Following the release of Firefox 3, I have updated my URL Lister firefox Add-on. Now it works in Firefox 3 – and I have added a new feature.

For those unfamiliar with URL Lister, its a firefox add-on that shows the URLs of all the open tabs in a textarea so that it can be copied easily. It is my first firefox add-on.

Unfortunately, there is a problem with the mozilla add-ons listing page – I cannot install the extensions using that page. I am getting this error…

Firefox could not install the file at 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/32487/url_lister-1.1-fx.xpi

because: Invalid file hash (possible download corruption)
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However, you can right click the ‘Add to Firefox’ button and choose ‘Save Target As’ and download the file without any issues. Then you can install the extension by dragging the downloaded file into a firefox window. That works perfectly – but not the direct install method.

The second Kerala BarCamp was a success. The presentations were very informative and the people were interesting. What more do you want?

Sessions

Xtend IVR – A RAD Toolkit for Telephony

by Jayakrishnan K

This was a demo for an IVR toolkit called Xtend IVR. This is a fairly comprehensive IVR toolkit – it supports Indian languages and had its own simple scripting language. A demo is available here.

Mobile Social Networking in 25 days

By Vishnu Gopal

This was an introduction about how to create a web application. Its a real life case study of what went into building MobShare. Slides for this presentation is available at slideshare.

JavaScript: The most underestimated, undervalued and misunderstood language

By Your’s Truly

A introduction to the power of programming in JavaScript. Its a bit about the functional programming aspects of javascript and an appeal to start using for other things than validation. Slides are available online.

Develop a webservice in 5 minutes using nuSoap library

By Sanil

How to use the nuSoap PHP library to connect to and create Web Services.

Game Development Using Flash

By Eldhose, Juwal and Anish

This presentation was about the simplicity of creating a game in Flash. They also showed how to port the game into FlashLite so that it can be used in Mobiles. To know more, visit their website – CSharks (WARNING: Sounds)

The People

An advantage of such events are that you meet a lot of like minded people…

• Kenney Jacob
• Vishnu Gopal
• Anand
• Mahesh Aravind
• And Many More…

More Links about Kerala BarCamp 2

• BarCampKerala2
• BarCamp Kerala 2 – A Grand Success
• About Geeks and BarCamps
• Kerala BarCamp 2 – In Cochin
• BarCamp Time for Kerala
• Kerala BarCamp 2 Photos

Following the success of the first barcamp in Kerala, we are organizing a second one. This time it will be at Cochin. The date and venue has not been decided yet – we want it to be decided by the community.

For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is, here is the Wikipedia definition…

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Attending

If you are in or around Cochin at the end of January 2008, consider coming to the event. If you wish to attend, please add your name to this wiki page.
BarCamp Kerala 2. You can do that by filling out the following form…

Sessions

The sessions are decided and presented by the members themselves – here is a list of the proposed sessions(so far)…

Visual Programming Language, Demo

by Kenney Jacob

Search Engine Marketing

by Mani Karthik

Xtend IVR – A RAD Toolkit for Telephony

by Jayakrishnan K

Visual Studio 2008 – What’s in it for me?

by Jadeja Dushyantsinh

SAAS – Software As A Service

by Linoy Joseph

There are some more proposed sessions.

People

I hope I can meet my fellow Cochin bloggers at this event. Anand and Mani Karthik has promised to come. I hope Nirmal will be there too.

More Details Available at…

• BarCamp Kerala2 Wiki Page
• BarCamp Time for Kerala

I have a new blog – LinDesk. LinDesk concentrates on the use of Linux on the Desktop. I am trying to keep it distro agnostic – but there is a slight leaning towards Fedora – as it is the distro I am using. Also, you might find a disproportionate amount of articles about KDE.

Actually this blog has been around for some time. The first article appeared on April 8. But I did not announce it so that there can be a build up of articles before it goes public.

Take a look at LinDesk – and if you are a fan of the Linux operating system, subscribe.

Some Popular Posts

• Konqueror – A Killer App for Linux
• Konqueror, The Browser
• Using Konqueror as an FTP Client
• Internet Connection Sharing using iptables
• How to Mount ISO/MDF Images in Linux
• Top 5 Video Players in Linux
• Wesnoth – The Battle for Productivity

So what do you guys think of the new blog? Is it a good move? Or am I moving towards an early burnout?