[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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[politics] OBAMA win & newspaper front pages

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On November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama was elected as the 44th president of the United States.

It was grand, historic night  – not just for us in US, but all over the World.

I wanted to grab a newspaper – with a front page image – on Nov 05 (the day after) as a souveneir of this day.  But they were sold out every where I went !  Finally, I managed to grab a ‘customer copy’ of San Jose Mercury News from  a Cafe by 8pm.  I am really thankful to the Cafe owner who just gave it to me FREE !!

Here is the front page image from Mercury News

SJ Mercury News

And from San Francisco Chronicle:

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If you have missed out on these editions, you can order a copy here:

http://www.mercurynews.net/obama/

It is really interesting to see the newspaper covers from US and around the world.  Here are few links:

- The definitive place is Newseum which has over 700 newspaper covers : http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default_archive.asp?fpArchive=110508

- Obama website : http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/amandascott/gGx3Xq

- http://www.buzzfeed.com/eliot/obama-newspaper-covers

-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obamas-victory-on-newspap_n_141311.html

[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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