Alpine and dottie
and now tell me what is so special about these two words ?
sure you can google up but knowing these two words *really* tells how quick you are to grab the latest from tech world
Yeah ! i remember one of my friend shagan telling me about this sometime ago.Every major company tries to be at least the second ranked in their field and that too only because they can’t buy out the first ranked.
It was always important to keep that leadership to survive .Google has always bought out bright startups and their founders loved it .But somehow now i feel skeptic about this whole process .
What is google trying to do by buying out so many startups ?
Bring their technology in to google perhaps but most of the products they have bought are in direct competition to their home products .
another question ,if they had similar products ,what is it that google was buying from the startups ?
their product or people. If its just people then isn’t it a bad news for the people who have fought so much for creating that product which so many have liked ?
I’m sure people will remember what happened with dodgeball founders.They opined that google killed their products.I fear the same might happen with feedburner and doubleclick.Both of which are in direct competition to google’s own advertising platform adsense.
Will google kill these products by not allocating time and resources to them ? so as to keep adsense the only and the leader in web advertising now that Yahoo’s panama hasn’t been a great success .
Google today is a huge brand and their ” Do no Evil ” is still true for most part of theirs but this fear just doesn’t go .
Its only time that can answer and i leave it upon it .
[tags]google,startups[/tags]
yeah ! i am just done with the implementation of openid for my blog :-)
first ,what is an openid ?
OpenID is a URL based identity system. An OpenID identity is simply a URL, and all the OpenID specification does is provide a way to securely prove that you own that URL.
Unlike most identity systems, OpenID is completely decentralized. The end-user may choose whichever server they are most comfortable with, and may even run their own if they choose.
how does it help ?
It helps a lot especially if you use a lot of websites and try and comment on many ,openid ensures you have to use just one login across all those servers provided they support openid .It facilitates easy account creation and more identity secure presence on the web as no one else can access your sever .
How to get started ?
First create an openid account ,most popular is myopenid.com,when u r done with that you should have somethin like username.openid.net
now add this to your blog just before the </head>
<link href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" rel="openid.server" />
<link href="http://yoururl.myopenid.com/" rel="openid.delegate" /> <meta http-equiv="X-XRDS-Location" content="http://yoururl.myopenid.com/xrds" />
and you are done ,you can now use this identity to comment or login to any site that supports openid
some popular ones are drupal,wordpress and many others ,the list is growing fast as more and more accounts keep coming up for every person .
If you are in wordpress and want to use openid in ur blog then you need to grab this plugin
or to enable openid comments in your blog check this plugin
and now if you have openid, you could so easily login :) with that and minimal registration !!
and to see it coming up in your comments page ,add this snippet to your comments.php in your themes folder ,somewehere above the HTML comment form
<p>
<input type="text" name="openid_url" id="openid_url_comment_form" size="22" tabindex="0"/>
<label for="openid_url_comment_form"><small>OpenID Identity</small></label>
</p>
and you should be able to use both openid and anonymous comments :)
[tags]openid,wordpress[/tags]
Ruby is fast becoming a popular language and ruby on rails is already the default choice for web2.0 apps .one such very popular example is twitter .
Hacketyget is a very simple and easy to use tool for those wanting to learn ruby the easy way and their slogan ” A blog in 6 lines ” is true
The above picture is how your minimal blog interface looks like :-)
and the code is even simpler
1:
2: blog = Table('MyBlog').recent(10)
3: Web.popup do
4: title("Add a blog entry")
5: editline("Title")
6: editbox()
7: buttons("cancel", "save")
8: puts blog
9: end
i would suggest people wanting to learn ruby this tool ,its easy and gets you all the basics you need from a language
download this tool from here
and for the one’s wanting to try it in linux
here it is
1: sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0
2: tar -zxvf hacketyhack*
3: cd hacketyhack-0.L LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox:. ./hacketyhack
Technorati Tags: ruby, hacking
Thiagaraja college of engineering ,one of the premier institutions in southern india has bagged PCQuest’s IT innovation award for their TCENet project .Which is web based tool for students of the institute to communicate ,share and also use the intranet facilities .And the best part ,all of these have been created only using FOSS tools.Something that i feel very good about and we should be proud of it too.
The entire project was student handled hence a reason for even more prasie :-) .Over the few years ,as a member of GLUG-T i have been seeing a rapid growth and lot of activities from the college and we have learnt a lot from them from organising classes to planning a install fest .
I have been lucky to be in touch with Bala from the college and a few others whose blog i regularly visit .
It would be worth to keep in touch with these people and their glug .
some other blogs from their college that i regularly visit .
Geethapriya Krithika ( also a SUN ambassador ) and a solaris guy ananth .
Also check out their mailing list in case you want to join
and for those who haven’t been checking my college website would be surprised to see a new looking homepage that obviously looks great and also a facility to use the intranet sites or access intranet resources from outside the campus .
[tags]glugot,tce,pcquest[/tags]
