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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.

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.

Few months back I wrote this module for some product which I was working that didn’t work out so I thought I will make it available to people to use.

This is very simple PHP API for fetching stock quotes from yahoo finance. I hope people find it useful. How to use it is mentioned in the PHP file itself. In case you have some queries regarding same ; do let me know.

You can download the PHP file from this link ystock

Any feedbacks are welcome.

Assuming svn keywords property is enabled on your office files you need add the keywords in the syntax shown below

The noticeable difference from the keywords expansion in text file is the extra spaces given after :: if you don’t give extra spaces than your file will get corrupted as during expansion the space required for expansion will not be available and hence causing corruption of files.

For this week only, Atlassian is offering a special 5-user “starter” license of JIRA and Confluence for only $5 each. They’re calling it the Atlassian Stimulus Package and it’s a great way of supporting small teams and small businesses in this difficult economic environment. Best of all, they will be donating every penny to charity, so please help them spread the word!

The Atlassian Foundation is donating all proceeds to Room to Read, a charity that helps the world’s future entrepreneurs by building libraries and schools for children in developing nations.

Get all the details at www.atlassian.com/starter. Hurry, offer ends on 24 April 2009.

Please spread the word as much as possible.

I would like to congratulate Atlassian for the great effort.

I am to used to searching everything from Firefox search providers box on the left hand side; I was getting fed up when I type some issue id for my local jira and not getting any results so I decided to develop a search provider for jira quick search and to my surprise it was easier than I expected; hence I put ins some effort in working it out and I want to save effort of people who might be interested in doing same.
We will create an xml file based on following page creating open search plugin for Firefox

Edit the fields in bold according to your setup and save the file in your <Firefox installation directory>\searchplugins\jira.xml

Restart your browser and check the list of search providers; you will see a new search provider with name you specified in tag short name.

The above concept can be extended for searching any other intranet side through Firefox.

Enjoy searching Jira issues; post me back if you have some issue getting it working.

Subversion 1.5 is out and its been almost half year to it. Now thought comes to mind where to go from here, Subversion has still a long way to go from here, Subversion developers should not content with accomplishments in 1.5 its still a long way for Subversion to go to be an enterprise software, having said that I would also like to point that penetration of Subversion in enterprise environment has considerably increased but still it has an uphill task and I am sure that Subversion development team is aware of same.

I am big fan of Subversion thats why I sometime ponder about its future, when I see fanatics talking about GIT, Clearcase and Perforce. I was really saddened when Linus trovalds in his speech said “whole point the Subversion project started is wrong” but I have not found anything wrong with the tool, may be I am not as capable as Linus and neither I am into kernel development but Subversion works pretty well for me and so does for my organization, and there are many other Subversion works for them too.

There is a big wish list which people might have for Subversion but I would say to Subversion developer community add the features which are good for tool as whole and keep in mind that Subversion is version control first anything else later.

Google today released windows installer for windows as stated in there blog. It is available for download from the google’s website.

Many people like me must be having this question is this another browser in the race of already packed crowd or it will stand loud and tall amongst it’s competitors like firefox, Mozilla, Internet Explorer to name few. As per google’s blog we can soon expect the binaries for Linux and Mac as well. Let’s take a first cut look into the browser:

•  Downloading the browser is pretty easy you can download it from google’s website; intensity of Google pushing with chrome shows up with the fact that the promotional link for chrome can be found on the google.com page; which has been empty till today; no promotion and ads; break the rules if it serves and I really don’t see why Google should not do it.
• As Google has been adding value to the users with gmail; google suggest to name a few here comes another tool from Google’s arsenal chrome is no exception when it comes to giving the best to users.
• There is something for everyone whether you are end user or a developer
• As an end user you can experience the classic color combination which is soothing to eyes; memory usage is pretty low when compared with firefox; it consumes around 1/3 to 1/4 when compared with firefox.
• As developer you can view source at your disposal; debug javascript and javascript console is also available separately
• It also gives pretty handy functionality called task manager which gives you amount of physical memory consumed by different tabs
• The best thing which I liked is installer asking you to make google.com as your default search engine or choose some other search engine to be made default.
• You don’t need to have separate search box for searching; you can search from address bar itself

If I look at the browsers which I have used Chrome stands a strong chance of success and is a clear winner for me in many aspects; this may embark a new era in browsers history. 

Points mentioned above are not exhaustive neither they cover all functionalities available in Google chrome; this is just a first cut look at the browser.