Do you notice that Facebook is doing contextual ads triggered by images on the page? Notice the ads of FreeBSD on the right side and the two girls pic on the left side. The ads match objects in the photo. This is awesome.

Posted on December 24th, 2008 by SMD
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Greetings from Kota Kinabalu!

I am now in Kota Kinabalu. Last saturday I was in Johor Bahru, attended #barcampjb. And it was aaaawesome. These are some photos I took during the event.

More photos in myflickr. I also giving a session on facebook apps development. Thanks to Amran for his intro on facebook dev. We’re not prepared because we didn’t plan to present. This is one of the advantages of “unconference” concept. It is quite a much flexible and free structured where anybody can announce his session on the notice board. The speakers are free to choose the subject of their expertise to speak on. Thanks for those who attended our session.

ps: photo was taken by Ang Chin Han during my session.

Two thumbs up to the organizer. BarCampJB was great. See you guys @ the next barcamp, where ever it will be hosted.

Posted on December 10th, 2008 by SMD
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Hey! Not that “tomboy”. Errrr… Tomboy is a famous desktop note-taking application for Linux. It’s very useful application on your desktop. Tomboy doesn’t support integration with Google Notebook yet. This is a how to install tomboy2googlenotebook addins in ubuntu/debian.

1. You’ll need subversion client and mono c# compiler. In terminal, type
sudo apt-get install subversion mono-gmcs

2. Addin’s folder & checkout tomboy2googlenotebook source code
cd ~/.tomboy/addins
svn checkout http://tomboy2googlenotebook.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ .

3. Go to your google notebook. Clicking on Sharing Options at the top right, and selecting “Yes” to “Publish this Notebook”. Look for a 20 digit number in your URL. That’s your user id. Memorize it or copy and paste it somewhere.

4. Create a gconf file
sudo touch /apps/tomboy/google_notebook_<your_user_id>

5. Run make
make

6. And you’re almost done.
sudo cp GoogleNoteBookSync.dll /usr/lib/tomboy/addins

7. Restart tomboy, activate Google Notebook addins. And yeah! You can now sync you google notebook with tomboy with “Tools > Sync With Google Notebook”.

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by SMD
Filed under: Google, Ubuntu | 3 Comments »

Barcamp comes to the Johor Baru city 6th - 7th December 2008. BarcampJB is an ad-hoc unconference and it is part of the Barcamp Malaysia movement. It is an intense community event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to participate.

Where to signup?
First 150 to register for BarCampJB 2008 will get a T-Shirt! Register Now and it’s FREE.

Where is the event held?
Menara MSC Cyberport (formerly Menara Sarawak)
Level 29, No.5, Jalan Bukit Meldrum
80300 Johor Bahru, Johor
Location Map

* Interesting Sessions

See you at Barcamp JB!

Posted on December 1st, 2008 by SMD
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The URL bar is super-slow in Firefox 3. This a quick solution to speed it up.

1. Type “about:config” in your url bar.

2. Filter for “browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped“.

3. Double click on the row to make it’s value change to TRUE.

That’s it. This should speed up the response time on the URL bar. Firefox rox!

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 by SMD
Filed under: Open Source | 1 Comment »