Looking for Open Source Charting system? Here it is

After a bit of research and trying with different charting and reporting libraries in Java, C++ etc, I finally found a library which is not only powerful but extremely simple as well.

Open Flash Chart

I must tell you, I have started using it and it is damn good.

The best part being that it has so much of native support to PHP that anyone who loves coding in PHP should fall in love with this graphing library.

VIsit the above URL link and see some demos of how good it is :)

Did I tell u that it is totally free, even for commercial use? Simply Awesome. Go check it out.

Cheerz
Shri

5 comments January 21, 2008

SUN acquires MySQL!!!!

For all those who love Open Source this news should come exciting, SUN Microsystems has acquired MySQL AB, the company behind the world famous open source Database.

As I see, SUN is merging strong in Open Source with Java, Sun Office, Solaris and Now, Mysql. It sure is here to play a big game with Open Source. IT wud be surely interesting to wait and watch how SUN tries to capture the market.

SUN has already ignited with Start-up essentials and to that package,mysql is a bonus.

Cheerz
SHri

1 comment January 17, 2008

IE really Sucks!!!!

Internet Explorer really sucks when it comes to executing JavaScript. I shall detail u d problem as well as d solution {If I find}.

But, for now join me in abusing MS for such a creepy IE stuff :)

Cheerz
SHri

2 comments January 3, 2008

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!!!

2007 will soon die in next few hours, leaving us with loads of memories. Some of them good times, some really tough.

I am Looking forward for life in 2008.

Wait a min, say a quick Prayer, and Now, raise a toast, and Cheeeerzzz 2008.

Wishing You and Your Family a very Happy and Prosperous New Year ahead!!!

–Shri

2 comments December 31, 2007

One of the best Indian Bands: Indian Ocean!!!!

Indian Ocean is probably one of those Bands who not only give importance to music but to words as well.

The right mix of the rock-style jazz and classical touch makes them my best Indian Band. Susmit Sen, Rahul Ram, Asheem and Amit together can really compose some mind blowing music. I kinda speically like the vocal of Rahul Ram, which is very heavy and suits both western as well as Indian classical songs.

Have any doubts?

Check this video out…I am sure it will touch you.

Cheerz
Shri

1 comment December 31, 2007

Learn how to play with Flash, Mysql & PHP

Its one of those cool tutorials I have ever come across. It helps us in understaning how to integrate and play with Flash, Mysql and PHP.

I am sure it would help you too.

http://www.creativecow.net/articles/brimelow_lee/php_mysql/php_mysql_flash.html

Cheerz
SHri

1 comment December 19, 2007

Blog Reads….

Since, I am not updating my blog regularly now a days of course, you know I am busy :)

Anyways, by that time, you can have look at these blogs, I hope you would like reading them.

Web Analytics India Blog : A blog about the latest growing trends in analytics wrt India.  {Its written by Anil, a fellow barcamper and friend}

Its a Free World : Ever imagine, whats happening around us? I know lot of mess. But then what we can do to solve it? Can we make our Ideas work to help humanity? Neha and Poonam, Exploring the unexplored zones.

If you have more interesting blogs to read, share with us.

Cheerz
Shri

2 comments December 11, 2007

Simple Ajax with YUI!!!

For those of you, who want to get started with YUI and Ajax, this would surely prove helpful.


<html><head>
<title>Lets learn YUI</title>

</head>

<body>

<div id="mydiv">

Add some Text or Images if you want to replace dynamically</p>

</div>

<p><a href="Loading.html" onclick="return YUI();">My first AJAX</a></p>

<script src="build/yahoo/yahoo-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script src="build/event/event-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script src="build/connection/connection-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

//<![CDATA[

function YUI(){

var loadUrl = "Loading.html";

var callback = {

success: function(o) {

document.getElementById('mydiv').innerHTML =  o.responseText;

},

failure: function(o) {

alert("AJAX doesn't work"); //FAILURE

}

}

var transaction = YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('GET', loadUrl, callback, null);

return false;

}

//]]>

</script>

</body>

</html>

This is how one can simply make AJAX calls using YUI. The code is simple and self explanatory. If you need any help with this, please drop in comments.

Cheerz
Shri

Add comment November 26, 2007

Quick Code for Rounded Corners using Rico!!!!

Quick Code is a new category in my blog, where I shall share the code with lil details :) 


<script type="text/javascript" src="./scripts/prototype.js" language="JavaScript">
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="./scripts/rico.js" language="JavaScript">
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
Rico.Corner.round('ID of ur DIV',{compact:false,blend:false,corners:'all'});
</script>

Code is self explanatory,you just need to pass the ID of the DIV u need make it Rounded Corner. Extra parameters you can pass are Color, etc which of course are optional :)

Cheerz
Shri

Add comment November 21, 2007

Breaking News!!!!

Read this piece of information Here

DesiMartini.com  has been acquired by Hindustan Media’s Internet group :)

Cheerz to the team @ Desimartini

–Shri

Add comment November 21, 2007

Looking for serious Hackers!!!!!

Hello Readers,

I am seriously looking for some Hackers to work on some projects, if you are interested/ know of someone, please drop me a mail.

Looking for guys with

1. PHP
2. Flash
3. UI Designer

Not, necessary that they should work full time, can also work on weekends.

If any of the students are interested, I would be more than happy to work with you.

Drop me a mail at chshridharrao@gmail.com

Cheerz
Shri

1 comment November 21, 2007

BarCamp Bangalore Winter Edition is Here!!!

Thats Right!!!!

BarCamp Bangalore winter edition is scheduled to be on 17th & 18th Nov’07.

BarCamp

I will mostly be around the start-up, UI Designing and Hackers Collectives.

If you havent registered yet, you can still do it here. If you also happen to be around, drop me a mail/comment we shall surely catch up.

2 comments November 13, 2007

Advanced Word Count for PHP!!!!!

If you have tried counting words in a string in PHP, you sure must have used “explode” function.

Its a pretty simple function and can be used in N-ways. A general simple function can be written as


$String = "This is my blog";
$words = explode(" ",String);
$num = count($words);

Now, this should give you the number of words (4) and following with the count of number of words{This, is, my, blog}.

BUT, the real problem is if your string is “Hello     World”, the number of words here are 7 and count is also 7. How come? THats coz, of the fact the function explode takes delimiter as a space and will count the spaces, commas, etc also as words.

I have found a better way of doing the same. So here I am sharing with you.

Instead use this function, in which we check wheather the word is having any integer, charcter etc in it or not. If its a space we can royally ignore it :) 


function wordCount($string){
     $words = "";
     $string = eregi_replace(" +", " ", $string);
     $array = explode(" ", $string);
     for($i=0;$i < count($array);$i++)
   {
         if (eregi("[0-9A-Za-zÀ-ÖØ-öø-ÿ]", $array[$i]))
             $words[$i] = $array[$i];

     }
     return $words;
 }

In this way, we can get the words as the user must have typed omitting the spaces and junk characters.

This function will return you a array of words in the string, and further we can even make it only Words++ to count how many words are there. So this function can actually work for 2 purposes.

1. Count the number of Words in a string
2. Get the words in array

Hope you find this useful.

CHeerz
Shri

6 comments November 12, 2007

Back to Blogging!!!

Been really busy with some personal and professional work,  and now back to blogging after a long time.

So there has been lot of changes at my side, working on some “personal projects”, been to places, bought a bike etc etc.

now I shall keep the blog updating and jotting my learnings.

Cheerz
Shri

Add comment November 12, 2007

Yahoo Open Hackday: Awesome Event!!!!

In this post, I am only talking about the event, my experience and in the next post follows the actual details of the hack!!!! 

I started from my place at 13.00pm, reached Taj Residency @MG Road.

Went upstairs, and Met Joe Arnold, I met him during D-Camp as well. Bhosky was already there. Vibhash, Prashant Mishra, Shourya Sarcar, Yousuf, Bala, Alagu were all there.

Finally around 15:30pm it all started with talks from Chirstian Heilman, Shivku and other folks.

At 1700pm the Hackday began and everyone started working on their hacks.

We formed a team, Me, Bala, Vibhash and Yousuf and after a lot of brainstroming, we decided to work on Yahoo Search Mashup!!!!
<wink>The details follow in next post, with code and demo :) </wink>

We@ Workingworking.jpgwith_heilman.jpgwith_bharat.jpg

While the hack, we even had fun on the IRC Channel. Ventat from Y! even helped us with Y! Answers API.

The arrangements were just perfect from wireless setups to bean bags to coffee to food to drinks to video games to just everything.

During break session, I even met Sidu and we shared some thoughts on Start-ups, Entrepreneurship etc etc. It was informative.

I got even chance to speak to Mr.Bharat Vijay, the man who started Yahoo India operations :)

We had to present our hack in 90 seconds, and everyone showcased the stuff they worked on. I must admit, every idea was brilliant, lot of thought process and hard work behind it. The best part was that everyone present were awake for more than 24 straight hrs and still charged!!!! Amazing, thanks to tons of cofee and Red Bull

We didnt get any prize , but some people appreciated the efforts. We were happy about it :)

During Dinner, I even got a chance to speak to Yahoo’s Co-founder David Fil0. Yusuf quickly catched the moment in the camera. Even, got a snap with Chirstian Heilman as well.

Finally, when the time came to say goodbye, we all got a bean bag from Yahoo as well.

The best part was the gathering of some many talented people under one roof, you interact, you learn so many things and the energy was just flowing all around!!!!

I will soon be updating the post with pictures as well. Next post is abt the Yahoo Search Mash-up we have hacked!!!! So stay tuned.

For complete coverage:
1. Loads of Flickr images
2. List of Winners
3. Developer Network post

One of the best weekend, I have ever spent in my life. Thanks to all the folks at Yahoo!!!!

CHeerz
Shri

PS: Photo courtesy from hackers who have uploaded in Flickr.

5 comments October 9, 2007

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