http://www.techbol.com Daily tech-talk from Bangalore Sun, 11 May 2008 20:53:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While trying to increase the space on my primary Ubuntu partition, I had to delete and recreate the swap partition to make the Ubuntu partition contiguous with the available free space. After this, when I rebooted and logged on, I felt a slight sluggishness when I ran multiple applications. I ... http://www.techbol.com/2008/05/12/recovering-swap-partition-on-ubuntu/ OpenSocial (Google's reply to Facebook apps), which was launched with much fanfare in late 2007 finally launched for the general users on Orkut in India last week. The initial launch hype watered down considerably over the last 6 months due to a rather long 'sandbox' testing phase consisting of a ... http://www.techbol.com/2008/04/22/opensocial-apps-out-of-sandbox-on-orkut-india/ This was the very first time I put a story for inclusion in Slashdot home page, and it actually ended up on the Slashdot home page! I first learnt about the Netflix prize in this book, which I was reading while researching on how to develop recommendation algorithm by correlating behaviour ... http://www.techbol.com/2008/03/06/i-got-slashdotted/ For aspiring web developers, the next step after learning PHP and MySQL is a framework which will greatly reduce the time of application development and provide important features such as Object Relational Mapping and Database Abstraction. Symfony is arguably the best php framework out there. In this how-to, I will ... http://www.techbol.com/2008/02/13/how-to-set-up-symfony-in-xampp-in-windows/ Just got back after a hectic but thoroughly exciting 24 hour jam at the Indian preselections (http://www.webdesign-festival.com/2008/countries/india/index.html) of  Webdesign International Festival 2008 organised by the city of Limoges, France. We landed at The Park yesterday evening at 5 o' clock, and the contest kicked off by 6. We were given the theme- "Water ... http://www.techbol.com/2008/01/20/wif-2008/ In the last few days, I have become addicted to Twitter! I knew about it for a long time, but I never bothered making an account and actively twittering.. I mean, its just a stupid application that lets you set a status message, right? No, like most other social applications, Twitter ... http://www.techbol.com/2007/12/30/why-use-twitter/