Few months back, I was planning for my major project at college. I was pretty confused since I didn’t wanted to work with PHP and MySQL that was the time when Abhishek suggested about MongoDB. Initially I faced a little bit difficulty due to the transition from schema to schema-less database. The best part that…
Disaster Management for a Web Developer
In today’s world, everyone owns a blog but have we ever wondered that what are we going to do in case of a disaster leading to loss of all the content? Just imagine a scenario where a popular blog crashes and all data is lost. We are living in a world where things are expected…
Android Development 101
Recently I had attended a conference EMERGE OUT Delhi by NASSCOM. One of the speaker in the conference was Mr. Rajan Anandan who is the Managing Director of Google India! His best words were, if you want to be a successful in next 2-3 years then switch to mobile application development and as a company…
Repair Damaged WordPress Installation
Recently one of my close friend’s WordPress site got attacked and he approached for a possible solution. After some basic assessment I found that the attacker had accessed the database and deleted the entries from wp_users table. So after restoring the values, the site started working smoothly. This experience led to the inspiration for writing…
Securing WordPress Installation
Nowadays we can easily setup a blog and start our journey as a blogger and all thanks to wordpress for providing such a wonderful platform for blogging. More than 54% websites are using WordPress and majority installations are quite vulnerable due to improper configuration. Now do we need to become a security expert to secure…
Quality and Security: Paradise of Success
Recently I had attended a two day workshop on Information Security at my college. The workshop exposed to a various topics of the security domain. Out of which my personal favorite was the web based security and truly speaking, a person needn’t become a hacker to breakdown a website’s security since a simple search yields…