Kapil's Take

The number 1 unacceptable blunder of website deployment is people not turning off the display of errors. I just came across one two minutes ago. People, when you put your website live make sure others dont see any kind of errors that no one but the programmer should be using during development. I’m not talking about I.E. crapping out on the user and I’m not even talking about 404 errors(no to say that is acceptable – I know I’m guilty of this one).

Why is it unacceptable? Number 1 reason is that you will lose credibility of your site. Second is you are exposing what’s under the hood – why this one is bad is a whole other story.

This mostly happens with sites running on php. Make sure “display_errors” is set to “OFF” in the php config file. What is even more surprising to me is that some of the sites that have errors, and I’m not just talking about php sites, are actually well reputed sites! I’m not going to mention any names here, but they are there and if you’ve ever used the Internet, I’m sure you’ve come across a few already.

The word “Kesario” literally means ‘The Orange One’, but its significance is far more profound. Kesario signifies courage, valor, positive attitude, and the rising sun that ends darkness and the beginning of something better.

Kesario.com is a muti-phased online social networking project. We are currently in the first phase which aims to:
Connect – connect people of different races, color, caste, creed and age
Conquer – conquer differences, distances and disruption
Create – create friendships, communities, albums, events and more.
Communicate – communicate with old friends and new, form communities, upload pictures, tag and comment to share memories or create new ones.
Culture ‚Äì use technology to bring people together. Be part of the ‘oneness’ theme that Kesario wants its members to be part of and become a Kesario!

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The above is right from http://www.kesario.com/public?what_is_kesario

After graduating in 2007 with specialized honors bachelors in Computer Science I worked at Accenture, an IT consulting company for about a year as a performance test engineer. I worked there for exactly a year and then I left that job to pursue few things that I’ve always had plans on doing – venturing out on my own. Trying to create something of my own or start up my own company.

So I started working on something that I had had ideas on since maybe second year of university. As time went by I started morphing my project into something that I thought was an excellent way to introduce it to the Internet in the form of an online social networking site that I called Kesario. I launched kesario.com in April 2009.

Remember (if you read my previous posts this month) that I had said that I was spending too much time reinventing the wheel. Well, I did spend a lot of time making and building EVERYTHING from scratch – maybe a bit too much…haha

I had planned on releasing ‘communities’ module before September, 2009, but there has been a few delays. But I got some real cool stuff coming in – so please stay tuned.

My ultimate goal is a bit bold, and maybe that is the reason I’m not expressing it here. Ultimately, after almost 6 months, I’m at a point where I may have to shut down the site or I’ll have to do something really drastic to boost its popularity.

The site itself is pretty basic (at the moment), but that will change (very soon), because that has to change. The few people that I was expecting to support me on this unfortunately have shied away. But then I have already promised myself that I will devote so much time improving myself that I will not have time to criticize others (“The Optimist Creed”).

I really have a lot of work to do and I honestly have lots of plans and I am doing so much work for kesario.com. I hope I can live up to my word. If you are reading this and you are a web developer or a programmer and are willing to help out, or pass on some advice, please contact me; and even to anyone who feels like passing a comment, do so without hesitation. I will be adding some cool stuff to Kesario, but in the meantime please signup and invite your friends, family, co-workers over.
Thank you so much .