Application markets and stores are all the rage these days. Let’s see, there’s the apple store, the android market, Microsoft’s app store, Nokia’s OVI store, and probably a gazillion more. It’s like if you don’t have one, you don’t really exist. Well, now the eclipse IDE has got one as well. You can get plugins [...]
This guy has the most insane balance control i have ever seen on a bike. A true wizard, check it out:
I don’t get all the fuss about Apple no longer shipping java with OSX. Windows never did. Linux does not. So what? Actually, with Lion, they will make it extremely easy to install anyways. According to early reports about the developer preview release, when a user tries to run a java application (or install one), [...]
Now this is what i call the future coming to us: Stuff previously only seen in movies coming to the real world. LG has demo’ed a transparent multi touch display. Can i have one?
As a part of my Ruby learning process, i decided to write something to retrieve the full list of brands that Coca Cola currently owns from their website. The list is split across multiple pages, but with some Ruby magic and a nice library called Hpricot to traverse the HTML it was 5 minutes of [...]
One of the biggest pains of any developer is maintaing the source code. Especially if you – like me – have a gazillion pet projects that need to be updated whenever you come up with “cool idea #20000″ for one of them. Version control systems like Mercurial are awesome, but they are only part of [...]
Some random notes i scribbled down in my little paper notepad, on my trip from Bangalore to Goa, this weekend: Saw 10 people inside a car that could normally only hold 5; Took me 2 hours to drive 17Km inside Bangalore; Saw a movie theater that was only showing Indian movies; Products usually have a [...]
I’ll keep this one short. I am currently visiting Bangalore – in the context of a business trip – and these are my observations/thoughts about the traffic in the streets here Most trucks don’t have tail lights. I mean, who needs to see trucks in the highway anyways? There are trucks parked in the highway. [...]
After reading a post in PCPro.co.uk, about the dual core ARM phone that can run both Android and Ubuntu at the same time, i can’t help being excited about the possibilities that the near future holds for us, mobile-wise. I’m pretty sure that – at some point in time – we will not need laptops [...]
There’s a new segway-like vehicle: It’s called SoloWheel and it’s basically a simpler version of the former. It does look like much harder to “drive” than the segway, though, so i seriously doubt this will pick up any momentum, if you catch my drift Here’s the link to the engadget article and the essential videos. [...]
Just some notes i might update while going through the procedure. To start with, gem might complain that bundler requires a higher version. Something like this might happen, when you run “sudo gem install rails”: ERROR: Error installing bundler: bundler requires RubyGems version >= 1.3.6 ERROR: Error installing bundler: bundler requires RubyGems version [...]