I found this interesting infographic on Apple’s evolution on mashable. It was too good!

I have been working lately with Magento (The state of Art e commerce platform). It is build upon the solid PHP Zend framework and uses MySQL as its database.

Magento comes with all the features which you can demand from your e-commerce solution. It is relatively new then other solutions but still it appears to be very stable and bug free (so far ).

It probably provides more features than other commercial alternatives and yet the best part is it is free and open source.

Well thought and planned structure and features, ease of migration, flexible and simple templating system and many other features makes it a best choice for an e-commerce solution.

Kudos! to developers and magento community for such a great job!

Hi, i just installed the latest version of vlc on my ubuntu box. i thought it might be worth a share. Although the commands here are written for ubuntu they can be used to install vlc on any debian based linux distro with a few modifications.

Follow the commands sequentially in the specified order :

sudo apt-get build-dep vlc && sudo apt-get install libtool build-essential automake1.10 git-core libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xv0-dev libxcb-keysyms0-dev


This will install the necessary tools and dependencies required to compile and build vlc.

git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

Using this command you can obtain the source code from vlc’s repository. It will take time depending upon the speed of your internet connection.

cd vlc && ./bootstrap

This will bootstrap the source code and create the configuration file.

mkdir build && cd build && ../configure --disable-nls --enable-qt4 --prefix=/opt/vlc --exec-prefix=/usr

This will create a build directory and run configure to check whether all tools are present and all dependencies are met.

make

sudo make install

Voila done!

To create the icon on top panel for instant access follow these steps :

download vlc icon from internet, i downloaded a 48×48 pixels icon from here.

Save it to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48×48/apps

Choose above directory against the size of your icon.

Create application launcher for the top taskbar for quick access.

Viola Enjoy playing anything using vlc!!

PS: now you can delete the 400 MB directory of the source code, you no longer need it.

After ignoring my blog for a long time (due to laziness and some technical reasons) i hope i will now finally maintain my blog regularly.

Currently i am working on a project called gongtong under the guidance of Twincling Technology foundation.

“Gong tong” is a Chinese word meaning work jointly  and collaboratively.  Gongtog will be able to do the entire event management, organization, inauguration and interaction among the people on web 2.0 as a platform.

web 2.0 tag cloud

With the advancement in technology our Internet microns have increased substantially and thus the possibility to harness web 2.0 as a platform has exploded to many proportions. Taking the advantage of the technology we can now think of the applications that seem to be impossible when thought a decade ago.

Gongtong with the help of Web 2.0 technologies can be used to organize technical conferences, webinars, product launches, community events, company-wide gatherings, executive presentations, trainings and meetings where one can participate,organize and manage some part or the whole of the event from their desktop.

Imagine the convenience of sitting at your home and still able to attend all your conferences in “real time”, the flexibility to miss your best friend’s wedding and still being present there virtually.

Possibilities are enormous and no one person can think of it, so gongtong will be a plug-in based architecture and hence you can develop your custom plug-in according to your needs.

Most important thing – gongtong is an open source project and it will be released under Apache Software license 2.0

Following technologies are planned to be used in the gontong -

• Scala 2.7.4 (later 2.8.0) Programming language
• Sun JRE 5/6
• Lift 1.0 framework
• PostgreSql 8.3+
• ajax/jquery

Deployment Model

• Dedicated hosting.
• Amazon Elastic cloud (EC2) hosting.

Communication Channel

• #twincling on irc.freenode.net
• #twincling-gongtong

Mailing list

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/twincling-gongtong

High hopes from gongtong. Have fun! Bye..