I’ve added a new page to the blog with some sample technical interview questions. I don’t think it’ll be pertinent to most people but some of my friends have been asking for some of these questions and it’ll also serve as a good place for me to look in preparation for interviews. I’ll update it whenever I hear more questions from my peers or from my own interviews.
I said I would be moving akrish over to wordpress, and here it is. I’ve imported all of my old articles and have categories that represent the feeds I used to have. Naturally I’m going to have to mess around with settings and configurations a bit, but ultimately there won’t be many other changes to this blog. Please let me know if anything doesn’t seem to be working as you’d expect and I’ll take a look at it.
It’s been almost two months since my last post, and I’ve finally gotten some free time to start writing again so here’s my re-kick off. Oddly enough, I somehow got about 500 unique visits last week, which is really odd saying that I haven’t touched the site in at least a month.
Anyway, I’ll try to write a couple of times a week, at least until finals come around in December. I’ll probably be too busy around then to spend time writing.
As I’ve been perusing other blogger’s sites, I’ve picked up some general trends that blogs seem to follow. I’ve been working on adding some of these features to akrish, which is partially why I haven’t been writing that much recently. Very briefly, here they are:
Archives: This is my third month of blogging, and I have a decent amount of articles on the site. The archives allow me, and other readers to browse articles by month. I really see this as a way for users to find my most recent articles.
Tagging: A work in progress (it’s running decently on my local server). I’m trying to enable tagging of articles so that users can browse articles based on tags. It’ll let users find the stuff that they’re really interested in. Hopefully I’ll finish this up this weekend and deploy it on the production server.
Comments improvements: A lot of blogs allow users to link to their website in their comments, so I jumped on the boat and did the same thing. there’s a weird behavior if a user doesn’t include a URL that I need to get around to fixing, but for the most part it works.
I also want to implement a more general search engine on the site, but I probably won’t get around to it for awhile (now that school’s really started I’m very busy). Are these features useful? Do they work as you want them to? Do they contribute to the blog? Any criticisms? Thanks.
I’ve got a lot of ideas for articles that I want to write, and not enough time to write them all, so here’s a list of some of those ideas. Hopefully I’ll enough time to get around to all of them in the next couple of weeks.
1. Summer – a brief recap of my incredibly uneventful summer.
2. What I learned at Tellme – my first work-experience and what I took away from that (this will probably be a list). Naturally, I’ll only write this one when I finish my internship on Friday.
3. I’ve got another idea brewing that I’ll start working on soon. I can’t give away any other information because it’s a secret
4. Moving in and running a house – I’ll be moving off-campus this year, so I may end up writing about how my house-mates and I are coping with bills, chores, and everything else that comes with a house.
5. Running club – I intend to join the running club at school, so I’ll probably write something about joining, meeting everyone there, and the runs they go on.
There may also be some more album reviews and book reviews (if I find good albums and read books). The finance thread will probably be pretty stagnant for awhile saying I don’t know enough about the field and don’t have time to learn about it right now.
On top of all of this, I intend to make the design a little more intricate (maybe AJAXy, but definitely more dynamic). I don’t really like this new layout, but I’ll keep it for a bit, mostly because I don’t have the time or patience to make a new one.