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Items by Angsuman Chakraborty

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  How To Develop iPhone Applications in Java

  Posted: November 16th, 2008, 8:54am CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

  iPhone is a great phone to develop applications for. Unfortunately Apple decided to restrict developing iPhone applications in a less known language called Objective C, which is used pretty much within Apple (and by Apple developers) and almost noweher else. Only Steve Jobs knows the reason behind this strange decision. Java ( J2ME) is the [...]
  
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  NASA Astronauts To Bond in Space by Tasting Each Others Urine; They Are Loving It

  Posted: November 14th, 2008, 11:46am CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

  Who wants to be an astronaut again? NASA devices an unique way to help astronauts bond with each other (and to preserve water I presume) by drinking communal piss, ewww. Why didn't estranged couples think of this earlier? The best or the worst part is that NASA engineers are loving it, so much so that [...]
  
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  22 Reasons to Switch to New WordPress 2.7 Beta 2

  Posted: November 11th, 2008, 9:30pm CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

  WordPress 2.7 (read detailed review) beta 2 fixes some crucial and long standing bugs in WordPress, so much so that it is worth looking into adopting it without waiting for the final release. The key fixes in WordPress 2.7 Beta 2: Javascript in admin panel was broken when a blog had no comments, causing several of [...]
  
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  LiquidPlanner, Online Project Management Service, Improves Usability

  Posted: November 11th, 2008, 9:02pm CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

  LiquidPlanner is a strong online project management service, much better than BaseCamp for one. It gives you desktop project management functionality on the web and does it well.In the latest release they added three important usability features: Multi-select - allows you to select, drag-and-drop and delete multiple items at a time. If you have used Microsoft [...]
  
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  Distributed Computing is What Separates Men From Boys

  Posted: November 8th, 2008, 12:35pm CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

  Any reasonable (web) application which deals with some subset of web data (rss feeds, web pages, product pricing data etc.), has to use distributed data processing to go anywhere. Unless you have very deep pockets and / or have strong VC funding (which is rarer than a bottle of Mouton Rothschild Pauillac Premier Cru First [...]
  
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  A Nice Accoustic Guitar Music To Begin Your Day With

  Posted: November 7th, 2008, 8:32pm CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

  The music is nice and soft, something to begin a hectic day with. I think you will enjoy it. Source: Rylynn - Andy McKee Original Song CD & Tabs - Art of Motion
  
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  Developer Tips: How To Show Line Number in vi / vim & nano

  Posted: November 5th, 2008, 9:47pm CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

  vi / vim as well as nano are the most popular editors on Unix / Linux / Solaris and for hardcode Mac OSX users too. For developing / debugging we need line numbers. A way to get them to display line numbers doesn't jump out easily from their big documentation, so here are my simple [...]
  
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  Massive Mobile Boom in India, Over 10 Million New Customers in September Alone

  Posted: November 4th, 2008, 7:30am CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

  TRAI* (Telecom regulatory body) report on growth of telecom in India for September is out today. Highlights are as follows: Second time India added 1 Cr mobile consumers in September. Last time India added 1 Cr consumers in March 2008. Teledensity exceeds 30% AirTel added 27 lakh wireless and wireline customers. Government companies could add 3.9 lakh consumers (4%) Vodafone is [...]
  
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  Subscribe To Blog via SMS

  Posted: November 2nd, 2008, 6:58am CST by Angsuman Chakraborty

  You can now subscribe to Simple Thoughts by SMS. You can now keep up with the news even on road. This uses a new SMS service from Google. Please subscribe and let me know if you like it.
  
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  GoDaddy Renewal Coupons

  Posted: November 1st, 2008, 8:56am CDT by Angsuman Chakraborty

  This GoDaddy coupon code worked for me: gdp1018aa. I renewed 1 domain for 2 years at the total cost of $17.50, a discount of $4.28. Few other prospective GoDaddy coupons for renewal that you may try are: emma3 MTECH330 FPT3 GoDaddy allows you to try multiple coupons so you can continue till you get one with the maximum discount. [...]
  
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  Simple Thoughts: 10, 000 comments later… some thoughts

  Posted: October 30th, 2008, 2:30am CDT by Angsuman Chakraborty

  Simple Thoughts has 2,460 posts and 10,012 comments as of writing this post, an average of over 4 comments per post. Simple Thoughts was never intended to be a commercial venture like TechCrunch or Mashable, for instance. While we use advertising at present to defray the costs associated with this blog, it still remains a [...]
  
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  How To Play All Multimedia Content on Fedora 9 Linux

  Posted: October 29th, 2008, 10:22pm CDT by Angsuman Chakraborty

  All you have to do is run this simple one line command: rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm && yum -y install vlc python-vlc mozilla-vlc Note: For earlier versions of Fedora just change the number to correspond to the appropriate version. For example for Fedora Core 6 the command will be: rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm && yum -y install vlc python-vlc mozilla-vlc This [...]
  
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  Top 5 Features of Microsoft Windows 7

  Posted: October 28th, 2008, 2:54pm CDT by Angsuman Chakraborty

  I have read and read through Gizmodo & Lifehacker's enthusiastic posts to find out what's so great about Windows 7. It appears we were mostly right about the features of Windows 7. There were few proposed features that I haven't been able to confirm yet. So far, and I am pained to admit this, I [...]
  
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  How to suppress unchecked warnings in Java

  Posted: October 27th, 2008, 1:08pm CDT by Angsuman Chakraborty

  The best way to suppress unchecked or other warnings is to fix the cause of the warning. However in some rare cases, the warning is incorrect and there is no logical way to solve it without compromising the intended functionality. For such cases there is a simple solution: Add the following just before the method definition: @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") This [...]
  
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  Why Today’s Economy is Worse Than Divorce

  Posted: October 27th, 2008, 11:27am CDT by Angsuman Chakraborty

  An Ex-IIT'ian commented on the current economic scenario: This is worse than divorce. I have lost more than half my assets and still have my wife! How are you faring so far in today's economy?
  
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  How To Get VC Funding for Open Source Products

  Posted: October 25th, 2008, 10:41pm CDT by Angsuman Chakraborty

  Getting VC funding today is very hard, getting investment for your open source product is 10 times harder in today's climate. The biggest showstopper for an open source product is a viable business plan. Keith from Linux.com has written an interesting article on getting funded for open source products. The key points made by a successful [...]