Chandra's Random Updates!

Have you ever wondered what are the shortest URLs? Found the following 1 letter second level domain names with .co and .com TLDs. Interesting list. a.co => Redirects to amazon.com o.co => Redirects to overstock.com g.co => displays page mentioning about it being used for Google Product Links s.co => __ NO_REDIRECT__ Startup America Site t.co => displays page mentioning about it being used for a twitter service x.co => Redirects to app.x.co  GoDaddy site for URL shortening X.com => __ NO_REDIRECT__ An ebay Product q.com => Redirects to Centurylink.com Now taking a.co example, a.co redirects to amazon.com. but amazon.co redirects to an help page in amazon.com. Also surprising that they have a short URL for a.co but not for a.com Also interesting why companies like apple, microsoft, intuit doesn't have single letter domain urls. i.co or i.com and m.com likes lucrative URLs for them to own for more web hits... doesn'...

In MAC, the dvd drive gets listed in finder only if a dvd is present. Else it's hidden. In some rare cases, even after you inserted a drive, the disk might not be visible in finder and since there is no eject hardware button near the DVD, there doesn't seem to be a way for removing the disk. Browsing around, found the following ways (from multiple sources) to eject the disk and re-insert it: Force restart finder. Open disk utilities (Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility) and the drive should be available there. Right click on it and select eject. Command line always rocks. Run the following in a terminal:  drutil tray eject Cross posted from:  http://techieconnect.blogspot.com/2011/11/mac-dvd-not-visible-in-finder.html

Intuit has just released a product called weave for ios platforms called Weave (Nothing to do with Firefox sync app - weave). http://weave.intuit.com/weave/ Weave will ensure that you never forget a todo. Quickly enter todos wherever you are and get alerts when you have an upcoming todo. Good things I found: 1. Nice UI 2. Has a good first use experience. Kind of demo mode with the help links showing how to proceed to the next step. Hovers over the screen and helps in clicking around. 3. Does many things :). Has money in - money out too. 4. No Android app - opportunity for us to create a better one? :) Bad: 1. requires a login before start 2. red theme - different from Intuit blue. 3. Projects - might not be so common word for general users and doesn't gel with the Todo's being created. 4. Does too many things :). Differs from Apple mantra - Do one thing and do it well. Money in - money out could have been a separate product. 5. No Android app

{DRAFT} Aadhaar Aadhaar Developer Track Chandra Mohan’s Notes   Next Generation Service Delivery Enabled by Aadhaar. By Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies)   Authentication: -> Credentials -> Biometric Finance Inclusion platform - A+ Architecture Components: Software (Client) – MindTree Backend - Reduplication AUTHENTICATION L1, Accenture and Logistics : India Post prints and delivers it. Registrars : State Govts, Banks and LIC etc Enrolling Agents: 200+ Testing and certification of these enrolling agents -> Sify Training: For Operator Device testing and certification: STQC - Standardization Testing and Quality Certification http://www.stqc.nic.in/ Visibility: Portals driven by dynamic content. Can be drilled down State Wise and then District wise, sub district wise and so on Partner portal: Login to view their own view. Developer Portal: Precision Infomatic (M) Pvt. Ltd. Biometr...

https://portal.uidai.gov.in/uidwebportal/enrolmentStatusGet.do Giving my details keeps returning 'NOT FOUND' though :(

Applied for my UID along with Colleagues - Prashant and Saneesh. Good: The enrollers were very professional and courteous. For a one letter spelling mistake, they re-did the enrollment completely again. Know other govt agencies where even with 100s of mistakes, they say it's fine and don't bother changing anything. Not so good Experience: The entry part of demographics was time consuming. Retyping so much data in Kannada again was not expected (mainly for word changes like 2nd Cross to 2ne adda rasthe.. etc). The client/webapp kept showing error on demographics screen though all data was filled. The advice from a senior person there : Keep pressing "Finish" and it will take it. :)

When you use Eclipse menus to create new class, constructor, method or even add a try/catch, typically it not only generates the functionality but also adds a TODO. This is good to indicate that the comment has to be replaced with a proper functionality. However in a team environment, it's not easy to make people delete the line and add the code. Task remains and it becomes difficult to delete it at the end. To remove the auto addition of that comment line, you have to follow the below steps: Goto Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Code Templates Click on Method Body. Click Edit. Remove the commented line. (Something like: // ${todo} Auto-generated method stub) Click Apply. Repeat the steps for other elements. Click save.

I got this error in chrome but it happily went through in IE. Server has a weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman public key This error can occur when connecting to a secure (HTTPS) server. It means that the server is trying to setup a secure connection but, due to a disastrous misconfiguration, the connection wouldn’t be secure at all! In this case the server needs to be fixed. Chrome won’t use insecure connections in order to protect your privacy.

Typically we copy contents from wikipedia articles – paste it into word documents or other wysiwyg editors. Then format it and print. However after posting the question on facebook questions ( http://www.facebook.com/q/Is-there-a-easy-way-to-print-wikipedia-articles-without-the-sidebars-and-see-also-references-etc/10150286691460015?t=1&keep_objects=1 ), I found that there is an option right there in the sidebar to get printable version or even download it as pdf. http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/27/print-you-favorite-wikis-as-books-courtesy-of-wikipedia-and-pediapress/ has some more details on new initiatives. We can add multiple chapters into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book and print out combined articles too.

BarCamp Bangalore 9th edition was held in our Intuit Campus (Bellandur, Bangalore). There was a good crowd of around 250 people. Intuit, OrangeScape and FusionCharts were the official sponsors. Attended the sessions : BigTable – Why? & How? A killer Mobile App Framework – Sencha Touch Open Discussion: Smartphone Platform Wars! Would you like something new to listen to? Visualizing Government Data How you can help Wikipedia Android Programming for Desktop Programmers Also helped Saurabh in presenting the session: Android Programming for Desktop Programmers Had very informative and entertaining sessions.... Got lots of ideas and web links to check.... Eager to attend the next one :)

Command line mechanism is mentioned here: ftp://ftp.perforce.com/perforce/r97.3/doc/cmdguide/html/changere.htm Details about this are in: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/588264/perforce-getting-email-on-every-checkin   In Perforce p4v –> Click on Connection –> Edit Current User. In reviews enter the perforce depot directory ending with /… You should be getting emails for the current user email.

http://techieconnect.blogspot.com/ A place to share all my technical learnings – code snippets, cool hacks and technical links I found useful. I will start with importing old blogs from my personal blog and the new Droid Blog .