http://www.amanjsingh.com Personal Website of Amanjeev Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:55:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently, when I logged-on to Facebook.com, I was given an info box on the top saying that the way Facebook deals with security has changed (yet again!). I saw a couple of malfunctions and a lot of BS hence, wanted to document it. I believe FB has made my account more ... http://www.amanjsingh.com/2009/12/29/my-problems-with-facebooks-new-security-settings/ http://www.amanjsingh.com/2009/12/21/happy-birthday-frank-zappa/ I finally got to play with Android and I tried to make it useful enough. This application is not a big break-through or something 2.0-ish. Its a very simple call app but I am under this assumption that this will prove to be useful (at least it will be for ... http://www.amanjsingh.com/2009/12/16/a-very-simple-android-application-for-safety/ guthub.com redirects to guthub.com. I wanted to register for the domain guthub.com mainly because of the fun that I'd have with it and I *would* have eventually redirected to github.com. But sucks, that they already do. :) http://www.amanjsingh.com/2009/12/13/guthubcom/ There are many things I like about a desktop email client instead of a Web based application e.g. More and better filters, easy backup etc. but I hate Outlook and Mail (have not tried this in Thunderbird) for one reason - If I hit Reply to a sent message in ... http://www.amanjsingh.com/2009/10/03/reply-to-the-person-you-earlier-sent-an-email-to-in-desktop-mail-clients/ Being a Web/Internet Engineer, I just had to share this on my blog. The url for the talk on TED is: http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_zittrain_the_web_is_a_random_act_of_kindness.html You've got to think about this very eloquent presentation by Jonathan Zittrain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Zittrain). http://www.amanjsingh.com/2009/09/22/jonathan-zittrain-the-web-as-random-acts-of-kindness/ It was a slow Monday afternoon in my office. Things were crawling and there was still no solution to the problem we were facing. Suddenly, in a short conversation with my colleague over the local chat messenger, we found the darned solution. While he discussed it in short and sweet ... http://www.amanjsingh.com/2009/09/21/yes-i-do-use-lol-and-places-where-i-shouldnt/ I read this awesome post Ted Murphy about how the world would look like in 2012 with Twitter. My first reaction was to find out if those Twitter accounts actually exist. Well turns out a lot of those do exist. Pretty much every twitter account mentioned there exists except the ... http://www.amanjsingh.com/2009/02/27/twitter-2012-insights/ If you're a geek, you know by now that there was a Gmail outage around 1 AM on 24th Feb (supposedly today) EST. And if you are a geek-ier person, then you know Gmail runs or uses already established Cloud of Google. Cloud, wait a second, can applications running on ... http://www.amanjsingh.com/2009/02/24/nothing-is-permanent-not-even-cloud/ I have been working on PHP for quite sometime and wanted to know more about the RoR kind of MVC frameworks for PHP. Now, anyone reading this is expected to know that having a framework like MVC is beneficial for rapid development and easy management of web apps. I like ... http://www.amanjsingh.com/2009/02/16/php-model-view-controller-frameworks-my-list/