I upgraded wordpress software for this blog to version 2.5.2. After that none of the posts that had devanagari (unicode) text looked okay. After comparing the configuration files, I discovered that the troubling variable is DB_CHARSET. The default config setting is ‘utf8′. But if you have been updating the software versions, your database table is [...]
Google has launched appengine which provides developers with a platform SDK (python based!) and hosting with access to own Google BigTable database! This competes with Amazon.com’s SQS , S3 (storage) and EC2 (hosting) services which are used by many startups… The applications will get google’s massively scalable infrastructure, failover. Apps would also be able [...]
I just upgraded django tree which recently merged in the unicode support. This immediately broke django templates for venus. Here is what you need to change in planet/shell/dj.py to account for new django changes:
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< f.write(t.render(context))
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> ss = t.render(context)
> if [...]
I created a small form using which you can search the web for unicode devanagari words. It is very cumbersome to actually enter unicode devanagari characters using qwert keyboards, so I have adopted the phonetic transliteration scheme from Manogat website. Do give it a try:
http://amit.chakradeo.net/search/
Start typing devanagari words phonetically and you will see unicode characters [...]
Here is what will be good-to-have from phishtank.com API:
Good documentation about each interface e.g. how is callback_url used by auth.frob.request API ?
Description of all possible fields in return response (all possible XML elements and their possible values)
Some test URL’s and emails which will return known responses (i.e. phishy URL, good URL, not in the database [...]
http://www.phishtank.com is a new service which aims to help weed out phishing URLs and email addresses using wisdom of the crowds. Users can submit emails/URLs which they suspect of fraud and others can vote if they really are fraudulent or not. I think it is a great concept. There is a REST API using which [...]
There is a big copyright violation fight going on between Copyright Holders and Google about what is fair use and what is a violation. I came across a great article by Cory Doctorow on this issue. He is firmly on the side of Google on this issue and lists the three main points of contention:
Google [...]
The del.icio.us folks have a nifty javascript piece of code which adds a small button to all the mp3 links on your webpage. (This infact embeds a small shockwave/flash script for each link). All you need to do is include the following code in the head section of your webpage:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://del.icio.us/js/playtagger"></script>
Here is a link [...]
Find lattitude and longitude of any address
Yahoo just released a new beta of their maps webservice. Here is a small ruby script (inspired by Rasmus’s PHP code ) that I wrote that returns Lattitude, Longitude of the address provided…
require ‘open-uri’
require “rexml/document”
include REXML
url=’http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=yahoomap.rb&location=’
puts ‘Enter Location: ‘
address=gets
address=URI.escape(address)
result=URI(url+address).read
doc = Document.new result
r=doc.elements["/ResultSet/Result"]
print “Precision: “, r.attributes["precision"],”\n”
r.children.each { |c| print c.name, [...]
I promised here that I will polish my library lookup script and post it here, but haven’t yet found any time to do that. I am posting it here so someone could work on it and make it better…
I have tried to look for the ISBN in both SDCL and SDPL, and it inserts the [...]
On the internet nobody knows you are a dog
Unfortunately it’s only true in cartoons! Basically you are leaving a surprisingly easy trail of the websites you visit. Visit Test anonymity if you want to find what web servers can know about you. A determined person can find out about the websites you browsed, what [...]
I have HP’s all in one device which is ethernet enabled. So all computers on the LAN can print to it/scan from it etc. The printer seems to use DHCP server to acquire the IP address and did not provide any name to the DHCP server. The windows version of software managed to detect the [...]
Amazon.com has quitely introduced this concept of “Statistically Improbably Phrases” (SIP’s). They scan the entire books (with the permission of publisher/authors) for users to be able to “search inside” the book. During this they do some analysis of some phrases that occur frequently in the book, which otherwise does not occur outside of that book. [...]
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Greasemonkey is a plugin for Firefox browser that lets you assign DHTML scripts to various domains. What’s the big deal you ask ? This lets you correct some annoying problems some websites have or even add some nice features to your regular websites.
There are tons of user contributed scripts for doing fun things, [...]
I use Del.icio.us as my online bookmark manager. It’s so simple to use, yet so powerful. I especially like the capability to post the bookmark to my account using simple javascript bookmarks.
Here are my bookmarks.
These are the good things about this goody:
Everything is wide open, with no proprietary crap.
Bookmarks are tagged [...]
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Posted 01 September 2004
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