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Blog Comment Spam
I have been getting a lot of spam comments on this blog recently. When I logged in today, I had 11 comments waiting to be moderated. And all of them were spam.…
Unable to connect to endpoint - Flash Webservice problem
When you get "Unable to connect to endpoint" errors in Flash while using a web service, here are a few things you can check up: - If you are passing complex…
PHP5 webservice and procedure not found / function not found problems
I was working with PHP5 webservices and had a head spinning experience because of the WSDL cache. Everything was working fine on my local setup, but when I…
OpenCerti Todo
Here is the list of Todo items I could think of: Phase 1 (by 29th January 2006) 1. Post project plan to PHP user groups – in-phpug, lug, foss.in, meetup 2. Send…
OpenCerti Vision Document
I have written up briefly about the vision and the current plan for OpenCerti. The PDF can be viewed here. Use it to forward it to your friends, print it and…
ThunderBird and OPML
I have been looking at Thunderbird plugins today and I am not feeling excited. Unlike Firefox, Thunderbird does not have a lot of plugins. The ones which are…
Making a podcast is not easy
I wrote earlier about the creativity workshops that we are carrying out in Magnet. I want to share them with you all and wanted to try out podcasting rather…
Flex Datagrid Editing
If somebody has a simple solution to this, do let me know! My head is currently spinning trying to figure out how to make an editable datagrid in Flex 2 Alpha…
Christmas Blog Designs
BTW, if you liked the Christmas special header on my blog, you might want to check out some more that we did: These designs are based on the Wordpress default…
LivePlasma - matching music, videos, articles and more
I wrote about identifying music and faces earlier. Glancer is a sort of people discovery engine, so here's one more related application. LivePlasma is a Rich…
Passport Captcha
I want to see Bill Gates live! Bill Gates is in Bangalore today, launching Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006. The event is happening…
Communication is the key
I came back from a week long trip to Bangalore for Foss.In last Sunday. My sister and her daughter, Ayushi, are at our place these days. I like to spend time…
Pandora: Identifying music
Learnt about a few interesting sites recently. They are quite unique and show excellent opportunities. They will shoot into the limelight very soon! The first…
Funny characters, Webservices and UTF8
I was importing the Foss.In speakers and talks data into Glancer, and it started giving me some strange errors. This is what I got in OpenLaszlo: error:…
Landmark Introduction by Ferdi: my experience
I attended a special introduction to Landmark Forum yesterday. Led by Ferdi D'souza, it was indeed a special evening. The Prabodhan Thakare Mini Theatre…
WSDL Blues
Most of the day went into debugging WSDL problems for Glancer. Returning complex data types can get tricky. Especially for me, since I don't have the time to…
Life is about personal leadership
Hello! What comes to your mind when you think about leadership? What pictures come to your mind when you hear the word leader? Do you see Mahatma Gandhi?…
Puzzled - PHP or Mono?
I have been trying to work on the registration screen for Glancer today. Learnt a lot of things about web service integration, datasets, iteration and form…
Debugging Webservices in Laszlo
Have been working on web services with Laszlo and I am hitting on some errors! Guess they will be helpful for anybody who's going to use this. Background We are…
YubNub - A command line for Web 2.0?
We have been talking about Web 2.0 for a little while now. Things are shaping up well and people are coming up with interesting ideas for the next generation…