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Facebook Puzzles: The gateway to Facebook

Amit Roushan — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:20:02 +0000

What would be your Dream Job ? Almost all of us long for a multinational company that makes billions and rakes in huge profit every year. What if the company is something like Facebook ? With no doubts, Facebook is the biggest online craze at the present state and given a chance, anybody wouldn’t have second thoughts about joining the Facebook team. But hiring at Facebook is intense. Facebook recruits from top level universities after [...]

Creating a Facebook Application: “Hello World!”

Prashish Rajbhandari — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:15:33 +0000

Many of us have spent hours playing games like Farmville, Sims, taking quiz like ‘When are you going to marry’, ‘Who will kill you’ etc in Facebook. Ever wondered how they are built? Ever wanted to built something like that? Ever felt like making your own app to amaze your friends? Don’t worry, it isn’t that difficult. In this series, I will talk about building a Facebook Application from scratch and by the end of [...]

Anti SOPA/PIPA, The First Reaction

Amit Roushan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:55:54 +0000

Ever since the SOPA, also known as the House Bill 3261 was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, it has been under scrutiny of various Internet companies and the people who are closely related to Internet. Only in the recent time when the Web has strongly reacted against the law, it has gained most popularity making common people aware about what SOPA and PIPA is. As people are understanding [...]

Understanding Segmentation Fault with C Code Snippets

Raju Khanal — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:28:33 +0000

Coding is a difficult job for the best of us. It takes a lot of time, effort and patience. The fact that there are so many types of errors possible and most of them are misunderstood makes the job of coding very tedious. One of these irritating errors is the Segmentation Fault and in this stone I will try and explain why this error occurs and then how to solve them. Segmentation is a memory [...]

What to Expect from the biggies ? Prediction for 2012

Amit Roushan — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:49:44 +0000

Yet another spectacular year for technology has come to an end. A brand new year has already started on a promising note to bring new changes that would obviously make our life bigger and better. The developments in the tech s and software companies were impressive in the previous year and we can expect the same in the coming year. There were many turn-rounds in these companies which made the headlines and we are pretty [...]

Year 2011 for Google

Amit Roushan — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:17:15 +0000

As the year passed by, there was much advancement in the World Wide Web. Most likely, the year 2011 proved to be a year for Google. Google acquired a number of companies, came up with various new products, and enhanced the one already present. As a whole, Google saw some pretty impressive statistics this year. As a major change, in April, co-founder Larry Page repalced Eric Schmidt as CEO of the company. Schmidt took on [...]

2011 Year in Review

Prerak Pradhan — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:28:10 +0000

So another year goes by, the last sun of 2011 has risen and gone down. 2011, what a year it has been personally, I think this has probably been the most eventful year of them all year. The Americans finally got their man, Gaddafi and Kim Jong II bit the dust while riots raged across Britain. On the tech things haven’t been different either so in this post we look back at all the events [...]

Getting Started with Socket Programming in Java

Prerak Pradhan — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:40:45 +0000

The world today has probably more than a good billion computers in operation right now and almost all of them are connected to each other at one time or other. Networking between computers gives an additional dimension to using this amazing creation. Network Programming in Java is really simple; it uses something called sockets to facilitate communication between any two machines. In this series of stone I will focus on network programming in java. To [...]

Create a ‘makefile’

Raju Khanal — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:00:05 +0000

When working with a C project we might have multiple .c files in the same project. Having to compile each and every source file after some alterations in one of them would be a painful task. Hence to avoid this , we make use of the make utility which reads its makefile and makes the building and managing of our C project lot more easier. Thus when one of the .c files is changed , [...]

Cloud Computing – Introduction

Rupak Chakraborty — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:06:22 +0000

Cloud computing is a technology which has the potential to revolutionize the IT industry and the web arena. It’s not a new concept but the coinage of the term is relatively new, we all use the cloud without ever realizing it. Let me name a few things which will help to demystify the Cloud. G-mail, Dropbox, A search engine called Kloudless, iTunes, Apple’s iCloud, blogs, Facebook apps even Facebook itself and various other social networking sites. [...]

Netbeans Shortcut ( Part II )

Prerak Pradhan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:50:12 +0000

Continuing on my series of stones on Netbeans, I bring on the second part of the shortcuts in Netbeans. This post will primarily deal with the various coding shortcuts NetBeans has to offer along with a few editor code templates. So without any further ado let’s begin. Move/copy up/down. Press Ctrl-Shift-Up and the current selection are copied to the lines right above the current selection. Press Alt instead of Ctrl and it is moved instead [...]

Add Facebook Comment Box in Blogspot Blogs (Blogger)

Prashish Rajbhandari — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:15:59 +0000

Facebook social plugin enables users to comment on your Blogspot blog using their Facebook credentials. Visitors don’t need to provide any additional identification (name, email, website) nor need to log in everytime. Here I have listed few pros and cons of the Facebook Comment Box, which will help you decide whether or not to replace your old comment system with the Facebook Social Plugin. Pros: Comments made can be posted on your wall and eventually [...]

NetBeans Shortcuts ( Part I )

Prerak Pradhan — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:01:26 +0000

Coding for the best of us is a long tedious and frustrating process. Yes at times it can be all exhilarating when we get stuff right but there are moments when we feel like throwing our laptop through the window. An IDE or an Integrated Development Environment makes coding a whole lot easier and yes prevents the guy down on the street from getting hit by a laptop. NetBeans is a powerful IDE and is [...]

Add Facebook Comment Box in WordPress Blogs (source code)

Prashish Rajbhandari — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:15:46 +0000

Facebook has a social plugin that allows to integrate the Facebook Comment box into WordPress blogs. This social plugin enables Facebook users to comment using their Facebook credentials. Below I have listed few pros and cons of the Facebook Comment Box, which might help you decide whether to replace your old comment box with this social plugin or not. Pros: Comments made can be posted on your wall and eventually to your friend’s news feed [...]

Steve Jobs: The Extraordinary Biography (in pictures)

Amit Roushan — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:10:31 +0000

Steve Jobs can really be credited for his extraordinary story where he built an empire, Apple, which gave the world the first Personal Computer. After taking the company to new heights, he was sadly forced out of his own company. At that point when many individual might have broken down, Jobs stood firm and built two more companies: Next and Pixar. Moreover when Jobs was reinstated, he bought Apple out of near bankruptcy, and just [...]

Simple Scripts & Sed

Rabi C Shah — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:44:51 +0000

In my previous stone on Terminal tricks using sed, I had included simple sed one-liners to carry out some amazing text editing tasks. The beauty of sed command is more accentuated when used in scripts.A combination of two or more commands with sed can result in effective scripts. You can either create a bash file or make an alias. Alias allows you to define ‘shortcuts’ to shell commands. Usage : alias newcommand=’yourcommand -arguments’ For e.g. [...]

Firefox memory bug finally solved??

Pratik Gautam — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:09:53 +0000

Mozilla’s 6-week release cycle is a bold new step that ensures frequent release of updates, and users will now get the new features faster than ever. The latest stable release of Firefox is a big leap forward for Mozilla as it solves the oldest, biggest and probably one of the most irritating of bugs in the browser, the memory bug. As posted on Mozilla’s support forum Mozillazine, “Firefox caches objects for future use. In addition, [...]

Terminal Tricks using Stream Editor ( sed )

Rabi C Shah — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:31:44 +0000

In this article, I have included some of the basic sed one-liners. These amazing one liners make difficult tasks look so simple and elegant. Moreover,they make you believe that you can perform such tedious tasks in a simple one-liner. So, What is sed ? It’s a non-interactive text editor. It reads an input from STDIN or a given file, executes a series of editing commands and returns the output to STDOUT. It is designed to [...]

What’s new in Ubuntu 11.10 ( Oneric Ocelot )

Rabi C Shah — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:48:49 +0000

Oneric Ocelot ( Ubuntu 11.10 ) is scheduled to be launched on October 13, 2011. There are no such major changes in Oneric Ocelot. Instead, it improves on the drastic changes made in Maverick Meerkat ( Ubuntu 11.04 ). So, What’s new in Oneric Ocelot? New Login Screen - BetaGDM is no longer the default login screen for Ubuntu; ( replacing the old GDM Manager ) - Instead, a new login screen called LightDM - [...]

40 Twitter Terms You Might Not Know

Amit Roushan — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:00:40 +0000

Twitter is one of the best things that happened on the Internet. Ever since the Social networking cum Micro-blogging site emerged in 2006, it has been growing in a tremendous way marking more than 200 million registered users as 2011, tweeting more than 200 million tweets per day. The figures certainly contribute in making twitter one of the ten most visited sites of the present time. The Twitter Empire has expanded in such a fashion [...]