Learning is an Art

Few days back first release candidate of JIRA 4.0 was announced that means JIRA has moved pretty closer to one of the greatest release in the history of JIRA releases; there was a mixed bag in JIRA 3.13 which people were speculating to be 4.0 at that time but Atlassian decided to mark it as 3.13 as they were planning something really big for the mega release 4.0.

Two features which look killer to me are Opensocial gadgets and JIRA query langauge; I was really wondering why Atlassian went ahead with implementing Opensocial while missing out few popular issues like ldap authentication which has been around for six years now but after pondering on thought of Opensocial  I realized that Atlassian has cooked up something really big which is not easily comprehensible in current scenario of issue trackers what I feel it has a potential to cause a paradigm shift in the way we look at issue trackers and way we use them I can smell something really big coming out of it.

I would loke to end with a not to all those who have AMC to start getting ready for a Opensocial. I am also eagerly waiting for this release to happen.

I was never a ardent fan of facebook I signed up just to see what its all about and I found it some what interesting so I started using it occasionally; but couple of days back I noticed something has terribly changed in facebook application; I was not able to relate if I had ever earlier used this application and on top of it you even don’t have an option to switch to older version which is pity.
I don’t know what has caused these people to change it but I am sure of one thing that I am not going to use it in future any more this is not the way you should force on people you want.

Nice tutorial to get you started with your OpenSocial applications entirely in eclipse.

Installation details and tutorials can be found here. Enjoy OpenSocial development.

I was struggling due to this problem for two days now and got the solution just now so thought I will share it
with you all; as I don’t want anyone else to land up in trouble as i did so I am using Hardy and was trying to build subvertpy from source as the package was not available for same.

The problem occurs due to absence of Python development headers as many python modules have dependency on  Python development headers to compile.

Solution is to install development headers using package manager; open the terminal and issue the following commands

and select the package that matches your installation as in my case it is python2.5-dev; issue the following command to install it

This will install development headers in /usr/include/python2.5 and now you can build your python module successfully.

Some random thoughts on Entrepreneurship, I have been reading about this topic for 3-4 years now and feels like eternity or a life time. Every now and than this question gets raised and people come of with various answers like entrepreneurship is a mind set rather than anything else; some say they are born with entrepreneurial qualities in there DNA.
IMHO anyone can be an entrepreneur in his or her own way it just takes a determination, grit to survive in toughest of circumstances. A spirit to keep things moving when the whole world is against you, a never say die attitude and the list goes on with such qualities or virtues but it all boils down to one thing that is entrepreneurs are like rebellions they don’t believe in traditional wisdom of life; they have already realized and got enlightened with what they want to do in life.

Those were few thoughts in my mind may be I will elaborate more on it some day but it is not this day
Cheers to all entrepreneurs out there keep dreaming don’t loose hope, keep faith in yourself, as some one rightly said sooner or later a person who wins is person who thinks he can win; nothing happens out of the box there are no free lunches. Go out and world awaits to embrace you.

Just wanted to let you know about an exciting event siliconindia is organizing on September 12 (Saturday in Mumbai). It’s by far the largest and most exciting event of its kind in Mumbai.

It is your chance to know the building of companies like Rediff.com, Syntel, Netmagic, Sulekha, Microworld and many more as their founders come and share their journey with us:
Venki Nishtala, Founder & CEO, Rediff.com
Keshav R. Murugesh, CEO, Syntel
Sharad Sanghi, Founder & CEO, Netmagic
Govind Rammurthy, Founder, CEO & MD, MicroWorld Technologies
Satya Prabhakar, Founder & CEO, Sulekha.com

There will be 30 most promising technology startups showcasing their products. You can meet these entrepreneurs and also over 30 investors.

To attend this event, register FREE at http://www.siliconindia.com/startupcity_mumbai/index.php

Watch live product demonstrations
Get a peek into cutting edge technologies
Lay hands on the best-of-breed solutions
Meet young, energetic, passionate geeks
Experience the culture of innovation in small companies
Visionary Keynotes
In-depth Panel Discussions

TIME: 8.45 AM to 5 PM
WHEN: Saturday, September 12, 2009
WHERE: Hotel RanSgarda, Bandra, Mumbai

Eclipse latest version is Galileo and its not available from ubuntu archive I just finished installing it on my machine i thought I will share instructions with my readers.
So here we have a step by step instruction to install Eclipse Galileo (3.5) on Ubuntu mine is Hardy

Lets start with creating a directory where we want to install

you can manually download the installable from one of the available mirrors or you can use wget for same I prefer using wget

than we need to unzip the contents of the zip file and we are almost done

You can set the eclipse executable to your path

This is not the best way to do it but still does the job alternatively you can create a simple shell file and keep it in bin directory whcih just calls eclipse and you are good to go.