have finally risen and I’ve always believed to make it worth the while for you to comment out here. I’ve had the DoFollow plugin for a long long time already. DoFollow removes the nofollow that WordPress adds automatically. This means that now when you leave a URL with your comment, you will receive a clean link back to your site. Google will follow this and ensure you are benefited by the pagerank of the post and site. I have also recently…
Have you taken the Poll
Honestly, I am a little disappointed. I’ve been running the poll for five days now, and I’ve received only 25 votes. I thought polls were something that people loved and I did ask a relevant question. Anyway, I’m going to try my luck again and implore my 250+ readers plus the thousand or so who wander along here to take the poll below. It asks a simple question, which is your reason for having visited the blog. Take Our Poll from PollDaddy.com The idea behind this poll is to help generate content that you would like to read. I want you to read and join the participation and what better…
Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions!
Digg.com was one of the social networking/blogging successes of 2006, but recently it’s star has started to dim as people have started to question the efficiency of its voting system, that has actually resulted in a small minority, the ‘Digg Mafia’ deciding what makes it onto the homepage or not, rather than the wider userbase. Read the rest of my article on Techtites and digg it 😉
Why are you here?
Copyblogger has an interesting article on improving blog stickiness. Of the four points listed the point that topped the list was “Ask”, which is something I believe in. While this blog focuses on my life in general, it wouldn’t be successful without YOU. And what better way to ask than via polls. I’ve signed up with PollDaddy.com to bring you weekly or forthnightly polls so that I can gather more information about who you are and why you are here. The polls are ofcourse optional, but it will help me serve you better. The Poll for this week asks the question in the headline… Why are you here? Take Our…
This is why bloggers are important!
Writing for WLTC
Regular readers of WLTC must have found a lot of posts by me since the beginning of this year. Weblog Tools Collection is one of the biggest blog resource sites which I’ve been reading for a good number of years now. I used to post my theme and plugin related notifications out there. Late December, Mark asked me start writing for WLTC and I happily jumped at the offer 🙂 Here’s the formal announcement. You will now see my posts regularly at WLTC. I will be covering WordPress news, reviews and analysis of plugins, themes, hacks as well as general blogging related topics. This is a great opportunity and an…
