tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25125765108984443552013-01-16T00:48:57.016+05:30Fusionstrings BlogFusionstrings Blog is online journal of Dilip Kumar Shukla, a Bangalore based Web Developer.
This Blog will focus on Software (mainly Web Application) development arena, apart from that Fusionstrings blog will touch all those verticals with any Impact on Indian citizen with a dash of patriotizm.Dilip Shuklahttps://plus.google.com/114924794587841769229noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512576510898444355.post-32986183451776178642013-01-12T10:55:00.001+05:302013-01-12T10:55:48.861+05:302013-01-12T10:55:48.861+05:30How to deploy first Python Django application on Heroku<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Heroku</h2>
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<b><a href="https://heroku.com/" target="_blank">Heroku</a></b> is a PaaS service which allows to host your apps in cloud. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service" target="_blank">PaaS</a> is something in layman terms, which lets you focus on code rather than managing the running environment (Hardware/Software) aspect of the web application. Affordable PHP hosting for masses was available from day one which is the kind of luxury Python, Java or other potential languages didn't enjoy. </div>
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PaaS address this and brings affordable and free Web Application hosting to masses. Among many PaaS providers, Heroku is one of the popular pioneer and respected member. Heroku's pricing model is generous enough to feature a free quota which is suffice to accommodate low to medium resource hungry web application. Which is a boon to hobbyist developers like me.</div>
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Nice but not without bumps...</h3>
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Heroku lets you develop using Ruby, Java, Python, Node.js, Clojure, Scala and PHP (undocumented). Python is getting more populer on web with each passing day but it has went through it's own share of struggle. <a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/" target="_blank">Django web framework</a> helped greatly to make python popular between Web Developers. Heroku also has a very good knowledge base to help developers which works most of the time but sometimes it doesn't. Google and specially <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/" target="_blank">StackOverflow</a> seem only savior at that moment. "<a href="https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django" target="_blank">Getting started with Django on Heroku</a>" guide is no exception. I tumbled on few bumps and finally made it through. I assume the same would be the case for many more. To address this here is fixed guide about how to get started with Django on Heroku.</div>
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First thing first</h3>
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<a href="http://api.heroku.com/signup" target="_blank">Sign up</a> with Heroku and download <a href="https://toolbelt.heroku.com/" target="_blank">Heroku toolbelt</a>. Heroku toolbelt is combination of heroku client, options to run your app locally and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)" target="_blank">GIT</a> VCS.</div>
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Dilip Shuklahttps://plus.google.com/114924794587841769229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512576510898444355.post-24378517723778904752012-09-07T18:46:00.003+05:302012-09-07T18:46:55.898+05:302012-09-07T18:46:55.898+05:30Navigation guide for fresher engineers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While pursuing engineering, students overlook the need to grow and expand knowledge and understanding beyond classroom. Only if this is not the case we may see lot of innovation and skilled professionals coming out of college gates at end of precious four years.<br />
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When we see a lot of unemployment, we must introspect about reasons behind it and when we start digging, not much down we find that it is absence of skilled labour which is responsible for this situation. Either Engineers freshly coming out of colleges don't meet industry skill demand or they become outdated during course of four years. Clearly Indian education system is not designed and acting as bridge to connect industries with students.<br />
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If without getting into multilayer discussion on education system and further road ahead, we may largely conclude that there is a little we can do to improve the system. So let's focus on what we can do in current scenario to improve individual career prospect.<br />
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It's generally presumed that only key to success is to dissolve textbooks in memory and look nowhere else, even if it means one has to refrain from updating himself with what's current and new. Having new insights and skills wouldn't hurt. If one learns and acquires knowledge of some skills up to advance or intermediate level they might increase their chances to get hired many folds.These skills can be anything ranging from being better programmer in language which interest you or being a hardware or networking superhero.<br />
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Web is an amazing place. It provides so many opportunities. Infact the very application serving you this text is a complex web application and founders of it are rich beyond thoughts. Web application development accommodates designers, developers, testers, database admins, managers, executives, photographers, illustrators so on. In short any skill holder has a place on web thus web development sounds appealing.<br />
Another area of bright future is native mobile application development.<br />
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I encourage you to develop web development skills and seek job in that field it would certainly fetch you handful jobs any given time. I am a professional Web Developer and I present myself to help you horn web development skills. Post your queries if you face difficulties navigating your way in this regard, I'll certainly do the needful.<br />
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Dilip Shuklahttps://plus.google.com/114924794587841769229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512576510898444355.post-66869967567989379692010-10-11T21:37:00.001+05:302010-10-11T21:37:02.267+05:302010-10-11T21:37:02.267+05:30De Dhruv<div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fusionstrings/5071580695/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5071580695_fcf4d8fdfc.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fusionstrings/5071580695/">De Dhruv</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/fusionstrings/">fusionstrings</a>.</span></div><p>I got my coffee mug printed, with Dhruv's Illustration on it. Thanks to Saket and Abhishek cameo.</p>Dilip Kumar Shuklahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506168601941096526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512576510898444355.post-70564172257478531072009-07-19T20:43:00.001+05:302009-07-19T20:43:40.808+05:302009-07-19T20:43:40.808+05:30Fuel.jpg<div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rajcomics/3728816334/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3421/3728816334_cd8b2148b3.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rajcomics/3728816334/">Fuel.jpg</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/rajcomics/">rajcomics</a>.</span></div><p>This is latest ad for Nagraj comics named "Fuel". This comics is next par of series named and starting from "Nagraj Ke Baad".</p>Dilip Kumar Shuklahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506168601941096526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512576510898444355.post-56318336088904519652009-06-17T16:08:00.009+05:302009-06-17T16:26:48.961+05:302009-06-17T16:26:48.961+05:30Fusionstrings UpdatedAhh ! After a long time and truckfull laziness, finally I have updated <a href="http://www.fusionstrings.com/">homepage</a> of my website.<br />I am not sure if it is pleasant looking one but for me It really shaped well.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xJdx5Hm7Kog/SjjJ9RbMP6I/AAAAAAAAB2U/o74SSK7ZVTQ/s1600-h/new-fusionstrings.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xJdx5Hm7Kog/SjjJ9RbMP6I/AAAAAAAAB2U/o74SSK7ZVTQ/s400/new-fusionstrings.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348246611989118882" border="0" /></a>Although I wanted it entirely sketched looking design but I settled with somewhat retro lokking minimal one. The relief is finally there is some content about me as well various ways so I can be traced in case of any crime.<br /><br />I could not wait to see this baby online, I will be keep adding more details alongwith enhancement in design too.Dilip Kumar Shuklahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506168601941096526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512576510898444355.post-16870027470248072572009-02-26T01:12:00.006+05:302009-03-05T21:18:32.896+05:302009-03-05T21:18:32.896+05:30Jai Ho !O Dear ! What a great achievement, "Slumdog Millionaire" won 8 Oscars in 81st Annual Academy Awards, including Best Music Score and Best Original Song "Jai Ho !" penned by Gulzar Saheb.<br />I congratulate A. R. Rehman and Gulzar for this proud achievement .<br /><br />This achievement is more special when some voices were against the view of filming of "Slumdog Millionaire" along with some respected and maestros of there arts Jagjeet Singh and Amitabh Bachchan. <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videoshow/4045257.cms">They pointed their fingers</a> at magical and patent talent of Rehman and Gulzar. I liked the reaction of Rehman "Make your own movie if you don't like slumdog".<br /><br />There are some random thoughts on some blogs who says "Ya we agree that Indian(Pure Indian although its not clear they meant ami marathi manus ahe or I am Indian Citizen will do?) movies also show poverty or undigestable stuff but there is no movie for such wide spread audience ! (they specified poorly done illogical storyline of Ghajini and Rab ne bana di jodi...ohh keep in mind one or both of them are huge success at box office(indian))".<br /><br />Ha Ha funny ! It means Indian movies don't have internation standard. Then forget all the noise for biased judging in such International awards because that statement clearly says Indian movies are not for awards.<br /><br />Last but not least I want to drag Chetan Bhagat into this too...(I wanted to say this long ago when "Hello" released) He said in his blog that critics don't understand this movie and they should meet with critics of his books). This translates into he was/is totally satisfied with movie and don't wanted to tolerate its negative review (He also advised not to slam him on his blog by claiming its his place not commenters, and yes he also specified he was open to positive criticism).<br /><br />Now I want to tell Chetan that his books are great experience but "Hello" was totally soulless and since book and movie are different media hence there is no need reviewers should consult with book reviewer. He must have admitted that, but he didn't. I think its reason was that he was actively involved in movie while being shot.<br /><br />I want to tell you chetan its "Slumdog Millionaire" how your books must have translated, if not then you should not have satisfied but compromized with admission of fact.<br /><br />"Baat nikli hai to door talk jayegi !" After Jagjeet Singh and Chetan Bhagat I want to specify one more sorce which adds me as its hardcore fan, its "<a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture">Big Bicture</a>".<br /><br />The question everyone, who were against "Slumdog Millionaire", raising was western media is selling poverty of India. I am not agree with it because this movie is based on novel and (even if not) shows story of such characters who are born poor guys. But Big Picture's one coverage based on "<a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/at_work.html">At work</a>" which titles and claims it self as its reporting and covering working people at their work with picture of all around world. Needless to say most of pictures are from China and few are from India. I don't mind number of pictures but they have shown pictures from I as people in India work in only <span class="bpMore">brick factory, candle factory or child labour. I agree all these things exist in India very much but as this cover story claims, It doesn't reflect "Men at work" in India. I might seem conflicting with my own thoughts on slumdog and on big picture but I am very much contrast. Slumdog doesn't claims nor it says every one in india is poor as you can see not every character in movie, living in India is poor, although it was a fiction drama, based on characters which are very much real. It never tried to claim it covered all dimensions of India. But in Big Picture, as per nature of there reporting they do represent reality with approx 100% coverage, which is certainly not true in their "<a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/at_work.html">At Work</a>"coverage.<br /></span>Dilip Kumar Shuklahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506168601941096526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512576510898444355.post-11274947572004790752008-12-31T23:11:00.009+05:302009-01-01T02:02:46.711+05:302009-01-01T02:02:46.711+05:30And story goes like this...<span>A Very warm welcome to my blog as well in a brand new year.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />"Ek kahani khatam to dooji shuru ho gayi <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mamu</span> !!!</span>"<br />Now dear all...allow me to share myself with all of you, from now and on. I'll play and share my inner self in this virtual playground in order and hope to crack some real ground.<br /><br />Let me tell you this blog spelled as 'Fusionstrings' composed of two words, fusion+strings. I find myself into lot of loosely coupled arenas of human life which span from web designing (which is fortunately my profession too) to photography, poetry to drawing, movies to music and lot more and still counting. I am trying to fuse all these skills in some direction desirable to me.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xJdx5Hm7Kog/SVu408-cPpI/AAAAAAAABQk/k3-md0hyK1U/s1600-h/tricolor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 610px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xJdx5Hm7Kog/SVu408-cPpI/AAAAAAAABQk/k3-md0hyK1U/s320/tricolor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286021807510142610" border="0" /></a><br />Ahh..well 'fusionstrings is lot more thoughtful and adorable to me (for that shake this blog is taking stance he he)... but I must say one of most natural reason was my love towards fusion music of pakistani band 'Junoon' I often feel lost in there wonderful lyrics one can find mostly in ghazals and energetic music. Then came another band from same origin named 'strings'. I tell you these guys are really really amazing they have all one need to hipnotize one to sooth on desperate mind. there 'duur' song was best combination of music which has less noise but no less energy soothing voice and deeply felt (I hope by lyricst) lyrics.<br /><br />And then suddenly life took few rough turns which includes couple of left, right and even U turns, and life automatically shifted in top gear. Its irony that one fine day(technically night) when I realized I am no more in ease to be able to sleep, I discovered evry unique and overlapping pixel of my body and soul is solid filled with hate for same contry which is origin of finest music and lyrics I ever liked. It was a big U turn of streight thinking, which pushed me towards desperation to act in some manner.<br /><br />I would like to salute our heros who are continuously saving us. I would like to slam those politicians who never think about or value life of an Indian. I strictly slam our socity who themselv are nuetral towards national interest and issues and hold no patriotizm. I get shoked when I found peoples asking if there was someone whom I know in 26/11 mumbai terror attack, so I am expressing this much anger. What??? Shall I wait till I loose someone. The people whom I find interested in some issues belong to regional or party biased dustbin.<br /><br />There is a lot to say and more than that to execute and accomplish. I have decided to do what I can. The best I can do now is to pour my thoughts in front of all world. I have decided to appreciate and support campaigns like "<a href="http://www.jagore.com/">Jago Re !</a>" and initiate few at my level. I have decided to everything so I never think I could have done this. I don't want to slam indirectly myself by doing nothing than verbal slamming to responsible(read irresponsible) bodies.<br /><br />Bring a revolution...by being part of it.Dilip Kumar Shuklahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506168601941096526noreply@blogger.com4