Jalaj P. Jha Technical & Miscellaneous Ramblings

27Mar/072




Custom CSS Design

Today I could no longer suppress my temptation for going for the Custom CSS upgrade… and now my blog features a pre-mature release of the new design. There are a lot of modifications still to be done, but that I will take later.

23Mar/077




Latex on WordPress : A Primer

Yesterday I came across a post Math for the Masses on Wordpress.com, announcing the avaibility of Latex on Wordpress.com . I should learn it, I thought, and started searching for good tutorials to get me started. I got good ones, particularly Short Math Guide for Latex by Michael Downes, that helped me to start. However all sources were not relevant for Latex as implemented on Wordpress.com, (i.e. most of codes on beginning pages did not work on Wordpress.com). I searched hard to find a tutorial that could start from start, and couldn’t. Now that I have started learning successfully, I though if I could fill this gap.

21Mar/071




What is JSON?

I appreciate Google for one thing that after it starts using new technologies, people, like me, get to know and start to learn about it. When I got my first account with gmail, I could not stop praising how JavaScript was used there in its best way. Earlier JavaScript was mostly seen being utilized for frills as mouse trails etc or for validation of form data. Google showed to the world the power of JavaScript. I am not just talking about the AJAX, but also about how the whole interface was designed allowing hot keys and other features driven by JavaScript.