Surya’s blog

Finally, I got a new new monster beast. I haven’t kicked the old beast but they two seem to like each other. Moving on to the config:

• Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz (Will o’clock to 3)
• Abit IP35-E
• Corsair 2 Gigis RAM
• Cooler Master Mystique Cabinet with CM PSU
• NVidia 8800 GT; 512 MB
• Samsung 22″ LCD
• Logitech mx200 cordless mouse/keyboard

Rest, aren’t worth mentioning, though I’ve decided to keep both my old and new pc. About Websites, I sold cropr.in (rebranded to a new site now) for a mid $xxx value at sitepoint. It was an AJAX cropper + resizer. Then, sold sprif.com an AJAX site again for $500 at sitepoint.

Now it’s the time to shoot and burn some stuff, game I mean

Here it is, an AJAX’d contact form with a captcha. I had an idea to code this about a week ago and thought would be a tough job to do but it wasn’t that tough to code when I started doing it. The only place where I had to spend a lot of time was, pondering how to pass the value from the ‘textarea’ to the PHP preserving the line breaks. After googling for about an hour and reading different articles I finally got what was required, I just had to escape(): the variable before sending it to the PHP script.

On a positive note, I didn’t really have any problem with running this script on IE (I usually have to break my head over this matter). To prelude its features, I guess it does everything you’d normally except a contact form to do. It sanitizes all the variables, checks for the Email structure and disabled the submit button once the email is sent to prevent mass emails. I would like to thank SecondVersion and Psyrens for the PHP backend & ajax captcha respectively. As usual I’m lazy to provide a detailed documentation about it and would *make sure* that I write one in the future. But the whole script isn’t obfuscated at all, you’d just have to edit some constants and woo! it’s done.

I’m currently working on integrating this script as a wordpress plugin. Please let me know any bugs/commments/feedback by commenting below or contacting me. Show-off your own modified version of this script here

Script Demo : http://hakc.net/ajax-contact-form-captcha-demo/

Script Download : http://hakc.net/…./….zip

I’ve finally become free from a voyage that many idiots including me embarked about a year ago. I’m finally completely sane. I had decided long back to write a blog entry on “why orkut sucks” and I think this is the perfectly right time to do it. So this isn’t the way you’d normally expect a person to prelude his blog after months of inactivity and if you’re one of those ‘pro orkut lover’ you wouldn’t indeed like this. Yeah, and this is my first “hate rant”.

I don’t have anything against most of the social networking sites out there (probably because I don’t visit many) but orkut is something which just rages me to the core. I find it ridiculous that it’s a big “phenomenon” in India (I would infact rate Chris Crocker’s videos more than this crap).

PS : Parental advisory :P, entry is a bit profane.

» Read the rest of the entry..

Finally, I’ve sold a domain for the very first time and the price offered for it has beat my highest earning record. I bought condolences.mobi for 10USD back in april. Bingo, then came the 500 USD bid through SEDO. Here’s my paypal screen :

Yes, the blog is stalled and will be the same for the upcoming months.

I cannot update the blog, been busy in real life.

Will try updating in the mean time.

Surya

PS: Check the movie ratings page, hell yeah I can watch movies but cannot update my blog! :p

Oops! I’ve finally updated my blog (once again). I got certificated in the compTIA I-NET+ today with 878/900 marks. I’m yet to confirm that if I’m the youngest to do this. It was pretty easy than what I expected it to be and I took 15 minutes to complete this. Two questions went wrong (somewhere) out of 74 questions

Apart from compTIA, I got certified in AJAX and Computer Skills (bah) way back in the first week on may and I was way too lazy to update this. I will post the screenshots of the hard copy certificate pretty soon (yes soon).

I’ve some exciting websites coming up soon and I’ll update here asap they get up. Be sure to check the updated about-me page for some “shiny badges” (I’m still waiting for some more badges).

Follow this URL :

http://www.hakc.net/scripts/passjax/

There comes up my long awaited adsense cheque and it arrived quicker than what I was expecting. It sums up to 5500 INR and I’m going to upgrade my RAM usign this money . This was only possible because of the proxy websites I have, as proxir made 70$ out of the total 130$ without which adsense wouldn’t have crossed 100$ this soon!

» Read the rest of the entry..

Where to start ? Where to Start ? That’s what I’m wondering, lot of good things have occured yesterday! Let me start with my blog itself, you see any changes ? Yep you’re right hakc has got a new theme! The next is I’ve moved to a new host as my dreamhost is going to expire very soon, so I’ve moved to qoozz reseller hosting and it’s as nice as it can get for 8$/month.

» Read the rest of the entry..

Today at namepros I saw a .mobi domain unregistered and thought a lot on whether to register it or not. But finally I made up myself to buy the domain and it’s “condolences.mobi”� and yeah I know it may sound a bit weird for most of you.� I got this three “goldies” in my .mobi collection - iwd.mobi, safesurf.mobi, condolences.mobi and I’m too confident like any other .mobi domainer that .mobi will be a of a great value in the coming years.

Read more…..

» Read the rest of the entry..