CodeChef Tech Talks – Geek Symposiums

Folks,

I have 10 invites for the CodeChef Tech Talk Geek Symposium scheduled for Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad on September 11, 12 and 13. For more details about the event, please read the CodeChef Website.

These invites are available courtesy the CodeChef community for the OSScamp Community. If you are interested in participating at the event, please leave a comment on the post on the OSScamp Community Blog.

Hope to catch you all on OSScamp Delhi September 2009.

I also have another exciting announcement, coming up in the next blog post. Watch out!

How to Install Unavailable Firefox 3.5 Addons

This post was originally published on Digimantra.com

The biggest handicap about using Firefox 3.5 right now is the lack of availability of some of our most loved addons.Yes they are being migrated to 3.5 fast, but yet why wait for them, when you can use them right away? Yup! With a little hack, you can fool your Firefox to believe that the addon is applicable to the version 3.5. However, this might lead to some performance issues. Ok, so let’s start. I am using one of my most used addon as an example – YSlow (You can also check our recommended list of addons for Developers).YSlow is a wonderful addon for your webpage optimisation and I sorely miss it in 3.5 as its not migrated yet. Let’s Begin…

This post was originally published on Digimantra.com

Introducing Aardvark – realtime, community-powered support

This post was originally published on Digimantra.com

Have you ever had one of those moments when you desperately need an answer but don’t know who to ask? Or that all those you could think of asking have no clue, but you do need an answer? Well, Aardvark is meant for you? Aardvark provides you with a platform to have realtime conversations with friends around topics that you have questions about. This can be way much more efficient and helpful than searching the net. Aardvark uses the latent knowledge people have, which cannot be caputred on a web page. All of this, without downloads. Just email Aardvark or send it an IM, and help is on its way.

This post was originally published on Digimantra.com

Blog Statistics for 2009 First Half

A compilation of some statistics about my domain: kinshuksunil.com for 2009, First Half.
These are very small and insignificant numbers, but at least they are milestones I am progressing forward from :)

The Source for these statistics is Awstats. I have started using Google Analytics, absolutely, from June 20th only. All subsequent stats will come from it.

VISITORS

Unique: 12991 (6 Month Average: 2165)
Page Views: 35655 (6 Month Average: 5942.5)
Hits: 361009 (6 Month Average: 60169)

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Windows (All Versions): 60.8 %
Linux (All Distributions): 33.6 %
Mac OS (All Versions): 5.3 %
Symbian (All Versions): 0.3 %

BROWSERS

Firefox (All Versions): 49.1 %
Internet Explorer (All Versions): 26.5 %
Opera (All Versions): 8.9 %
Chrome (1.0.x): 5 %
Safari (All Versions): 3.6 %
Nokia Mobile : 1.6 %
Sony Mobile: 1 %

SOURCE COUNTRY

India: 56.4 %
USA: 23.7 %
Brazil: 5.2 %
Phillipines: 4 %
Russia: 3.6 %
UK: 3.6 %
Canada: 2.7 %

A Peek Into the WWW, Courtesy MozillaCamp

This Post was originally published in the Linux For You Magazine’s March 2009 Edition. Also available online.

Delhi’s first unconference on Mozilla technologies was a grand event with about a 100 campers who came together to share some Mozilla love on February 10. It was an event that attracted technologists and students, with Mozilla’s Seth Bindernagel and Arun Ranganathan around to discuss the future of the Web…

This Post was originally published in the Linux For You Magazine’s March 2009 Edition. Also available online.



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