http://blog.rajatpandit.com Thoughts on Web and Personal Development Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:34:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en posting a quick note about the problem that I had after upgrading from Hardy Heron to ubuntu 8.10 with skype. There seemed to be a problem with the pulseaudio service and skype, everything worked fine with the audio i.e. playing and recording however using skype, i would get the error."Problem ... http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/11/15/skype-audio-playback-and-capture-problem-on-ubuntu-810/ Had pretty interesting two days at the event, must say it was very well organizied and had the best speakers. My summary of the event available here. http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/10/13/fowa-2008/ Having used CVS, SVN and GIT, GIT clearly seems like my preferred choice of version control system, esp for my symfony projects, its amazing how fast it is and how easy it is to use for most of the basic operations and even for other slightly complex operations like branching ... http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/09/14/git-version-control-system/ I had to recently do a tabbed interface and I looked up for various implementations for tabbed interface mostly including one big image with a space in the middle or two different images one for the left section of the tab and one for the right tab. The solution that ... http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/09/02/tabbed-interface-using-a-single-image/ There is always loads to be said about why NOT to rely on javascript for validation but what's better than an example. Disable javascript on your browser and then go to http://www.geni.com/ and hit login, it will not only log you in but also say you have a 20% complete ... http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/08/31/relying-on-javascript-for-form-validation/ I am currently working on yet another pet project http://panditg.com (currenty underconstruction, there is a beta url if you want to try it out) its an Indian matrimonial website, in case you dont understand what that means read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_websites . Anyway that's not the reason why this blog post ... http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/08/31/progressively-enhanced-connected-selects/ I recently updated my iPhone to 2.0.1 and played around with some apps from the app store. This native wordpress app is so cool I can now blog on the go http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/08/12/first-post-from-the-iphone/ Recently I have been hearing a lot about Hudson, with a friendly web based interface for building / testing and monitoring of processes and it runs on it owns web server and serves pages with clean hackable urls and rss feeds. For anyone who is interesting knowing more about it, ... http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/08/03/hudson/ I keep getting confused with terms with CVS esp. when I have to start doing some stuff that I usually don't have to do on a regular basis. So writing it here so that I can refer to it later. Trunk: The trunk is the mainline code base. Its similar ... http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/08/02/cvs-term-soup/ CVS has never been a configuration management system of my choice but none the less there are times when it doesn't come down to my choice, I recently had to branch some code as I had to start on a new set of developments where as the previous development hadn't ... http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/08/02/branching-and-merging-code-in-cvs/