Thoughts simmering in my mind, just waiting to get out
Today I had one of the most insane drives around Bangalore. I had to go to a wedding, in Rajajinagar industrial town, in the morning and then back to the reception of the same wedding in the evening, with a stopover at home, in JP Nagar, in the afternoon, post lunch. At night after the reception I had to drop wife in Richmond town and then drive back home.
Web page design and Web page development might sound similar but they are in fact quite different areas altogether. Normal a web page designer cannot do Web page development. A Web page developer on the other hand could possibly do some web page design if he/she has a creative touch in him/her. I am a web page developer, and though I might have some creative instinct in me, I cant design web pages for nuts. Even if I do design something, I will always feel that there is a better way to do it and I will keep re-working it over and over again till I bore myself with it.
It was sometime around last week when my PC was behaving very erratically. My dad told me that occassionally when he was playing Tetris, a BSoD used to appear and he had to restart the system. Later, around the weekend, while I was browsing, converting some videos and even just unzipping some files, I too got the BSoD 3-4 times.
Inspired by the creation of words such as Bangalored and Mangalored. I created new words Lehmaned and Satyamed. Also I chose to rewrite the meaning of the first two words so that it is more pertinent to all similar situation and occurances rather than something specific to India and Pubs.
First the old ones -
For sometime now I have been trying out different tag names to collect random, generaly, miscellaneous, spur-of-the-moment posts that I (might) make on this blog. I have tried assorted, random, personal and many more, but no matter what I still like the word that I chose first of all – Arbit.
From the past few days, I have had it to my neck with CSS and cross browser compatibility.
My PC is set up like this. I dual boot into Windows and Linux. I use Linux for my designing and development, so naturally I am designing my web pages on Linux.
On Linux, I have Firefox and Opera as the browsers(I am on gnome, so no Konqueror) and I do all my testing on both of them. On windows I have a much wider variety of browsers from IE7 and FF to Safari and Chrome.
After a long time, spent analyzing various options and wasting a lot of time, I finally created a front page for my website. It is now active on http://www.prashu.com. I have tried it keep it simple, while at the same time offering some functionality to the visitors.
Still not quite satisfied with the end result. I will tune it and make changes as and when I feel necessary and as and when I get feedback from the visitors.
So if you have had a look at the main page, please do drop me your feedback and suggestions. Thanks. 
After this incident I got extremely irritated with Firefox and I never really used it that much. Opera was ulti stable and though there were minor usability issues when compared to FF, I managed to work around those problems and use it.
I finally took my site online just now. It was offline for the good part of the last 3 months while I set up Drupal and tried to get the design right. But I was wasting too much time on that without progressing anywhere ahead. So V and I decided that we will just get the site online and then I will get around to tweaking it to my likes.
Fixed comment bug in Painted theme for Drupal 6
25 Feb 2009 at 09:34
prashu
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The current theme that I am running is called Painted Wall. It is available for Drupal here.
Now this theme has a very major bug. Suppose that a user has posted an article. Now someone else comes on over and enters some comments for this article. After the comment is saved and the page is refreshed, the theme displayed the name of the commenter as the name of the author itself.