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[tech] Lessons from building a client-server iphone app

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update : Feb 2010 : V3 of this talk at SF Ruby Meetup

Iphone client-server app with Rails backend (v3)
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Update : Update : Sept 2009 : V2 of the talk
This is a similar to the above talk, but oriented towards rails programmers; Given at Silicon Valley Ruby Meetup.

Lessons from developing an Iphone App + Server backend
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This is a talk I have gave at IphoneDevCamp2009 in Aug 1, 2009.

Lessons from developing a Client Server Iphone app
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[tech] Setting default browser for Thunderbird in Kubuntu

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Thunderbird is a great mail application, but this problem nagged me enough to warrant a post!

I run Kubuntu – KDE based flavor of Ubuntu. Thunderbird is a GNOME application and doesn’t seem to take the default BROWSER values set in KDE control panel or in my BASH profile (BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox). I tried this – http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20315 – but no luck

Here is one way of fixing it:

1) Install gnome-control-center
sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center
or do it through Adept Manager UI.
this will install a bunch of Gnome libraries, that is okay

2) Once the install is done, launch ‘gnome-control-center‘ and goto Preferred Applications. Select FIREFOX as browser and choose ‘Open in Tab’

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