Twitter was always fun and now iam starting to do some things with it .
Inspired from Myles ,but his work was in ruby and i dont know much of it and iam lot comfortable with python .
so here is how you can get all the cricket updates of india matches right on your mobile when you are out roaming or on your gtalk while the cricket sites are banned in office .
- Login to your twitter account at http://twitter.com
- go to http://twitter.com/meninblue and choose the follow option
- or if you are logged in to your gmail,gtalk then give ” Follow meninbue” command and you should be receiving my updates
- And yes if you want to have the scores on your mob ,then dont forget to give out the phone details in the account section :-)
And i must warn you ,this script runs every 2 min so incase you dont want to be spammed ,follow only when you are comfortable with it !
and thanks to sp2hari for helping out with html parsing and 2s for telling me about XPATH ,i figured out html parsing is lot tougher than XPATH and would definitely recommend it more than html parsers !.
And yes ,dont be surprised if some posts are truncated ,twitter allows only 140 chars and so i had to truncate the commentary else, it wont get posted !
PS:the libraries used are twitter,urllib,urllib2,sgmlib and XPATH ,source code will be up here soon,or if u want it then mail me at theyaga@gmail.com. will mail u the code
UPDATE: The feed and scores were taken from Plusmo services .
Hello All,
Little things sometimes leave impressions that urges you to do something about it .My recent talks with people who run these home for special god’s own children are urging me to contribute .
Contribution that can be sustained even if at some point i were to leave or someone who can take it full time .
I must accept as HoneyBee pointed out udavum and other popular organizations atleast have established enough funding channels so that they will never fall short of money .But there are countless little struggling homes who are trying to serve the same needy poot but lack of exposure and lack of funding channels us hampering them .This is the case with hundreds of orphanage home and i am starting to believe it is also my duty to help people i share the world with help provide others a better chance to live their life .
And i did talk to a couple of people and i tried explaining to them ,all of us are net savvy and we know what internet can do .If we cannot donate money or enough time to help those children i think we can use the internet to give the exposure that can may be bring them to people who won’t mind spending their money for helping special homes.
We call it ProjectDiscover and the below points are what we aim to do .
1. Visit any of the ailing special homes ,talk to the people there ,about its history ,number of inmates,founder ,what work they do and what are their future plans and also their current needs ( be it a building or set of benches or a roof thats yet to be built ) .
2. Profile everything with a camera ( snaps/videos) and write about them on a website ( blog ) and make them publicly available .
3.Give out enough information on the website so that anyone interested can easily find a way to donate them and also explain to them the incentives of donating money .Like in udavum ,If i were to donate a school bag to a child ,then i would be sent a photo of the child with the bag . Would be great isn’t it ?
4. Also create a place where the children can even voice out their opinion .
Ofcourse one man can’t take this up ,it will require a strong team that doesn’t mind doing it .I personally hope to start off by visitng blind school just opposite to the G.H and to the Orphanage Near Vayalur Murugan Temple and to Thiruvellarai Old age Home .
I will do that once i reach trichy and just after my sem exams ending on nov 29 .
Any company ? or suggestions atleast ?
if you are interested then do get in touch we can atleast start off in a small way and help some :-)
I understand ,its probably a little too big at this point ,but would like to know if people can join and may be we could help some ?
your thoughts and opinions ?? what do you think about its feasibility ?
The need to speed up websites and optimize them has assumed importance more than ever .To increase hits and clicks your site must be able to arrive at the user’s browser much faster than mail :) .
But how do you know what makes your site load slower or what is that takes maximum resources and time for the user .
Pingdom gives you a set of tools that give out complete statistics of what goes in to your site’s loading time.
It displays all the files that a browser would download and also the size and loading time of the each file. All this put in together with a fantastic UI.
Now you can see which javascript is taking maximum time to load and which image is taking time.I for example reduced my blog’s load time from 6.2 seconds to 2.1 seconds and i found out what i should be doing by using pingdom and i figured out i was linking to a image from external website and also lots of unwanted plugins with javascript and my profile image which was at Freeshell.in .
Here is an example to what you can do
Here is the link to explore your site and optimize it .
Thanks to mediatemple ;) my blog is decent fast ,my college website takes almost 5 times my load :)
[tags]pingdom,website,optimise[/tags]
Yes NIT-Trichy follows the big league.Now students have their own blogs from the college .
Its great to see that we are one of the first in the country to offer blog space for students.Other big universities that offer student blogs are Stanford and harvard .
It comes with a lot of aniticipation and also interesting how the content in the blogs will be monitored.No matter how much of freedom is given ,content on a institute sponsored site has to be monitored and i wonder how delta will rise up to this challenge .In the meantime enjoy http://delta.nitt.edu/blogs and btw these blogs have just been released and will be online soon :-) .NITT is undergoing a sea change here ,what with paying fees is just a click on the ATM machine.No more filling up chalans,waiting in Q and what not .
For those who cant wait here is the screenshot
[tags]college blogs,nitt,blogs[/tags]
I have been running wordpress 2.1 for sometime and seeing stammy upgrade to the bleeding edge wordpress,i though it should be fun to do that . Given that i love playing around with the latest softwares even if they are buggy :-) .
What do you need to be able to upgrade to the latest wordpress build ?
SSH access,SVN client installed and the heart to put up with bugs incase they come up (most probably they will ).
So login to your shell (ssh) and make sure you take a backup so that you can restore things well incase you screw it up .
If you installed wordpress by fantastico/Oneclick installer or downloaded package ,then
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/trunk .
This should get the latest build of wordpress in the current directory and now its time to update the databases .
go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php and upgrade your DB’s and thats it you are done .
and from next time if you want to upgrade to the latest build then just do
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/trunk . and go to install.php from your browser
and yeah incase you get a mysql error like the one i got you must do this on your shell
svn update -r 5857 wp-includes/wp-db.php and it should be fine .
Thanks to stammy ,i was wondering if i should have shifted back to stable version until he gave me a solution .
And whats new in wordpress 2.3 ? the all new tagging system comes in by default now :-) .
[tags]wordpress,svn[/tags]
