By Nitin on February 6, 2011
Do you feel passionate about any open source technology? Or you want to explore one during your summer vacations? On the top of it, if you get a mentor to guide you all along and a stipend of 5000 USD, would you be interested? Yeah! Keep reading then. Google announced its consecutive 7th year for Summer [...]
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By Nitin on December 26, 2010
a few videos and images for all of you this holiday season, few to giggle, few to laugh and other to ponder over. merry christmas and a happy new year. 300 years of fossil fuel in 300 seconds google shit revenge of the spider – fya for those of you wondering where the heck uppercase [...]
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By Nitin on October 30, 2010
I am much excited about the long delayed Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in India which is now pretty much ready for arrival next month during 2nd week of November (http://goo.gl/DuUo). I am not sure if it will be free (as it is in most of the countries, http://goo.gl/2ihz), but even if it isn’t I am [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged mining, mnp, mobile, technology
By Nitin on September 18, 2010
I just came across this website (Hotels.com), so went ahead and started playing around the website. I really liked the interface, though a little cluttered homepage, it gave a complete overview of the offers on the website. I saw the “Price Match Guarantee“, so went ahead to check their rates for the hotel I stayed [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged bug, hotels, trip
By Nitin on September 17, 2010
Most of the websites today have the the pre-sales chat options on their site. These chats usually do not assure you about the quality of the product/service you are going to receive but still if the sales person can convince you to buy the product and can answer all the questions you may have about [...]
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By Nitin on May 8, 2010
I discussed a little about URL encoding in my recent post Facebook: Bug with URL encoding, although it seems like the bug still exists. In this post I will discuss “how to encode a given URL before accessing it using CURL or fsockopen”. The problem with URLs is that they might contain certain disallowed characters [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged encoding, facebook, php, URL