Published
Jul 10, 2009
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In Events/Camps
In its quest to get more Indians to use Facebook, they has announced the first ever developer contest, targeted for Indian programmers.
The contest is open only for Indian residents and you have to either develop a Facebook App or integrate Facebook connect to your site.
Dates
The contest runs from July 2, 2009 till September 11, 2009. You have to submit your entries before September 10, 2009 at the contest website.
Prizes
There are going to be cash prizes for top 3 entries in each category – Facebook Apps and Facebook Connect Integrations.
Rules
- You have to be a resident of India
- You should have completed 16 years
So, budding India Facebook developers, it’s time to roll your sleeves. Since I am busy with the WordPress Plugin Competition, I don’t think I will be able to compete, but let’s see. 
Is any of you taking part in this contest?
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Posted in Events/Camps
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Tagged Competition, Contest, Facebook, India
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Published
Mar 9, 2006
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In Javascript/jQuery
I was viewing the score for the cricket match between India and England from Yahoo! India Cricket portal. The problem being a web programmer is that you always tend to look at each web page from the development perspective and something grabbed my attention. The web page was refreshing every 60 seconds to get the latest score and a new request/response is generated every time. (Ok so have you got what I was thinking about?) Why are they not using AJAX to refresh the scores rather than refreshing the whole page every time?
The web developer inside me got out and I immediately checked the other sites which are also offering the cricket scores. I checked Sify and Rediff. Even they are not using AJAX and are refreshing the whole page every time. But the refreshing interval was different. Here is the refreshing interval which I got by looking at their META tag.
The obvious advantage in using the AJAX approach (XMLHTTP) is that the amount of data that is going to get transferred from the server is going to be less and it’s going to save the bandwidth by leaps and bounds.
I would be really happy if any one from either Sify or Rediff or Yahoo! India reads this and just gives a thought about it. And do any of you guys know how to get the raw data about the scores and the license requirement (if available). I am thinking of giving it a try and build a POC (Proof of Concept) app, if the data is available.
Oops!, by the time I could compose this post, the match has been stopped due to rain 
Posted in Javascript/jQuery
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Tagged AJAX, cricket, India, Rediff, Sify, XMLHttp, Yahoo
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Published
Sep 11, 2005
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In Random/Personal
I am still not able to believe this. I am going to be interviewed by Kamla for a podcast to be featured in the techtalk section of her podcast/blog. If you are wondering who is Kamla, she is the first Indian podcaster. She maintains two podcast sites at www.newsaboutindia.blogspot.com and www.talknewsindia.libsyn.com
I just had a chat with her over phone and she seems to be a very knowledgeable person. We had a quick discussion about KingPing and GoogleMyWay (my two pets). We also chatted about life in India and particularly in Chennai, about work, about the outsource world and also about the collaboration between India and US in the IT field.
Hear about all these in the podcast which is scheduled to be recorded this afternoon and also I have a surprise for you in that podcast 
As you know I start my day by reading Jeremy and Robert Scoble. May be from tomorrow I have to add Kamla to the list.
Posted in Random/Personal
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Tagged GoogleMyWay, India, KingPing, Podcast
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Published
Aug 15, 2005
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In Random/Personal
Wishing all a Happy Independence Day.
Read about the Indian independence movement on Wikipedia.
Posted in Random/Personal
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Tagged IndependenceDay, India
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