Category: Technology

My code contribution during foss.in/2008 jFotoNotes 2

My code contribution during foss.in/2008 jFotoNotes

I am attending FOSS.IN/2008 virtually through twitter (unfortunately I could not attend due to work pressure). Here is my contribution to the FOSS world as part of FOSS.IN/2008. Go to jFotoNotes project page jFotoNotes is java implementation of famous FotoNotes in php. A variation of FotoNotes is also used by flickr. Fotonotes is...

WordPress Comment Plugin for Indic Languages 7

WordPress Comment Plugin for Indic Languages

Last few days I have been reading more books, coding more scriptlets than twittering or blogging here. I am yet to decide on coffee project of this month. I might send it to Wikimedia Foundation as I don’t have any other project in my mind. Two weeks back I was at Google Developer...

BCCI has some idiotic rules for linking 9

BCCI has some idiotic rules for linking

As most of you know jumbo retired and I was trying to gather information on him to write about. I was searching for some pics on BCCI site to see if I can post any pictures from there. The answer is NO you can not use any pictures from there.  Fare enough as...

Why comments in the code are not always good! 8

Why comments in the code are not always good!

Why comments in the code are not always good! (1) Because they are not updated. When ever the code is changed, the comments should also be changed. But it may happen like the code is updated but not the comments which may confuse the next developer. (2) Maintenance problem. Highly commented code is...

Live blogging Chandrayaan 1 14

Live blogging Chandrayaan 1

I was waiting for this day since they announced Chandrayaan. Its one of the biggest moment for every Indian’s life. How can I let it go out of my hand. I blogged it live from my home. There were other friends online along with me to watch the launch together virtually. It feels...

Notes about Nokia Open Lab 2008 13

Notes about Nokia Open Lab 2008

I am still trying to come out the euphoria. Out of my six days in Helsinki spent first three days geeking out. The idea of OpenLab was to bring together 35+ geeks from the field tech, blogging, programming, education, music and photography to discuss about social media, connected life, mobile life etc Womworld...