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IFSC Search
2008-03-08 10:42:00
Sometime in November 2007, PayPal added a new feature : Widthdraw funds to an Indian bank account. Theres a fee of Rs 50 for withdrawals less than Rs 7,000 , otherwise there is no fee. You'll need to provide the IFSC (Indian Financial System Code) number of your bank though to get this working.I've created a small form here to search for IFSC codes from 3 separate sources.Reason for 3 databases is that there isnt any official source that has all the banks' IFSC data - so its better off to compare all sources and check if they match. I'll add more database(s) if I find a different source. The most reliable source is, the bank-branch itself - obviously.Disclaimer: None of the information is guaranteed to be 100% accurate.
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MySQL Road Show India 2008!
2008-02-28 05:48:00
Last week, on Thursday, the 21st, I attended the MySQL Road Show India 2008 in Mumbai. The co-founder and the director of technologies gave their tech-talks. About 100+ database pros attended the seminar. The primary discussion was on their upcoming final release of MySQL 5.1 - new features and functionality : High Availability - stressed a lot on this Clustering Partioning Row-based replication XML : Native support for XML. This is becoming common is every aspect of a coder's life. Event scheduler - crons in MySQL ! Faster ALTER/DROP index Faster data import using threading --use-threads mysqlslap PBXT A bit was also said about MySQL 6.0 & its Falcon storage engine. And the day before yesterday, Jonathan Schwartz announced the acquisition of MySQL for $1 billion. A lot Java enthusiasts are hoping to witness a wave of low-budget Java shared-webhosting.
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My first mobile phone
2008-02-14 06:18:00
A couple of days back, I bought a mobile phone for myself - finally ! (Though I add access to a mobile phone). I was hoping an Android based phone would be out by this year, but Google has a reputation of keeping projects in "beta" for just too long. So I got a Nokia N82 - a 3.5G Symbian 9.2 OS device with a 5MP camera and Xenon Flash ! These days, 5MP mobile-phones are rocketing, after Nokia's N95 launch and the recent launch of Sony Ericsson's K850i & Samsung's SCH-S250. The clarity is pretty good. Original : here. Im not sure if its an update in the latest Nokia PC Suite software or if its harware specific, (though I can't see how it can be the latter), but I now can compose and send text-messages directly from my PC via Nokia Text Message Editor (available as an icon in Explorer > Nokia Phone Browser). Now, this is surely a time saver ! Can we see a 10MP camera-phone in the consumer market by 2010 ?
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Injected JavaScript line : 222360.com & asdafdgfgf.com
2008-01-29 09:31:00
Im a guy who is pretty much cautious about computer security, though Im not a network or security guru. The last time I formatted my hard-disk & installed my OS was sometime in December 2004 when my old PC was no good anymore and had to get a new one in January 2005. It was a HP with Windows XP SP2 OEM pre-loaded. Based on my previous years of experience, I managed to stay away from all possible malicious worms entering my PC. I never login as Administrator except for installation and global configuration settings. I am always logged in under User mode. I guess a Linux user is probably laughing at this saying "thats the way it always was". In Linux, using a non-root user is a standard for two reasons :1. You can login as root in shell within a user environment to care of admin issues. (The same is possible in Windows XP using right-click > Run as)2. Most installations can be done to any location - unlike C:Program Files & C:Windows where many installers require to add ...
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NIIT's new Adobe Courses
2007-12-14 09:16:00
In today's Mumbai Mirror, I was surprised too see a nicely designed ad showcasing NIIT's new Adobe Web 2.0 courses. Apparently, NIIT & Adobe have joined forces to provide training programmes on Adobe's latest version of their products : Flash CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, Flex 2 and ColdFusion 8. I called them up (main center located at Delhi), to enquire about these courses (my interest being in Flex alone), I was told that Flex is currently not available ! When I asked about the Flash CS3 course, they asked me if I knew C# and I replied no since I'm mainly into Linux based stuff, they insisted that I take a C# course which is a prerequisite for learning Flash CS3 ! I guessed this included ActionScript 3 too, but C# being a prerequisite is a pretty high demand. Knowledge of JavaScript with OOP concepts should be more than enough in my opinion. Basic C# : ~ Rs 6,200 Flash CS3 : ~ Rs 9,000 Flex : ~ Rs 7,000 Entire Web 2.0 Course (including Dreamweaver & ColdFusio...

Sony DRX-S70U
2007-10-29 13:23:00
After several attempts in trying to figure out what went wrong with my 1.5 year old HP DVD Writer, I could come to no other conclusion than a hardware failure. In a desperate need for a burner, I recently decided to get an external one instead, powered by USB so that I don't have to depend on a single PC incase of internal PC malfunction. Among the very few available to choose from, I got a Sony DRX-S70U external slim DVD Writer for Rs. 7,000 (~$175). Its the notebook type of drive, so it writes at pretty low speeds (HP disks at 2x). Better off to use the cheapest internal writer to be replaced every one year or two, rather than getting an expensive branded one for this purpose. There was drive that was really mouth-watering : Sony Blue-Ray BWU-100A. Unfortunately, its costs a whopping Rs 38,000 (~$950) !

GMail Unbeatable
2007-10-24 17:13:00
When Gmail was first launched in 2004, its most attractive features were fast AJAX interface and POP+SMTP ! Though Microsoft Email clients like Outlook & Express managed to emulate POP & SMTP for Hotmail accounts, POP+SMTP was not really available. But above all, it was Gmail's initial 1GB and growing storage capacity what really lured people to using it. By 2007, with space of almost 3GB and 10GB for the paid versions, Google has recently increased their capacity to 4GB (targetted to 6GB by Jan '08) and 25GB for paid versions. And now for the most anticipated feature of all - IMAP. Thats right. Google has just started rolling out IMAP for gmail accounts. This may not come as a very big excitement for most users, but it definitely does for developers who can now access gmail accounts directly via the IMAP protocol. The only other free service that was providing this so far, was AOL. There may have been a lack of new services by Google this year, but if definitely seems t...

Why Python Rocks
2007-09-28 06:34:00
I was checking out the Python programming language, and I must say, this reminded my a lot on the basic set theory I learnt when I was in the 11th grade. Its like as if, Python (Py for short) is made for math geeks. Its not about the math or any other library that has a load of math functions - its the way the language is designed - where the language is itself very much like writing 'math code'.Calculator : Has a direct interpreter-cum-IDE that doesn't require you to store any code in a file first. All executed statements are stored temporarily in RAM. This something like the Immediate Window Microsoft QuickBasic offered.Exponentiation : To find the value of xn in Java, .NET, PHP, JavaScript etc, built-in pow function is to be used. In Py, this function call is saved by an arithmetic operation **. x ** n. ( Though pow() function does exist in the math library )Functions can return more than one value : def foo(a, b): return (a + b, a - b)x, y = foo(5, 3)print x, y(5, 3) is ca...
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African Trip Photos
2007-09-16 22:28:00
My mom's friend went on an African Trip (Kenya and Tanzania) during the last 10 days of August. Just before she left for her journey, I told her about the infamous Battle at Kruger video that was first aired on YouTube a couple of months back (even though it was shot in 2004). [ YouTube Link ] The chances of an incident like the Kruger Battle happening is like once in a 100 years - let alone capturing it on video. But then, in 10 yrs from now, Google would probably be recording everything happening on earth on every centimeter square ! Google for incidents ! I told my mom's friend to capture whatever and how much ever possible - to look for possible signs of attacks etc. Well...unfortunately nothing really happened, though there were times where something was about to happen but aborted sooner than later. Anyway, here are some really nicely shot snaps of African Wildlife. The 2 cheetahs are hunting for something else in fro...
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ConText out of Eden's Garden
2007-09-16 11:13:00
ConText, a fairly popular light-weight syntax text editor for Windows, developed and maintained solely by a Croatian named Eden Kirin, is out for sale ! Since the lastest release v0.98.5 in December 2006, there has been no activity in its development and Eden was hardly on the forums. Ever since he decided to revamp the entire thing for version 1.0, there was a lot of eagerness from his fans. After almost a year, he has finally posted on the main page : Due to various engagements which cause lack of my full attention and continuous further development of the ConTEXT project, I'm officially announcing that the ConTEXT project is offered FOR SALE and starting the bid. Buyer will get: Full source code of ConTEXT Programmers Editor's last three releases. Full source code of unfinished ConTEXT v1.0. Full source code of ConTEXT Programmers Editor's dependent units and libraries. Fully functional ConTEXT web site located at www.context.cx with ...
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Very Useful Scripts and Pluggable GUI Solutions
2007-09-14 20:56:00
Sometime ago, a friend of mine consulted me on how to develop a newsletter management system for his client based on PHP and MySQL. We talked for a while on this and though this was simple enough to create a fairly simple newsletter management system from scratch, at the end of one month of his development, he had various issues regarding emails not being sent properly. It finally took his developer 2 months to get it over with and resulted in many support tickets to his hosting company. Because his website was on a shared host, he got limited to sending a # number of emails per hour and worse still, the emails couldn't be sent with HTML embedded in them (Content-type: text/html) - the HTML page had to sent as an attachment instead. At first I recommended to use Google Apps to host emails, but later found out that there's a limitation of sending about 50 emails at a time using Google Mail. A few weeks later I found out about phpList - and open-source Newsletter ...
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Two Friends' Advancement
2007-09-04 17:17:00
A couple of days ago, I learnt that two of my close friends, Arindam and Deepan got a reason to be very excited. Arindam was my neighbour a decade ago and has 2+ yrs of experience in C/C++ on UNIX, while Deepan was my college classmate and has about a yr of experience using Java.Arindam, who works for HCL Infotech, Bangalore got posted to the New York office and he is very excited experiencing the USA adventure inspite of 10+ hrs of daily work. Deepan, who works for a small outsourcing firm in Coimbatore developing web applications using Struts, has finally got internet connection in office which is now available to all employees of the firm.While Arindam is not sleeping in the city that never sleeps, Deepan is busy with his first blog, checking out blogger and the other likes of being online. Its interesting how these two software engineers have had recent advancements in their lives, and yet such a large gap in the difference in advancement, even though both are in the IT industry...
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Two Friends' Advancement
2007-08-16 04:22:00
A couple of days ago, I learnt that two of my close friends, Arindam and Deepan got a reason to be very excited. Arindam was my neighbour a decade ago and has 2+ yrs of experience in C/C++ on UNIX, while Deepan was my college classmate and has about a yr of experience using Java.Arindam, who works for HCL Infotech, Bangalore got posted to the New York office and he is very excited experiencing the USA adventure inspite of 10+ hrs of daily work. Deepan, who works for a small outsourcing firm in Coimbatore developing web applications using Struts, has finally got internet connection in office which is now available to all employees of the firm.While Arindam is not sleeping in the city that never sleeps, Deepan is busy with his first blog, checking out blogger and the other likes of being online. Its interesting how these two software engineers have had recent advancements in their lives, and yet such a large gap in the difference in advancement, even though both are in the IT industry...
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Two Friends' Advancement
2007-08-15 21:50:00
A couple of days ago, I learnt that two of my close friends, Arindam and Deepan got a reason to be very excited. Arindam was my neighbour a decade ago and has 2+ yrs of experience in C/C++ on UNIX, while Deepan was my college classmate and has about a yr of experience using Java.Arindam, who works for HCL Infotech, Bangalore got posted to the New York office and he is very excited experiencing the USA adventure inspite of 10+ hrs of daily work. Deepan, who works for a small outsourcing firm in Coimbatore developing web applications using Struts, has finally got internet connection in office which is now available to all employees of the firm.While Arindam is not sleeping in the city that never sleeps, Deepan is busy with his first blog, checking out blogger and the other likes of being online. Its interesting how these two software engineers have had recent advancements in their lives, and yet such a large gap in the difference in advancement, even though both are in the IT industry...
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Replace your Sony DSC-T5's bottom
2007-08-05 18:13:00
If you've got a Sony CyberShot DSC-T5 digital camera, chances are that the bottom casing of it is defective - enough to cut or scratch your finger. Even though the injuries reported by about 30 consumers were minor, one user had to get a surgery ! This only applies to users who have bought this in 2005 - 2006 period where the serial number falls in 3500001 to 3574100 range.According to Sony :"With certain DSC-T5 units, the metal plating peels away from the camera unit and warps outwards. Due to an irregularity during the initial part production, the adhesive strength of the metal plating declined. As a result, there is a small likelihood that damage to the bottom casing could cause the metal plating to peel and warp outwards." Have it checked with any of the Sony-India Service Centers. Related Links:Sony India's Official Announcement.dpreview: Sony recalls Cyber-Shot DSC-T5CNET News: Sony recalls 350,000 cameras
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So much for my xHTML recommendation
2007-07-24 05:45:00
I've always told my friend (who runs a New Media firm) to get his designer to create valid xHTML pages instead of using the default standard HTML 4.01 spec for their websites. I've cited a number of reasons to support this. One of the most important being is that xHTML is better served to mobile devices as the xHTML Mobile-Profile spec conforms to the xHTML 1.1 standard. And if a page is a valid xHTML, some device-readers could 'read out' the webpage to blind people.xHTML 1.1 pages must be served application/xhtml+xml MIME type which IE and some other browsers doesn't support. On the other hand, xHTML 1.0 (whatever DOCTYPE it may be - Strict, Transitional, Frameset) can be served as text/html if it follows the xHTML 1.0 spec guidelines - but even then its not considered to be valid xHTML ! Anyway, that's the summary of a long story. So much for xHTML that, at the time I created all my pages xHTML 1.1 but never served it from the server as xHTML 1.1 (tag-soup). I even started t...
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What to look for when looking for a new shared host
2007-07-23 21:31:00
There is a multitude of web-pages on the Internet related to web-hosting in specific. There are umpteen number of questions, opinions and reviews on web-hosting companies and its various issues. It is impossible to come up with a definite answer - only experience can tell what & which one is best for you. The criteria is mainly based on what audience base your website is targeted at. I cannot possibly make a post on comparison between web-hosting companies. This is one subject that can really drown you - get involved in WebHost ingTalk if you're really interested. When I'm looking for a linux shared-hosting solution for a future non-static website that I intend on developing, there are a couple of points I look out for when browsing through the package-plans' features : PHP 5.2.x - PHP4 is on its way out - on 13th July 2007, php.net officially announced the PHP 4 end of life announcement. With PHP 6 on the way, its high time new php-projects are written in PHP 5. Moreover, w...

So much for my xHTML recommendation
2007-07-23 21:28:00
I've always told my friend (who runs a New Media firm) to get his designer to create valid xHTML pages instead of using the default standard HTML 4.01 spec for their websites. I've cited a number of reasons to support this. One of the most important being is that xHTML is better served to mobile devices as the xHTML Mobile-Profile spec conforms to the xHTML 1.1 standard. And if a page is a valid xHTML, some device-readers could 'read out' the webpage to blind people.xHTML 1.1 pages must be served application/xhtml+xml MIME type which IE and some other browsers doesn't support. On the other hand, xHTML 1.0 (whatever DOCTYPE it may be - Strict, Transitional, Frameset) can be served as text/html if it follows the xHTML 1.0 spec guidelines - but even then its not considered to be valid xHTML ! Anyway, that's the summary of a long story. So much for xHTML that, at the time I created all my pages xHTML 1.1 but never served it from the server as xHTML 1.1 (tag-soup). I even started t...
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What to look for when looking for a new shared host
2007-07-19 22:50:00
There is a multitude of web-pages on the Internet related to web-hosting in specific. There are umpteen number of questions, opinions and reviews on web-hosting companies and its various issues. It is impossible to come up with a definite answer - only experience can tell what & which one is best for you. The criteria is mainly based on what audience base your website is targeted at. I cannot possibly make a post on comparison between web-hosting companies. This is one subject that can really drown you - get involved in WebHost ingTalk if you're really interested. When I'm looking for a linux shared-hosting solution for a future non-static website that I intend on developing, there are a couple of points I look out for when browsing through the package-plans' features : PHP 5.2.x - PHP4 is on its way out - on 13th July 2007, php.net officially announced the PHP 4 end of life announcement. With PHP 6 on the way, its high time new php-projects are written in PHP 5. Moreover, w...
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Tata reveals 1 lakh rupees car ?
2007-06-30 20:39:00
Somewhere in 2006 word spread that in 2007, Tata would reveal its Rs 1 lakh car. This car is speculated to be the result of major traffic jams in the city, now that a car which an average salaried Indian citizen can now afford, is going to be released. Now it seems it'll be out in 2008. Since I could not find any official source to cite this post, I decided to wait on this until there is a word from Tata. But recently on CNN, when it mentioned "...a $3000 car has been launched in India...", I thought it was pretty much out of the bag. $3000 is currently approx Rs 1,22,249 - the 20k difference must be in taxes etc Will we be witnessing chaos on the roads within the 2 years ? It'll be like a swarm of these kinda mini-cars on every street ! Will the The National Highways Authority of India accelerate their highway constructions ? [ Unbiased answer : No ] Will Tata actually run out of stock or have orders that are in a 5 year waiting list because of its affordability ? Will the co...

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