Bandos' Arcade

The Smashing Magazine posted a nice article on infographics, and their example was “The World of Programming”, that’s a job well done window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “108492862525832″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol + “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js”; document.getElementById(“fb-root”).appendChild(e); }()); The Smashing Magazine posted [...]

The requirement is to only serve the login page securely and once the user is authenticated (s)he should be redirected to non-secure http mode. I was struggling to do this quite some time back, and just thought of documenting about it. The idea I had was; “It should be quite simple”, Facebook does that, Google [...]

Today I was working on a customer POC and happened to create few Google gadgets to visualize selected data sets from *.gov.uk sites. The scenario which is implemented was, mixed with inter-gadget communication and content search over data.gov.uk sites. I created three simple gadgets which communicates with each other, and one acted as the controlling [...]

I just integrated the facebook’s new like button, there was an easy to use plug-in for wordpress so I didnt have to make any code level changes to my template. So if you guys also thinking of integrating the social feature you might want to read this, this and this. And for all you people [...]

Okey so this is the fun part that I promised to write about . I managed to cook up a use-case to demonstrate RDF querying and making use of the semantic data. The data that I am using for querying, is the rdf data sources available in the UK data.gov site. With some analysis I [...]

For the past week or so I was able to work with data.gov.uk to find a possibility to make use of government/public data for a nice sample gadget, that will work in the Gadget Server. However it is quite disappointing to see most of these data are in lengthy PDF files, and without some expensive [...]

Yesterday (16th Dec) WSO2 Gadget Server graduated from its beta status and announced its release. WSO2 Gadget Server is designed to serve as a presentation middle-ware product in the SOA space to smoothly display chunks of service oriented data for the end users. The solution architecture is based on portal / portlet concept but making [...]

As I have mentioned in some previous post, today I did a talk about Apache shindig and its use cases (WSO2 Gadget Server) at Apache Con 09 with my Colleague Tyrell. So without writing about the whole talk let me share the presentation slides. The Talk turned up great, audience were quite interested, too bad [...]

Today I was at Apache Asia road show 2009 at Colombo, and feeling good about myself of attending . It was a great session with many valuable tech talks and more of a valuable community gathering. Am not writing this post to talk about Apache and all the open source movement but about a specific [...]

Nothing much new to write, was busy with work, WSO2 Gadget Server is about to release in the coming weeks, (I’ll be writing a whole story about it in a coming post). Apart from all those, my first article was published today in the diGIT magazine, which is a free online IT magazine run by [...]