Desinerd

Delhi which is traditionally not known for technology is having its Barcamp, here is some blurb and links to get people started. Check them out and register for this awesome event.

For the uninitiated Barcamp is an unconference where all sorts of people come in for all sorts of reasons (freebies, free wifi included) . Those who are willing to present/speak on a topic simply add their names in the wiki and they are allocated a time slot to present. Though most attendees are related to software/internet the event is just not restricted to it, barcamp bangalore 6(BCB6) being the perfect example which had participation from all sorts of people from Internet Junkies to Social Activists.

If you are either a geek, blogger, internet junkie, entrepreneur BCD4 is the place to be.

BarcampDelhi 4 takes place on 17th of may at

Amity Innovation Incubator
Auditorium, Block C, Amity University Campus
Sector 125, Noida

Hoping to see you all there..

So one of my friends was asking about job boards, so here are some of the good ones i know about

• Alootechie job boards
• venture jobs
• *Joel on software* job board
• Craig’s list

These are pretty good ones from my understanding for a short gig or a great startup job …. If you guys know more please feel free to comment n add it here

The Controvery

I did some work on my LinkedIn profile, fixed the information there. Updated stuff, so my new public professional profile is here. It looks very good and hopefully it will appear on google search as well.

As long as it does not beat “Dipankar Sarkar” for google search I am happy ;). Plus it seems with Dipankar in the profile I have a good chance of making it up in the “Dipankar” search. I wonder what kind of SEO the LinkedIn people have done.

The following video of Yuvraj singh hitting Broad for 6 sixes in one over in an do or die match, it is worth 10 million ruppes and a Porsche 911 (BCCI presented him with both). This is great for the game and puts being a cricketer back into fashion :).

Enjoi it, i did. Awesome….. even better now that we are world champions.

Today young India is back with a bang, be it politics or cricket. Earlier today the Congress (the majority party in the ruling coalition) announced some young changes to the cabinet and their party positions. Leaders like Rahul Gandhi and Priya Dutt, have been given big-time responsibility, I am sure they will deliver and take our nation to greater heights. Congress i must add is here to stay.

And how can we forget the ICC Twenty20 world cup, India played 4 pressure matches to take the cup. First it was England (Yuvraj was the star) , South Africa (Rohit was the star), Australia (Yuvraj played well) and Pakistan (The whole team was awesome). The best part was that we did not have the highest wicket taking bowlers, highest run scorers … and yet we have the world cup. The fielding was awesome, Robin Singh has instilled the same discipline he had as a fielder in this young team. Venkatesh Prasad has brought the MRF bowling academy discipline into our killer seamers. The whole team is coming across as a great package.

I must thank this Indian team for getting back that faith in cricket for me. Move over Formula one, cricket is back with a bang. If we play like this, win or lose … i will god damn watch every match we play. It felt so good to see us fight, something that Ganguly had as a captain , and Dhoni has made me believe in US once again.

HIP HIP HORRAY … all the money .. all the fame … but it was about the cricket that we played. Special mention to misba-ul-haq for putting up a great fight, Pakistan has an awesome team. May the sub-continent tigers (read SL, India, Pakistan,Bangladesh) move ahead and play good cricket ….

YOUNG INDIA …… 3 cheers to us ……. 

Too funny, check out the team lineups. Monty python so rocks …..

What progress have i made on the various things i have started to work on :

1. Something really cool that i have been working on with a really great partner of mine will be released soon. This is going to change how collaboration works across the internet :P.

2. The really cool slideshare upload features are done, next comes some really hard core stuff .. which i will definitely blog about so stay tuned…

3. The libpurple stuff was too much fun .. i think i will look at implementing XMPP file transfer for it … i really think that IM fie transfer kinda sucks in libpurple

4. bahh i cant think of anything more … i was though considering making a “widget.com” widget … only an iframe with crap filled in it he he … maybe later

more later …

http://iwphone.contentrobot.com/2007/07/04/iwphone-wordpress-plugin-and-theme/

Awesome plugin to create a iphone compatible wordpress layout …. now my site can be viewed on an iphone without ay layout issues

from the plugin creators :-

“Feature List

• Formats your blog content for optimized viewing on the iPhone.
• Automatically detects the iPhone’s Safari browser and only displays the custom theme to iPhone visitors, other visitors get your standard theme.
• Simple iPhone-like theme with common interface elements that compliments the iPhone’s internal applications.
• Images larger then 300 pixels wide are automatically scaled down to fit the iPhone optimized width.”

Cool presentation … its sarcastic as one of my friends stated … but its fun nevertheless