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Using icons is a must for all Web 2.0 apps. I have used this principle liberally in Nexty. When I was creating Nexty, I learned a simple trick that made using icons with CSS much easier.
Go to Nexty to see the icons

3 Types of Icons
I used 3 different classes for showing icons. They are..
icon
This class [...]

There has been many ideas about a offline storage mechanism for web applications. Dojo implemented this in its Library. Firefox 3 promises this. Now we have a new arrival in this area – Google Gears. Unlike Dojo’s implementation, Gears require an extension for it to work.
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets [...]

Remember Nexty? Recently I was able to make the 1.0 version. Currently I am planning for the second version. But before starting on that I want to document the different things I learned when creating Nexty. These are a list of things you can expect on this series…
Client Side

CSS

Icons
Theming using CSS

JavaScript

Ajax – Success/Failure Pattern

Server Side

Installer
Framework
API
Distributed [...]

In the previous post I introduced my new PHP framework – iFrame. It had the reasons why you should not use the framework. In these post, I will talk of the advantages you get if you use my framework. But remember – do not use my framework.
No routing – Fully file based
There are no [...]

I have created a number of Web Applications – Nexty and Jus5 are just a few examples. I used a common code base when creating these sites – but I did not consider it a full fledged framework. However, now the code base has evolved enough to be called a framework. So, I called it [...]

FeedBurner has a feature called ‘clickthrough tracking’. If a feed has this feature enabled, FeedBurner will track the number of clickthrough from your feed. You will be able to see how many users have come to your site after reading the feed. But there is a problem – they do the tracking by modifying the [...]

As promised in my previous post about the release of Nexty, I want to announce my new project – Jus5. It is not exactly ‘new’ – I have been working on it for a couple of weeks. Jus5 is a light weight CMS. It is also a total failure
Download Jus5 (Updated)
See Jus5 In [...]

If you are using sourceforge to host your project, be careful when using the web hosting provided by them – it’s session handler for PHP is broken. I learned this the hard way when I tried to set up a demo for my latest project.
Many other have found this problem as well. You you have [...]

Remember Nexty, the easy to use to-Do list manager using GTD principles? Well, that is ready for public release.
Nexty is a easy to use GTD tool created in PHP. It can be installed in a local server or in a online web server. The core idea behind this software is simplicity. I wanted to make [...]

As you already know, I have made my move. Moving from one domain to another is not new to me – I have moved a lot before. Here is a small picture that will show all my ‘domain hops’…

http://binnyva.bizland.com/ (Dead now) – My first site.
http://binnyva.tripod.com/ – Started using Tripod when Bizland stopped my free account.
http://www.geocities.com/binnyva/ [...]