My top 5 themes from Strengths Finder

My top 5 themes from Strengths Finder - Adaptability - Connectedness - Empathy - Harmony - Deliberative Just finished reading about them, but need to give couple of more tags to fully understand each of those well enough to start working on the action items from the customized report.

You cannot be anything you want to be

You "cannot" be anything you want to be, but you "can" be a lot more of who you already are

- Strengths Finder 2.0

Pivotal Tracker is no more free

http://www.pivotaltracker.com/pricing

New fish tank installed at the work place

Fishes are yet to arrive.

Speeding up Ubuntu linux by tweeking SWAP memory

I have a desktop with 1GB RAM and Ubuntu 10.10 OS with 4GB of SWAP memory configured and still it felt slow. I'm fine using it for general browsing and reading but not happy to use this desktop for any development

Yesterday I was trying the new Linix Mint 10 Debian Edition (LMDE) with a live CD in this desktop. When looking at the configuration in GParted, I understood that all the 4GB SWAP memory is allocated in one partition. So I though lets break this into two and see what happens.

To my surprise, when I restarted the machine using installed Ubuntu OS, I found my machine got lot faster with the same RAM same amount of SWAP.

So I realized deviding the SWAP memory into multiple parts, each part is with minimum size of the RAM the machine has makes the machine faster.

I'm yet to read upon more on this on how exactly it works, but this is a quick tip we can follow to speedup Ubuntu or any other linux distro.

 

Reading procrastination article in zen habits

http://zenhabits.net/procrastination/

I've got some useful tips that I can immediately make use of.

Google Groups Data To Be Destroyed!

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=308700

Read it; it's short. Notice the last line of the third paragraph: "In February 2011, we will turn off the pages and files features, and you will no longer be able to access that content." In journalism, this is called "burying the lead," which means, "putting the most important line of the piece down in the article where a lot of people won't notice it.

Tools I use

On a daily basis
- Ubuntu Linux
- GNU Emacs 23
- Conkeror Browser
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
- KeePassX
- Dropbox
- Calibre - to keep my books and other documents organize
- Bash Shell with byobu
- Empathy for multi-protocol chat
- Firestarter Firewall
- Tasque - to sync with Remember the milk service (RTM)
- Rhythmbox Music Player
- AllTray, very convenient to move running application to system tray

Less Frequently
- Bootup-Manager (bum)
- Grsync
- Ubuntu Tweak
- Filezilla
- Shutter for taking screenshots

Drivel for Ubuntu

Finally there is a decent blog client for Ubuntu, it's Drivel.

I tried Drivel before but unfortunately it never logged in after install. But today it logged in into my Blogger account magically.

Now on, I'll try and post as many blogs as possible to interesting things I come across. I also need to find out how to attach labels to blog in Drivel.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Using rhythmbox-client

I'd like to listen to music when I'm working, when learning, when relaxing and almost all the time.

The problem is I have all my music collection in my desktop and I work from laptop. And to change music, radio stations, I need to go to desktop.

There is a simple solution for this problem I found today.

I use Ubuntu in my desktop and Rhythmbox to play music. There is a small command line utility rhythmbox-client. So I connect to my desktop with ssh and use rhythmbox-client command to control music being played in my desktop.

Here are few sample commands I tried to far:

rhythmbox-client --play-uri=http://38.101.195.5:8132/listen.pls (TORI Radio Channel)

rhythmbox-client --print-playing

rhythmbox-client --next

rhythmbox-client --volume-down

rhythmbox-client --volume-up

Hope to find some more small tools like this to make my life easy.

Oh, BTW, I forgot to tell you I stopped connecting external mouse to my laptop to force myself use keyboard more. :)

Google Analytics for Flash

Now Google Analytics supports Flash. Wow

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Beyond Usability: Designing Web Sites for Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust :: UXmatters

Beyond Usability: Designing Web Sites for Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust :: UXmatters


Oh my god. This is an eye opener.

Also watch the youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bminUlAu47Q

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Web Analytics 2.0 Visual

From Avinash Kaushik's screencast on Web Analytics (Google TechTalks, 09/17/2007)

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How to Install PPTP GUI (To connect windows VPN) in Ubuntu | Ubuntu Geek

How to Install PPTP GUI (To connect windows VPN) in Ubuntu | Ubuntu Geek

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Taking Decisions? Note down the reasons and assumptions too

I recently realized that it would be beneficial to note down the reasons and assumptions helped us to make a decision.

This data helps us later on couple of things:

• are any of our assumptions are wrong
• how our reasoning progressing over a period
  
• time check the decisions
  

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A Nice Signup Form

Checkout a very simple and nice signup form with interesting messages at: Zoomr

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Ext GWT

I just checked the Ext GWT. They have some really good components to build web applications.

Checkout the Web Desktop and Mail App Demos.

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Scala Books

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How to learn Java

I know what you're thinking. :) You are thinking that there are so many people in so many places posted a lot about Java and why a blog post on this topic.

Reason is simple. This post is for the people who don't know where to start.

You can get good grip on Java (Basics) in one month, spending one hour every day and follow these instructions.

• Buy this book titled Programmer's Guide to Java Certification by Khalid Azim Mughal, Rolf Rasmussen (Addison and Wesley Publication)
• Read chapter by chapter and complete all the review questions and exercises given in each chapter
• If you stuck somewhere, take help from other sources (web, other Java books, people good at Java)

- G1