Facebook’s Haystack
Here’s a real interesting article on how Facebook’s handling their photo storage system by creating their own storage system called HayStack.
This week Facebook will complete its roll-out of a new photo storage system designed to reduce the social network’s reliance on expensive proprietary solutions from NetApp and Akamai. The new large blob storage system, named [...]
Scienta Zend Framework Debug Bar
Scienta ZF Debugbar is a useful tool to add to your sites running on Zend Framework to get server side information of the page being accessed. It’s quite simple to use – just download the code, place it in your PHP include path and use the following code in your bootstrap file to get the [...]
Read more →Jbak TaskMan – Taskmanager for S60 Phones
If you’re looking for an advanced task manager for your Symbian phone, you can check out this free and powerful utility called Jbak TaskMan. When you install this utility on your phone, it replaces the default Symbian Task-switcher with it’s own interface which you can configure. You can switch tasks and even kill tasks from [...]
Read more →Generate data for Database testing
Image by lilit via Flickr
How often have you tested your application on your local machine and had it run properly, but when you deploy it and the database starts getting filled up, you start noticing performance problems?
Here’s something you can use to test out your application with databases which are not empty – generatedata.com allows [...]
Clean up unwanted files in Ubuntu – BleachBit
Here’s a software you’d need to clear the unwanted files hiding around your Ubuntu Installation. BleachBit clears up files from your trash, tmp folders, application specific temporary files from Firefox, Java, Open Office and more. When I ran this on the system the first time, Bleachbit ended up clearing around 188MB of space, pretty good.
This [...]
Download Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference
If you’re starting off or planning to start off on using Ubuntu, here’s something you should refer to. Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is one book you should check out.
The book is an easy to follow guide which starts you off with how to get and install Ubuntu on your PC and then goes on [...]
Ease into your News Feeds using Feedly
If you are spending a lot of time going through your feeds using Google Reader, here’s a firefox addon which you shouldn’t miss out on. Feedly takes your feeds from Google Reader and displays it in a magazine like format. This format’s easier to scan through than Google Reader’s display format.
I’ve been using this for [...]
Manage EC2 though AWS Management Console
Image via CrunchBase
Just got an email from Amazon with their announcement of the beta release of the AWS Management Console. This helps users manage their EC2 resources though an easy to use web interface. No more third party browser addons and custom code to check the status of EC2 instances and playing around with Elastic [...]
Read more →PHP functions in Javascript using PHP.JS
PHP programmers usually have to handle HTML & Javascript front-end coding as well and I’m sure a lot of us have been frustrated with the lack of those easy to use PHP functions in Javascript like those array, encode/decode and string functions. Here’s a Javascript project which provides you just that.
PHP.JS is an open source [...]
Blog from your Ubuntu Desktop
There is a small utility in Ubuntu called Gnome Blog which allows you to blog directly from your desktop. If you are running firefox on Ubuntu, click on this link to install the package or enter the following command in your terminal
sudo apt-get install gnome-blog
Once installed, right click on an empty area on your panel [...]
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March 13th |
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Now for some unwind time.. Gonna be offline from now till sometime late monday #fb [vinuthomas]
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March 12th |
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Listened to Say You Will - Foreigner.
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Love the punchline in this - RT @guardiantech: The demise of the music industry is visible everywhere but in the facts http://bit.ly/9ilGGG [vinuthomas]
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Everyone's got IPL fever at office. Glad I'm not a cricket fan :) [vinuthomas]
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Lol - thas's a good one you got Mak RT @RN42: http://moby.to/qf1it9 - Multitasking @raghukannan style [vinuthomas]
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I just rated @Issuu Mobile on Android Market and could win a Nexus One! http://bit.ly/a9QM1D [vinuthomas]
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March 11th |
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Cool service- Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes 4 ppl who visit Google. - http://bit.ly/92EJFG #webdev [vinuthomas]
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Anyone have good recommendations for a PSD / Image -> Wordpress theme service? Need someone to create a theme from an design. [vinuthomas]
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RT @santoshp: RT @dhempe: Bangalore folks RSVP for IPL- http://twtvite.com/IPLBFT just Rs.499 for unlimited booze/starters & watch IPL i ... [vinuthomas]
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This is one lucky dude - Chennai student gets Rs 1.4 cr/year job in Seagate - http://bit.ly/bHIpzX [vinuthomas]
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Getting some simple processes in place needs a lot of patience... To listen to all forms of excuses. The most common is No Time! [vinuthomas]
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March 10th |
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Learning some Python these days. Interesting language. Useful for programming / hacking stuff on the N900. :) [vinuthomas]
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Having a real late dinner back at home. [vinuthomas]
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RT @creativenerds: 25 Awesome Tips to Become a Successful Freelancer http://bit.ly/9u8q3z [vinuthomas]
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Google launches app store. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/mar/10/google-app-store [vinuthomas]
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This is cool - just buy a Windows mobile and then run Ubuntu on it :) - Here's ubuntu running on a HTC Touch Pro2 - http://bit.ly/9IoioH [vinuthomas]
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Eagerly waiting for the long weekend. Just 2 more days to go. [vinuthomas]
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Wow! I'd love to get a home-theater system like this if I had $6 Million - http://bit.ly/9EiRLj [vinuthomas]
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March 9th |
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That's cool.. Open standards adoption by a telco RT @rww: Japan's Largest Telco Goes OpenID http://bit.ly/cC80hL [vinuthomas]
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Why am I stuck behind slow moving maruthi 800s on the road tonight? [vinuthomas]
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Just realized next Tuesday is a holiday... yeah! [vinuthomas]
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A Cheaper, Dumber Google Nexus One For India? http://bit.ly/cnjEAp [vinuthomas]
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March 8th |
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RT @mynokiaworld: Cool! Joikuspot for the Nokia N900's out. Now you can convert your N900 into an Wifi accesspoint - http://bit.ly/9vg1Ao [vinuthomas]
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Are these guys crazy? - Use open source? Then you're a pirate! http://bit.ly/bGTeD9 [vinuthomas]
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The history of MySQL AB http://bit.ly/c82RY9 [vinuthomas]
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Be wary of Google patents http://bit.ly/d5objX [vinuthomas]
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Color Scheme Inspiration – Spring http://bit.ly/c9I2qU [vinuthomas]
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RT @gethire: #Jobs Senior Software Engineer, 3-6 years exp, Bengaluru/Bangalore: Impelsys India Pvt Ltd - To work with .. http://bit.ly/ ... [vinuthomas]
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March 6th |
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Listened to You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift.
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Shared Be wary of Google patents.
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March 5th |
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Listening to "Mermaids And Slaves" by Paul Heaton and loving it! See the video & lyrics: http://www.tunewiki.com/r/5ssav [vinuthomas]
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RT @tinucherian: Correction: The exact time of 1 billionth tweet was 6:25AM IST today http://bit.ly/cGseKr [vinuthomas]
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having a fast connection on the phone is specially useful for those boring wait at banks.:) [vinuthomas]
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still half way through my list of stuff to be done today. was hoping to finish by afternoon. [vinuthomas]
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Anyone using Hostgator? How is their service and support? [vinuthomas]
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