Prashant Parashar : Blog

Removing JSESSIONID from URLs for Spring Security 3.0+ applications

prashant — Fri, 04 May 2012 05:58:29 +0000

jsessionid in URLs look annoying, more so in search results. Disabling them from URL is just a configuration in your spring-security.xml file for Spring version 3.0 + : use the disable-url-rewriting=”true” in the security namespace for http tag. the http tag becomes: <security:http auto-config="false" disable-url-rewriting="true"> If you are not using http cofiguration and using FilterChainProxy, this [...]

A day with Indian e-commerce for my Inbox

prashant — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:09:37 +0000

My Inbox goes for a treat with India e-commerce everyday and here is a typical day with all these e-commerce deals and dealmakers! (personal mails masked intentionally in the picture. Oh yes, I do get personal mails) It all starts with… er wait… so yesterday ends with some late night surprises from Ferns & [...]

Came across this brilliant stuff on how to get Press Coverage/PR for Startups @dharmesh

prashant — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:16:56 +0000

PR for Startups - Great article Onstartups

Guess the website and be a part of the SEO Experiment!

prashant — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:15:19 +0000

This post is in continuation to this post on the SEO experiment. WTF is this SEO Experiment? I am experimenting changes to a fully keywords-based website to see the effects on the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and web-traffic of the website. You too can be a part of it, just guess the website from the description [...]

SEO… huh? An Experiment with SEO

prashant — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:10:14 +0000

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) was never my cup of tea so I thought why not try a bit? I was amazed to see the power of SEO in bringing huge (huge for an experiment) traffic. I decided to create a full experiment with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) from scratch. Got a fresh domain name – [...]

Shortest Horror Story

prashant — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:42:24 +0000

On a beautiful cold winter day, he was enjoying hot shower closing his eyes as if cherishing the waterfall. Suddenly his elbow hit something … … … …sending a chill down his spine … … and then the whole body! … … … horror had begun to take shape… … … … he opened his [...]

The year that was, a year that will be…

prashant — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:04:40 +0000

2011 – a year that was… splendid Had a wonderful year mixed with some great vacations, hyper-busy schedule, great times with family. Had couple of long vacations home doing nothing! Had no foreign travel which meant no security checks, no taking off shoes and belts! In 2011, I met more BIETians more frequently than I [...]

Park @ D-block Omicron 2

prashant — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:49:30 +0000

Park @ D-block Omicron 2, Greater Noida

Beautiful Art at Delhi Airport

prashant — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:16:00 +0000

Beautiful artwork at Delhi international Airport Terminal 3

Flowers at Motel on NH-58

prashant — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:41:00 +0000

Motel Cheetal Grand on NH 58 on the way to Roorke from Delhi