About
Site Information
Purpose
Most of the personal websites have now been filled with blogs, which mainly syndicate other content and publish details and thoughts about personal lives. Such content is useful for close friends and relatives, but contributes little back to the internet community as information to help others. This site, is not just a blog. It will also not be updated that frequently. I will post information here which I mostly write originally after a good deal of self research. I cannot say that everyone could gain by reading this site, but at least I will only publish data when I have something useful to say.
Scope
Most content on this site is related to computers and the internet, but I will also occasionally deviate to un-related concepts. I am a jack of several trades, but like to explore every field in greater depth, being usually out of curiosity. I document what I have learnt so that it acts as a future reference for me. Hence, the content here can be considered as useful bridging material between the beginner and intermediate/ advanced levels.
Site Design
The site is built on the fantastic Drupal CMS , or more precisely PressFlow Drupal
, which is standard Drupal with a few performance hacks.
The idea for this site is to express useful information mainly through words. Images are used only where relevant and to try and convey a message. I keep icekin.com as small and 'light' as possible to minimize bandwidth usage and loading/rendering times. Another goal is to try and make the site 100% XHTML strict valid with full compliance to WAG 508 standards. I have not fully achieved that yet.
About the author
My name is Vaishnav, I currently live in Melbourne, Australia. I've traveled the world a fair bit, lived in 6 countries, visited about 12+. I studied engineering, but started as a full time coder writing engineering software. So, I am a bit of a geek and love working with any sort of technology. On this site, I mainly write about Software including Drupal , SugarCRM
and CiviCRM
.
I have also experimented with a number of other CMS including Angeline, PHP Nuke, Post Nuke, Limbo, Xoops etc., the actual list being quite long.
I generally use the nick 'icekin' everywhere. I used to play a lot of Dominion . The Icekin is one type of race
you can play. I used to play as icekin all the time. Now, I don't play Dominion anymore, but the name stuck.
You can read more about me on one of the below links:
