Twitter background generator version 0.1

September 18th, 2009 § 0 comments § permalink

Working on a very basic twitter background generator, right now focusing on how to get the sidebar width right. It is very much under use at my twitter handle @dipankarsarkar (http://twitter.com/dipankarsarkar). The core idea is to be abe to communicate more information about what i do as a person using the background image. Some features that I personally want are

  • Transparency for the sidebar – The image underneath should be visible, right now its a grey opaque color.
  • A right sidebar – After some research , I figured out that the safest and optimal width to cater for is 1200px, with the core content on the left sidebar though. More thoughts on that as I deploy some new changes.
  • Better fonts – Although new fonts / languages can be deployed. The code is not flexible enough right now to add new fonts.

That is a long enough list for the day :) , attaching the background with this as well. Let me know in case having cool backgrounds excite you.

Nginx upload module – efficient uploads

August 20th, 2009 § 0 comments § permalink

I was just having a look at some forums and saw some people talking about how to handle large parallel uploads. I have been having a look at this plugin which comes with NGINX and played around with it. Extremely useful if you use nginx in your stack and are getting killed by massive uploads.

Have fun!!

http://www.grid.net.ru/nginx/upload.en.html