Woha, quite a few days flew by without me blogging about anything. Thankfully the others started to write so I don’t have to repeat it all ;-) Instead I’ll concentrate on stuff I did or learned.

GHNS for Snippets

Well, first I think an excuse is in oder: There is a GHNS button for Kate Snippets in 4.4.0 but it’s broken, neither me nor Joseph had time to acutally use and fix it… But anyways, I fixed it now for 4.4.1. For 4.5 we’ll also have an Upload Dialog.

Hey everyone!

Just a quick blurb about my first day at FOSDEM so far:

The City of Brussels

All I have to say about the things I saw this morning is simply: Wow. What a city. I really like it’s … /”style”/?! Magnificent old buildings, no dull corners, everything is a bit organic, grown together. I really like it. When I drove with the bus to the University today I really got thinking: What could Berlin have looked like if not these sons of b*****s messed up our history… Oh well - off to better thoughts…

Hey everyone, just a quick blurp:

FOSDEM

Yeah, I’ll go to FOSDEM! Will be my first time, I’m really looking forward to it. Esp. considering that it marks the end of my current semester. My current plan for the following days is:

• visit relatives & friends
• go to FOSDEM
• get an immense overload of hacking at the Kate/KDevelop sprint
• start working as an intern at KDAB

Looks like the future will be much fun :)

Hey everyone. Been some time since I last blogged… I want to take the chance to give you all a bit of overview over the last changes in the PHP plugin for KDevelop:

Performance Improvements

I spent quite some time profiling various aspects of the PHP plugin, be it parsing and DUChain building over to (just yesterday) code completion. I’m confident to say that I found (and removed) quite a few bottlenecks, making the plugin much more comfortable to use.

Hey everyone! The PHP & PHP-Docs plugins for KDevelop now moved to Extragear! The new locations are:

Or the anonsvn equivalent:

Ha, what a bit of a bribe can do to me… Someday earlier today a user of the PHP plugin for KDevelop brought up the flickering issue in it again. Well as I told him: I myself find it very annoying and wanted to fix it since quite some time, but never got around to it… Usually that would be it and I’d go watch some more FamilyGuy until I’m in the mood to track this bugger down. But well, thankfully Phlogi wasn’t so easy to dispatch:

<Phlogi> milian: ok… I’ll send you pizza and beer if you fix this!

So, it’s been roughly a year since my first commit to kdelibs. According to Ohloh it’s been in November 2008. And boy have I learned much in this year. I learned C++ just to be able to contribute to KDE, since I thought it would be awesome to be able to “fix your own itch”. I have to say: It was the best decision I ever made.

Developing your website involves a number of processes and steps. The first and foremost is careful planning, creative thinking and smart and easy execution of the website. Since this is the initial step, the web developers should pay considerable attention and design the website step by step. The first stage in building a website is designing the site.

The history of Internet is not very old in India. But though it is quite new, it has made its presence felt in all spheres in the country.

Hey everybody!

If you are a KDevelop and/or Kate/Kwrite developer and do not read the mailing lists: There’s a hack sprint coming up in Berlin in 2010. I think there’ve been enough sprints in Berlin already so that you know it’s a great city for such an event. Though this time it won’t be at KDAB or Nokia offices, but at the Physics Faculty of the FU-Berlin. Since I (currently) work there as an IT admin, it was my first choice and worked out. I hope it will be a good location for the meeting. If you want to attend, vote on doodle:

The website development in India is not only known for its price competitiveness but also for its quality and established processes now. From latest web 2.0 technologies to robust banking software India has been showing the world the way as far as software development goes. No wonder India accounts for nearly 70% of the world’s offsite software development.

Social networking sites have become an integral part and parcel of the World Wide Web and is undergoing rapid changes and transition which is making it the most sought after websites in the internet not only for those who are seeking new friends but also to the businessmen and advertisers promoting their products to the whole world. Today, people search for information that is useful. This is one of the most important points for the success of social networking development work of websites.

Due to its rapid rise more and more people are being attracted to Facebook and learning about its application. Therefore, if you are also considering of developing a Facebook application then here are some tips to help you reach your goal.

So, I kinda messed up my desktop right after the upgrade to karmic, because I was too greedy for performance and converted my root file system to ext4. Well, that worked like a charm on my laptop, but it broke my desktop. This is in no way karmic’s fault, it’s my own misbehavior. Thankfully I could rescue most of my data.

Standard Attributes Introduced In HTML 5

The new standard attributes in HTML 5 are given as below:

Attribute

Who would have thought around two decades ago that what started as a form of generalized online communities would shape up to become one of the leading platform not only to share information and connect to friends but also to market products and services. Yes, you guessed it right we are talking about the “Social Networking Websites” here.

In previous blog you came to know about the difference between HTML 4.0 and HTML 5.0. Today you will know what are the new markup and new elements used in HTML 5.0

New Markup Using HTML 5

It provides a number of new elements and attributes. Some of them are replacements for common uses of generic block (<div>) and inline (<span>) elements, for example <nav> (website navigation block) and <footer>. Other elements provide new functionality through a standardized interface, such as the <audio> and <video> elements.

The assets of today’s companies are its people, and more so if the company draws most of its revenues from the services. I have always enjoyed working with people, and have almost assumed dealing with people to be strength. This was 5 years back, and then Tekriti happened. The definition of “working with people” got expanded to cover many more things than what I had assumed initially. A large part of my job is to manage the expectations of people, and ensuring that they are incentivized enough and still keep the company healthy.

Hi there!

Today I want to abuse the fact, that my blog is aggregated on some planets, to bring a project of a friend of mine into the spotlight:

The Linux-Minidisc project

It’s a project to bring Read/Write access on mini discs to Linux. It consists of a CLI and a Qt Gui. All code is licensed under the GPL and can be accessed via Git.

One of our prospective customers read our post on Cloud Computing and came back to us with some questions on Virtual Dedicated Hosting (yes a new term for Cloud Computing, relating only to server hosting). With their permission I am reproducing some of the questions as below with the hope that the very same questions will help alleviate the indecision from our other prospective customers:

Social Media marketing for corporates is seen as the next gold rush by many marketers. There are a few major steps that comprises the use of social media for marketing for corporate. It is very important to learn and master the nuances of Social Media Marketing because its modus operandi is making exploring business and connections to the business world a duck soup. It is that powerful strategy of promoting your business and site that is low-cost consuming, will give you large number of visitors, get you links, attention and a massive amount of traffic.

SmartTechie rates Tekriti as one of the 10 most promising IT and ITES companies in India.

July 22, 2009: SiliconIndia, one of India's largest professional network, and publisher of technology magazines has published a story on the entrepreneurial journey of Tekriti. Even in the slowdown period, Tekriti has successfully grown in the last 1 year because of the strong emphasis on quality, and client satisfaction.

There are zillions of companies who are in the web development - almost 80% (if not more) of them focus primarily on the static website development with maybe a very little dynamic content created using PHP, ASP, JSP pages. The other 10%-20% of the companies are into heavy dynamic website development, using the advanced Web 2.0 constructs, CMS backed platforms. Tekriti's main business is the latter.

July 19, 2009: Tekriti Software launched a new website, that showcases the different services and solutions offered by the company. The website is built on the top of the Corporate Website framework that Tekriti has recently put together. This corporate website framework is built on the top of Drupal content management system and is configured for fast deployment of a corporate site.

Welcome to the new website for Tekriti Software. It's been a while that we, at Tekriti, have let people know about all the work that we have been doing. Tekriti has traditionally benefitted a lot because of the various blogs that our team used to write at various personal blogs. Because of our busy schedules, we have not been able to update our personal blogs. This company blog is an attempt to ensure continuity in our blog posts and get more and more people to write their thoughts and various stuff they have been working on.