Curious n cocky

Google API has a BUG

2008-11-19T01:51:00.000-08:00

Recently i was checking Google federated login API implementation with Zoho. While using Google login facility with Zoho I encountered a BIG error. I logged in to Zoho with "Sign in using Google" facility. After using it when i logged out of Zoho, I found that i was still logged in in my Google account. Looks like this api has logged me in my Google account also in the background. This is a BIG bug in a country like India where maximum internet users use public places for internet access.

A day on Social Web and OpenSocial with google

2008-10-20T10:30:00.000-07:00

On Oct 17th, google hosted a seminar on Social Web and Opensocial api's. The Le' Meridian environment and quality of seminar was satisfactory. The Seminar was invite only.
It started with introductory note on social web and need of opensocial by Rajdeep Dua. The comes the next seminar much awaited "differences between 0.7 and 0.8 apis" by Anash Oommen. A very decent presentation by Anash.
With a small tea break a presentation on "shindig Architecture" by Rajdeep Dua who tried to make it a very complex topic as much as he can. This followed by a more complex presentation on "OpenSocial Compliance" ( God knows whether topic was complex or presentation :) ).
Then comes the lunch session but which was quite decent :). Immediately after lunch session Code Lab started ( I hate after lunch classes :( ) and team tried it best to make as complex as it can. It was a fail for me as my shindig php version was too adamant to run at all. I will dig it more as already got few interesting ideas in my mind.
In the end there were two presentation by google partners ( partners ? ). First one was by Impetus Technologies and was fair enough. Second one was by Satyam and the performance and content was dangerously below average. It was interesting experience for me ( for most of the others it was just another networking opportunity :) ). But overall I will wait for next google event.

Mashlogic - Take back the web

2008-10-12T11:18:00.000-07:00

Incubated by Bessemer Venture Partners is now open to private beta. It claims to inter- connect web globally in real sense by hyper linking the content to relevant information. MashLogic is a Firefox extension provides several mashes which user can configure according to his choice. The content in web page will be hyper linked to relevant information as per mashes configuration.
Whole idea is to provide user choice specific content delivery. Looks promising :).

Beta invitation can be joined at - http://www.mashlogic.com/

Amazee - Connect and Collaborate on shared goals

2008-09-29T05:54:00.000-07:00

Amazee gives you a platform where you can get a ecosystem of similar liking people to evolve and develop a project.

you can -

1- start a project of your choice and people having same goal can join you to make your project a successful project.

2- can join others project if you find it interesting.

There exist different collaboration tools such as after starting project ask for alliance or join and sponsor other's project.

Whole idea looks promising but they need to do lot of work on application UI and performance issues.

jQuery and Microsoft

2008-09-29T00:13:00.000-07:00

Is Microsoft going open source way ?

jQuery and Microsoft

Socialbrowse - A collaborative view of web

2008-09-28T11:08:00.000-07:00

Socialbrowse is a collaborative way of seeing a web page. It has three tools to share a webpage with your friends on socialbrowse.

1- A sidebar which shows latest shared links and comments.

2- A comment tool with which you can share your comments on a webpage with your socialbrowse friends.

3- Share the link of current visited page with your friends and they can also leave their comments on that page.

There are also share point system to show the popularity of a shared link.

An Indian startup company

2008-03-02T09:58:00.000-08:00

In an old essay Paul grahm has written three basic requirements for a successful startup.
1-to start with good people
2- to make something customers actually want
3- to spend as little money as possible.

Lets analyse these three points in Indian context.

Very first point is a problem in India. Who is good people ? If you want a real good software engineer then you have only one option in India is to hire peoplw from IIT's. But seeing salary centric work culture it will be a huge pressure on small pocket of a startup. So what is the alternative ? this the point where most the startup fail in India. They go for intermediate level of programmers ( 1-2 year exp) came out from horrable knowledge mines ( read new breed of engineering collages).
Solution - Go for freshers and harnesh their infinte capacity to work on your dream project.

The second point is well known fact whether you are starting a comapny or your PHD. You need to know which existing problem you are going to solve and how it will effect the masses ( read interest of customers).
Solution - Define your problem first before starting to find a solution.

Third point is the most important for a startup. A startup always has a small money to start their idea ( they have only one thing big is ideas). So they have to spend minimum ( read wisely). It is very important for startup to be always a extra care full about where they spend money means a single penny spent is adding a value to company or not.
Few examples are a well decorated office is less important than a laptop for every employee to work in a flexible working hours, a yearly outing a must for a small team etc.

So inthe last as Paul Grahm has rightly said "Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed".

Major patch release for CodeMunch v0.4

2008-01-18T11:44:00.000-08:00

CodeMunch team has released a major patch for v0.4. It has fixed and implemented many bugs and enhancement related to Groups module. New flow of group module will give a short summary of various group activities to anonymous user also. CodeMunch team has come up with a more userfriendly UI for userlist page. It will help user to find profile of similar domain. It implemented the CodeMunch user's demand for keyword based search.
CodeMunch team is now gearing for mega 0.5 release.

CodeMunch - A resume and tech profile builder

2008-01-11T01:12:00.000-08:00

It has been a long time when I wrote anything for my blog. Friends, i was busy in trying to build a new social networking web application with help of dedicated and hardworking team. I feel proud to inform that we have already released 4 beta version of CodeMunch.
CodeMunch assures a more serious version of social networking site which will ensure not only informal chit chat but also it will build your resume and upgrade your technical knowledge with help of different tech forums.

Learning from Shriya

2007-08-19T12:21:00.000-07:00

Today my 9 month child taught me great lesson. While playing with me, she accidentally put her hand on F12 key of my laptop. It opened the firebug window. Till now i was unaware of this option. This incident has taught me that by learning the optimal use of all short keys i can save a lot of valuable time of mine.

List of common keyboard shortcuts can be found on this page -
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard

Sixty years and we as a citizen

2007-08-15T01:55:00.000-07:00

Today is diamond celebration year for Indian independence day. In India 60th year in a persons life marks of major change in life. It is a sign of achieving a full maturity where you can see and taste the fruits of all your hard work performed in life. Similarly as a nation 60 years expects maturity in responsible behavior and culture in citizens. But two recent experiences shows that as a nation, somehow we failed to achieve that maturity. Today where all kinds of media shouting against govt departments apathy towards aam janata ( common citizen) problem, shockingly my recent exp shows that problem lies somewhere in basic culture in us.

Incident no 1- Few days back i tried to get a DL from local RTO office. I gone through all the neccesary steps before applying for DL like enrolement to a driving school and then applied for LL. Till here life was smooth, then comes the difficult part when i applied for DL. By all the rules i had gonethrough the tests as per the rto norms and also cleared it ( as my motor driving school instructor shown me original papers). But looks like my driving school didnt pay proper fees to rto officer ( which he has fixed inaddition to govt fixed fees) so he returned all the papers and asked us to gothrough the test again. We accepeted this also and gone through the test again but still i am waiting for any response for my DL ( as they are still settling the money after mid year fee hike RTO officer).

Incident no 2- I applied for a broadband connection to Tataindicom. After fifteen days, they were still confused that my residential area comes in their network area or not. Looks like VSNL and Tataindicom has different views. So their one customer care executive informed me that i will get my money back and other is saying that i will get the connection.
This shows that its not the difference of govt sector and pvt sector. It is the shear mentality and work culture of us as citizen That is making us slow as a nation.

Trillion world

2007-05-02T05:26:00.000-07:00

India became 11th country in the trillion group. Growing GDP and decreasing doller-rupee ratio are breaking several myths about Indian economy.

Riding the stars

2006-12-10T11:09:00.000-08:00

In less than two months Sunita williams has proved that we can break any myth about weak race, weak sex and under developed sub continent. It is the will power with that any one can achieve any hights in life.

FOSS.IN 2006

2006-11-30T01:17:00.000-08:00

This year foss started with low key note. It was inaugarated by Atul chitnis. Atul chitnis was the organizer of this event. He is big advocate of open source in India. There were certainly few good talks there. One of the good talk i remember was about commercial open source. This event is a good show of activities of open source in India. But similar to last year, this year also the whole spirit of this event is marred by the google agenda of "poaching people from same fraternity". This event should be the mouth peice of open source but Google is using it for "easy poaching of emplyees from other open source companies" with help of money. This can be felt by seeing long queue in front of google stall for registration. Hope they will have better sense of responsibilty in the next FOSS.

10% Innovation

2006-10-11T01:04:00.000-07:00

I am really impressed by google's 20% innovation strategy. It gives space to an individual programmer to innovate and show his skills in his area or topic of choice. I will highly reccomend to new startup to adopt 10% innovation strategy. This will give startup a good amount of time to work on their project and simultanously give programmer also a fair amount of time to work for their choice of topic. Always remember that if google wouldn't have adopted this then they couldn't have develope adsense, google suggest and orkut like products. These products require efforts similar a full company product.

Making mark in every field

2006-10-10T21:40:00.000-07:00

Today again India showed to world that they have enough potential to make a mark in every field of life. Kiran desai won this year's booker prize for her book " Inheritence of loss ". This book describes an emotioanal saga of families who are shifted to west and now trying to balance between east and west cultures.

Scale and Quality

2006-10-09T11:40:00.000-07:00

The new driving force of global economy are scale and quality. The challange is now to have scale that is global in size without compromising the quality. The capital is not a issue now in today's global economy. My experience of last couple of project management says that today clients are more concerned about timely execution of projects and quality of work than the cost of the project. So, message is clear that quality is non negotiable. There is no dearth of capital. Companies, who can show management bandwidth to balance scale and quality will be the new force of technology world.

Solution for puzzle12-4-06

2006-05-06T23:35:00.001-07:00

I found this puzzle on this site. As i promised to publish the solution for this puzzle after 15 days( I think i am late little bit ), i am giving the URL of same site to read the solution for puzzle.

Here

cURL

2006-04-23T12:00:00.001-07:00

The cURL libraries provide a nice interface for file transfers to and from a webserver. They have support for a wide variety of protocols (like HTTPS) giving them an edge over built-in PHP functions like fsockopen(). The libraries are thread-safe, IPv6 compatible, and will work with any technology that is built on top of HTTP. Whether you are building simple script to fetch a web page, or a secure payment gateway, leveraging the functions built into cURL can save a lot of time.
Definition:
cURL stands for "Client URLs", and was developed by Daniel Stenberg in 1998 as a command line tool. libcurl is a portable library that provides an easy interface to the cURL functionality.
Both cURL and libcurl can transfer files using a wide variety of protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, LDAP, DICT, TELNET and FILE.
The cURL libraries are truly open source, with an MIT/X derivative license.
Installation:
From PHP version 4.2.3 on, you need a cURL version of at least 7.9.0. From PHP version 4.3.0 on, you need a cURL version of at least 7.9.8.
Linux-After installing cURL (./configure, make, make install), PHP must be recompiled to include cURL support (--with-curl).
If cURL support is enabled, the phpinfo() function will display it in its output.
Windows – A good article can be found here
On windows check for path of php.ini path, for windows default path is C://windows so make sure that you are making changes to correct php.ini file.

Try to solve this

2006-04-12T02:22:00.000-07:00

Three people enter the room, each with a hat on their head. There are two colors of hats: red and blue; they are assigned randomly. Each person can see the hats of the two other people, but they can't see their own hats. Each person can either try to guess the color of their own hat or pass. All three do it simultaneously, so there is no way to base their guesses on the guesses of others. If nobody guesses incorrectly and at least one person guesses correctly, they all share a big prize. Otherwise they all lose.

One more thing: before the contest, the three people have a meeting during which they decide their strategy. What is the best strategy?

Total time to solve this puzzle is 15 days. After fifteen days you can check this blog to get the correct answer.

just solve it

2005-11-29T23:47:00.000-08:00

This is the puzzel i got it at Google stall in FOSS 2005.

You have a set of five numbers. When adding togather each of the ten possible pairs, you get the
following sums:

0,3,10,13,20,20,23,30,33,40.

what are the five original numbers ?

time - 1 hr
total marks - 10 ( 8-procedure you have adopted + 2 -answer)