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May 13, 2014

JavaScript browser code to invite all your friends to like facebook page

by viggy — Categories: FOSS, FSMK, FSMK, programming, web — Tags: , , , , , — 1 Comment

We have recently announced the FSMK Summer Camp for the year 2014 and also have a facebook page for the same. We wanted to spread the word out about the page by inviting all our friends to ‘like’ the page. FB shows you a list of your friends  and gives an option to click ‘invite’ for each one of them separately. When you do this, the invited friend gets a notification about the invite and hence more chances of his liking the page.

However this is still cumbersome as it means to invite all your friends which may be around 1000+, you have to click invite so many times.

But you have java script to the rescue. All you need to do is open javascript console on your browser and then execute the following code:


//Note that there is a space after uiButton. This class is the class of the invite button.
var inputs =
document.getElementsByClassName('uiButton _1sm');

for( var i=0; i < inputs.length; i++)
{
inputs[i].click();
}


To find out how to run javascript code in Firefox, check the following link.

If sadly you are not using the best and fastest browser, Firefox, then you can of course find similar tutorials for other browsers or realize it is time to switch to Firefox as Firefox29 is just released and its AWESOME!!!

P.S. The code was shared to me by Karthik Nayak from BMSIT GLUG.

October 18, 2013

Being committed to free software is the only way forward

by viggy — Categories: FOSS, FSMK, linux, software — Tags: , , — Leave a comment

One of my friend shared this article about how Facebook is now a leading open source contributor and how most of the web giants are encouraging open innovation. The article also mentioned about how this trickle down is helping the community in general. Though I largely agree to the points mentioned in the article, I think the author missed one main point.
It only makes sense to open source your changes rather than maintaining forks
Its a common practice for any start-up to go with free software tools. When you are experimenting lot of ideas, free software tools help you to quickly come up with prototypes which you can get it validated with potential customers. The teams can also work independently without having to deal with licensing costs and other agreements with proprietary software companies.
What I think the article missed to point out is that when companies start developing their infrastructure around free software tools, it becomes a necessity for them to contribute back their code to the parent repository. Else maintaining and merging different code bases as and when new released for the particular project is released becomes very time consuming defeating the whole purpose of using free software tools. Hence I think it is not that Facebook and Google want to open source their technologies(Definitely, it can be that they want to contribute to the community), but the choice of becoming free software users ensures that you also contribute your changes back to the repository.
For example, we know that Google dumped its Google Compute Engine Linux and shifted to Debian as per this report.

August 16, 2011

Why do I support Anna Hazare’s movement against corruption?

by viggy — Categories: experience, Fun, social — Tags: , , , , — Leave a comment

Who am I?

I am a citizen of India with no proof of identification except my Pan Card. I have no voter’s id card and hence have not voted yet even though I am 23 years old. Hence I am an irresponsible Indian citizen as I have not completed some of the duties of an Indian citizen.

 

How much does corruption effect me?

Well, to be honest, corruption is something that does not hurt me much at personal level. I mean, as a middle class man, I do not usually interact with government officials. I guess, the only time I have to interact with them is when I need these necessary documents like passport, ration card, driver’s license.

The only other time when I will have to interact with government officials is probably when I buy a vehicle or a house or land for myself. Even in such cases, there are many agents who will do the dirty job of interacting with the government officials and get my work done. Overall, in all such cases, I can easily get my work done by throwing some money on agents. As a middle class man, I can easily afford it and hence there is no real impact at my personal life.

 

Then why?

Fame: Yes, this is probably one of the reason. I mean, clearly there is a huge publicity of this issue and by taking part in such highly publicized issues, I am bound to get fame. Probably in my facebook profile or through my twitter profile. Who doesn’t like few likes from friends out of which hopefully some will be females. After all, most of the things people do nowadays are for facebook likes and comments.

I do have around 700+ friends in FB and hence a huge number of people as audience. You never know which female starts liking you just due to your status messages.  Havnt there been love stories that happened over facebook.

 

Money: Na. I will not gain any money by supporting this issue and I guess nobody is actually making any money from it other than media.

 

Networking: Yes, this can be another reason why I am going there. Such events produce a great chance of meeting new people with similar interests and growing your professional network. Also since the people there are also  probably for the same causes, it easily allows you to mingle with them.

 

Corruption: Is this a good enough reason to support Anna Hazare and his campaign?

The amount of corruption cases that have come forward in last 1-2 years is enormous and imagining the things the government could have done for the people, had that money been properly channelized really makes me angry. I mean, yes, this government has been elected by the people for the second time to the power and hence that means, the people had lots of faith in them. That doesn’t mean no voices should be raised against them when so many corruption cases are coming to light and so little is being done by the government to punish the guilty.

There has been never a sincere effort to punish the corrupt in India and none of the government which had come to power ever tried to implement laws which will punish the responsible. The lokpal bill itself has been in the parliament for around 42 years and none of the government has been willing to pass this  bill for the obvious reasons.

Again, though we can have huge confidence over the elected members in the parliament, will they actually pass a law that curbs their power and put checks over themselves. Obviously only this type of movement will only force the parliament members to pass a strict lokpal bill.