February 2012, We are attempting to start a Hackathon series in the Maldives. The first event will be a 48hr hackathon and is currently planned to be held 26th-28 February in some place hopefully away from the hustle and bustle of Male’.

Hackathon Maldives (a.k.a Hack.mv) is a Hackathon event series. It is a non-profit movement by a group of individuals from the software development community in Maldives.

Like all hackathons, participating developers come together at a predetermined location on a designated day and spend a stretch of time working on a project and, hopefully, end up with something cool to show.

Developers may collaborate with others and form a team or may choose to work alone

For more updates and information:

• Hack.mv 
• Hackathon on Facebook
• Hack.mv on Facebook

I have been using Facebook Command Line for quite sometime. I got bored of Facebook since people started over-sharing, sharing each and every photo they see on Facebook, no matter what the other person will think.

So basically, Facebook Command Line is a tool or an app developed in PHP, connected through the API of the Facebook.

In this post, I will explain How to get started with this tool. I am running Macintosh 10.7 OS X Lion, and by following this tutorial, you’ll be able to use this tool not only in Macintosh but in Linux as well.

GET STARTED:

The first thing is to open the Terminal and download the App to the system.

I have a folder named “Dozz” at my home directory for mostly experimenting stuffs, so the 1st command is optional. You can just start by typing the following command:

curl -O https://raw.github.com/dtompkins/fbcmd/master/fbcmd_update.php

The next step is to run the installer, by typing the following 2 commands.

sudo php fbcmd_update.php sudo
php fbcmd_update.php install

That’s all, you’re done with the installation. Now you can simply remove the old file you kept in the home directory.

So start using the Facebook Command Line type “fbcmd”, of cause without double quotes.

Looks like you have to obtain an authorization code for the first time, before doing that you need to add the basic access, You can doing that by visiting this website.

After you have allowed the basic access, you need to generate the fbcmd authorization code, which is also known as XXXXXX. You can do it by visiting this website. After generating run the following command:

fbcmd auth xxxxxx

N0w you’re logged in, Happy Facebooking through the Command Line. Visit this website for the commands and reference.

I ended up experimenting this Home Server, HP Data Vault X300 since I was bored yesterday. The server itself comes with Microsoft Windows Home Server genuine. It has some application called Home Server Console to install on a PC in the same network to access the server. The Home Server Console is a very limited edition, but perfect for Home, It’s about sharing and permission on a very user friendly environment.

I wanted to go a little bit further, so what I did was, I established a remote desktop connection to the server, and I ended up on the real place. I was able to install the major roles of server such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and File Services.

Even though this server is a Home Server, we can use this perfectly at a small-medium office. Perfect for File Sharing and Backup. No need to spend thousand’s of money buying a Xeon Server.

Web Developer, Web Designer, Web Geek, Web Programmer or whatever you call yourself stop copying our meta data.

Web: http://www.formax.mv/

<meta name="description" content="Shop Formax for low prices on top brands in Computers, Video Games, Softwares, and other Accessories. The Edge of Technology in Maldives Since 1997." />
<meta name="keywords" content="Formax, Formax Private Limited, Computers, desktops, laptops, games, Maldives, techonology, it" /> 

Web: http://maxcom.com.mv/ramadan/

<meta name="description" content="Shop Maxcom for low prices on top brands in Computers, Softwares, and other Accessories. The Edge of Technology in Maldives Since 1997.">
<meta name="keywords" content="Maxcom, Maxcom Technologies Private Limited, Computers, desktops, laptops, games, Maldives, techonology, it">

So as usual when I was going through my twitter timeline, I came across this interesting story tweeted by @rhipha.

In October 2011, Hackers launched a fake social networking application called “Maldives App”. According to Symentec, It was hosted on a free web hosting domain and the legitimate sites do not provide such as application.

The application contained a image and details about the application along with a web form to include the login credentials. The image contained a ribbon in the tricolors of the Maldivian flag and a Maldivian Flag tShirt.

If you have been a victim of this application, the hacker have successfully stolen your confidential login credentials for theft purpose.

Source: Symentec

The result of same page, after refreshing…

Codecademy was created when Zach got frustrated with learning how to program. For years, Ryan taught Zach the basics of HTML and CSS, but books and videos didn’t help. Ryan and Zach teamed up to create Codecademy, a better, more interactive way to learn how to program. This is just the beginning.

Codecademy has an integrated console for learning the script, It is very easy and user friendly. It didn’t take much time for me to finish up all the exercises since It’s javascript and I’m already familiar with it.

This website can be very resourceful for the people who want to start programming or who want to learn javascript. Give it a try.

You’ll love it, mark my words.

Good luck.

I did not write this code, but It’s very interesting and thought of sharing.

if (critical_operation() == FAILED) {
/* Uh oh. Quick, we need a distraction! */
switch((rand() % 4)) {
case 0: blame = "killall -SEGV kick_watchdog"; break;
case 1: blame = "killall -ABRT cli_process"; break;
case 2: blame = "cat /dev/urandom >/proc/kmem"; break;
case 3: blame = "killall -FPE hardware_manager"; break;
}
system(blame);
system("rm /var/log/*.log"); /* Destroy the evidence */
sleep(10); /* Wait for the other process to die first */
return;
}

An initiative by Inerd Hussein, we worked together creating a Touch Screen Application for Shop & Win of Formax Roadha Surprise #2.

The basic idea behind the Shop & Win is, Spend MVR5oo and gets a chance to win a gift through the Application. The UI displays numbers from 1 to 9. Customer gets to choose.

The backend is powered with a Database and Gifts are displays in a Random Sequence.  Once a customer wins a gift the Quantity is deducted from the DB.

This was a great project and the User Interface by Inerd is awesome.

Firefox 5.0 Preview on Windows 7

I came up with Firefox 5 BETA on Engadget today and thought of trying out the BETA version.

According to Engadget, “The latest incarnation brings with it support for CSS animation and a more easily accessible do-not-track setting”.

For me I found that the start up speed of Firefox 5 is faster then 4 and there no change in the User Interface.

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