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Thursday, April 9th, 200910 Useful Cheat-Sheets for Web Developers
Thursday, February 12th, 2009Here are 10 most useful cheat-sheets for a web developer.
#10 CSS Cheat Sheet by Added Bytes
#9 XHTML Cheat Sheet by Florian Schmitz
#8 SEO Cheat Sheet by SEOmoz
#7 Javascript Cheat Sheet by Added Bytes
#6 Firefox Cheat Sheet by Leslie Franke
#5 mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet by Added Bytes
#4 PHP Cheat Sheet / Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet / Python Cheat Sheet
#2 Prototype.js Cheat Sheet / jQuery Cheat Sheet
#1 Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet by Added Bytes
I use most of these cheat sheets personally and find them extremely useful. The Cheat-Sheets are very well formatted and print friendly. There are plenty more useful ones (e.g. GIT Cheat-Sheet) available which I have not made a mention of. If you find other very useful cheat sheet for web developers do leave a comment.
Indian Startup Event in Pune
Monday, February 9th, 2009Proto.in is now coming to Pune.
In July 2009 proto, the popular startup event in India, would set stage for the killer startups from all over India to showcase. Besides being a launch point for young startups, it is also a great place for entrepreneurs to network . The exact dates, venue and other details would be soon up on the website – www.proto.in.Â
Interested? Keep yourself updated:Â
Follow the blog -Â blog.proto.in
Follow Proto on Twitter -Â http://twitter.com/protodotin
Meet the team behind Proto.in, Live (virtually) -Â chat.proto.in
Will Palm Pre have iSync Support?
Saturday, January 31st, 2009Palm Pre is the another smart phone which I am eagerly waiting for. Palm is not a very famous mobile company. In India, I think this brand is totally unheard of. However, Palm Pre is the next big thing by Palm and should soon see it’s presence in India.
Palm doesn’t have a great history of support with Macs. Would Palm Pre work with iSync or would apple leisurely delay adding support for it. I wish Palm makes an OSX application for address book and iCal sync instead of depending on application like iSync.
Bangalore Calling
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Bangalore was my dream city a decade ago. But not anymore. It has been a victim of the so called ‘development-era’. Nevertheless, I love the city for it’s weather and food. There has been plenty of memorable trips to Bangalore that I have never written about.
Anyways, I am heading to bangalore to speak at Proto, The Startup Event at Nimhans Convention Centre on 23 & 24 Jan 2009. I would be sharing a session with Amit Ranjan. Unlike my usual speaking engagements, to engineering or business school students, for the first time I am going to address India’s top grade upcoming entrepreneurs. It is both a chance to share experience and gain a lot of enthusiasm and inspiration from peers.
thecinema.in – Booking too slow
Friday, January 16th, 2009Off late, I have had trouble in booking tickets online for Sathyam Cinema’s at thecinema.in. The booking won’t go past the Booking Your Tickets screen. I have been a great fan of thecinema.in booking interface, but I guess lot of data or visitors is troubling their servers. Hope this issue resolves soon.
Indian Web2.0 Application Showcase
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Feedmyapp.com the famous web 2.0 directory will now have an Indian Edition. We will be highlighting web2.0 applications from India and Indians across the world. Stay tuned for more new on the best Indian web2.0 portal.
Airtel iPhone Free Bandwidth: An Eyewash
Monday, January 12th, 2009I have been using an Apple iPhone in Chennai soon after it’s release. Airtel announced 1 year of free 500 mb per month GPRS / EDGE with it. But they will never tell you how they bill it. I used 47.7 MB (of my so-called 500MB) last month and was charged 500+ bucks extra.
So here is what you really need to know about Airtel GPRS Billing: The Billing Pulse is for every 100KB. So if you open MAPS and locate your current position it would be 100KB even if you have actually consumed 4KB. If you have set your MAIL to be checked every 15 minutes you are probably using up 100KB every 15 minutes. So that’s about 10MB per day for every mail account. If you are using Chat, Browser or any other application that uses Internet or even location services Airtel is cunningly billing them.
While my actual usage was 47.70 MB, Airtel considered it far about 500MB and charged me mercilessly. Even tougher to follow up with their customer service to demand explanation. I wish we had better service providers.
Satyam fraud: Raju admits fraud
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Satyam fraud is absolutely shocking. Ramalinga Raju, Chairman of Satyam has resigned from the board and admitted the Fraud committed. The IT industry which is already faced with tough times in US will raise questions in minds of FIIs and FDI. According to the letter, neither the auditors nor any other member of the board where aware of the fraud.
You can read more about this story here: Raju admits fraud; Satyam books inflated of Rs 5040cr.
SMS Updates on my Wordpress Blog posts
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Google SMS Labs now enables me to create channel and update anyone or a particular group of members (by invitation) with SMS alerts. I created a Channel called SHALINJAIN. So, whenever I update my blog you would get a SMS with brief description about the post. It is almost realtime.
The invitation process is really simple. If you already have a GMAIL or Google Account just clicking one button would do the needful.
Subscribe for SMS alerts: Click here to Subscribe for My Blog Updates
You can also create your own channels and keep your group updated about anything! The best part is – the service comes free. Give it a shot.