The friends i never actually met

Here i am with a post i wanted to write for quite some time. My everyday task is twice, or maybe even more times, visit a bunch of blogs i am a regular reader. I actually hate rss subscription. I like the feeling of each site. It makes me get into the point. So, i have a folder of bookmarks called “blogs” where i have links to all my friends’ blogs. I visit some other ones too, less frequently though. These blogs actually belong to people that i consider “online friends”. I realy enjoy reading their posts. Other funny, techy, revealing, sightful etc. Many times i find out stuff that i haven’t heard before and are either usefull or quite interesting. I thought i’d share this list with you guys so you can meet each other. You are actually all readers of my blog too so i bet you will read this post.

• First on the list my dear and loyal and so helpfull friend #FN$# with his two blogs howudoing and his personal blog. I never met the guy but i feel like i know him way back!
• Secondly, my other Greek friend Giannou with his personal blog.
• Rockstar Sid has been among the very first readers and commenters and i am thankful to him. He is the owner of blogote (blog + promote )
• Then comes my first “Member of the month”, Sidharth. He is frequent and loyal reader.
• One blogger that has rocked the blogosphere is Rajai. He is only 14 years old but he thinks like a real grown up.
• KongTechnology is a blog with many nice tutorials. I enjoy reading it and learning stuff!
• TechieSouls is a blog with several usefull programs, tips and tricks. I found out about many things there.
• Roshan is another techie programmer that has an excellent blog. I like his programing tips and i really enjoy his Sunday jokes.
• BlogsDNA is a frequently updated blog that actually found me alot of usefull programs and gave me very usefull tweaking tips.
• PcsPlace is a techie blog from a fellow programmer. Nice tips that actually are very usefull indeed.
• Ozh is a guy most of the wordpress community knows about. The comment badge and many other awsome plugins come from him.
• Madhur owns another interesting blog. Tips, programms, gadgets, news and many more posts come up there.
• Craig Farrall is a web designer that does a very good job on templates. I like his blog.  It’s casual and his posts are nice.
• Last but not least, Melvin has a blog posting about various stuff. I like his way of thinking and writing.

So, everyday, i go through this list. I check out what these guys have to say and i am pretty sure i get a good picture of the blogosphere. They are all good web crawlers bringing to their readers nice posts. I am not always leaving a comment but be sure i visit every single day. Sorry for not increasing your feedburner’s readers by one but i realy hate the thing. Please do not consider this as a “suck up”. As i said before my space is worthless add-wise but this post, among all the other linking efforts, is a way of just saying “thanks, i am here too “.

As i said, i realy felt like posting this list so here it is. Guys, meet the guys

The wallpaper

Well, my friend #FN$# did it again! He is a reader that never stops surprising me by contributing to this humble blog. So far he has done an excellent job with the logo providing one for here. He did it and re-did it on his own just because he felt he could do it better. Now, a couple of days ago he came back to me with this awsome wallpaper. Whenever he is in a mood of experimenting or just doing something creative he always remembers about me. So, here it is, provided to my readers as a gift from him to them! I would realy appreciate (and he would too) if you just leave a comment letting him know how you like it.

The post “stamp”

Well, it’s a boring and relaxing weekend here for me and i felt like i wanted to do something with my blog. I have seen all around the blogosphere those web2 badges and ribbons here and there. I didn’t want to do that here but i wanted to try out my luck with something like that. You must remember the previous article about the z-index and how to make some cool effects for your site. So, i tried and with my poor photoshop skills i created a small stamp for my posts. I decided to place it on the top right corner of each post just for the heck of it.

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Export and archive your e107 news and forum

I’ve been using e107 as a content management for over two years. The old stratosector was actually a portal using this CMS and i did quite a work on it. I coded a few plugins and the tournaments one was quite a success. Recently, as you all know, i closed up my portal and created a small “portfolio” site. But, there where news items and forum posts i didn’t want to lose. So, naturaly, i started googling for an archive solution for the e107 platform.

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Project management cycle

This is so true and happens on the computer industry as a rule. I hate it but unfortunately it’s all over. I realy laughed hard with this one so i thought i’d share. Have fun!