Perspectives

A friend of mine at Athena Health is looking to hire smart people with Perl, PHP skills. He says they want tech leads, developers and innovators. The job will be based out of chennai and the company is in an expansion mode with peers from IITs and RECs. Good thinking and problem solving skills is what they are primarily looking for.

If you are one of them or know someone, let me know.

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!