Sameer Ahuja

Tag: Code

Editing WordPress pages using blogging tools

I’m a heavy user of TextMate, and use the blogging bundle to create and edit posts. I’m also a heavy user of WordPress Pages that enable wordpress to be used as a CMS. The one issue that always bugs me with any new WordPress installation is that you cannot edit pages from XML-RPC blogging tools [...]

Experiments with publishing application activity

For a couple of weeks now I’ve been monitoring what I do on my Mac using two tracker tools: Wakoopa and RescueTime. Both have unique approaches to the theme of tracking. Wakoopa builds a social network around the applications that you use. It lets you build ‘teams’ of people and see what your friends have [...]

Dear WordPress: Why not an XML-RPC for commenting?

We’re very much in the middle of the Syndication revolution – Everything out there on the web can be syndicated  – Be it the latest news, your friends’ photos and videos, your favorite TV Show episodes, and so on. Even sites lacking any technological platform for publishing can be subscribed to using online tools. Now [...]

CakePHP and AJAX: First pitstop

I started out with the Cake framework for PHP some time back, and it’s been a mixed ride so far. Cake is a very powerful, but still somewhat incipient framework built on the MVC pattern of Ruby on Rails. Among it’s several cool features is inbuilt support for AJAX based applications. A good starter tutorial [...]