Article from: http://foss.in/news/fossin2009-event-announcement.html Team FOSS.IN is happy to announce that, with the help of the community, we have been able to finalise the dates (and hence the venue) for FOSS.IN/2009. FOSS.IN/2009 will be held on December 1-5, 2009 (Tuesday through Saturday) at Bangalore’s largest and most modern conference venue – the NIMHANS Convention Centre. The dates and the choice of venue have interesting backgrounds: The Dates Unlike in the past, we decided not to second-guess fate, and let the community [...]
I got this kewl article on how to make a jquery twitter plugin (plain html!!). You can view a blog demo on the right side of my blog…….. First, introducing you to jQuery plugin for Twitter v1.0 – View Demo A simple, unobtrusive and customisable client-side method for easily embedding a Twitter feed into a web page. To begin, download the source files (.zip) and familiarise yourself with the necessary JavaScript and CSS files that need to be included in [...]
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, [...]
Let me introduce you to FOSSTER ‘09, a FOSS (Free and open source software) workshop and conference on 28th and 29th March 2009 at our campus (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus). Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is a contributor to the Open Source movement since 2003 and has developed AmritaVPN that is being used widely. Amrita was awarded the ‘Champion University’ status by Sun Microsystems for its contributions towards Open Source Software such as Open Solaris, Apache Derby and OpenPortal. The Open [...]
