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Wordpress Plugin: Show Posts by Selective Category

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Show Posts by Selective Category‘ is my first plugin for Wordpress 2.3.x. This plugin will allow you to show specific number of posts from a selective category. To use this plugin, you have to place a tag in the following format in your posts or pages [pbc=CategoryID count=num_of_posts]

Example

To show 4 posts from category with ID 22

To show 100 posts from category with ID 6

Download this plugin from Wordpress [LINK]

Microsoft, Stolen Code, and Obscenities

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[Microsoft 1978]

If you think Microsoft is all about geeky, be-spectacled, money mongering, evil empire syndrome; think again. When the source code of NT4 was leaked after a glorious hack, the source code revealed a lot more than hackers were looking for. The code was littered with obscenities like:

// the fucking alpha cpp compiler seems to fuck up the goddam type “LPITEMIDLIST”, so to work
// around the fucking peice of shit compiler we pass the last param as an void *instead of a LPITEMIDLIST

Damn that is cool. Finally charity begins at home in spreading the true love about Microsoft products. High 5 to Micro$ofters…

Care to read more? Go to this SITE

WTF: Microsoft’s cheeky cheesy ad!

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The hell-boy is the new poster-boy of Microsoft! Can’t wait for Apple’s answer to this one!!

Vacancy for Programmers, Coders & Developers

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I am looking for programmers in the following areas for some projects. The requirement is on project to project basis. These are not fulltime opportunities. If you or anyone you know is interested please apply/forward:

  1. PHP coders with experience in MySQL
  2. ASP coders
  3. VB.NET developers
  4. Oracle Developers

Please send CV to:
 

Annoyances : Yahoo! home page

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Ever since Yahoo! has updated the design and layout of its home page, there is one area that has really pissed me off. Its on the right side of the page to display Mail, Messenger, Weather etc for the signed in user profile. Reason is the pathetically slow and irritating animation to open the tabs on Mouse Over and the worst part, it doesn’t do what its supposed to do. Guys comeon we all know what Tabs are and how they work. One is supposed to click on them and their state should remain persistent till the user changes it. Yeah AJAX is cool but one should not underestimate the stress it puts when every time a user would move the mose over the tabs intentionally or un-intentionally and the page would start to fetch the info from the servers. These tabs would crunch your servers big time. You are better off with persistent tabs which would cache the required info and stay that way.
Just in case, I am a not US resident user, so maybe this might all be ok for US users.

1. Mail tab doesn’t work, even if I have just signed in

2. Horoscopes, seriously why would you want to have this? Let us customize this area and replace it with Sports results, or market indices etc.

3. Weather, now I remember pretty well that I did set my preferred city half an hour ago and still zilch

4. Messenger, ok maybe this might be working as none of my contacts were online at the time

5. Radio, why oh why…get a life. Need more useful info here

6. Local, well doesn’t bother me as I am a Non-US user so maybe it might work for US residents

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