Adding color to Eclipse ala Textmate themes
Photo by shog9I finally found a bunch of files to enable theming in the Eclipse IDE like the themes one can find for Textmate or Vim. Here are a bunch of popular themes for syntax coloring. To use these files, download the EPF files, and then import them into Eclipse via File > Import > Preferences... and picking any of →
Installing MySQL gem on Mac OS X Leopard
Installing the MySQL gem on Leopard was much more painful than I thought. I had the 64-bit version of MySQL already installed. So I had to uninstall MySQL on Leopard, which was a challenge all on its own. Here is what I did (after stopping MySQL, and backing up my databases first, of course): sudo rm /usr/local/mysql sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql* sudo rm →
iPhone UI for Rails applications
I knew something like this should and would exist - nice work.. Will try and incorporate into the next Rails thing we do! Slash Dot Dash � Blog Archive � iPhone on Rails - Creating an iPhone optimised version of your Rails site using iUI and Rails 2.
Configuring Gmail as SMTP Relay on Elastix
Elastix uses Postfix, and getting Postfix configured to use Gmail as a SMTP Relay has been incredibly painful to do. This should not be as difficult as it turned out to be, but here is what I had to do to get things working. Edit the /etc/postfix/main.cf file nano /etc/postfix/main.cf Change these lines to your external domain and the name of your elastix →
How to Choose a Doctor
Having a child is a exhilarating experience. Dealing with the health system in this country however, evokes the exact opposite emotion. One of the most traumatic experiences we had to revisit with the birth of our child was to pick a doctor, a pediatrician, for him and a OB/GYN for my wife. For myself, it was never really an issue, →
Typing in Indian Languages
I have always been interested in typing in Indian languages on computers, but wanted it to be as easy as typing the equivalent in English and have it transliterate dynamically. Alas, due to the complexity of indian languages and the variation in how people type the equivalent in english, it is hard for that method to be reliably correct all →
The TV Gods look kindly upon BillShrink
The TV Gods are smiling at BillShrink this week. Close to a 100 TV stations across the country have played segments on BillShrink over the last two days. Both CBS and NBC recorded segments on BillShrink. This is the first time the TV stations have profiled the company directly, as opposed to previous segments that focussed on some of the →
Protected: Painting a baby room
Given that we keep extra paints and similar items in the garage and away from where we live, it strikes me as incredibly irresponsible to be painting a baby room at all. That said, Malini wants the baby room painted. So I got around to looking around the interweb to see what the oracles had to say. I was right - →
Social Networking in a box
I have been looking for a while for a bunch of social networking functionality to use out of the box - it is ridiculous that you have to build all the same basic things over and over again. I think I found exactly what I was looking for - Community Engine can be used as is, but is designed as →
Protected: What’s in a name?
Nothing - especially, when YOU don't have to live with it your entire life. Think about it - the parents pick a name THEY like, and the kid has to live with that choice their entire (at least childhood) life. So we are trying to figure out what we are going to call this dude.. The key criteria we have been →
Protected: The Search for a Stroller
Given that my wife Malini has a problem lifting weights, weight of the stroller was a big deal - which only leaves two full fledged strollers - The City Mini, and the Pliko P3. The City Mini is awesome in that you can just collapse it by just lifting it by a handle that sits where the butt of the →
Protected: Baby Shopping Starts
So we went out to look for baby stuff for the first time yesterday. Wow!! There is a lot of stuff out there. Here is an entire industry that I was completely unaware of. And I would assume this is a pretty price insensitive category as well. Anyway, we checked out Lullaby Lane as recommended by a number of friends. →
Hello world!
Welcome to the new and improved Satyavolu Family Website. I decided to call it Rajahmundry, after the ancestral town from which the Satyavolus hail. This website will now be regularly updated as a blog with both public and private posts. Happy New Year everyone!
