Testing Wordpress App 2
Ok just want to try another post with a picture taken while I’m about to doze off…
Add comment January 5th, 2009
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Testing Wordpress App
I have recently upgraded WP to the latest version just because I wanted to try out Wordpress App with an Iphone. It seems to work just fine for now. The plugins are also working just fine.
Add comment January 5th, 2009
Checking User Agent (Browser)
Time to check for bad user-agent which includes bad browser, bad bot and bad spiders. Some of my top browsers are of course IE, Mozilla, Safari, Opera, Windows Media Player, Netscape. Other than that are within my suspicion as bad user-agent.
Percentage is based on February 2007 sessions count on 1 server.
PASS
Sogou Spider (0.13%)Â - belongs to a chinese search engine sohu.com inc
Up.Browser (0.03%) -Â a mobile phone browser known as Openwave.
Konqueror (0.03%) - file manager, web browser and file viewer developed part of KDE Unix-like OS.
Hatena Antenna (0.01%) - webpage bookmark plugin. hatena is now featured as Google desktop gadgets.
Baiduspider+ (<0.01%) - search engine spider belongs to baidu.com
ia_archiver (<0.01%) - Alexa robot crawler
BlackBerry (0.01%) - blackberry mobile browser
Nokia(*) (0.01%) - nokia mobile browser
Vodafone (0.01%) - uk mobil network, mobile browser
SonyEricsson (<0.01%) - SonyEricsson mobile browser
HPiPAQhw6900 (<0.01%) - HP iPAQ mobile browser
UNKNOWN
HTTP Fetcher (<0.01%) - need more info
JAVA (<0.01%) - need more investigation. most of the time this agent is mark for blocking, including python urllib.
WGet (0.01%) - undecided, file retrieval using HTTP, unix-based os.
BAD
Download Ninja (0.04%) - bad.
Internet Ninja (0.02%) - bad.
WebAuto - bad.
WebCopier - bad.
Slowly building user-agent blacklist… more to come.
Add comment March 16th, 2007
Cingular EDGE Speed Test
Just for the fun of it, I am speed testing Cingular EDGE using SpeakEasy Speed Test based in Los Angeles, CA. The speeds that I got are…
First try result:
Download Speed: 199 kbps (24.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 88 kbps (11 KB/sec transfer rate)
Second try result:
Download Speed: 188 kbps (23.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 88 kbps (11 KB/sec transfer rate)
The download speed is reasonable because it is a little above the advertised speed of 75-135 kbps by Cingular. Feels like two to three times the speed of a good old dialup modem. I would perform another speed test when I got a chance. Maybe after a fresh boot, I could have gotten better numbers… 
Add comment March 15th, 2007
Cingular WWAN
So today I picked up the phone and signed up for cingular WWAN. I am just curious how good is the WWAN technology. The sony vaio comes with 30 days trial of Cingular WWAN. The activation process took me less than 5 minutes and then boom I am up and running with WWAN. This is the first blog entry that I publish using WWAN. I have just tested the speed and it is about 212 kbps down and 86 kbps up. The price is 60 bucks a month with 2 years commitment. So, still a little pricey for that kind of speed. Otherwise, all is good considering that I am able to go online anywhere.
Add comment October 21st, 2006
Apache Rewrite Condition for Subdomain
Today I added a new rewrite condition to my apache configuration. This rewrite condition would forward any invalid subdomain request to the correct subdomain. So for example a user type in their url box ww.domain.com or any other wild-card subdomain, the user should be forwarded to the default www.domain.com.
A situation might occur like this. A person who likes your page, make a link to your page, due to human error, the person types ww.domain.com instead of www.domain.com. This creates two subdomains with identical pages, which is a no no for the search engines.
One of the advantages to forward invalid subdomain to the default is that this is a concept widely practiced to suit the search engine optimization for both google and yahoo. According to my research, some of the search engine crawlers dislikes multiple identical copies of pages from different domains or subdomains. It is known that if one to disobey the search engines algorithm, then their pages might get penalized and removed from the search results, which is not good. Here is how I add the rewrite condition to my apache configuration to forward any invalid subdomains to the default www.domain.com.
Add the following lines to your apache configuration:
ServerAlias domain.com www.domain.com *.domain.com
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com$1 [R=301,L]
Notice the return 301 status code which tells the requester that the invalied subdomain has moved permanently. This again is search engine friendly.
Add comment May 10th, 2006
New Domain
Sorry for the long absence of update. I have not been into blog during those period of time. I have an idea of a new domain name so here it is… I have registered a brand new domain name chendarma.com and also I have decided to use WordPress as my blog tool instead of the old b2evo which is practically outdated.
Add comment April 3rd, 2006