Orchestration of thoughts

Orchestration of thoughts

Maheshwaran Subramaniya  //  A computer science engineer and mac geek, who pour thoughts on technology, computer science, mathematics and other thoughtful stuffs.

I'm blogging at My Mind Leaks ( http://mymindleaks.com )

Jan 8 / 10:32am

Restructured my blog URL patterns

Today I've restructured my blog's URL pattern to give a better idea of what the content is about and make it sensible that it's a HTML content.

Previously

http://www.mymindleaks.com/<category>/some-good-post/

now changed to

http://www.mymindleaks.com/blog/archives/some-good-post.html

So, what is the big deal in this?
  1. ".html" gives a feel that it's a HTML file content and not a folder, unlike the previous link
  2. /blog/ gives a feel that it's a blog
  3. /archives/ gives a feel that the post is a archive of the blog and it's not sticky. I mean sticky is, none of the post is going to stay on the front page of the blog, like the option of "archive" in your mail software. Non-archived mail stays in your inbox ( front-page ).
Since, I'm using wordpress, I'm forced to spend some time to find some plug-ins to achieve my target and make my life comfortable and also doesn't make my readers annoying by throwing 404 pages on their face. I found a plug-in by googling to change to new pretty-urls or permalinks ( this is what wordpress calls them ). Thanks to Dean Lee for this plugin. It's quite helpful and saved my time in rewriting .htaccess files and other hiccups.
Filed under  //  mymindleaks   permalinks   pretty urls   search engine   url   wordpress  
Jan 7 / 7:46am

Major update to the posterous blog

Today I did a major update to my posterous account. Changed the blog title as "Orchestration of thoughts" and updated my posterous blog id from maheshsubramaniya.posterous.com to smw.posterous.com. Thanks for the feature which decouples the account name  of posterous with the blog name. Now, my friends feel that smw is much better to type than maheshsubramaniya. Also, I've created a sub-domain ms.mymindleaks.com, to access the posterous blog.
Filed under  //  mymindleaks   posterous