Being an engineer sucks. Reason being, we don’t interact a lot with people. We’re humans too. And what are humans? Social beings. So by being cut off on the social aspect, we cease to function like normal human beings. We’re more lonely and more mechanical. It’s not good..compared to being, say, a doctor..a surgeon? Not only do you meet a lot of people, but a lot of people in pain. And you help them. What a high that must be, I wonder..
Yep yep, I admit I’ve been posting only technical articles on this blog.
Recently, as you would know, Munim, Sid and I created a blog named TechBol.
TechBol is now officially our technical blog and I shall cease to post anything remotely technical on Fleeting Memoir.
From this post on, it’ll be just my thoughts and views on the world, the internet (very general) and life.
Blogged with Flock
Just finished tinkering with an existing Beryl-emerald theme called “Any” and posted it on GnomeLook. Here’s a screen-shot:
It’s running on an Ubuntu Gutsty Gibon (7.10) installation with all the goodies installed. There’s emerald running on Compiz-Fusion which provides the theming for window borders. Additionally, in this screen-shot, you can see the beautiful GTK controls, which have been provided by Aurora GTK engine. Here are instructions to install the Aurora GTK engine on Ubuntu. Lastly, the icon-set used over here is GnomeElephant-Marine Blue. Hope you like it!
Blogged with Flock
Tags: emerald-themeubuntu
This post comes after a long time with a new theme and a few changes here and there. But most importantly, is my latest dilemma. I started off blogging here on various things, including technical stuff. Now when I realized it wouldn’t be appropriate to blog on everything in one place, my friend Munim, Sid and I together decided to start a technical blog, TechBol. Right now, there isn’t much on it, plus the stuff that will be posted there is still in the gray area.
I mean, there’s the ultra-technical stuff on Doctrine and ORM frameworks which normal people wouldn’t even know about. Then there’s lighter stuff which not only normal people, but even hard-core geeks would appreciate. Stuff like a detailed feature review of Flock, a Social web-browser. It’s based on the latest Firefox but with the added functionality of integrated Web 2.0 applications like Facebook and Twitter, which can be directly accessed anytime from a highly usable sidebar. I’m sure you get the picture. In case you don’t, see this:
The photo shows the “People-Sidebar” along with the “Media-bar” which shows a scrolling photo-feed from Flickr. Till I solve this dilemma, later…
Blogged with Flock
..after a long hiatus. Thing is, I stopped blogging when my tests were around the corner and then the habit just went away. Worry not my fellow netizens, I’m back with a handful of reviews. Here’s something to look out for, a sneak peak of Visual Studio C# 2008 Express Edition Beta 2, what’s new in .NET 3.5, Microsoft Silverlight and the latest Alpha release of Trillian 4 (Astra).
Yes, another drake..not referring to Mandrake here (the Linux distribution which has now be renamed to Mandriva).
This Drake is unique, it gives us the power to do wonderful things. Wanna know more about it?
Alright, I’m talking about a project that lets you integrate CakePHP into Drupal, effectively acting like a bridge between the two.
With project Drake, you can eat the forbidden fruit and not get deprived of your immortality. Imagine creating your own specialized CakePHP application for project management along with Drupal’s ease of use and publishing capabilities and plethora of existing plug-ins.
Rediscovered Notable today.
This lovely application is very user friendly, and I’m sure Bret has put in a lot of hours making it so. Just 5 minutes into using it, I could feel the level of thought that would’ve gone into developing it.
Anyway, it had a few short-comings to really suit my purpose. So I took it upon myself to make the changes I’d like to see in it.
Viola! Here it is, the brand new modded Notable and the source, if I may… 
There are a lot of new things to write about this week, I’ll start with twitter.
It’s a simple website that allows you to answer one simple question, “What are you doing right now?”. You can update the answer from time to time, use it in a RSS feed, add friends. It’s a wonderful concept and although it’s immediate usefulness may not be easy to feel, but it’s certain that with web-applications like Yahoo! Pipes, it’s gonna be awesome!
It’s the power of knowing what your friends are doing this very moment. It’s the power of knowing so many things. For example, you could in theory calculate the no. of twitter users watching American Idol just by going through their feeds. It may sound complex, but it’s easy and can be implemented using Yahoo! Pipes, a 5 minute job.
Stay tuned for more updates including a detailed report on Yahoo! Pipes.
I’m really taking the concept of multi-tasking to its limits. I have a test in a few hours and here I am in the wee hours of the morning, listening to music and looking to revitalize an old desire.
Week after week for the past 2 months, I’ve tried many CMS (content management system). Each time looking for the perfect solution that would have a blog, support for additional web-pages, project-hosting (with a blog for each project and a news section) and the facility to customize the layout and themes on the fly.
Drupal looks like the best bet I have right now, but the blogs on WordPress look amazing and managing them is so painless! PHP-Fusion has all the features I’m looking for, but it’s interface is rather too rigid. A tough call to make.
Now the next problem. I know enough of PHP but CSS requires different playing ground. Messing up with screen co-ordinates all day long is not my cup of tea. So even if I am able to create the perfect customized CMS based on a frame-work like CakePHP or even RubyOnRails, I still have to make the site look good in CSS. Perhaps an easy to use WYSIWYG editor would do the trick. Suggestions anyone?
If all goes well, I should have the home-page will all the fancy eye-candy and features ready by August 2007. Alright, back to the books…
