Leaders

Here’s the list of people who have already contributed to OpenCerti so far. Names in no particular order. Thank you friends! Chirag Ahmedabadi Swati Sani Tarique Sani Ivan Bayross Mitul Limbani Paresh Dahanukar Samartha Vashishtha Milind Patil We certainly need many more contributors! I invite you to come forward and join us!

Focus Groups

I was thinking about what focus groups to define for OpenCerti, and came up with the following list: Core: Takes care of the overall vision and planning for the project. Research: Surveys, interviews, market / technology research Content: Questions for the test/s Development: Exam tool, site technical development. PHP work. Finance: Money matters! Funding, donations […]

BSD Community driven certification

BSD has a community driven certification process which inspired this OpenCerti project. They have been working on it for some time, and I think they have put in some tremendous work in. I am currently studying the documents they have prepared and will post my learnings here soon. It’s a hectic week, and I have […]

MySQL Full Text indexing

It’s very easy to mess up your performance when you are using Full Text Index on MySQL. We were working on a system that used full text indices recently. The database had about a million records with long textual data fields. The search was taking around 5 minutes and our job was to optimize this! […]

Yahoo! Open Shortcuts

Shantanu Oak referred me to Yahoo! Open Shortcuts today. He said: You had mentioned about yubnub.org on your blog a while ago. Yahoo has recently introduced open shortcuts concept that is similar to what yubnub is doing for last 6 months. Interesting how Yahoo! is adding features and acquiring businesses! Good for them, good for […]