I’m happy indeed, I’ll finally get the time I needed to get my new PC running. I can now play Team Fortress 2 without any visual lag, Complete Half-Life 2, look into the OpenSocial things again, do some Adobe Air stuff and what not. Maybe a post or two on the Marathi blog that i started and left abandoned…

Diwali is a great festival. A festival of Light, Prosperity and the usual yet different celebration of the victory of Good against Evil. Friends, relatives and all the good food shared with them makes the days of Diwali even more energetic.

With all those energies, I wish you all a Very Very Happy, Prosperous and Peaceful Diwali. Enjoy the days, the food, the fireworks and the games !!!!

!!! Happy Diwali !!!

~JaguarNac~

Inspired by the PHPCamp yesterday, I psent most of my Sunday to get Shindig and Partuza installed and running. The setup is fairly easy and well explained on the link below :
http://www.chabotc.com/generic/setting-up-shindig-and-partuza-on-windows/

the guide explains all the things u’ll need to set up these two things using VirtualHosts on WAMP.

for those who wish to place the shindig and partuza in webroot OR use aliases, there’s some extra file editing involved. I’m planning to run a quick install on a VPC and document the steps for general use.

the guide asks you to test the install using this link :

http://shindig/gadgets/ifr?url=http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/todo.xml

for webroot installs or aliases, this looks something like-

http://<hostname>/shindig/php/gadgets/ifr?url=http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/todo.xml

however, the url http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/todo/todo.xml did not work for me. It kept throwing an empty xml error, and I am still surprised about the cause. Other labpixies applications, however, worked fine on the installation.

http://<hostname>/shindig/php/gadgets/ifr?url=http://www.labpixies.com/campaigns/calendar/calendar.xml

this calendar application renderred without problem.

currently, partuza is running at http://www.jaguarnac.com/partuza , if interested, have a look !!!

I’m enjoyed the PHPCamp. The camp organized at Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd. was attended by over two hundred interested intellectuals. Nice event, nice ppl.

There were sessions about OpenSocial API, Shindig, Joomla-Shindig integration and OpenSocial apps. Nice lunch, followed by the talks about various tools that enhance PHP development efficiency, Server Scalability, Various common vulnerabilities, Web Application Security and Cross Site Scripting issues. There were few more sessions at 4th floor, however I stuck to the sessions on 7th floor.

Pretty smooth registration process, got a nice registration kit

OpenSocial and Shindig were two interesting things that I was unaware of till today. Am gonna get my hands into shindig soon nuff. OpenSocial are also promising stuff. Build it for one Social Networking Portal that adheres to OpenSocial Specifications, and it will run on all the other portals that do so. Atleast thats what I could get from the entire talks.

Pre lunch sessions mostly focussed on OpenSocial stuff. They also had a session to explain the process of integrating Shindig and Joomla together.

Web application security presentation by Bipin Upadhyay was the most happening thing of the day. This guy actually demonstrated a few running examples of how things break from cross-site scripting, SQL injections and nasty javascripts.

Overall, good stuff.

~Nac