The Free Geek » Uncategorized http://freegeek.in/blog The Chronicles of Nerd-nia Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:22:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Introducing JSON Stackoverflow http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/introducing-json-stackoverflow/ http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/introducing-json-stackoverflow/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:28:28 +0000 Baishampayan http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/introducing-json-stackoverflow/ To all stackoverflow.com users, you can now add a nifty widget with your stackoverflow.com reputation and badge count to your website or blog. There is also a JSONP service which will provide you the raw data so that you can customise the display as you like. Head over to json-stackoverflow.appspot.com for all the nitty-gritties.

Feedback is appreciated!

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]]> http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/introducing-json-stackoverflow/feed/ 1 Live cricket scores for your blog made easy http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/live-cricket-scores-for-your-blog-made-easy/ http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/live-cricket-scores-for-your-blog-made-easy/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:39:58 +0000 Baishampayan http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/live-cricket-scores-for-your-blog-made-easy/ I will keep it short, just add the following Javascript snippet anywhere on your website or blog and you’ll get live cricket scores courtesy  oCricket.com.

The Javascript snippet:

<script src="http://cdn.ocricket.com/assets/score_widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Feedback is appreciated!

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]]> http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/live-cricket-scores-for-your-blog-made-easy/feed/ 3 Recreating the new GMail buttons http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/recreating-the-new-gmail-buttons/ http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/recreating-the-new-gmail-buttons/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:35:24 +0000 Baishampayan http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/recreating-the-new-gmail-buttons/
a portion of the background on our buttons here, and discuss some of the iterations we’ve been through so far to get to the current state.

via stopdesign.com

Interesting story of the design process that went behind the new GMail buttons.

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]]> http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/recreating-the-new-gmail-buttons/feed/ 0 Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/half-a-second-delay-caused-a-20-drop-in-traffic/ http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/half-a-second-delay-caused-a-20-drop-in-traffic/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:31:28 +0000 Baishampayan http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/half-a-second-delay-caused-a-20-drop-in-traffic/
Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.

via glinden.blogspot.com

Interesting story from Marissa Mayer about an experiment Google conducted.

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]]> http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/half-a-second-delay-caused-a-20-drop-in-traffic/feed/ 0 A Clockwork Black: i was trying to avoid this http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/a-clockwork-black-i-was-trying-to-avoid-this/ http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/a-clockwork-black-i-was-trying-to-avoid-this/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:24:59 +0000 Baishampayan http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/a-clockwork-black-i-was-trying-to-avoid-this/
i was trying to avoid writing this post and had succeeded at that goal for almost 2 years. after some recent exchanges, i see the wisest move is the opposite. so, here goes.

via blog.layer8.net

The story of how Amazon EC2 was born…

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]]> http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/02/a-clockwork-black-i-was-trying-to-avoid-this/feed/ 0 Jeff Atwood at CUSEC 2008 – Is Writing More Important Than Programming? http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/01/jeff-atwood-at-cusec-2008-is-writing-more-important-than-programming/ http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/01/jeff-atwood-at-cusec-2008-is-writing-more-important-than-programming/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:03:13 +0000 Baishampayan http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/01/jeff-atwood-at-cusec-2008-is-writing-more-important-than-programming/ Jeff Atwood hit the nail on the head when he indicated that
Programmers should really learn how to write well while they learn how
to program. Being good at writing is really an indispensable skill for
all programmers.
 

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]]> http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/01/jeff-atwood-at-cusec-2008-is-writing-more-important-than-programming/feed/ 1 Zed Shaw at CUSEC 2008 – The ACL is dead http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/01/zed-shaw-at-cusec-2008-the-acl-is-dead/ http://freegeek.in/blog/2009/01/zed-shaw-at-cusec-2008-the-acl-is-dead/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:29:39 +0000 Baishampayan http://g33k.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/zed-shaw-at-cusec-2008-the-acl-is-dead/ Amazing keynote by Zed Shaw


Zed Shaw – The ACL is Dead from CUSEC on Vimeo.

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