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Daily Stand-up / Scrum meeting

This is my second week in the Hitwise R&D team. We are using the Agile Development methodology and we have daily stand-up meetings to report on what was done and what to be done. There is very useful article about this daily stand-up / scrum meeting and I like to quote some references below: [ Read More ]

Google Toolbar for Chrome

If you are looking for solutions to install Google Toolbar in Chrome, bad luck, you are in the wrong blog. The answer is simply no, there is no to such toolbar for Google's new Chrome browser. [ Read More ]

How to Open a RAR File in Ubuntu

A program called unrar is used to uncompress a .rar archive file in Linux. It is not installed by default in Ubuntu. To install it, simply run the command:

sudo apt-get install unrar

You will get

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
unrar
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 96.9kB of archives.
After this operation, 246kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse unrar 1:3.7.8-1 [96.9kB]
Fetched 96.9kB in 2s (34.9kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package unrar.
(Reading database ... 117487 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking unrar (from .../unrar_1%3a3.7.8-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up unrar (1:3.7.8-1) ...

You can see that it requires the multiverse repository. So if your installation complains something, try to update your source.list first.

To unrar .rar files, simply use command:

user@www$ unrar x <filename.rar>

See the man page for more options:

user@www$ man unrar

Have fun.... [ Read More ]

Hardy Heron Sound Problems In Flash?

I was unable to hear the sound from Flash video when playing in browsers, either in Firefox or Opera in Ubuntu Hardy. However, the musics are playing fine in Rhythmbox player. [ Read More ]

Ubuntu Install GDesklets

GDesklets is a GNOME program which provides the architecture for small desktop widgets to be placed on top of the user's desktop. The applets placed on the desktop are meant to be quick ways for the user to retrieve information and not get in the way of normal activity. [ Read More ]

Firebug For Opera - DragonFly

Good news to developers - the new versions of Opera 9.5 and above will be shipped with develop tools installed - Dragonfly. It works similarly to how Firebug works, you can inspect DOM elements, update CSS on the fly, step through debugging break points, error console and more. [ Read More ]

OAuth For Google Data Sharing API

Google Data interface is now supporting open OAuth stardard, this makes accessing information in Google property much easier. [ Read More ]

Replace Named Anchors With IDs

I just found out a simpler way to have named anchors for browser to jump to a particular location on a web page. It is not a new way, but it is a way that some developers might not be aware of. [ Read More ]

Running Internet Explorer in Linux

IEs4Linux is the simple way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer running on any Linux which runs Wine. All you need is one script to setup different versions of IE on your machine. It’s free and open source and will be very useful for designers and web developers to test their applications in the legacy browsers. [ Read More ]

Force Mounting NTFS Filesystem

I recently upgraded Ubuntu from Gusty to Hardy, it did not go very smoothly and I faced some issues and problems. NTFS mounting issue was the one I just realised. [ Read More ]