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Monthly Archives April 2008

Did wordpress upgrade destroy all your unicode posts ?

I upgraded wordpress software for this blog to version 2.5.2. After that none of the posts that had devanagari (unicode) text looked okay. After comparing the configuration files, I discovered that the troubling variable is DB_CHARSET. The default config setting is ‘utf8′. But if you have been updating the software versions, your database table is [...]

Posted 27 April 2008 † amit § Internet § devanagari ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Google jumps into custom hosted application bandwagon!

Google has launched appengine which provides developers with a platform SDK (python based!) and hosting with access to own Google BigTable database! This competes with Amazon.com’s SQS , S3 (storage) and EC2 (hosting) services which are used by many startups… The applications will get google’s massively scalable infrastructure, failover. Apps would also be able [...]

Posted 08 April 2008 † amit § Internet ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,