Remembering Steve…

by abhiomkar on October 12, 2011 · 1 Comment

Steve Jobs. 1955-2011. >> http://abhiomkar.in/stevejobs / /stevejobs

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Deploying Django on Heroku (Mac OS X)

by abhiomkar on September 17, 2011 · 37 Comments

Heroku is a very popular Cloud PaaP (Platform as a Service) platform which allows you to deploy various applications. Heroku doesn’t charge anything to signup and has a free service upto 5 MB usage of database, that’s enough to try it out. Heroku is majorly to Deploy Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, and Java apps. But, you [...]

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Google IO Extended 2011 Event (Bangalore, India)

by abhiomkar on May 11, 2011 · 7 Comments

I like the fight between Apple and Google, which are great competitors in the mobile industry. Love the great innovations coming up from Google and the perfectionism from the Apple. :) I went to Google IO 2011 Extended event at Google Bangalore office. It was a Live Streaming of the Google IO Keynote from San Francisco. [...]

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PHP Client Library for the surbl.org blacklists

by abhiomkar on March 14, 2011 · 5 Comments

I was looking for a PHP Client for SURBL to use it in one of my Projects. But, couldn’t find one. So, I wrote it for myself which is basically the ported version of Python’s surblclient – https://github.com/infixfilip/surblclient You can download my php-surblclient from here (or fork it!): https://github.com/abhiomkar/php-surblclient About SURBL SURBLs are lists of [...]

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Hello There!

by abhiomkar on December 31, 2010 · No Comments

Hello! This is my first blog from iPhone using WP iPhone App. – Abhinay

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Read Telugu in Mac OS X

by Abhinay on August 24, 2010 · 3 Comments

There are two popular fonts available in Telugu – Lohit Font and Pothana Font. Lohit font doesn’t seem to work with Mac OS X (Let me know if it works for you), Whereas, Pothana font works with Mac. Here is how you can read telugu on Mac OS X. You need to download Pothana Font [...]

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J for Smile – Microsoft Outlook Incompatible Smileys

by Abhinay on August 12, 2010 · 5 Comments

Did you notice J in your mails where it should be a smiley? Screenshot: It shows ‘J’ here where it should be a smiley as shown in above screenshot. Today evening I wrote a JavaScript code to replace this ‘J’ with the happy smiley from Yahoo Emoticons (My Favorite Smiley Theme). This script is available [...]

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#JavaScript : The Things from the Video by Douglas Crockford – Part 1

by Abhinay on July 16, 2010 · 1 Comment

I was listening to the Video “The JavaScript Programming Language” (1/4) by Douglas Crockford. Thought I would share few things that I’ve learned from this video which I didn’t know (or may be I forgot?). Presentation Slides are Here. div.syntaxhighlighter *{ font-size: 10px; } /* preTags = document.getElementsByTagName(‘pre’); for(var i=0; i

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All About PyCon India 2010!

by Abhinay on July 11, 2010 · 5 Comments

PyCon is an International community for the Python Programming Language holds several conferences each year worldwide [0]. PyCon India 2010 is second Python Conference to be held in India for this year 2010. The first PyCon India was held on 26th & 27th September 2009 at IISC, Bengaluru, India. PyCon India is completely volunteer effort [...]

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I’m Moved Here!

by Abhinay Omkar on July 10, 2010 · No Comments

Hey, finally I’ve moved my blog from wordpress.com free service to self-hosted wordpress.org blog. This is being hosted at Webfaction. I’m pretty much happy with the Webfaction service, we can host multiple websites and we can map multiple domains. Webfaction has one-click access to it’s services, it has smart and easy use user-interface and it’s [...]

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