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In college days, as most of the students do, I started using Windows XP. But gradually started affair with Linux. Suse, RedHat then Fedora one after another I kept changing Destros and had a lot of fun installing (and crashing too in college!!). Finally fallen in love with Ubuntu till I heard Steve Jobs saying in his famous speech…”You’ve got to find what you love…” and got happily married to MacBook…Since then…I am keeping myself hungry and foolish as much as possible…!!!

I have MacBook with this config and soon upgraded to 4 GB RAM. For a developer, having Firefox with atleast 15-20 tabs open at a time and NetBeans running simultaneously, at least 4GB is mandatory. (Alternative to RAM is VIM hahaha…!!!  ;-)

Java Based IDEs tend to consume lots of memory. I use NetBeans 6.8 for development. This is *almost* complete IDE for PHP. (Yeah I added *almost* after trying Coda’s remote access and ftp features…its so simple and pretty). But most useful feature for me is “Jump to function definition” and “auto-complete”. Its makes debugging big code easy and fast.

Though Google Chrome is very light weight and fast, till date, there are no plugin support for Mac OS X available. And I don’t dare to code without Firebug, so I am still using Firefox, ummm… there are other useful plugins too. Worth to mention are Web Developer and some other. Visual Event is also quite handy. Other than that I also use Profile Manager.

One of my favorite applications is Skitch. Its very intuitive to use and of course iTunes. There are definitely several Mac OS X applications that make life so easy. My efficiency has been increased for sure and I have no regrets what so ever spending little more money for MacBook against its competitors like Dell, Sony … So many

Long live Apple…!

Description: Shows Group-Avatars for selected group (from Dashboard, Appearance >> Widget). Admin has choice to select a particular group. and number of avatars to be displayed. Widget name can also be modified from backend!

Download here.

I have worked on Buddypress-Kaltura Plugin and was very curious about Buddypress 1.2 (and of course WP and WPMU merger!). So decided to try my hands on new Buddypress 1.2 code.

There were many failed attempts to blog but now I would really like to share my opinion, my experience here.

It has been a very good journey in Web world since 2 years. I fell in love with Wordpress because of my friend Rahul, and also started working on wordpress.

My areas of interests are Web, PHP, WordPress, BuddyPress, Open Source, Blogging.

Most of the time I am with my MacBook doing some coding or experimenting with *Press codes. (Automattic). Yeah…I believe Code is Poetry…!

My dream is to contribute in Open Source as much as I can and already started living it with rtCamp. Hope the journey will continue…