پچھلے چند ماہ میں میری نظر سے کئی نئے اردو بلاگ گزرے ہیں۔ میں نے ان کی حالیہ تحریروں کو اردو سیارہ پر یکجا کیا ہے۔ اردو وکی اور ہمارا اردو بلاگ کافی کارآمد رہے ہیں۔
Category: Internet
Firefox Sucks
Mozilla Firefox, while being a better browser than Internet Explorer, has a big problem. It hogs memory. It takes over all available memory and doesn’t return it to the OS until you close Firefox.
Webhost Recommendations
Urdu and Unicode require better support than Perl 5.6.1 can manage. Since my web host can’t install Perl 5.8.x any time soon, I can either install it in my user account or switch web hosts. Help and suggestions needed.
More Interviews
Continuing with the interview meme, here are the questions for the two remaining interviewees, Fazia and Renee. That completes my part of the meme since I have now interviewed 5 people.
Interview Questions
Three people asked to be interviewed in the blog interview chain, so here are the questions for them. For Asif: How many languages do you know? How did you learn so many languages? Tell us an amusing incident from your time in UET, Lahore. How and why did you decide to go to Germany? How… Continue reading Interview Questions
Blog Interview Meme
This is a chain interviewing game for blogs. Here are its rules: Leave me a comment saying “interview me.” The first five commenters will be the participants. I will respond by asking you five questions. You will update your blog/site with the answers to the questions. You will include this explanation and an offer to… Continue reading Blog Interview Meme
Islamabad and Atlanta from Above
Asif brought Keyhole to my attention which lets you look at images of a lots of places in the world looking down from different elevations. The image resolutions vary, with the best resolution for Cambridge, MA (3 inches). A lot of countries do not have any real images at all. But it is still fascinating… Continue reading Islamabad and Atlanta from Above
ٹریک بیک اور یونیکوڈ
موویبل ٹائپ Movable Type میں ٹریکبیک Trackbacks ایک عجب مسئلہ ہیں۔ کیونکہ ٹریکبیک یہ نہیں بتاتا کہ وہ کس زبان یا encoding میں ہے اس لئے اگر آپ مجھے پنگ کرتے ہیں اور آپ ISO-8859-1 استعمال کر رہے ہیں …
Front-end and Back-end Changes
There have been a lot of changes here recently, most of them on the back-end. Most of this work was related to having a bilingual (English and Urdu) blog along with MathML equations. This required valid XHTML 1.1 and serving the site as application/xhtml+xml as described before. One strange artifact of a good CSS/XHTML design… Continue reading Front-end and Back-end Changes
Urdu Blogging Resource
I started blogging in Urdu almost a year ago. I haven’t written much in Urdu, but it has been a good experience. Two of my posts about blogging in Urdu have been among the most popular posts here. The Urdu blogosphere is extremely small right now. There aren’t even a lot of Urdu websites. Also,… Continue reading Urdu Blogging Resource