As you can see, i’ve redesigned GotChance.com completely. Comments and suggestions are welcome. From here on, i’ll be blogging quite frequently here, on web designing and web development. A couple of posts have been lined up already.

Also, i’m available for freelance projects. If you’d like to hire me, get in touch.

And finally, i’ve been working on a couple of web apps recently. I’ll be writing about them soon.

Hello everybody. It happens to be again and again. I blog consistently for some 6 months together. Then, for 6 months I don’t blog at all. Then, again I resume blogging. I don’t know why. And with this I’m resuming blogging :D

So, what was I doing all these days ? Actually I did a lot of useful things.

• Learnt Game programming in C++. I already was pretty proficient in C++. I began to use Allegro library. To test my skill, I recreated the first level of classical Mario. It is 80% functional. You don’t know how much excitement it gives you unless you develop your own game :)
• Began to learn Java. Everybody knows that it is one of the important languages to be learnt by every programmer.
• Learnt 3D designing. This one’s using Blender. I know the basics of it now. But am not using Blender much nowadays, because my system has very less memory. Gotta upgrade it soon.
• Bought a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, after selling my 5310. This touchscreen’s very cool.
• Watched a loooot of English movies. I’ve exhausted almost the entire list of IMDB’s Top 250. Why ? Deep inside I’ve the ambition to direct a movie :)
• Did a lot of freelancing. Most of them are PHP projects. Some XHTML works and some Logo designs. And am still doing. So, if you’re looking for a freelancer, don’t hesitate to contact me.
• Switched back to good ol’ Firefox from Google Chrome. A separate post coming up on why I did this.

So, from now on I’ll be blogging quite consistently. In the past, I covered mostly blogging related topics. From now, I’ll expand this and will be posting about anything Geeky. I assure you that it’ll be interesting.

One of the things that has been worrying me for long the link to the individual comments in Wordpress. The default structure of a link to a comment is :

http://POST-PERMALINK/#comment-COMMENT-ID

This is what it remains like on most of the Wordpress blogs. It wouldn’t look bad if you just has a few hundred blogs. But, the latest comment on the latest post (as of now) on Problogger.net has the ID 4452651.

So, I just wanted to change this thing. I wanted to has #comment-1 for the first comment and #comment-7 for the 7th comment and so on. I searched the web for a hack or a plugin, but in vain. (Let me know if one is available). So, I just figured out my own method, which I’m going to teach you. I made it as a hack for a theme, rather than a plugin because it needs you to edit your theme templates. But, as per the principles, you need not touch Wordpress’s core files.

Step 1 : Adding the 1, 2, 3 Increment

Open your comments.php file and search for the following :

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

And, change it to as follows :

<?php $i = 1; foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

Now, search for the immediate next occurrence of this :

<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>

And, change it to this :

<?php $i++; endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>

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I’m not a Christian here. But many of GotChance’s readers are. So, wish you all a Merry Merry Christmas. Hope you are all having a great time.

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