http://blog.mumineen.org Notes from the trenches Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:52:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The title is a misquote of George Orwell's quote from Animal Farm All animals are equal - but some animals are more equal than others We tend to think of browsers as a utility and don't really care what version it is when viewing a web page Unfortunately, the most ... http://blog.mumineen.org/2008/03/31/not-all-browsers-are-equal-and-some-are-less-equal-than-others/ Mumineen.org has opened a Twitter account which can be seen here: http://www.twitter.com/mumineen What is Twitter, you may ask? Here is the answer from the Twitter FAQ: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are ... http://blog.mumineen.org/2008/03/30/twitter/ Mumineen.org offers the ability to syndicate its content to other websites or blogs with Javascript. All that's required for you to do is to cut and paste some HTML onto your site. Your content will stay current, updating the same second we update ours. To put headlines from our Huzurala ... http://blog.mumineen.org/2007/07/26/syndicate-with-javascript/ The Mumineen.org team is in the process of making changes to the infrastructure that powers our site. The benefits are a centralized engine for processing akhbar and news, and increased use of RSS feeds to power the front page. We have also made enhancements to the salaat timing code and ... http://blog.mumineen.org/2007/05/25/mumineenorg-website-transitions/ After our server meltdown, we're taking a hard look at what direction our services should take in the future. We know what we like to see, but at the same time we know we're not representative of those who visit our site. We'd really like to get some feedback from ... http://blog.mumineen.org/2006/02/25/moving-ahead/ In a previous post, we identified that our userbase wants to download content such as audio and video of various miqats and of Aqa Maula (TUS) to their local machine. It's only community sites such as Sautul Iman who want to stream their content due to their need to protect ... http://blog.mumineen.org/2006/01/22/alternative-to-click-and-wait-for-audio-video-content/ Our community the Dawoodi Bohras regularly publishes CD's whether they are from Sautul Iman or CD's published by various zakereens or even audio CD's containing nasihaats such as "Allah Taala na Hamd', 'Biraadar tu Nasihaat sun'. What we lack is information about the tracks on the CD's being published to sites ... http://blog.mumineen.org/2006/01/21/getting-community-audio-cd-information-into-online-databases/ Our community, the Dawoodi Bohras have a rich and varied oral tradition which is expressed in the forms of qasidas, marthiyas, naats, munajaats and the recital of Quran-e-Majeed. Over the years, we have tried to aggregate examples of our oral tradition and made them available at our audio site. On ... http://blog.mumineen.org/2006/01/21/streaming-downloading-and-all-that-jazz/ We are for some hardware so that we can run our mailing list engine on a separate box so as not to cause sysadmin grief when running multiple MTA's on the same OS instance. It's not that it's not possible to run such a setup but such things are ... http://blog.mumineen.org/2006/01/17/waiting-for-some-hardware/ Extract of mail traffic summary Per-Day Traffic Summary ... http://blog.mumineen.org/2005/12/04/impact-of-latest-sober-virus/