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PMWiki is this really cool wiki platform, which is used all over the internet for all kinds of collaborative purposes. Today, we at slideshare have put out a “recipe” which allows you to easily embed a presentation in PMWiki

The download link for the recipe is here

You can just unzip and put the contents of this file into the cookbook/ directory of PMWiki. Then you can use the following tag to embed a slideshow

(:slideshare {presentation id}:)

Where the {presentation id} is the part of the slideshow URL after http://www.slideshare.net
For example:
http://www.slideshare.net/nmenap/machu-picchu-77777

will have the following embed code

(:slideshare nmenap/machu-picchu-77777:)

So it is that simple ehh…. So go ahead embed as many slideshows as you want ….

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After 640-802, you can only go on to 350-030. Only then you will qualify for 350-018 or 310-200.

Here is some really cool stuff about google search. For a start let me introduce the concept of google subscribed link, think of it as an filter which allows you to share your content through the normal google search page. Its called a coop search because the user has to add this to his google search, if you send in bad content the user will stop using your specialized search . This was all the philosophy, now some code eh …

Example 1 : Desinerd hello
Code is here . Add it by clicking the button below



Example 2&3 : Slideshare\Python\Ruby API search
To do this I have this EvilRSS thing installed which outputs the Google site results as an RSS, what i feed is specific site data like rubydoc.org documentation for Ruby query and so on .
Code is here . Add it by clicking the button below

Example 4 : SlideShare tag search
Code is here . Add it by clicking the button below

You want one of your own … then jump along and read the next couple of links eh….

So join my subscribed links and use the following :

ss:
for searching on slideshare
tag:
for searching tags on slideshare
python:
for python API results on
ruby:
for ruby API results on
Desinerd
for getting a “banner” which is the hello world application

Links
http://www.google.com/coop/docs/subscribedlinks/xml_file_specification.html

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7566

Checkout the Slideshare karaoke application built on top of the SlideShare API, a very cool tool which allows you to randomly pickup sideshows and have some really random fun ….

The API has been released some days back and hence the documentation is very sparse, but rest assured that with some more applications coming up there will be enough open source documentation around. This really cool piece of Javascript using the prototype library has been developed by Lalit patel , who is a specialist at JS and cross-browser issues. The code for this application has been released at google code under GNU/GPL … so you can just dive into the code eh ….

Enjoi the karaoking … and start thinking about the next big slideshare mashup eh ….

Screenshot

Checkout these links reviewing the slideshare application , the coolest presentation sharing application on the planet ….

• Worlds top ten facebook application
• UK web focus
• Another SlideShare review

These are some of the links which are talking about the Slideshare facebook application, so have you added the application yet ??? if not, go get it ….

Screenshot

A brillant presentation, winner of the slideshare.net competition ….. Must see slideshow ….

Today, SlideShare has shown the way and has become the first of presentation sharing site to become developer friendly. The long-awaited API has been released and yes, I have a series of tutorials in the works for using the really cool REST API released.
There is some PHP helper code (ref: SSUtil) which allows a developer to start off using the code, that code also contains some functions which can generate a SlideShare RSS feed for you. Its not great but provides a start, if you want to develop more things using the API. So hop on … and create some really cool SlideShare mashups….

More about the API and what more cool things that can be done in part II , actually the SlideShare Facebook application was built on top of the current API , that has to say a lot about how serious SlideShare is about the developer community….

Another big development was fixing the RSS(here) to the new media standard, now the feed rocks and is much more usable than before, the slideshare namespace still exists and will be extended to include other meta information that the current RSS standard doesnt allow us to include ….
Or we could always work towards pushing the new standard to fit SlideShare feeds he he …. (The RSS compatibility issue needs a complete blog post, I hate what the internet biggies have done to the RSS standard …. the readers have also made it way worse … )

So things to checkout at SlideShare.net:

SlideShare API
Improved RSS - Sample

Cool slideshow about Last.fm …

This is going to be a series of article about the facebook application platform, my story with it started a month back. Till now I have put in a lot of effort on this for SlideShare (Which has a sizeable audience now) . To add to it I am working on a new set of applications which will be released soon. i would love to share the experiences I had with this evolving platform till now, to strart off I would like to list out some important things before starting :

1. You should understand how this facebook application set-up works. It is best explained in the wiki.
2. Decide how the app should work (iframe or FBML) , this choice will decide a lot of things about your application.
3. Remember you cannot save any meta information (except for photos) about the user in this facebook setup.
4. You should also keep in mind that uploading files has to be done outside the facebook canvas page in an iframe. (This is an very important point for a file sharing based application)
5. Last be not the least, have lots of fun while trying to build the application … thats the way to make it real viral (coz if ya enjoi it other people would for sure)
6. Some facebook applications have millions of users, you cant miss out on this platform ….

So as my apps start showing up I will keep throwing out source code, hope this helps some guys out there.

Alert:
If anyone needs to build a facebook application and needs help , dont be scared to contact me at dipankarsarkar[at] gmail [dot] com.

Relevant links:

Facebook application homepage
Developers section
Developers Wiki (The best FBML reference)

There is this concept of a search plugin, something which most browsers have now-a-days (Post Mozilla .. Netscape Navigator) , look at the top right corner , right next to the URL bar. I had little idea how you created this so-called search plugin. After a bit of googling , I came across the following links:

1. Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox
2. Search plugins for firefox/IE7

The first site has this very nerdy approach of explaining how this opensearch plugin works, to keep it very simple its an XML file defining the following :

Most of this is very simple to fill actually depending upon the search URl you have on your website.

To easily generate a search plugin for your website / blog / portal ... just goto http://www.searchplugins.net and get an Opensearch XML generated. Its as simple as that. I created two .. one for http://www.slideshare.net and another for http://www.desinerd.com .... So you can check them out here .... You should check out first link to figure out how the search plugin can be auto-discovered from the above link .... You will notice that my site search plugin has been auto-discovered in your Firefox / IE 7 browser.

http://www.searchplugins.net/pluginlist.aspx?q=desinerd&mode=title
http://www.searchplugins.net/pluginlist.aspx?q=slideshare&mode=title
So why wait , get your site up on firefox/IE7 with a small piece of code eh

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Although 156-215 is not that hard but people still avoid doing it when they are going for 1Y0-259. However a better way to go about this is attempting 1z0-042 before 220-602.

Hi all,

This is the introductory post to desinerd.com. I, Dipankar Sarkar welcome you to my portal where I keep track of all the latest tech (very web 2.0) specific news. So from today , you want news about the web come to desinerd.com ...