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Even Kim Kardashian can follow these 4 easy steps to get her own Salesforce.com Development Org.

Even Kim Kardashian can follow these 4 easy steps to get her own Salesforce.com Development Org. It is as easy as ABC for a non-technical user to create the FREE Salesforce Development Org. Follow step-by-step procedure to mentioned in this post to get your own Org.

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Conversation between Sir Richard Branson and Marc Benioff

Great Conversation between Sir Richard Branson and Marc Benioff. Absolutely worth your one hour. 

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Installing cURL & Git on Mint / Ubuntu Linux

I started working on Windows for my Ruby on Rails (RoR) environment. It worked fine for couple of days but now I started getting different types of error and trying to troubleshoot those for last two days and am not able to resolve it.

In my research during troubleshooting, I came to conclusion that Windows is not the best environment for developing on Ruby on Rails. Hence, I selected to go with Linux. So I decided to install Mint (Flavor of and extension to Ubuntu) Linux on a VirtualBox. I have worked with Linux few times so I am kind of familiar but not an expert in any way. I started creating my environment for RoR. I was on good start and I realized that I made some errors (more detail I will explain in my upcoming post) and wasted so much of time. So I created new VM and have started step by step process. I didn't have cURL installed on my machine so I installed that first. You can download the cURL from this site. I tried with downloading latest tarball and untar it, followed by running make command but for some reason it didn't work. So after few minutes, I decided to go with apt-get command.

$ sudo apt-get install curl

After 2 minutes wallah!! I was able to see the version of curl. To check that you can write

$ curl --version

Current version for cURL is 7.24 and I have 7.21.6 installed. The issue with apt-get install command is, you always get older version, but at the same time it is the easiest and fastest way to install. I am hoping that this would not affect anything else. However, I will be updating to current version (as soon as I figure out how to do it on command line).

Now I was off to installing Git. I downloaded latest version from git site for Linux. I've untar the tarball and when I tried to run make command I got following error:

/bin/sh: curl-config: not found         CC daemon.o In file included from cache.h:4:0,                  from daemon.c:1: git-compat-util.h:168:25: fatal error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make: *** [daemon.o] Error 1

I looked at many sites but didn't find any positive or useful information that allows me to install the Git properly. I kept on searching and came across a blog post by Evgeny Goldin - 3 ways to install Git on Linux (Ubuntu). This was a life saver for me. The git version I downloaded from site is 1.7.9.3. I started following his advise and I was able to install it. This is what I did:

$ cd git-1.7.9.3

$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev

$ make prefix=/usr/local all

$ sudo make prefix=/usr/local install

$ which git /usr/local/bin/git     (note: you will see this line when you do which git)

$ git --version git version 1.7.9.3   

Now I am off to installing Ruby and then Rails on my Linux box. I will update more as soon as I complete the installation and have working solution.

To find out other options for you to install Git visit Evgeny Goldin's blog (If his blog was on tumblr I could have just re-blogged it.) - Goldin++'s article - 3 ways to install Git on Linux (Ubuntu).

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Rubular

Came across great site - Rubular.com -  for all Ruby/Rails coders who want to review their regular expressions.

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Learning Ruby on Rails

I have just started exploring Ruby on Rails. I took introduction to C, VB and couple of other languages during my college but never got a chance to implement any of the programming after I passed those classes. I wanted to start programming, and one of my main reasons was to develop thinking process. To challenge my brain to think differently and improve logic, which I thought would be great to do with programming. Ruby on Rails is a new generation language and lots of materials and support groups are available for it so I decided to start with that. I started reviewing  Michael Hartl’s Rails Tutorial (excellent & free). I also started reviewing Apress' Beginning Ruby - From Novice to Professional by Peter Cooper. This book also looks very good so far. I was talking to Divya Mistry last night about programming and what I am doing and my road-map. This morning he forwarded me a link to a great article by Jimmy Li - Learning to Code: The Roadmap I Wish I Had Been Given. Excellent article and shows a novice programmer, like me, how one should start to become a web developer. It covers great material for you to get started, update skills for few months, and till you get comfortable with coding and can start learning from your own programs. I think now I have good starting point and cannot wait for some programming fun to begin!

Happy programming!

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Gmail Motion

This is crazy! It feels like Deja vu running all over me again. Last year, I was thinking it would be great if we can have sign language and speech recognition built in our everyday life. It would be interesting to see how it will change our work style and I think it will give a great energy to our boring office routine. And here we have Google Motion almost after year. I love Google for this reason. They help realize someone's dream / imagination. Dreams put into action. Can't wait to play around with this.

Watch this video and get amazed!

Forgot to mention that this is an April Fool's gig but would love to see in reality.

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Based on my brother's request another song from movie Dabangg. Song's name is Hud Hud Dabangg (aka udd udd dabangg). The step is during the lyrics "hud hud dabangg dabangg" is a signature step of the song. Pretty funny but not easy to mimic the attitude. Nice song as well. Dabangg means Fearless. More about Dabangg on wikipedia & IMDB. Lyrics can be found here on Lyrics Masti.

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I had to keep this song as well after embedding Saude Baazi from Aakrosh. I can listen to these songs almost whole day! I guess!.

This song is from Dabangg movie and the name of the song is Tere Mast Mast Do Nain.

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Visit Original Link

Divya Mistry, my brother, introduced me to this song and I got hooked to it. Very nice lyrics, music, voice and rhythm. You can find 90% correct lyrics of this song on Lyrics Masti. This song is from Bollywood movie Aakrosh and songs name is Sauda Hai Dil Ka Ye (or you can search as Saude Bazi)

Let me know your thoughts about this song!

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Ahmedabad BRTS overview.

Ahmedabad, a metro city of Gujarat has installed a Bus Rapid Transit System. This system is one of it's kind in South Asian region. You will get a great idea of the system after watching following two videos. Great work done my honorable minister of Gujarat, Mr. Narendra Modi.

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For all Mac and HD TV owners.

Winscape is a software application that runs on OS X 10.5 or 10.6 that will change the way you wake up every morning or need to create a romantic atmosphere in your room or need a change of place while seating in your own room. Possibilities are endless. It also has an iPhone application to use as a remote control. Check out the video and link blew for more information on how you can create your own.  You can download a free 30 runs trial version from Winscape's website.

Visit Winscape

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Great advise for startupers from Loic Lemeur

3 advise for anyone who wants to launch his/her own startup from Loic Lemeur, founder of Seesmic.

YouTube - 3 tips if you want to launch your own startup

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Great concept. Reminded me of my days in India with LML - Vespa.

Via heyyoshimi:

Vespa Chair via designboom

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Creative Advertisement

Creative Advertisements on Vehicles:

Few other creative ads:

You may find some other good ones (some are common and some are repeat photos from above) on WebAir Blog.

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Ice Skating on Bolloywood songs during winter olympics

Hats off to the trainer, choreographer and both skaters. Amazing job.

YouTube - 2009 GPF Davis White OD

YouTube - Meryl Davis and Charlie white - Ice Skating on Bollywood Songs

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List of house plants that can be used as Air Purifiers

According to article posted on air-purifier-reviewsite.com blog, NASA research shows that "House plants can purify and rejuvenate air within our houses and workplaces, safegurading us all from any side effects connected with prevalent toxins such as formaldehyde, ammonia and benzene.

Here are the results of the NASA research study:

Common name /  Scientific name / Score

1. Areca palm / Chrysalidocarpus lutescens / 8.5 2. Lady palm / Rhapis excelsa / 8.5 3. Bamboo palm / Chamaedorea seifrizii / 8.4 4. Rubber plant / Ficus robusta / 8.0 5. Dracaena “Janet Craig” / Dracaena deremensis “Janet Craig” / 7.8 6. English ivy / Hedera helix / 7.8 7. Dwarf date palm / Phoenix roebelinii / 7.8 8. Ficus Alii / Ficus macleilandii “Alii” / 7.7 9. Boston fern / Nephrolepis exalta “Bostoniensis” / 7.5 10. Peace lily / Spathiphyllum sp. / 7.5

You can get full NASA report Click Here.

To get consolidated report check out article posted on Air Purifier Review Site.

(Report via - 15 House Plants You Can Use As Air Purifiers)

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Gujarat - A short film

Gujarat is one of the fastest growing states in India. Following short film was presented on Pravasi Bharatiya Divas - 2009. I am proud Gujarati.

YouTube - Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas