Tag: development

• Hint for OpenSocial Orkut Designers

  A hint for developers on the Orkut Sandbox, download its two CSS files: here and here and use those classes to style your content. It feels much more a part of orkut that way. To figure out what styles to use, firebug the orkut page.

  vishnugopal

  November 14, 2007

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  design, development, opensocial, orkut, sandbox, web

• OpenSocial and Facebook

  A lot has been said about OpenSocial and Facebook, this is an attempt to say a bit more. As usual, a free-flowing list of observations: Google uses Javascript as its base client-side language and extends gadgets with OpenSocial features. This I consider “good enough” but perhaps more importantly has a much lower barrier to adoption. […]

  vishnugopal

  November 14, 2007

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  development, facebook, opensocial, web

• Web.py on MacOSX

  I’m loving web.py for developing tiny web apps. Here’s how to get it going on a Mac: sudo port -v install python2.4 py-setuptools mysql5 #coz macports insists on adding a ‘5’ suffix to all mysql5 tools. sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/mysql_config5 /opt/local/bin/mysql_config sudo easy_install web.py cheetah markdown MySQL-python DBUtils Not the twenty odd steps that’s on […]

  vishnugopal

  October 21, 2007

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  development, mac, python, web, web.py

• SlideShare Twitter Mashup

  So here’s a SlideShare/Twitter Mashup (command-line ruby code) that does these things: Gets buzzwords from Twitter. It does this by analyzing tweets and getting popular words (filtering out common ones) with the Twitter API. Gets the most popular buzz word and searches the SlideShare tag database with it (using the SlideShare API). Prints out the […]

  vishnugopal

  September 9, 2007

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  api, code, development, slideshare, twitter

• Tail Recursion

  Ponder this: fact (0) -> 1; fact (N) -> N * fact (N – 1). versus this: fact(N) -> fact_helper(N, 1). fact_helper(1, T) -> T; fact_helper(N, T) -> fact_helper(N – 1, T * N). The advantage of learning Erlang (albeit very slowly, with lots of interruptions) is that it directly introduces a lot of concepts […]

  vishnugopal

  September 1, 2007

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  code, development, erlang