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Monday Morning Blues [14 Dec 09]

I am back with Monday Morning Blues this week. This week will hopefully be a scorcher as we have plenty of posts in the pipeline and also will be doing a lot more of  research and development on what the new avatar for Devils Workshop should be.

Help us Redesign Devils Workshop

Many of you might be aware that we are testing out some new ideas to redesign DW. The idea is to keep the functional part of the website similar to the one it is now but make changes to make it more attractive and helpful. We have got some very interesting ideas through your comments and hope to get more of them. You can either send in your ideas by commenting on this post or read the original post regarding the re-design and comment on it.

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Writing on Crictalks

You might be aware that Crictalks is also a part of rtBlogs. We want it to be a multi-authored blog which discusses cricket and various aspects about it. Its a blog to let in on peoples opinion and anything related to cricket. We are also working on spicing it up a bit so stay tuned. 😉

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Help us re-design Devils Workshop

Every now and then winds of change come to Devils Workshop and presently we are in one such situation. After getting some random suggestions and feedback from our readers we have decided to make changes to Devils Workshop’s design.

So now the Devils (rtCamp Developers and Web Designers) are all in the workshop implementing ideas and testing them.

Your opinions matter…

We are fiercely proud of our readers and contributors as they constantly keep suggesting changes through email or random comments. We have kept some suggestions in mind before taking this road to redesign, but we want more opinions and ideas from you. Best way to do this is to comment to this post. Rest assured we will be monitoring the comments very closely for ideas.

If you have an idea, as suggestion do write in a comment to let us know and we will try to work with those ideas. If you do not have any ideas then the best way to help us would be to write in what you like in the present design through your comments. 🙂

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Monday Morning Blues [30 Nov 09]

A quick ‘Monday Morning Blues‘ post today as a lot has been discussed and dissected about our Blogger$ of the Month Contest. We have got a lot of new ideas and suggestions from some of our authors and readers along with some brain storming sessions at rtBlogs. Some of them you will see implemented very soon. 🙂

Blogger$ of the Month

With today being the last day in the month of November I think it is ideal for me to let you know that next month’s Blogger$ of the Month will undergo some more changes. We are still calculating the scores for last months winners and the changes will be detailed in a post sometime in the following week.

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Monday Morning Blues [23rd Nov 09]

This week I am back with ‘Monday Morning Blues‘ series of posts. A lot of things have happened in the last 2 weeks and the major change at Devils Workshop is that our contest ‘Blogger of the Month‘ has now become ‘Blogger$ of the Month‘.

Blogger$ of the Month

We will have three winners instead of one. The one who is rated 1st will get $75, rated 2nd will get $50 and finally the guest author who is rated 3rd gets $25. 🙂

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First Time Authors

A lot of new writers who have started to contribute to DW often submit posts which are sometimes copied from other sources. Devils Workshop has a strict policy regarding its content. There is one simple rule and that rule is your content has to be original. There have been a couple of instances when someone has reproduced an article from a magazine. This is not something we allow either.

Adsense Account

Some authors have many questions regarding Adsense account being configured for DW. We earn revenues from our Adsense account for which we use the DW’s URL. If you are creating an adsense account and for that you need to submit a URL then that URL has to be either your of your blog or even a friends blog. You cannot give DW’s URL as that will get rejected. We are now allowed to give DW’s URL to be shared with Adsense.

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BuddyPress Kaltura Media Component for BuddyPress version 1.1

Important: All information regarding this project is moved to new portal – mediabp.com. Comments are closed here. You can use this new support forum.

This post is to announce a big update to BuddyPress Kaltura Media Plugin which makes it compatible with BuddyPress version 1.1.x.

This feature was in so much demand that we added support for it ahead of time. It was originally planned for release towards the end of this month.

This new release have widget support for:

  • Recently Added Pictures
  • Recently Added Videos

You can configure number of pictures/videos that will show.

You can see widget in action here – http://bp.rtcamp.in/bp1.1/

You can download new release from this page.  Look for highest version in 1.1.x series. As of now its 1.1.

Link: WordPress Repo Page | Download Page | Direct zip file link for v1.1

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Monday Morning Blues [09th Nov 09]

Here comes Monday and it starts a new week for us here at rtBlogs. The previous week has been quite a busy week with the launch of our new blog WpVeda. Also a post I have written at DW got referred by a reputed tech blog website called Computer World. 🙂

WpVeda: A new blog about WordPress

WpVeda is our new blog on rtBlogs network and dedicated to WordPress. Why wordpress you might ask? But this is a blog which will not cover daily news about WordPress instead will be a playground for ideas and projects around WordPress.

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The concept of WpVeda germinated with an idea to have an internal wiki for rtCamp employees. We felt later that giving our developers a public forum to showcase their talents would be more inspiring and hence now we have WpVeda.

Pleasant Surprise

At the cost of looking like I am blowing my own trumpet I must share with you that Deepak Jain last week noticed that a post I wrote on DW about Microsoft Security Essentials was featured with credits in the popular tech blog Computer World. It was shared as a part of various views on Security Essentials by Richi Jennings a independent consultant who writes for Computer World.

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We did not get a many posts from our guest authors for DW last week, so in this section I have included a couple of posts from WpVeda which you might find interesting along with a post of mine which has got most comments over the last week.

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WpVeda – New Blog in Our Network [WordPress]

Checkout WpVeda – new blog in our network which is dedicated to everything that is related to wordpress.

This is long awaited blog in our blog network since WordPress is the technology our company rtCamp works on and WordPress is the blogging platform which powers all blogs in our network!

Like all other blogs in our network this blog is also a AdSense revenue sharing blog. What makes this blog extra special is that, this is the blog where rtCamp will be focusing in near future.

More details about WpVeda can be found in its welcome post as well as about page.

Link: WpVeda

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Welcome To WpVeda!

Welcome To WpVeda – another blog in rtBlogs Network! 🙂

This blog is dedicated to wordpress and everything related to wordpress – the blogging platform which changed course of our lives forever. You can read more about this blog here.

Whats the big deal about this new blog on WordPress!

As part of our client projects and our addiction for open-source technology, we at rtCamp develop lots of wordpress themes, plugins and hacks everyday.

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Through WpVeda we will share our free and GPL based work with community from which we took a lot. We already have more than 6 wordpress/mu/buddypress plugins and bunch of free wordpress themes lined up for release. So you can expect a lot of good and free stuff on WpVeda in coming weeks.

You can also get free help from wordpress professionals who will be writing for this blog.

Community Blogging & Revenue Sharing…

Like other blogs in our network, this blog is already Google Adsense revenue sharing enabled one. If you already have an account at Devils Workshop or at any other blog in our network, please proceed to dashboard and start posting. You will need to configure AdSense separately for WpVeda and for almost every blog in our network since each blog has unique designs which affect Adsense ad-slot settings heavily.

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If you haven’t joined our blog network yet, you can do so by registering here. Its free & quick!

Credits…

WpVeda logo was designed by Dnyanesh Mankar as part of logo-design contest organized on Devils Workshop. WpVeda theme is designed by our designer Rohit Maloo, who was referred to rtCamp by Akshay Raje. If you are looking for full-time wordpress jobs, you can check this!

Do let us know your feedback and suggestions. We will try our best to serve everything you want on wordpress here! 🙂

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Monday Morning Blues [2nd Nov 09]

Yet another Monday is here and we have some announcements to make along with telling you what is new on DW.

First things first it has been a pretty good October for rtBlogs. Facebooknol our blog dedicated to Facebook has been doing quite well, and slowly but surely moving upwards. Sauravjit has been doing a stellar job there.

Blogger of the Month

We are still checking and rechecking the scores for Blogger of the month for October. But many guest authors had questions on how the ratings are calculated. Every post you contribute on an blog on rtBlogs will get a rating and it all adds up for winning Blogger of the Month. Feel free to give relevant posts on Facebooknol, Orkut Diary, Crictalks and obviously Devils Workshop. 🙂

Also I can tell you that next month Blogger of the Month winner can expect a surprise coming his/her way. 😉

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Adieu to InsideOrkut – Greatest Orkut Blog Ever!

One of the greatest and first blog dedicated to orkut – InsideOrkut has been officially closed by its founder Darnell Clayton.

Darnell and his InsideOrkut inspired many geeks to start dedicated Orkut blogs. Gaurav Dua’s OrkutPlus is most notable of all of them. Darnell was the first person to tell me to go for professional blogging. I am really grateful to Darnell for his suggestions which transformed my life.

Darnell Clayton will be now continuing his blogging tryst at his personal website(blog) – DarnellClayton.com and blogherald – a very famous blog.

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Darnell Clayton is also a space enthusiast which is evident by his writing at colony world, a blog dedicated to highlight technological which will have impact on space exploration. Its also evident from his shared items in Google Reader! 😉

You can find Darnell on Orkut here. Once upon a time his Orkut scrapbook served a great pull of Orkut related tips & tricks. In fact, I wrote Orkutfeeds to monitor scrapbook of people like Darnell!

What will happen to all those great posts on InsideOrkut…

This is first question everyone must be asking. InsideOrkut has enormous following.  12000+ subscribers, 790 Google Friend Connect followers and tons of active commentators.

All posts will remain as it is as confirmed by Darnell in his last post on InsideOrkut. There will be no more posts but he will keep answering your genuine comments in future.

We wish success and great future for Darnell and his other blogs. 🙂