I was reading my RSS feeds on google reader. When all of sudden I saw4 new videos on the google talk RSS feed from Youtube.
I was bit surprised as I had just cleared the bunch here is what I saw
What is happening with Google, first spammers were able to manipulate the google trends and now this?
Is it possible to hack someone’s RSS feed?
What do you think would have happened here?
Update: due to copyright issues with the name of this plugin, i have decided to discontinue the plugin. Please email me if you need the source code of this Firefox plugin.
Have you ever faced a situation where, you read an article, liked it but forgot to vote for it on DZone or Digg, simply because the owner of website has not put the relevant code on the web page.
Well I did. Their have been times when I wanted to vote for an article, but didn’t because of this.
So I created this Firefox toolbar to solve my problem.
It is a Firefox toolbar extension, which shows the number of votes and comments that an article(a webpage) has received. Currently it aggregates this data from StumbleUpon, Digg and Dzone.
It also provides a quick way to show your own opinion, to others on these services without you having to click on back button.
Recently I decided to start playing with Firefox extensions, and I needed to create a DEV profile for myself.
As usual I googled and found a good article on lifehacker by Gina Trapani, I read it. I followed the steps mentioned and I realized that it is not working.
After some tinkering and guess work I found that article had one crucial step missing(may be not as article is almost year old, and things may have changed since).
So I thought I will quickly write those steps down, for every one.
A bunch of PHP enthusiast(including me) are organizing PHPCamp in Pune on 20th September 2008.
What is PHPCamp?
Well PHPCamp aims to be ad hoc gathering of PHP developers who are interested in talking and listening PHP.
It also provides an opportunity for freshers/newbies who are starting out in the world of web development to judge for themselves if PHP is cool or not?
On 20th September we intend to do lot’s of talking about PHP, what is good, and what is bad in PHP, how to change/overcome limitations imposed by PHP. We will talk about frameworks, cms, coding practices and many more things.
A bunch of bloggers from pune met on saturday to talk about blogging over lunch at Green Park hotel.
As always the event was organised by barcamp gang aka Tarun, Rohit and Priyank.
Get more details from better bloggers
We also got covered by Pune Mirror
More pictures at Tarun’s Picassa web album
Most probably you will be knowing about all these skills already, it is common sense, still I have found so many developers who just know just one server side language(usually java or .net) and then they think themselves as superman/superwoman.
In web application development, that is just one thing. You need to know about lot more things before you can consider yourself successful.
So, if you know them already that’s good, you don’t need to read any further otherwise continue reading to know why each of these skills are important for you(the web developer).
Here are the skills
With these three skill you have ability to become the super cool static website developer or a front end developer
These two skill will make you a web developer.
All five of these skills will make you a most prized web developer, in your organization.
I have read the sitepoint article by Matthew Magain”Design contest made me a better designer” and the response of Anthony Zinni in “99design stoops to new low attempts propaganda” via Design Intellection’s 99designs and the Harmful Effects Thereof article.
I wrote a quick response on Anthony’s article, but I decided to do a proper follow up In this article.
I think Crowdsourcing is good idea for participants. I will make this case by using a simple scenario.
A Scenario
I have just finished (assumption just for this case only) my studies, and I am looking for a job, I want to make a career in designing(again for this case only) I know I am good (but how to prove it?), my grades are not good, I don’t have contacts to get me started.
7 Applications to Make Working with MySQL Databases Easier article from Six Revision list following useful tools for working with MySQL, this order is based on my preference while using these tools
You can read about them at six revision’s article.
I have never used last two tools, instead I have used the Toad for MySQL. It has some nifty features. The one feature that I liked was the single click grouping feature of resultset. Though I still prefer to use phpMyAdmin.
Now to reason of this post, if you look at the list above, you will find the tools for general database management(like phpMyAdmin, EMS Sql Manager etc), ERD diagram creators(like DB Designer and WWW sql designers) and other log viewing and controlling tools(like mysql gui tools).
You might be wondering what is missing?
Google has released a preview of Google Friend Connect, a service which will allow you to add social networking features from Orkut, Facebook, iLike, hi5 and many more.
All this by simply adding a piece of code from http://www.google.com/friendconnect and Friend connect will do the rest.
Social networking can’t get simpler then this, and trust Google to do the simple things.
User will be able to sign in using their Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID accounts. A site owner can choose the features that are available for it’s users to use.
This is how it works
Everyone wins in a friend connected web:
- You, the site owner – Google Friend Connect gives you a snippet of code that, when put into your site, will equip the site with social features, including the ability to run third-party social applications. Moreover, it enables your visitors to log in with existing credentials, see who among their friends is already registered at that site. It also gives them one-click access to invite friends from their existing friends lists on other sites, such as Facebook or orkut.
- Your site’s visitors – Visitors no longer need to create a new account or develop yet another friends list just to use the social applications on your site. We create the infrastructure that allows one login to be used across multiple sites and the ability to reuse existing friend relationships that the visitor has already established elsewhere.
- OpenSocial developers – With Google Friend Connect, any website on the web can become an OpenSocial container. Their social applications can now run on social networking sites and anywhere else on the web that uses Google Friend Connect. By placing these applications on sites where users already visit, these application will be seen and used by more users more often.
- Social networks – With Google Friend Connect, social networks thrive as hubs of activity while giving their users more opportunities to bring their friend relationships to other websites while simultaneously bringing their friends and activities from outside the social network back in — with people having the ability to publish their activities across the web into the activity streams of their social networks.
Now the bad news, it is available to limited number of website owners for now, even then I am excited about the possibilities Google Friend Connect brings with itself.
Check out more details about Google’s friend Connect Service