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Just launched two new business web portals

Just created two new business websites : Synergy Real Estate Services An initial initiative for the firm Sukh Promoters Pvt Ltd, for Real Estate Consulting Joy Guest House, Goa Did most of the photography for this shack and guest house in Goa and built this website for them. Pretty much financed my trip last weekend. Θ Ω Sushant ♂

C++ Guru Mantra

Whenever in pain while compiling through g++ blindly use the following: 1. -undefined dynamic_lookup : every other library not found, x86_64 errors are fixed. 2. locate your paths for shared libraries and use -L or -I to point to this location. 3. Read about shared and static libraries here [Edit] Dynamic lookup findings: You have to run the output in and around the files that have to be used as it looks up dynamically for it's dependencies and symbols. Θ Ω Sushant ♂

ClamAV - One of the 'good' open source command line antivirus solution

This really makes my life easy if I want to deploy an upload server, or a mail server in UNIX and the files would be downloaded in WINDOWS or similar virus-prone operating systems. You can read more about it on the official website . A C-extension for python is available HERE to programmatically scan files and open pyclamd (daemon) socket. Θ Ω Sushant ♂

Git observation

Just incase you have cloned your repository using passwords and have setup the ssh keys with the remote server later, you would be facing issues with asking for passwords again and again even though the key mappings exists on the server. Your best bet is to push everything and re-clone the repository and voila! no passwords now. Θ Ω Sushant ♂

Google chrome - a hack to crash, a hack to save chrome tabs

Open a new tab and type : about:inducebrowsercrashforrealz press enter chrome would crash. Now the next time you open chrome, you would get a restore option from where you can restore all tabs. ;) Θ Ω Sushant ♂

Team Foundation Server - Go Offline

I've been struggling to find an option to "go offline" in a solution when the TFS loses connection with the server, in VS 2008, I couldn't do anything but to re-start the application to make any changes without a check-out so that the application opens in offline mode. There could be various other instances when a "go offline" option should be available for a TFS based solution.  I finally found a VS 2010 plug-in which does the trick. I think it is pretty useful. Do let me know your opinions on the same. Θ Ω Sushant ♂

The face API work - Making of the Auto-Tagger

It's 3:30 am and I finally got my netbook working with Windows and Visual Studio 2010. This was really required as the GTK# UI sucked. I wish I could implement something like XAML for linux as well and wondering why isn't the Mono project prioritizing working on WPF and XAML for the fact that even Silverlight platform is free and also ever since Nokia signed this deal with Microsoft, I think the plans should change (sorry QT Developers but we're gonna take over from here). An interesting thing to note here is while Silverlight has not been so popular with Web, it would totally rule over the mobile platform which Microsoft is targeting while keeping in mind that HTML5 will be ruling over the web for smart UI applications. Anyway coming to the point. I had already gotten things  to work on the UI end last weekend and it looked amazing. Now it's time to write the picture recognition canvas Θ Ω Sushant ♂