Last Saturday I have been to a Holi festival in Salt Lake City at Sri Krishna Temple. In India, Holi announces the arrival of spring and the passing of winter that people celebrate with colors. When we reached the temple, the ambiance of the whole place did make me feel at home in India. There were about 15,000 people gathered for the celebration, all painted with the colors, enjoying with friends and family. I didn’t expect the event to be so huge and it really surprised me to see the fondness of the Indian culture among the westerners.
There was a band playing Hare Krishna in the middle of the ground with people chanting and dancing along on the rhythm. Everyone seemed to be enchanted with the colors of the festival, throwing colored powder at anyone and everyone around them. A glance from the event:
The only thing that let me down in the event was the food. I was expecting a delicious Indian meal at the festival, but it turned out to be appalling. It didn’t taste to be Indian at all.
Apart from the food, I enjoyed every bit of the event and expect to see more of the events as this coming up in the future.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Set up environment for building Orkut app on Eclipse
If you planning to start developing app for Orkut and have no clue on from where to start. Here is where you can go ahead with. I was setting up the environment today to develop Orkut app using Eclipse and sharing here my experience with all the steps gathered at one place.
First of all, if you have read my intro blog, I am not at all a JAVA person. So you might be wondering why Eclipse? That’s because, I cannot use .NET to develop Orkut apps. But I know C# and in my school have learned core java, so I hoping that it would be bit easier to work with Eclipse.
To start with the first thing that I need to have was Eclipse set up on my PC. I had Eclipse already installed on my PC so can proceed. If you don’t have it already installed you can download it here.
Once you have Eclipse set up, follow the following steps to set up an environment for Orkut app development:
To try out a sample Orkut App project, check out http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-development-environment/wiki/QuickStart
The developers guide for creating Orkut Applications is available here.
First of all, if you have read my intro blog, I am not at all a JAVA person. So you might be wondering why Eclipse? That’s because, I cannot use .NET to develop Orkut apps. But I know C# and in my school have learned core java, so I hoping that it would be bit easier to work with Eclipse.
To start with the first thing that I need to have was Eclipse set up on my PC. I had Eclipse already installed on my PC so can proceed. If you don’t have it already installed you can download it here.
Once you have Eclipse set up, follow the following steps to set up an environment for Orkut app development:
- Open Eclipse IDE
- Open Software Updates dialog from Help -> Software Updates
- Go to the Available Software tabs and click on Add Site button on right.
- Specify the Location as http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update-dev/ and click OK.
- After you add the site, you will see the plug-in Maven Integration for Eclipse Dev Update Site item added to the Available Software list.
- Select Maven Integration from the list and click Install
- Follow the steps for installation and restart Eclipse after the installation.
- After you restart Go to the Software Updates dialog again and add site http://opensocial-development-environment.googlecode.com/svn/update-site/site.xml.
- Follow the same steps as done for Maven Integration for Eclipse to install the Open Social plug-in.
- Restart Eclipse after the installation.
To try out a sample Orkut App project, check out http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-development-environment/wiki/QuickStart
The developers guide for creating Orkut Applications is available here.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Darshana Bafna - First Post - "Should I?"
Hey there- As this is my first blog I hope you guys are supportive. It just came to me that I should share my knowledge and experiences, professional or personal here.
Here is little about me, so that you can determine if are interested in my blog:
Professional: I am a Software Engineer, build Social Media application for Facebook, Orkut, iPhone, Android and Nokia for living. I am expert in managing and implementing MS SQL databases, C#.NET and designing solution architecture.
Personal: I am friendly and pragmatic in nature. My Interests include bowling, cooking, reading (technical shit), chatting, learning new stuffs, exploring, and creating social media & mobile applications to reach out millions of users.
Recently I launched my first Facebook application called “Should I?”. It’s a polling app that you can use to post question, get answers from your friends, Facebook users, and answer to them. The idea behind the app is to get a way between the questions of “Should I do something?” or “Should I not?”
I think it should be good to start with this. I will soon return with my second blog that should be more informative.
My intent is to talk to world about what’s going on in my mind and my opinion on things I do day to day.
Here is little about me, so that you can determine if are interested in my blog:
Professional: I am a Software Engineer, build Social Media application for Facebook, Orkut, iPhone, Android and Nokia for living. I am expert in managing and implementing MS SQL databases, C#.NET and designing solution architecture.
Personal: I am friendly and pragmatic in nature. My Interests include bowling, cooking, reading (technical shit), chatting, learning new stuffs, exploring, and creating social media & mobile applications to reach out millions of users.
Recently I launched my first Facebook application called “Should I?”. It’s a polling app that you can use to post question, get answers from your friends, Facebook users, and answer to them. The idea behind the app is to get a way between the questions of “Should I do something?” or “Should I not?”
I think it should be good to start with this. I will soon return with my second blog that should be more informative.
My intent is to talk to world about what’s going on in my mind and my opinion on things I do day to day.
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