Perspectives

The closest I have come to barcamps was when it was held at the Yahoo office last year in Bangalore. Even in that one, I was busy with something else that I could not really attend it. Although I am hearing mixed opinions on the effectiveness of Barcamps, and more specifically, the ones in India, I want to see it for myself.

Registered for a Talk in the Ajax collective. I will either be speaking about “Hacking with Maps” or “Mapping with hacks”. Really, there is a difference. Not sure if it is going to be on 28th ot 29th but for sure, it will be in IIMB.

Incase you are going to be there too..Let me know, I d love to meet up with you..

Do you like both Blogspot and LJ? Do you have your readers split between these two lovely blog provider sites ? Well, I do. I was telling sunson the other day that I want to blog in LJ and then syndicate it into blogspot. Apparently, you can do this by paying LJ for a premium account. I dont know what else a premium account provides, but I really dont want to pay for something like this. Why would you do that when you have Greasemonkey and PHP? So, A bit of a night out and some ciggys amalgamated into the “LJ Blogspot integrator”.

What is good ?
Well, this entire thing, isint ?

What is bad ?

• You need to install this greasemonkey script. That means, you are stuck to firefox and you have to install it on all the firefox browsers you blog from.
• The backend is PHP. So you need a server to run it. Maybe, at a later point, I will write the entire thing in javascript.
• You have to switch to the “plain text mode” before you click “update”. This is because I dont know how to capture the text written inside the rich text editor. You can help me to fix this.
• LJ user links have a broken image. Will fix this later.
• Your update entries will not take effect in blogspot. Not sure if I want to fix this.

Go find the greasemonkey script from here. I am hoping you already have greasemonkey and know what I am talking about. Find the backend PHP code here.
Read up the code to see what all you have to change. And then you are all set to go!

Ensaai!
PS: If you find this blog on my blogspot, it got there because of what I just told you!