Importing contacts from mail accounts using OAuth is a long solved problem which doesn’t have a good implementation. I googled and googled for a good library which imports contacts from Yahoo/GMail/Hotmail. Finally, I was forced to create one by myself. Here are the instructions on how to get it up and running for Yahoo Mail in your server in 2 …
Security is the major concern for anyone hosting a website on the internet. These are the preliminary security settings to be performed to protect your server. iptables Our server stack is LAMP. Hence iptables as the firewall is the most natural choice. The requirements are like 1. Block everything except Ping, SSH, Apache, and SSL. 2. Enabled SSH only from …
I get this error every time I install apache web-server in an ubuntu machine. We use LAMP stack at Interviewstreet and this error was nagging me all the this while. The error message shows up something like this. root@interviewstreet:~# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Restarting web server apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using interviewstreet.com for …
The other day, I was poking a few sites on the web lazily, looking how they’ve designed the CSS, HTML etc blah blah blah.. I take a quick look at the tumblr source code and find this in the header 🙂 #Like
Finally we’ve started doing all our development using a framework, Codeigniter. It has a small learning curve, simple to use and very flexible with how much you want to adhere to MVC pattern. You have the control to code every damn thing in the controller or have proper models and views to help the controller. Three nice tips/tricks I found …
Disclaimer : I didn’t cook this. This samba rice tastes like heaven!!! According to the person who made this, I’ve have been friend with a great person, coz she can cook this. This is called awesomeness 😉
Social Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Mail services like GMail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail play a big role in our Internet Life. What is the limits these sites impose on us? By how much can we push our internet life using these sites? Facebook 1. The maximum limit on the number of friends you can have on Facebook is …
Hello everyone, I’m planning to solve the problems in the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, say like one problem per week. Why am I doing this? 1. The problems there are very interesting. 2. Working in windows all the time, I feel I’m losing my shell scripting abilities. This will keep me updated. The problem we are going to solve this week …
I’ve been watching (and storing) lots and lots of useful, fun and interesting Google Talk status messages for the last few months. It’s short, informative and the main reason why I never logout of Google Talk. So I was wondering what I might do IF I was given the responsibility to pick the top status messages like a film-fare festival …
Disclaimer: This is a personal post. It is all about me and what I did in the last 3 days. If you don’t know me at all, I strongly advise you to stop reading here and I apologize for taking your time. If you are geek like me and prefer to read a technical post, rather than this boring post, …
That’s true. My last post was exactly 3 months ago and I’ve posted only 2 posts in the last 6 months, but I’m alive. Lots and lots of new stuff has happened during these 6 months. Things which took up all my time and didn’t even let me think about blogging. Probably this is what happens, when you do something …
One month since I’ve quit IBM. 1 month.. 30 days… 720 hrs… So, how was the experience as an entrepreneur? How does it feel to work all on my own without a big fat cheque waiting for me on the 1st day of every month? This is my blog and this post is going to be all about me. This …
The summary of the story startupCount += 10; mentorCount++; Yes, MVP has announced their new batch of 10 startups. To make things more exciting, they have Indus Khaitan in the team. Things you might know about indus. 1. Chief Technology Officer of SezWho, a Silicon Valley startup 2. 5 bare minimum things a web startup CTO MUST worry about, at …
Yes, I’ve quit IBM and now the signature in my emails says Harishankaran Software Developer, Interviewstreet.com Now that I can post anything I want (not that IBM stopped me writing what I wanted to write :P), let me try to answer a few questions my friends asked, when I told them about my venture. What triggered you guys [ working …
I’m a full time web developer now. Million thanks to Firefox, web development is made much much easier. To make the web development process easier, there are many many extensions. A few of them I use for my development, 1. Firebug 2. Web Developer 3. ColorZilla 4. MeasureIt 5. ViewSourceChart 6. FireCookie 7. YSlow 8. Delicious. 9. Twitterfox 10. CSS …
A few days back, I got a mail from my friend, saying, Subject: Versioning in Windows Hi guys, Does any one know a software that can version files in windows? As simple as: There’s a certain folder of files I want to be “version” tracked, I specify the list of folders. After this, every change I make is time-archived. So …
Completed one year in IBM today. Ironically, I told my manager that I’m going to quit today. 🙂 I’ve learnt lots and lots in this one year, both technically and non-technically. Nothing much more tell. Rather, I prefer not to say anything in my blog here. 🙂
Hi all, I’m very happy to present you Online Programming Contest Calendar (http://www.opccalendar.com/). This is something I wanted to do for Spider in college. All I could finish in college was a simple fetcher from algorithmist.com and topcoder.com. Now, I have everything I wanted to have in this new site. And yes, I hated the algorithmist.com calendar. There was so …
This is a tutorial about how to perform a dummy dictionary attack and how web-masters can prevent a dictionary attack. Wikipedia defines Dictionary attack as, In cryptanalysis and computer security, a dictionary attack is a technique for defeating a cipher or authentication mechanism by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase by searching likely possibilities. A dictionary attack uses …
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
I’ve been to Proto.in a month ago. I should have posted this long back. Better late than never. The event was awesome. The experience and inspiration I got when seeing other startups can’t be described in mere words. The last session of the second day was pretty interesting. People were asked to pool in the questions they had in mind …
/* Personal post. Exit here if you don’t know me or if you aren’t interested. Read this at your own risk. */ Hi all, Been a long time since I posted anything here. So many things have been happening around me and as usual, I was caught up with all _personal_ issues. 🙂 So here I’m. 4 in the morning. …
Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free. Product is tested. 20 bugs are found. Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren’t really bugs. Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn’t work and discovers 15 new bugs. Repeat three times steps 3 and 4. Due to marketing pressure and …