By Nitin on May 23, 2009
Election results are out, and as I expected Congress completely overruled BJP, grabbing more than 200 seats. Do not shout that my expectations turned in favor of Congress after the election results, for proof you can ask my friends (with whom I kept fighting why BJP should not come to power!!) or just visit FriendsOfBJP where I posted several issues that were wrong in the BJP’s manifesto but unfortunately they were so confident about their views that they(supporters of BJP) kicked me out from the site (and calling me a christian, a fool, etc. )
I would like to clarify that I am not in favor of any political party, but when I have to choose I will never choose BJP over Congress for the following reasons (I am again enumerating them here not to tease the BJP supporters over their loss but so that they can improve for next elections rather than blaming media for bad publicity or congress for enjoying privileges):
Continue reading “Election 2009: Congress won or BJP lost?”
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged BJP, elections
By Nitin on April 14, 2009
It takes me quite a lot of time to write a post here, mainly because I have very less going on in my life at the moment. But if you were following this blog closely (I know you weren’t 
), you might have noticed that I kept playing with the SHARING and BOOKMARKING tools. I started off with the bookmarkify, then tried addthis and then finally settled for tellafriend. Although, I am still thinking of shifting back to Bookmarkify, right now I am sticking with TellaFriend. As far as the features are concerned, they all almost provide the same kind of features. All of them provide access to over 50 Bookmarking sites, not to forget the “Email this” option. Here is a short review on the following Bookmarking tools.
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Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged php, Wordpress
By Nitin on April 5, 2009
Introduction
FeedAPI Imagegrabber is a add-on module for FeedAPI. It consists of a parser which visits the original URL of a new feed item, and retrieves the main image from the post. Once the main image has been retrieved, it is then converted into a thumbnail using the ImageCache module, and stored in the node created by FeedAPI, inside a CCK field.
The purpose of FeedAPI Imagegrabber is to make the feed more informative as well as interesting for the user. As, we all know that “comics are much better than novels”, this module appends the feed-item with an appropriate image from its content URL. The goal of the module is to mimic the thumbnail display of websites such as digg.com. This goal is acheived by using FeedAPI to turn RSS feed-items into nodes, and then using FeedAPI Imagegrabber to append these nodes with an appropriate image from the feed-item’s webpage.
Continue reading “Drupal: FeedAPI Imagegrabber”
Posted in Drupal, Projects | Tagged Drupal, Intern, module, php
By Nitin on April 1, 2009
Note: The procedure given happened to me, I do not guarantee you the same, may be I was lucky or you will be.
I leave the details of the trip (tiring but exciting) for my next post, and will try to outline the procedure to get the Schengen Student Visa for Internship from German Consulate at Kolkata. I specifically mentioned Kolkata because my friends faced quite a lot of problems at the Delhi Embassy.
So you start with your documents, here is the list:
Continue reading “Schengen Visa to Germany”
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged experiences, germany, Intern, visa
By Nitin on March 24, 2009
“What!! He is sleeping, It’s just 10″, I screamed ,”He usually sleeps after 1, what happened? Is he ill?”. “No, No I think there is a match tomorrow morning at 6.”, the other guy answered. I was shocked to see the dedication and enthusiasm. He never attends the morning class, no matter if his attendance drops below the required 75% but he was fast asleep for the match. This is the kind of madness I am talking about but I am unable to reason this.
Cricket as I define it on the basis of reactions from the audience:
Continue reading “Madness for Cricket!!”
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged cricket, experiences
By Nitin on March 18, 2009
After a lot of wait, Public Mind is up and ready to run, but with some (!!!) small changes. The blog has been shifted from publicmind.in to publicmind.in/blog. Yes, yes, I know thats a blunder, all the links directing towards the site will break, but it was neccessary and I think we can afford that too considering the fact that we have just started blogging. I am trying my best to keep the links working, so that noone experience any kind of problems. On the other side, the website has been shifted to a new high speed server (from the free hosting server that gave me limited utilities). So, Enjoy reading.
Thanks to all for their support and patience.
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged experiences, server