I have made an attempt to compile few of them here, these are picked from sources like Guardian, trak.in and wiktionary among others.
If you find any more interesting please put in the comment ll be glad to add it up here

vuvuzela – A trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound.

staycation – A holiday spent in one’s home country

bargainous – Costing less than usual , reflets the hot topic of bet-tighting among consumers during downturn

defriend – Remove from a list of friends or contacts on social networking stire

tweetup – Meeting organised via posts on twitter

bromance – Close but not sexual relationship between two men.

buzzkill – 1.Something or someone that spoils an otherwise enjoyable event.
2.A person who attends a social event and occupies his or her time with other activities than those offered at the event

cheeseball – Someone or something lacking taste, style or originality

chillax – Blend of chill out and relax

frenemy – Someone who pretends to be your friend, but is really your enemy.

interweb – Blend of internet and web

wardrobe malfunction – 1. (euphemism) An accidental instance of indecent exposure caused by a fault in someone’s clothing (especially that of a performer) or by an error made while changing this costume.

climate change – the process of trapping and storing carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels

toxic-debt – a debt that has a high default risk, and the rather less snappy quantitative easing: the introduction of new money into the national supply by a central bank.

dictionary attack – An attempt to gain illicit access to a computer system by using an enormous set of words to generate potential passwords

national treasure – someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation’s cultural heritage

hikikomori – The Japanese word for the acute social withdrawal that occurs in some teenage boys.

paywall – Something that blocks access to a website so that restricted content can be viewed only by paid-up subscribers.

furgling – Act of fumbling in your pocket for key

wurfing – Surfing the web at work

earworm – a catchy tune that frequently gets stuck in your head

nonversation – A worthless conversation among millions of other words.

Here is how it works, below is the diagram that illustrate the flow between the consumer site and the service provider.

A service provider is the site with whom you are registered. Yahoo, twitter and google are great examples.
The consumer sites, uses these service to integrate or fetch in you profile from these sites.

The oauth_consumer cakephp component provides you with the essential classes required.
Thanks to Daniel Hofstetter for coming up with this helpful component.
You can download it from here.

oauth_consumer
This class acts like a facade for all the communication between you and the oauth service provider.

For this exercise let us build an application for twitter which tweets on behalf of the user.
You first have to login to twitter and create a new application.
At the end of creating a new application with twitter, you get a key and secret for your application.

To initiate the oauth authorization process,

$consumer  = new oauth_consumer(key, secret);

Second step is to retrieve a request token from the service, step A in the diagram.
you do this by invoking

$request_token = $consumer->getRequestToken(request_token_rul);

Third step is to redirect the user to the twitter and request the authorization, for this you need to redirect the user to twitter with the request token you just acquired

$this->redirect(twitter_oauth);

Ater this step, user sees a login page of the twitter if he has not already logged in, or is asked with a question whether twitter should allow this application to access you personal data.

Once the user authorizes on twitter, twitter redirects the user to the consumer callback url, with the same request token and request_verified id.

At this point, application has the authorization to acces the user’s data, this data is specific to each service provider.

Fourth step is to access the data, you need an access token composed of a key and the secret.
You need the access token for all your requests to access the user data.

$access_token = $consumer->requestAccessToken(access_url, $request_token);

Fifth step is to actually access the twitter data or modify it, depending on the kind of application you have.
In this exercise, let us tweet on behalf of user

$consumer->update($access_token, "hey, just registered with #XYZ applicaiton, this is koool");

The above message will soon appear in your and your followers time line, with the tweet source as XYZ .

To install edit_json in Debian based linux distros, just run this

apt-get install edit-json

sudo apt-get install edit-json

happy JSONing

Code included here is distributed under Apache v2.0 license, so you can freely modifiy, distribute or make commercial use of the code.

class ContinousProgressBar extends ProgressBar {

 private boolean stopProgress = true;
 private Timer timer;

 public ContinousProgressBar() {
 setBounds(10, 10, 200, Style.DEFAULT);
 timer = new Timer() {
 int counter = 0;

 @Override
 public void run() {
 if (stopProgress) {
 updateProgress(10.0, "");
 return;
 }

 if (counter == 10) {
 counter = 0;
 }

 counter++;
 updateProgress(counter / 10.0, "");
 this.schedule(100);
 }
 };

 }

 public void start() {
 if (stopProgress) {
 timer.schedule(100);
 stopProgress = false;
 }
 }

 public void stop() {
 stopProgress = true;
 }

}

This is how it can be used with start/stop button. Below is a sample EntryPoint for the GWT demonstrating the thing.

public class ContinousProgressDemo implements EntryPoint {

 private boolean stopProgress = true;

 public void onModuleLoad2() {

 ContentPanel cp = new ContentPanel();
 cp.setSize(200, 100);

 final ProgressBar bar = new ProgressBar();
 bar.setBounds(10, 10, 200, Style.DEFAULT);
 final Timer timer = new Timer() {
 int val = 0;

 @Override
 public void run() {
 if (stopProgress) {
 bar.updateProgress(10.0, "");
 return;
 }

 if (val == 10) {
 val = 0;
 }

 val++;
 bar.updateProgress(val / 10.0, "");
 this.schedule(100);
 }
 };
 cp.add(bar);

 final ToggleButton toggle = new ToggleButton("Start/Stop");
 toggle.addListener(Events.Toggle, new Listener<ButtonEvent>() {
 @Override
 public void handleEvent(ButtonEvent be) {

 boolean oldState = stopProgress;
 stopProgress = !toggle.isPressed();
 if (oldState && !stopProgress) {
 timer.schedule(100);
 }
 }

 });
 toggle.toggle(false);
 cp.getButtonBar().add(toggle);
 RootPanel.get().add(cp);
 }

 @Override
 public void onModuleLoad() {

 final ContinousProgressBar contProgress = new ContinousProgressBar();

 final ToggleButton toggle = new ToggleButton("Start");
 toggle.addListener(Events.Toggle, new Listener<ButtonEvent>() {
 @Override
 public void handleEvent(ButtonEvent be) {

 if (toggle.isPressed()) {
 toggle.setText("Stop");
 contProgress.start();
 } else {
 toggle.setText("Start");
 contProgress.stop();
 }
 }

 });
 toggle.toggle(false);

 ContentPanel cp = new ContentPanel();
 cp.setHeading("Continuos progressbar");
 cp.setSize(200, 100);
 cp.setFrame(true);
 cp.add(contProgress);
 cp.getButtonBar().add(toggle);

 RootPanel.get().add(cp);
 }
}

With this you can connect your wordpress account to twitter and yahoo, and once you authorize wordpress to connect to twitter and  yahoo, it automatically tweets your new post in the wordpress.

Needless to say, saving you the time it takes to  punch in even those 140 char !

Happy tweeting the blogging ..

Here is the problem:

1.GWT Hosted browser doesnt run on 64 bit JAVA, so have JAVA_HOME point to 32-bit JRE.

2.To install a 32 bit jre, run :  sudo apt-get install  ia32-sun-java6-bin

3. This does not solve the problem completely, coz maven and sometime eclipse tries to download tools.jar from sun !

And this tools.jar exists in JDK, what it means is that you have to install the 32 bit JDK on your 64 bit Linux.

No, you dont have any deb package for 32 bit Jdk on 64bit linux, you have to manually download the 32 bit jdk, compile it to a .deb package and isntall it.

In rest of the post I will show you how I have spent half of my day solving this problem.

Follow below steps to install 32 bit JDK for 64 bit linux Ubunutu AMD 64 distro:
1. Download the 32 bit version for linux from sun.java.com, I downloaded the version update 17, and file name is jdk-6u17-linux-i586.bin .
2. We need java-package to create a .deb debian package  from the binary, if you dont have java-package already installed on your machine, download java-package with:
sudo apt-get install java-package

3.Next, create the 32 bit debian package for JDk with the command:
DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i486-linux-gnu DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6u17-linux-i586.bin

where:

make-jpkg – is the command to create a debian java package,
fakeroot  – run the make-jpkg command as root
make-jpkg generates a .deb package installable on debian base linux distros.
In our case it generates sun-j2sdk1.6_1.6.0+update17_amd64.deb

4. Now is when you can install the 32bit JDK you want with
sudo dpkg -i sun-j2sdk1.6_1.6.0+update17_amd64.deb

5. After this, if you run java from shell, you should be able to see:
amjed@amjed-laptop:/usr/share/man$ java -version
java version “1.6.0_17″
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_17-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 14.3-b01, mixed mode)

6. To select a different version, and to see where the new jdk is installed use update-alternatives ( this needs sudo access):

amjed@amjed-laptop:/usr/share/man$ sudo update-alternatives –config java

As you can see, there are 3 alternatives which provide `java’.

Selection    Alternative
———————————————–
1    /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java
2    /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre/bin/java
*+        3    /usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-sun/bin/java

Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number:

You can anytime switch between the jdk in you machine.

Among all the features like changing the X,Y axes labels, setting ranges, number of samples to take,
setting title, line types, colors, screen size, I liked the terminal type the most.
With this feature you can actually plot your data to any device, include you HP printer sitting at the corner of your office floor.
Termincal type for MS Windows is surprising enough named as window and X11 for *nix,.
Plots can be exported to png, postrcript, aifm (Adobe Illustrator ), corel (Corel Draw) files to name a few.
For example to get a postscript file of your plot, all you have to do is

set terminal postscript
set output “sample.png”
plot {<function>| {“file”}>

I will be posting a series of blog in the coming day on GNUPlot, with new discoveries am going to make in this tool.

Licensing :
This seems to be a boring topic, which often takes software engineers to yawning, nevertheless it is the most important criteria when you select a piece of software to be used in your development of product.
You might not want to call unsolicited legalities

While the name GNUPlot hints that this software is covered under GPL Licence, ironically it is not.
Although it is free which allows you to use, copy and modify it, authors Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley restricts you from redistributing it with modifications.
Still you can redistribute your changes and modifications as a separate patch, with the source code.
And the nest part of this license is that you can use it in you commmercial software product

This is one of the most concerned cons of web2.0, authenticity of the information.
Is any on out there you can hold responsible for authenticity of the contents on Wikis?? but the tradeoff is that you get the information within the blink of an eye.
SO when things come for free, they are not guaranteed to be genuine.

The next time you see any blog with the craziest ideas in it, dont be baffled with that, there are always black sheeps in the communities.

From the very beginning of my career in Aditi, I have been part of the bug fixing team, in one project or the other, be it Goldman Sachs or Accenture.

And peeking in the future I see a lot of scope and requirement in this new Vertical, at least for a fresher software engineer.

Of late this thought crossed my mind, that I walked out of the interview with a triumph on my face and a bunch of papers so called ”Offer Letter” in my hand.

And ya we were around 6-7 guys among that 3500 + huge and bloody crowd out there stepping on each other’s toes, trying to give the best in them to make it to the ‘Think Product ‘ family.

And this very moment I ask myself “And you thought you were the real hero?? “, “you had the talent they are looking for ??”.

This recent past of 9 months seems to be very short for I have put my larger chunk of day time in snapping the states of the bugs from Assigned to Resolved in that bug life cycle.

And that equally large part of my night was conquered by these filthy bugs surfacing my application, what the world named those moments of life as nightmares.

Of course the same subject “Life Cycle” I studied in my school days as part of the Biology curriculum, and all we really knew about the bug life cycle was very less, I joined the IT industry only to realize that the bug life cycle is not so trivial as it seems in text books, its far more pathetic and sometimes hectic too J.

If you scratch the surface of a bug, you only discover a very small part of it, move it to Assigned state and watch out for how loathsome it can get.

And there are QA wagons who come with the prophecy and blow back the life into the bugs, I understand that’s all part of the bug life cycle again, and we hear our managers saying this is “a process”.

Oh sorry, let me not veer the topic, I was talking about the Offer letter, yep the Offer letter , I read it as “Development Engineer” with my broken English.

At the same time my hands fumbling and eyes scanning through the pages to pick that bountiful “CTC”, and send the signal to the stuff behind my temple which was already neck-deep in euphoria, yep you got it right I am talking about my brains.

What sound me very interesting was the position “Development Engineer”, coz I was expecting something like either Software Engineer or Associate Software Engineer.

Back to the present J , ok let me be straight in the face, I have coined a new term for the kind of job we(all my peers who have expertise in bug life cycle) do, its “Bug Repellant”, for the bugs we fix.

I have plans of proposing this to management, for the change in position, and to add a new rung to the career ladder.

And going forward, working our way up in the ladder we can gain more experience over time as a Senior Bug Repellant, Bug Repellant Lead.. and perhaps Director of Bug technology.

Please give your precious inputs, to make Aditi a better place to work

Actual Dat:Sunday June 8, 2008

Being an intern has always been a matter of pride for me.
For the very first time in my life, i have felt a sense of self-dependence, shouldering the responsiblilty, which otherwise would have been moments of life as usual going on a bed of pet grass, with lots of spoon feeding, besides having a never ending leisure time at your disposal.

Actual date:Monday, April 2, 2007