Saqib Ansari’s World

In November 2006, Google, Yahoo! and MSN joined forces to support a new industry standard for sitemaps: Sitemaps 0.90 (see MSN announcement here). As long as webmasters follow the protocol, they can ensure their sites are fully and consistently indexed across all the major search engines (a real step forward). This article is important for all those with missing or poorly ranked pages.

The official site for the joint venture is at http://www.sitemaps.org/ and contains a lot of info about the new standard and it’s syntax. What the site singularly fails to do is explain correctly how to submit your sitemap to the big three! The format suggested on the site of:

http://search-engine-url/ping?sitemap=your sitemap_url

does not currently work at any of the three sites! Until it does, this blog page provides instructions for how to (a) create your sitemap and (b) how to submit to each of the three search engines… Read the rest of this blog »

The StretchBlt function copies a bitmap from a source rectangle into a destination rectangle, stretching or compressing the bitmap to fit the dimensions of the destination rectangle, if necessary. Windows stretches or compresses the bitmap according to the stretching mode currently set in the destination device context.

Declare Function StretchBlt Lib “gdi32″ Alias “StretchBlt” (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal nWidth As Long, ByVal nHeight As Long, ByVal hSrcDC As Long, ByVal xSrc As Long, ByVal ySrc As Long, ByVal nSrcWidth As Long, ByVal nSrcHeight As Long, ByVal dwRop As Long) As Long Read the rest of this blog »

Hello and welcome to my world (The dream that came true) – a world crammed with computer issues, programming, and other generally creepy things. So be ready to go ahead. Please tie up your seatbelt and uptight your seat position, as this may be a jerky ride.

I started this blog as a place I could talk about things of my interest and opinions, and I’ll try to update this blog as much as possible. My major focus will be on Programming, Computer Issues but I may also discuss on current affairs Read the rest of this blog »