This is something that I just learned how to do, courtesy of a documentation work that I need to for my college’s fourth semester evaluations, where the requirements state that I need to use Arial / Verdana fonts for my Project Report. The interesting part is that I’m a hardcore…
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Porting WordPress for WebOS to Firefox OS
Introduction to WordPress for WebOS WordPress for WebOS was a web app which used the WebOS platform’s innovative “Cards” feature, which allowed users to quickly switch between managing, editing, and browsing content. WordPress for WebOS was built around Sliding Panels that enables users to easily switch between creating, editing and…
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Programming on Mobile Devices
This is a thought that’s been rather bugging me for sometime now: Is writing code (programming) via mobile devices really not a very feasible idea? In the current scenario, almost all conventional programming is done on desktop computers (PCs, laptops and the likes), wherein we have a standard keyboard which…
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The Greek Experience – Remo Training Days
Last week Mozilla brought together 40 Mozilla Reps from all over the world at Athens for week-long training exercise called Reps Training Days. The idea was to gather the most pro-active Mozillians under the ReMo programme in a single place and train them about leading the Webmaker initiative in their…
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Running Friendlycode – A local instance of Thimble
Here is a breakdown of how to run Friendlycode in 3 (maybe not-so-simple) steps. Prerequisite: A static file server such as Apache. Steps:- Download Friendlycode from here. Extract the contents of the friendlycode-gh-pages package into a directory named friendlycode within your file server’s document root. For example, in Apache you…
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Installing Steam for Linux Beta | Counter Strike for Fedora 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
Here’s the link to a really interesting article by Russel Bryant that I found on the web. Especially helpful for all my geeky gamer friends who keep on complaining about how they are not able to play Counter Strike or Team Fortress 2 on their Linux based systems. Enjoy! If…
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Debugging NO KEY warning during “yum install vlc”
This is a problem that I encountered today while tryiing to install VLC media player on my brand new Fedora 18 installation. Right after the dependency resolutions are complete, yum returns the following warning:- Transaction Summary =============================================== Install 1 Package (+45 Dependent packages) Total size: 37 M Installed size: 118…
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LAMP Setup for Fedora 18
Easy steps to setup Fedora 18 as a LAMP server containing Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and MySQL. P.S.: This requires root access to the shell. Step 1: Open terminal as root user and enter the following: #yum install -y httpd php php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc…
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Mozilla Carnival Pune – 15th September 2012
Excited to share that we will be celebrating the success of Mozilla Summer Code Party event(s) in the country along with the Software Freedom Day on 15th of September 2012 at SICSR, Pune. Agenda: The Mozilla carnival starts at 9.00 AM, the topics include: – Mozilla Summer Code Party –…