Hedir Developer’s Blog

Are you a fan of National Geographic and Discovery channels? Or do you like wildlife? If yes then perhaps you have already know what I am going to discuss now. If not then just watch the video here, I am damm sure you will like it. It’s Battle of Kruger.

Well this is all about the 2nd highest viewed movie in YouTube . It almost near to 13.5 million views in YouTube. BBC has already reported this as fast biggest web video hits. Though its a amateur video but it is becoming the envy of professional wildlife snappers. The movie has got a professional quality script which many film director like to work with, but in reality there was no script! Its a battle between survivor(calf), paladins(group of buffalo), hero of land (lions) and owner of water(crocodile). The eight-minute-long footage shows nothing can be unachievable. Enjoy the The battle of Kruger ..

Some raw facts about battle of Kruger :

• Place : a watering hole near Pretoriuskop Camp, Mpumalanga in South Africa’s Kruger National Park
• Time : September 2004
• Shooter : David Budzinski acconpanied by Jason Schlosberg
• Submitted to Youtube : May 03, 2007

Lastly, a comment from Budzinski

“I’m not a camera person. I’m just lucky to have it!”

truly amazing

As I have mentioned earlier many times that Hedir as a Community increasing day by day. I used to say this on the basis on strong facts. The strong facts are different logs at server ends and also the good number of contributing members.

However almost two to three weeks ago we faced a problem that our site is getting down due to some load problem in the server. In fact site was down for few hours. After a good effort we were able to restart it. To avoid these sort of problems we decided to shift our site to another server with better load sharing.

So we selected a server for hosting our site. We prepared the task force. Defined the operation Silent Shift. It took almost 19 hours to accomplish the task. I am really grateful to my team members that they have done it smoothly.

Though Hedir looks like running ok in the new server, but my team is checking it time to time for any kind of error. Hope we won’t get any such

How much time do you take to reach your office after you wake up from bed. How much do you sleep? These are becoming important question in day to day life. Which are helpful, minimizing or maximizing them? Different people will have different opinion. Time is becoming very precious to our life. You can find lot to do in a very short time. Even sometime few minutes become very important for us. Do you agree to that? Well I do. Something I think more explanatory than word. Watch this.

This was selected as the best short film in Europe. Once you watch this, the only words you can think Just 10 minutes !!!!!

Hey,

I am expecting some good jokes here. Here is a silly one from my side.

You are hosting party that has lots of awesome women. A friend asks “how do I know which one is the most fantastic in bed?” You say, well according to all the blogs - she is! ***** That’s Blog Marketing!

Are you blogging in Hedir? If not ok …. I don’t like to say that our blogs are best, but if you contact with our blogger then then you may have taken a decission to start blogging in Hedir. Very recently we have modified our blog codes. WordPress is always our first choice from the very begining. We installed multi-user WordPress blog software as we started to provide blogs to our contributing members.

While working on the code section we found there are some section of the code which prevented us from merging our own code with it. Many segment of Hedir depends on code section. Whatever open source code we have used in Hedir, all of them have been modified as we integrated them with our system. Then started our R&D for such a blog code which can solve the purpose of multiuser blooging. One of our welknown member AjiNIMC helped us a lot by providing his work. We converted single user blog code of WordPress work like multiuser system. While doing this development we have integrated our code with the blog code segment. Now Hedir blogs enjoys the power of WordPress Blog and Multiuser Capability. I have no doubt to say that now it is more advanced than the WordPress blog code.

To provide more flexibility and good blogging experience we provide our blogger different plugins those are not only good but also something special in sense. As we don’t like spammers, we provided Akismet for spam control. Bloggers can have their dirings and foods while blogging at Hedir. As they can earn their money from Google Adsence by using Adsence Delux plugin in Hedir. Very soon we will provide more plugin in Hedir bloggs.

Enjoy Blogging in Hedir.

Josh

Hey at last we have made hedir community free from duplicate member name.

Though it was not an easy task, but our development team made it happen. We had taken a simple policy in this regard. For a specific name, among the members having it we will keep the name as it is for the person who is most active. For all other member we will change the community name. For that modification of names we had used some algorithm which considers some parameters to chose the most active member. For rest of the other member it have assigned name which slightly defers from the original name.

However while selecting the group of user having same name and their numbers we have used a simple but very effective sql query. The query looks like

SELECT count( * ) AS Count, USERNAME FROM USER_TABLE GROUP BY USERNAME HAVING Count >1 ORDER BY `Count` DESC

This query was again attached with some other code to select the most active member among those member.

Hope someone can utilise this query while working on such issue.

regards,
Hedir Developer

The story behind the review centre is something like clibing a mountain using a steep face of the rock. It is not so easy to design as for the displayable information related to this section. Our community helped us to decide the factors that should be presented in the review centre. After we need to do a good planning how to assemble all the necessary information because as per modern articture informations are distributed in different areas. So we planned, rejected the plan and again planed it in different ways. After some hard work we agreed upon a process.Now the its time to implement it. Now real problems started onwords. The most basic problem is collecting the informations and processing them and put it in a presentable manner is becoming time consuming factor. Also we need to keep in mind that process has to repeted time to time. So we started working on that too. Some idea came into our mind that we can do some part of the processing as an automated job. So we move in that direction. So we breakdown the code and made some part so as they can be runned as automated job. Now the problem appeares as how to automate it. We found out the solution as server automated job - cron jobs. So we decided to run the code using cron job. After a bit of R&D we setup the cron job. We set it to run in an interval of 10 minutes. At the start it is giving some problem but now it seems to be working fine.

Now while presenting the information there is a requirement of sorting the result while displaying them. So we decided to do it in some manner like some of the php db-administrating software do. After certain good work we made it working fine.

But the most interesting thing in this project is that hedir management decided the project to go live so that our community can actively participate in it. Believe it or not our community members are given their best in it. Though it is a risky job to do the development in the production server but I have no second thought in my mind to say that it is really bit successfull.

Still there is long way to go but I consider we are in the visinity of the peak.

So go get it.