Blogging With Success Got Hacked

In my two year of WordPress Experience, for the first time ever, my blogs got hacked. The hacker some got access to whole account and added a PHP injection. All the directories on server got random PHP files like 54623.php etc. with encoded code in them and a .htaccess file that makes this PHP file a 404 error page. From what I have learned, the primary purpose of this hack is to send errors to a different website. ...

November 29, 2010 · 1 min · Ishan Sharma

25 Hours? That's A Lot For 1 Post!

Just read an old post at ProBlogger. The owner of Smashing Magazine had said that they were spending about 25 hours per post. That’s almost a full day! That’s amazing. However, that also shows how much dedicated one has to be to succeed. I will start spending more time on the posts from now on. What about you?

November 28, 2010 · 1 min · Ishan Sharma

Following The Standards, Breaking The Rules

Follow The Standards, Break The Rules For those who don’t know, this is the tagline of Opera. I had been trying to use Chrome for last 3 weeks. But something was missing! I had tried my best to get comfortable with Chrome but finally, had to return to Opera. My main reasons to switch from Opera were: Redirection Problems: With Opera 10.50, team Opera must have done something bad that caused redirects to screw up. For example, I could not log in to Facebook or any Google service at all. Occasional Hang****s: Now, I won’t blame Opera at all for this. It is natural to hang on a 800 MHz Pentium 3 processor. However, it was still annoying and after reading about how light Chrome was on resources, I decided to try it. Chrome annoyed me even more. It annoyed me in more creative ways. For example, if I entered a address and immediately switched to another tab, it would clear the address bar and would not load page! Initially, I liked Chrome’s extensions. but soon, they started to feel more like Opera’s widgets(widgets that will hide the moment you switch to another tab. On a slow connection, this is irritating!) ...

May 25, 2010 · 2 min · Ishan Sharma