TIOBE Programming community Index

After a long time, I checked the TIOBE programming Index to know which programming languages are dominating in the software market. Still surprisingly the Complicated Java programming language ranks #1. The other surprise is, though there are a lot of talk on "Ruby" and "Python" everywhere these days, surprisingly they are going down in the ranking. The other surprise is, I don't see ASP.net in top 20 category, but I have seen many websites using ASP.net now lately.

Website referred by Tim O'Reilly at Interop 2008

Just compiled all the websites mentioned by Tim O'Reilly at Interop 2008 conference. It's quite amazing to know the kind of change happening in the world because of "Web 2.0". Harnessing the collective intelligence and the User generated content and the business model evolving around "Web 2.0" is quite interesting. Anyway here is the all website list mentioned by Tim.

Weather Related :-

http://www.stormpulse.com/ - Hurricane tracking and mapping
http://qcn.stanford.edu/ - Collaborative Quake-Catcher Network

Some cool stuff :-

http://www.botanicalls.com - If you have Indoor plants @ u'r home, check this site
http://www.ideastorm.com/ - Dell site for storming some new ideas
http://www.singularity.com - Ray Kurzweil - Artificial intelligence Guru
https://www.23andme.com/ - Get your DNA pattern

Energy Related :-

http://www.seriousmaterials.com - Informative
http://www.wattzon.com/ - Eye-opening site on energy usage
http://www.amee.com/ - APIs to implement at energy sites
http://www.energycamp.org/ - “unconference” on IT-related carbon footprints


Funding for startup - with a great cause to improve humanity :

http://www.instedd.org/ - Innovation lab for early disease detection and rapid disaster response
http://www.benetech.org/ - Funding for social cause projects
http://www.omidyar.net/ - Funding for social cause projects( Run by founder of e-bay)


Medicinal and Emergency issues and Financial :

http://www.ushahidi.com/ - Rapid emergency in Africa (highly recommend to check it out)
http://www.witness.org/ - See It, Film It,Change It
http://www.prosper.com/ - Want a personal loan
http://www.clickdiagnostics.com/ - Connecting rural patients with remote doctor
http://www.patientslikeme.com/ - Social networking for Patients with same diseases

Eye opening Sites :

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ - Connecting digital technology with public life.

Best Video Podcast software for Linux (Ubuntu) - Miro

Miro (http://www.getmiro.com/) - The best video podcast software in the linux world(It's available for Windows too). Not only just a video podcast software , it's also support RSS and Bit torrent. To put it simply, it's more like "Itune" in the linux world. The good thing is, it comes as pre-installed with Ubuntu. You just have turn on it in snaptic software Manager. This software has a concept of "Channel", there are tons of channels and one can easily spend their lifetime watching all those channel. "Open source"....Way to go..Baby !!!!!!

Another cool website

Just came across this website "http://www.dubmenow.com/" by following my friend Girish on Twitter. Sometime it's really surprise to see, how on the earth they comeup with such cool and useful website. It's high time we all have to find those untouched business cards and "dub" it now.

Centos Vs Ubuntu

I'm relatively quite new to Linux world. So I have tried two distribution Ubuntu & CentOS so far in the past 5 months of Linux life. I know they both are targeted for different segment of market. Ubuntu is targeted to Consumer world and the CentOS is target to enterprise world and CentOS is a mirror image of Redhat Enterprises Edition. My friend Ron guided me to install CentOS for the very first time and I picked up good understanding about Linux. Over the period of time, by attending various user conference , I gained valuable knowledge and prompted by status in Linux from beginner to Intermediate. I love CentOS because of Stable Kernel build and nice sleeky look and the main drawback with CentOS is unavailbilty of the drivers for Wireless, Soundcard and webcam. In one of the redhat conference , I bumped into one of the lead developer, he helped me in installing ALSA drivers and after 4 installation of CentOS, atlast my Sound card worked in CentOS distribution. On talking about Ubuntu, Oh..boy...It is seamless installation. I love Ubuntu for their abdundant driver base. Everything works fine from Day one. Never I have to spend many days to do googling to find the drivers like in CentOS. so Overall, Ubuntu is great and it makes my life so easier. Thanks a ton to Mark shuttle worth for bringing a great OS like Linux to the consumer market. Any non-techinical person can install Ubuntu so easily.

Cool website to share your expenses in a roomate environment

I just came across this cool website "https://www.divitup.com". This website is a free web service for splitting bills with friends/roommates. I did some testing , this site is very useful. Look at some snapshots on the side of the screen.

Interesting Video On An Illustrated History Of Failure

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