tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124704522024-03-16T14:50:38.090+05:30Mugunth's BlogMugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-83832132324039011432015-09-30T07:10:00.000+05:302015-09-30T07:15:04.672+05:30How to enable code completion for Laravel 5 in Netbeans.I have been using <a href="https://netbeans.org/features/php/">netbeans </a>as my PHP IDE for a long time. I started learning and using <a href="http://laravel.com/">laravel php framework</a> recently. My preferred IDE for my PHP projects is netbeans. First thing I wanted is to enable code completion support for laravel in netbeans. I explored a little and found the following simple way to do this.<br />
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1. Downloaded _ide_helper.php file from github Gist(by github user: barryvdh): <a href="https://gist.github.com/barryvdh/5227822">https://gist.github.com/barryvdh/5227822 </a><br />
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2. Place the above file (_ide_helper.php) in laravel root folder(as shown below). <br />
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3. Restart netbeans and opened your laravel project.<br />
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I hope this will help other netbeans + Laravel users.<br />
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For more details refer to the following:<br />
<a href="https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper">https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper</a><br />
<a href="https://laracasts.com/series/how-to-be-awesome-in-phpstorm/episodes/15">https://laracasts.com/series/how-to-be-awesome-in-phpstorm/episodes/15</a> <br />
<br />Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com333tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-56300233743172523222010-11-25T01:53:00.005+05:302011-06-06T19:21:23.191+05:30Getting started with pyside - Python for Qt<a href="http://www.pyside.org/">Pyside </a>lets us to develop Qt applications using python language. I started to trying out pyside recently. And I will be writing my pyside learning in the form of tutorial as my learning progresses.<br /><br />Here are the steps to get started in pyside:<br />1. Download and install python 2.7 from here: <a href="http://www.python.org/download/">http://www.python.org/download/</a><br /> exact URL used by me: <a href="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/python-2.7.msi">http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/python-2.7.msi</a><br />pyside doesn't support python 3.x yet.<br /><br />2. After that add the python path to the environmental variables in the windows. If we run python in command window, we should get the following result to confirm python is installed correctly :<br /><br /><blockquote>C:\>python<br />Python 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul 4 2010, 09:01:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win<br />32<br />Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.<br />>>> <br /></blockquote><br /><br />3. download pyside and install it. I used the windows binary for python 2.7 from here: <a href="http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/PySideBinariesWindows">http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/PySideBinariesWindows</a><br /><br />Direct URL to download this: <a href="http://www.pyside.org/files/pkg/PySide-0.4.2qt47.win32-py2.7.exe">http://www.pyside.org/files/pkg/PySide-0.4.2qt47.win32-py2.7.exe</a><br /><br />3.a. In ubuntu linux(version 10.04 & 10.10) pyside can be installed using the following commands:<br /><blockquote><br /> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pyside<br /> sudo apt-get update<br /> sudo apt-get install python-pyside<br /></blockquote><br /><br />4.After its done, run the following hello world python script:<br /><br /><blockquote><br />import sys<br />from PySide import QtCore, QtGui<br /> <br />app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)<br /> <br />win = QtGui.QWidget()<br /> <br />win.resize(320, 240) <br />win.setWindowTitle("Hello, World!") <br />win.show() <br /> <br />sys.exit(app.exec_())</blockquote><br /><br /><br />If you are able to get a window launched, then it confirms that you have pyside installed in your system and ready to explore pyside in detail.<br /><br />6. optional- Once you have learned the basics, you might want to take advantage of the Qt tools like Qt Designer to speed up your development. Those tools are available as part of the Qt SDK download. You can download Qt SDK for windows from here:<br /><a href="http://qt.nokia.com/downloads">http://qt.nokia.com/downloads</a><br /><br />7. Optional - You can speed up your Pyside learning by following the examples given in pyside website. <br />You can download the examples package from this URL: <a href="http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside/pyside-examples/archive-tarball/mast">http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside/pyside-examples/archive-tarball/mast</a>erMugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-73729999639403585532010-11-19T19:38:00.002+05:302010-11-19T19:41:45.643+05:30eKalappai 3.0 released.eKalappai 3.0 version is released.<br /><br />Here are the main features supported in this version:<br />- Supports following 5 keyboards to type Tamil in Unicode encoding: Tamil99 , Phonetic, Typewriter, Bamini, Inscript<br />- Keyboard shortcut (F2 key) to toggle between English and Tamil keyboards.<br />- Users can change the shortcut key to toggle between English and Tamil keyboards.<br />- The keyboard logic is stored in external files in scim-tables format(which is used in: http://www.scim-im.org/scim project) and some of the existing keyboards from SCIM project are reused here.<br />- Tamil99 and Tamil-typewriter keymaps are made so as to near fully conform to Tamil Nadu government's prescriptive standards for extension to Unicode as in G.O.Ms 29 dated 23-06-2010 and documents attached tender call of Tamil Virtual Academy TVA/SW/2010-11.<br />(Ref URLs : i) http://www.tn.gov.in/gosdb/gorders/it/it_e_29_2010.pdf ii) http://tenders.tn.gov.in/pubnowtend/uploaded/TD_tvu53245_teder_document_... )<br /><br />eKalappai 3.0 can be downloaded in the following URLs:<br /><a href="http://thamizha.com/project/ekalappai">http://thamizha.com/project/ekalappai</a><br /><a href="http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/downloads/list">http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/downloads/list</a><br /><br />(Reference: http://thamizha.com/news/ekalappai-30-released)Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-62486773152186307862010-09-18T18:48:00.004+05:302010-09-18T19:01:12.746+05:30eKalappai 3.0 Beta3 released.eKalappai 3.0 beta3 is released in our project code page - <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/">http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/</a><br /><br />Features available in "eKalappai 3.0 Beta3 version":<br />1. Contains following 5 keyboards:<br /> Tamil99 , Phonetic, Typewriter, Bamini, Inscript<br />2. Single click installer/uninstaller<br />3. Keyboard shortcut (F2 key) to toggle between English and Tamil keyboards. <br />4. Users can change the shortcut key <br /><br />It contains 5 keyboards, has option for the user to change shortcut keys to toggle keyboards. Other than these visible changes, there is a major improvement in the code. <br /><br />The keyboard logic is re-written to handle scim-tables format which is used by <a href="http://www.scim-im.org/">scim project</a>.<br /><br />All the 5 keyboards available now are in scim-table format. They all reside under keyboards folder inside the installation directory. <br /><br />This means, users who like to tweak the keyboards, can directly open the keyboard files in a notepad and edit! The format of the keyboard files are very simple and self explanatory, you can view them <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/source/browse/#svn/trunk/installer/app/keyboards">here</a>. <br /><br />This scim-tables support opens up possibility to support any language easily. We have to just write a keyboard file using notepad and few changes in source code. So next releases will support more languages ! <br /><br />Keep watching <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/">http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/</a> :)Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-51988106866985945432010-04-02T14:08:00.003+05:302010-04-02T14:11:59.622+05:30eKalappai 3.0 Beta1 released.eKalappai 3.0 beta1, first beta version for Open-source ekalappai 3.0 series is released in our project code page - <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/">http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/</a><br /><br />It contains Phonetic and tamil99 keyboards. Users can try this and let us know the issues/feedback.<br /><br />Features available in "eKalappai 3.0 Beta1 version":<br />1. tamil99 and phonetic support<br />2. Single click installer/uninstaller<br />3. Keyboard shortcut (ESC key) to switch between English and Tamil keyboards.<br /><br />It can be downloaded from <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/downloads/list">http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/downloads/list</a>.<br /><br />Its an open-source project and anyone with c++ knowledge can participate. I request C++ programmers help to improve this product. Write to me if you are interested in this project.Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-16852372073054937722010-03-07T20:48:00.003+05:302010-03-07T20:55:18.630+05:30eKalappai 3.0 Alpha released.I have released <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"eKalappai 3.0 Alpha version"</span> with following features:<br />1. tamil99 and phonetic support<br />2. Single click installer<br />3. Keyboard short cut (ESC key) to switch between English and Tamil keyboards.<br /><br />It can be downloaded from <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/downloads/list">http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/downloads/list</a> .<br /><br />I request volunteers to use this version and report your bugs in this page:<br /><a href="http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/issues/list">http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/issues/list</a>Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-65266659648424904112010-02-10T04:51:00.004+05:302010-02-10T05:23:56.296+05:30eKalappai OSS source code released under GPL v3 licenceI have released the source files for the<a href="http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai"> new eKalappai</a> under GPL V3 license. Its available at this location:<br /><a href="http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/source/browse/">http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai/source/browse/</a><br /><br />After spending a long time researching and learning in the net I have managed to bring out this opensource version of our popular ekalappai software. I request intrested C++ programmers to play with this code & give feedback. Also you are welcome to join the project and contribute in whatever way(coding, testing, documentation, writing about the project and spread word) possible.<br /><br />My primary objective was not to use any commercial paid compilers. Also I wanted this code to be as portable as possible so that in future we can get this working in other operating systems. The current working ekalappai is created using<a href="http://qt.nokia.com/downloads"> Qt(opensource) </a>&<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/#2008-Visual-CPP"> VC++ express </a>(this is a free version provided by Microsoft).<br /><br />It will be possible to remove VC++ express dependency by creating the required dll using Qt. But I havent figured this yet. Hope to do that in future.<br /><br />I will write a detailed developer documentation on building ekalappai using the code soon. Keep watching the ekalappai project page <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai">http://code.google.com/p/ekalappai</a> for updates. Also join our discussions in our mailing list (<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/freetamilcomputing">FreeTamilComputing list</a>).Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-21219873190198228412008-08-20T21:21:00.002+05:302008-08-20T21:38:28.114+05:30Google supports tamil now :)Its great to know google now supports tamil language.<br />More details here: <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/google-in-tamil.html">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/google-in-tamil.html</a>Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-15463659216924697522008-07-08T00:26:00.004+05:302008-08-07T13:16:15.114+05:30Steps to deploy redmine application in ubuntu 8.04 using mod_rails(passenger).<a href="http://www.redmine.org/">Redmine</a> is my favourite project management tool written in ruby on rails. Recently I deployed this i a Ubuntu 8.04 machine using Apache2 + mod_rails. <a href="http://modrails.com/">Mod_rails</a> is a apache module which has made rails deployment as easy as php deployment. You can find more details about mod_rails here: <a href="http://modrails.com/">http://www.modrails.com </a><br />I was able to install mod_rails and deploy redmine after doing some googling and trial & Errors<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here are the steps for deploying redmine using modrails in ubuntu 8.04:</span><br /><br />1. Intalled Ruby language, build essential(to build gems later) and related dependent components using apt-get.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ sudo apt-get install ruby irb ri rdoc ruby1.8-dev libzlib-ruby libyaml-ruby libreadline-ruby libncurses-ruby libcurses-ruby libruby libruby-extras libfcgi-ruby1.8 build-essential libopenssl-ruby libdbm-ruby libdbi-ruby libdbd-sqlite3-ruby sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3-ruby libxml-ruby libxml2-dev</span><br /><br /><br />2. Downloaded ruby gems:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/38646/rubygems-1.2.0.tgz</span><br /><br />3. untared the rubygems-1.2.0.tgz package and installed rubygems.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ tar -xvf rubygems-1.2.0.tgz </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ cd rubygems-1.2.0/</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ ruby setup.rb</span><br />$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem (use this if /usr/bin/gem link is not created)<br /><br />4. Installed rails version 2.0.2 using gems. As of now Redmine works only on rails version 2.0.2 (it wont work in rails 2.1.x)<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ gem install rails --version 2.0.2</span><br /><br />5. Install mod_rails(passenger). mod_rails is called as Phusion Passenger and the gem package name is passenger. Lets refer to it as passenger hereafter.<br />Mod_rails requires apache2-threaded-dev apache module to be installed.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ gem install passenger</span><br /><br />6. Install passenger as apache module<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ passenger-install-apache2-module </span><br /><br /><br />7.Deploy redmine application<br />Download redmine and copy redmine folder inside web folders /var/www/<br />else there will be problem in showing css files and images.<br />redmine should be in this folder /var/www/redmine<br />create the database and modify the config files as mentioned in the redmine install document.<br /><br />8.Apache2 configuration changes:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ sudo mv default default.bkp</span><br /><br />Create a new default file with the following contents.<br />------------------------------------------------<br />NameVirtualHost *<br /><br /><virtualhost><br /><br />ServerName <hostname><br />ServerAlias <host><br /><br />DocumentRoot /var/www/redmine/public<br /><br /><directory><br /> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews<br /> AllowOverride None<br /> Order allow,deny<br /> allow from all<br /></directory><br /><br /> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log<br /><br /> LogLevel warn<br /><br /> CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined<br /> ServerSignature On<br /><br /></host><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />9. Restart apache<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart</span><br /><br /><br />10. Browse http://localhost , redmine should show up in the browser.<br /><br />Reference:<br /><a href="http://www.rubyhead.com/2008/04/25/installing-ruby-rails-on-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron/">http://www.rubyhead.com/2008/04/25/installing-ruby-rails-on-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron/</a></hostname></virtualhost>Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-61779361745523294082008-04-20T00:43:00.002+05:302008-04-20T00:54:33.947+05:30TamilNadu govt school textbooks available onlineGot to know this news from <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tamil-ulagam/message/39303">Tamilulagam discussion list</a>.<br /><br />Tamil Nadu Government has published its school texts books online(its has been mentioned as for viewing purpose only).<br />Its available at this URL: <a href="http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/">http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in</a>/<br /><br />It might be helpful in many ways to students and parents(who are computer savvy). And more importantly it provides open access to the content thats being taught in Tamil Nadu schools.<br /><br />I dont think any other state in India has done this yet.<br /><br />Good move by Tamil Nadu Govt.Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-79843067843538659542008-03-01T10:40:00.000+05:302008-03-01T10:41:09.148+05:30Verdict within 110 hrs of commiting crime in India!Gone are the days in India where courts deliver judgement after ages...<br /><br />A court in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namakkal">Namakkal</a> (my native place), India has <a href="http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7B62D1E835-E9BF-4369-923A-A3B9138D238E%7D&CATEGORYNAME=CHN">delivered verdict in a murder case within 110 hours</a> of the crime.Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-38764941740874986282007-12-17T00:31:00.000+05:302007-12-17T01:16:44.967+05:30Tamil bloggers meet at PondicherryLast week I had a chance to attend tamil bloggers workshop in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puducherry">pondicherry.</a> The workshop was organised by <a href="http://pudhuvaitamilbloggers.org/">pondicherry tamil bloggers</a><br /><br />This workshop is a continuation of a series of workshops organized by tamil bloggers in various parts of tamilnadu recently.<br /><br />About 200 members participated in this workshop. Participants were introduced to technical details of creating and maintaining their blogs in tamil language. Its well organized and there were lot of publicity done. Pondicherry Legislative Assembly speaker and Bharathidasan University vice chancellor are some of the noted figures who participated in this workshop.<br /><br />I took a session on using <a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%8E-%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%88">ekalappai</a><a href="http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%8E-%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%88"> </a>- tamil typing software for windows.<br /><br />You can the pictures taken in the workshop:<br /><a href="http://tamilveli-news.blogspot.com/">http://tamilveli-news.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />This shows that tamil bloggers are growing in numbers and getting organized.<br />In this bloggers meet, some of us decided to take tamil computing workshops to next step. Thus <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://osaichella.blogspot.com/2007/12/1000.html">"Project Tamil Ready"</a> was born. More details about project tamil ready is in <a href="http://osaichella.blogspot.com/2007/12/1000.html">chella's blog.</a><br /><br />My assumption is, there are roughly 3000 tamil blogs which is the highest in any Indian language. Even in hindi there are roughly only about 1000 blogs (if anybody else have a disputing figure please feel free to comment).Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-36337677122090647432007-11-25T22:58:00.000+05:302007-11-25T23:50:54.645+05:30Tamils Protest in MalaysiaI have lived in Malaysia for about 4 years and have known the problems faced by the tamil community.<br /><br />I watched with heavy heart some of the videos in the net. The way the peaceful protest were handled by Malaysian authorities is very bad. The world leaders should condemn this.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96FCTKHNA8"><br />Ethnic Indians protest in Malaysia</a><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m96FCTKHNA8&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m96FCTKHNA8&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gx3VRW_2-k"><br />Sucking tear gas and laced-water</a><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1Gx3VRW_2-k&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1Gx3VRW_2-k&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-15484123461365669062007-09-03T15:05:00.000+05:302007-09-03T15:10:39.861+05:30How to increase the VMWare (preallocated) disk space.I have started using <a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/">ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)</a> recently. But for some of our office work, I needed older version of <a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.06/">ubuntu(6.06)</a>. And for that I used VMWare.<br /><br />Initially I allocated 6GB space to ubuntu 6.06 virtual machine, which I found that is not sufficient for my work. So decided to increase it to 10GB. And after some search in google found a way to increase <a href="http://www.vmware.com/">VMWare</a> disks spaces. Following blog entry is to record the steps which I followed and it might be useful for others also.<br /><br />I initially tried to increase ubuntu6.06 virtual machine disk size using the following commands:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$cd /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Ubuntu6.04</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$vmware-vdiskmanager -x 10Gb Ubuntu6.04.vmdk</span><br /><br />It gave the following errors:<br />Using log file /tmp/vmware-msubramanian/vdiskmanager.log<br />This disk is part of a snapshot chain in '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Ubuntu6.04/Ubuntu6.04.vmx'.<br />The selected operation can only be executed on a disk with no snapshots.<br /><br />I found I have snapshots of ubuntu6.06 vmware disk.<br /><br />Used the following method to remove the snapshots:<br />In the VMWare menu, used the Remove Snapshot option,<br />VM --> Remove Snapshot .. ( This is done while the Virtual machine is switched off)<br /><br />Again tried using vmware-vdiskmanager it worked.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$vmware-vdiskmanager -x 10Gb Ubuntu6.04.vmdk</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Using log file /tmp/vmware-msubramanian/vdiskmanager.log</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Grow: 100% done.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The old geometry C/H/S of the disk is: 783/255/63</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The new geometry C/H/S of the disk is: 1305/255/63</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Disk expansion completed successfully.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">WARNING: If the virtual disk is partitioned, you must use a third-party</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> utility in the virtual machine to expand the size of the</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> partitions. For more information, see:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1647</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">$</span>Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-46076979323589168112007-04-25T01:52:00.000+05:302007-04-25T02:12:37.152+05:30Tamil blogging community gets media coverage.Oflate the number of bloggers who write in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language">tamil language</a> have grown considerably. I assume there could be more than 1000 active tamil blogs currently.<br /><a href="http://tamilblogs.com/">tamilblogs.com</a> aggregator(which I maintain) aggregates content from about <a href="http://tamilblogs.com/sources.php">650 tamilblogs</a>.<br /><br />Recently tamil bloggers held a get together in chennai. And it was covered by popular tamil TV channel Makkal TV. This TV show can be seen in <a href="http://madavillagam.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-post_24.html">YouTube here</a>. This sort of media coverage for a bloggers get together is a good sign. This will help to get attention of the public towards blogging. And this will lead to increase in the number of tamil bloggers.<br /><br />I would love to see a strong & responsible tamil blogging community which will act as an alternate media.Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-72178639687529817542007-04-01T00:35:00.000+05:302007-04-01T01:05:20.638+05:30tamilblogs opensourced!I have been maintaining <a href="http://tamilblogs.com/">http://tamilblogs.com</a> for sometime. This is a blogs aggregator which aggregates over 650 blogs written in my native language <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language">tamil </a>. Initially I created tamilblogs.com using an opensource blogs aggregatory - <a href="http://gregarius.net/">gregarius </a>. Later due to performance issues I switched to another opensource blogs aggregator called <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/lilina/">lilina</a>.<br /><br />Later I added mysql database support to tamilblogs using code from another similar opensource project <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/lylina/">lylina</a>. Some of my tamil blogger friends have requested me for the complete sourcecode of the software used in tamilblogs. After few more such requests I thought opensourcing this tamilblogs software would be helpful to many.<br /><br />Thus was born the new blogs aggregator by name tamilblogs here: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/tamilblogs/">http://code.google.com/p/tamilblogs/</a><br /><br />Right now one of blogger <a href="http://masivakumar.blogspot.com/">masivakumar </a>has joined me in this project. I hope many more will join and enhance this project.Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-60710197594079062322007-02-27T11:38:00.000+05:302007-02-27T12:15:16.074+05:30Tamil Song SearchRecently thro one of my friend I got to know about this website: <a href="http://www.s-anand.net/tamil">http://www.s-anand.net/tamil</a><br />Its a wonderful service. Using this we can search for a particular song and start hearing it. The search can be made based on the song name or movie name.<br /><br />For example, I am great fan of late <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._G._Ramachandran">MGR's</a> songs. When I typed MGR in the search bar, it brought me some of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._G._Ramachandran">MGR's</a> songs as below.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxCG14Lq2hMQWPn46oDGwhJTw0zaLlZltl6mPxM-kcu41Jpn3Nf6D9fuutH6ZHgg0mWP31MRgmIQ0urtcLiKUtTVS1c5Y84vfekzFmoR3YeUlT5qaVZN6WgQub1g5ShvARg7i/s1600-h/tamilsongsearch.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxCG14Lq2hMQWPn46oDGwhJTw0zaLlZltl6mPxM-kcu41Jpn3Nf6D9fuutH6ZHgg0mWP31MRgmIQ0urtcLiKUtTVS1c5Y84vfekzFmoR3YeUlT5qaVZN6WgQub1g5ShvARg7i/s320/tamilsongsearch.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036098935942857570" border="0" /></a>There are thousands of tamil songs around, its really very useful software.<br /><br />I wonder why no tamil techie has thought about this earlier (including me :) ) !<br /><br />Great work! Thanks a lot <a href="http://www.s-anand.net/">Anand </a>for creating this.Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-1166086687067098812006-12-14T13:48:00.000+05:302006-12-15T08:20:27.246+05:30TamilKey 0.3 (Thamizh Visai) released.<a href="http://tamilkey.mozdev.org">TamilKey or ThamizhVisai</a>(as its called in tamil) is an extension for typing tamil inside firefox,thunderbird & chatzilla. Its one of the projects initiated and being maintained by a group tamil freesoftware volunteers under <a href="http://thamizha.com">thamizha.com</a>.<br /><br />Tamilkey version 0.3 was released on 12 Dec 2006 and release anouncement was made by our team member <a href="http://higopi.blogspot.com">Gopi </a>in <a href="http://lists.thamizha.com/pipermail/freetamilcomputing_lists.thamizha.com/2006-December/000139.html">freetamilcomputing list</a>.<br /><br />This release has following new features:<br />1. Support for Bamini and Typewriter keyboard layouts.<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.com/umapathyXP/bamini.html">Bamini keyboard</a> is popular among Srilankan Tamils and <a href="http://www.tamilanjal.com/usage/kbdtyp.htm">Typewriter keyboard</a> is popular among the Tamil Nadu tamils.<br /><br />2. User Shortcut option - Now users can set their own shortcuts for various keyboard settings and for switching from english to tamil typing.<br /><br />3. And also <a href="http://tamilkey.mozdev.org/bugs.html">many bugs </a>were fixed in this release.<br /><br />Almost all the development work related to this version 0.3 was done by <a href="http://higopi.blogspot.com">Gopi</a>. And also <a href="http://lists.thamizha.com/mailman/listinfo/freetamilcomputing_lists.thamizha.com">Freetamilcomputing list</a> members <a href="http://ravithinks.blogspot.com/">Ravi</a>, Thi.Va., Sethu contributed to this release greatly by testing this release and finding bugs.<br /><br />This can be downloaded from the following locations:<br /><a href="http://tamilkey.mozdev.org/installation.html">http://tamilkey.mozdev.org/installation.html</a><br /><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2994/">https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2994/</a>Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-1163655768270855652006-11-16T11:02:00.000+05:302006-11-16T11:12:48.286+05:30My home town in news!Recently my home town <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namakkal">Namakkal </a>- became first town in India to get <span style="font-size:85%;">ISO 14001</span> certification. I am really proud about this.<br /><a href="http://www.hindu.com/mag/2006/04/09/stories/2006040900210400.htm">http://www.hindu.com/mag/2006/04/09/stories/2006040900210400.htm</a><br /><br />I hope other cities in India too follow <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namakkal">Namakkal </a>and become clean and efficiently managed cities.Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-1157349241582240602006-09-04T11:19:00.000+05:302006-09-04T11:31:27.853+05:30'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin KilledJust saw this news in BBC site <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5311298.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5311298.stm </a><br />I used to watch with awe <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin">Steve Irwin's</a> wildlife programs in TV. I feel sad about his sudden death.Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-1156399080369681802006-08-24T11:18:00.000+05:302006-08-24T11:28:00.390+05:30SumatraPDF viewer - A light weight PDF readerIn my windows machine, I havent installed any PDF reader since I was not using windows system often. Yesterday I came across a light weight PDF viewer for windows by name Sumatra PDF viewer. <a href="http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/">http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/</a><br /><br />I liked it very much for the following reasons:<br />1. Its light weight compared to <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html">Adobe Acrobat reader.</a><br />2. It serves its purpose of showing the pdf files cleanly.<br />3. Its a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software">freesoftware .</a><br /><br />I have installed it and started using it as my primary and only PDF viewer.<br /><br />Of cource it has few sortcomings too. Right now it doesnt have printing support. But I hope soon these features will be available since its a freesoftware. And by nature freesoftwares evolves thro community participationMugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-1153722946479420522006-07-24T11:53:00.000+05:302006-07-24T12:09:04.166+05:30Updated tamil firerfox extensionsLast week I updated two of my firefox extensions.<br />1. Tamil language extension (<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2989/">https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2989/</a> )<br />I had created a tamil language extension (<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/512/">https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/512/</a>) that works only on version 1.0.x . Even though I have updated this tamil extension to work in version 1.5 some time back, but could find time to updated the extension in addons.mozilla.org only last week.<br /><br />2. Tamilkey extension:<br />Tamilkey is a utility to type tamil in firefox/thunderbird/chatzilla directly. Its now available at <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2994/">https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2994/</a><br />It was created by myself and <a href="http://mugunth.blogspot.com/2006/01/tamilkey-firefox-extension-to-type.html">released on Pongal day (14-01-2006)</a> .<br />Later <a href="http://valaipadhivan.blogspot.com/">voice of wings</a> joined and enhanced the utility by completely rewriting the code.<br /><br />Tamilkey project website URL: <a href="http://tamilkey.mozdev.org">http://tamilkey.mozdev.org<br /></a>Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-1150220870389995782006-06-13T21:43:00.000+05:302006-06-14T10:08:32.900+05:30Chennai in google earthGoogle has released a new version (release 4 beta) of their google earth yesterday. Details of this release is here: <a href="http://earth.google.com/earth4.html">http://earth.google.com/earth4.html </a><br /><br />I am happy about this release for two reasons:<br />1. Google earth is available for Linux machines. So now I am able to install google earth in my linux laptop.<br />2. Google earth features my favorite place chennai (its also my home state capital). Its now possible to see more details(street level details) of chennai. Previously google earth used to show in detail only Bangalore, New Delhi, Bombay & Hydrabad cities in India. For some unknown reason chennai was left out by google. I am happy that atleast now google earth shows chennai in detail.<br /><br />Following screen shot shows chennai<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.flickr.com/55/166567295_8ed8c82ac5.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/55/166567295_8ed8c82ac5.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a>'s famous Anna Flyover in google earth.Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-1138639647857925562006-01-30T21:41:00.000+05:302006-01-30T22:21:25.310+05:30A tamil transliteration pluggin for Gaim<tt> <a href="http://gaim.sourceforge.net/">Gaim </a>is a popular opensource IM utility. I use Gaim to communicate with my friends using various protocols like Yahoo/MSN/IRC etc. It works both in Linux & Windows (also </tt>in BSD, MacOS X )<br /><tt><br />For typing tamil in any windows program, I use a keyboard driver software by name <a href="http://thamizha.com/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=3">ekalappai </a>(which is also created by me). But somehow ekalappai cannot be used with Gaim. It simply does not work. So far no time to debug this. So whenever I use Gaim in windows I type tamil text in notepad then copy & paste in Gaim and send it.<br /><br />Now there is a solution to this problem. Anna University student <a href="http://mailvarun.blogspot.com">Varun </a>has created a plugin for Gaim transliterate english text typed in gaim message window to tamil.<br /><br />You can read about this plugin in <a href="http://mailvarun.blogspot.com/2006/01/my-first-gaim-plugin.html">Varun's blog.</a><br /><br />Congrats Varun !<br /><br /></tt>Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12470452.post-1137181275778041622006-01-14T01:08:00.000+05:302006-01-14T01:21:55.273+05:30Tamilkey - a firefox extension to type tamil.I am happy to announce the release of<a href="http://tamilkey.mozdev.org"> tamilkey firefox extension</a> on this <a href="http://www.pongalfestival.org/the-harvest-festival.html">Pongal day</a>.<br /><br />Using tamilkey firefox extension firefox users will be able to type tamil without need for any external programs like <a href="http://thamizha.com/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=3">ekalappai</a>.<br />Currently tamilnet99 and Anjal keyboard layouts are supported by tamilkey. I am planning to add more keyboard layouts in future.<br />Tamilkey can be downloaded from <a href="http://tamilkey.mozdev.org">http://tamilkey.mozdev.org </a>Mugunth/முகுந்த்http://www.blogger.com/profile/08819517001563246095noreply@blogger.com6