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Author: Amit Goyal

  • Brilliant blog..

    .. discovered by total chance. Check it out here. A sample of creativity below.

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  • Tweets on 2008-04-14

    • Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 – looks nice. However – some incompatibility in the Twitter plugin – lots of useless tweets 🙁 #
    • Fixed the JavaScript in Wiki slightly. It still needs a lot of improvement but most of it is done! I am damn good 🙂 #
    • Wiki table sorting JS fixed!! Awesome – I feel very proud today 🙂 #
    • Catchy headline of the day – Keep you pussy off the keyboard 😉
      http://tinyurl.com/6bwrqq #

  • WordPress, Mediawiki & Firebug

    First – upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.5. The new interface looks cool and features easy navigation to more often used options. Also, the upgrade process was a breeze. You can read about how to do it here.

    Next – for the past many days, I have been stuck with a faulty error prone version sort table JavaScript being used by MediaWiki. After a lot of head breaking and seeking help on the forums, I was frustrated by Friday and sought help from a friend at Yahoo. He was short on time and promised to do something today. Anyways he happened to mention that I should use Firebug plugin for Firefox.

    I had installed Firebug on Firefox long back when I was experimenting with CSS. I did not know how to debug JavaScript using it. So a google search and a blog post later, I was ready to get my hands dirty. And after an hour or so, I was beginning to see light at the end of the terminal. I had located the error and could now fix it easily.

    So here I am, all happy and contended. I would like to add this fix to the script on the next Wiki release. Hopefully my first contribution to the wonderful open source community!! Also, even though the guys on the forum were unable to help me on this one, they have been a wonderful bunch of extremely helpful folks. Thanks everyone – keep rocking!

    PS: I know very little about JS, with my programming experience limited to C and VBA. So this particular hack – I am immensely pleased about.

  • Tweets on 2008-04-13

  • Google takes down HuddleChat

    After a lot of hue and cry over the blogosphere over the similarity between Campfire and HuddleChat, a sample application for the Google AppEngine, Google team has decided to take down the app.

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    While I appreciate the quick action over the reaction of a lot bloggers, I find it pretty stupid. The web is full of examples of similar apps, and taking down one because it is similar to other, even though it is simpler and free, is just plain stupid. I have no idea why the bloggers took offense at it in the first place! While I do agree that the similarity was pretty obvious (from screenshots that is – never got a chance to use it), doesn’t the same logic apply to MS Office & OpenOffice??

    Come on people, grow up. People are going to develop similar apps, only that they would be easier to use and FREE – not paid. I was looking forward to using it 🙁