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[How To] Implementing Shindig.

I should have written an article/tutorial on how to implement/use Shindig to convert your SNS into and OpenSocial compliant SNS. Time, however, has prevented me from doing it so far. May be sometime later.
For now, you can have a look at my presentation on the same topic. I had presented it at Barcamp Bangalore 7, [...]

Orkut Latest XSS Worm; and what it means for Indian Orkuteers

Update: Kishor reports a flaw in the implementation of “private” videos feature on Orkut. Although I am at office and I haven’t checked it yet myself, I believe I can trust him, based on his posts at Slackers. Nice one Kishor.

1. YAWN [Yet Another Worm, Nanny]

Orkut (Google’s MySpace and Facebook for Indian, Pakistan [...]

Apache Headache: “no listening sockets available”

Update 1: I was unable to configure MySQL. Reason: It was installed in C:\(blah-blah) and , probably, do not have write rights in the directory. Installing it to D:\(bigBlah) solved the issue. Duh!
Update 2: I see a fairly good traffic coming here searching for the same problem. So, in case you are in a hurry, this [...]

Vista!!! (3 Exclamations.) is here? (Why :-/)

I don’t intend to post any review of the vista.
There are some neatly written essays on the topics by experts, like this one.
I was going through the article and stumbled on this page, which has the picture given below.

What happened was due merely due to fast glance and my mouse cursor covering a part of [...]

Grabbing Video from Youtube.

Update: This hack doesn’t work any more. I’ll post the latest pretty soon. Hopefully.
I loved this performance by Tina & Hussain. It left me breathless, and wet-ted my eyes :D.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abtZxIQZNCM]
I wanted it s badly. Did a l’ill research, found a hack, and here I am, sharing [& open sourcing it ].
You [...]

Apache-MySQLPHP Installation & Configuration Tutorial for Beginners :)

Hi,
This article is a very “narrow” tutorial aimed for complete beginners and dummies, who want to start off coding with AMP (Apache-MySQL-PHP) but do not want to read manual for installing and configuring them.
This write up is very specifically targeted and applies for Windows platform.

Note: To get the real and complete understanding, spend some time [...]

"COLUKABKI - AOL - MSN - YAHOO - RED CROSS"….. aaah Comm’n Gimme a break.

It’s really interesting that even enginieering students, who are supposed to have a very ANALYTIC are least bothered in verifying anything before believing it…… and that too when they have access to GOOGLE.
This blog of mine is in response to the hundreds and thousands of mails that are forwarded so that somewhere, somebody’s LIFE COULD [...]