Entries from December 2005 ↓

We celebrated the new year in Magnet yesterday. The party was great - the enthusiasm of the team, games and the dance party at the end. After every party or event we organize, my belief in our skills in event management grows further!

Somebody will soon write more about the party, so I am not doing that here! Have another party tonight! I am sure that will be memorable as well!

But hey friends, Happy New Year! Wish you get what you set yourself for this year!

Blake Ross has posted some hilarious 2006 predictions! It’s the end of 2005 and everybody is coming up with their own top 10 and bottom 10 lists! But this one is cool! It’s sarcastic, intelligent and some of it may actually come true
Sample the first one:

Another blog search engine will release a list of top 100 bloggers. Every blogger on the list will blog the news in the form of: “Wow, I’m honored to have made it onto the top 100 list” with a link back to the list maintainer’s blog.

read more | digg story

Are you a new Mac user? Want to find out what other great free software are available for your Mac? Paul Stamatiou has collected a top ten list of must-have free software for Mac users. You may already be using some of them, but would find some other that you would like to try out right away.

My personal favorites are AdiumX and Quicksilver. It’s interesting to note that some of these apps are actually GPLed free software, and available even for other platforms!

BTW, Digg is not full of praises for this list, so while you are here, take a look at some other items:

Open Source Mac - Free, Open source software for Mac, great list!

Indispensable Mac OS X software - more options - if you want to compare and choose

We talked about a community driven PHP certification at Foss.In/2005. I thought more about this and did some research. Surprisingly, Zend Certification has created only 977 ZCE’s till date. I took a Brainbench PHP4 test years ago and looks like they still have the same test up. The other PHP certification I found, was on ExpertRating. That too, on PHP4.

Zend costs $200, Brainbench $49 and ExpertRating $9.

Are you aware of any other PHP certification?

Would you like to contribute to a community driven PHP Certification program?

Saw the The Top 10 weirdest case mods today. Case mods refer to modification of the computer cabinet. The weird modifications include a case shaped like an atom bomb and one like toilet.

I had seen the WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction) mod a while ago and found it cool. It’s one of people’s favorites. I remember seeing cases with water pipes inside them to cool the processor back in 2003 in CeBIT.

I have not really seen cool mods in India though. People typically go in for a black cabinet or some fancy rounded corners. Looks like we are behind the world here! What’s the coolest mod you have seen?