Category Archives: Development

New Feature: Live cricket scores and secure email addresses

We are happy to announce that oCricket now has live cricket scores of international matches! The scores can be seen on the top right hand corner all pages on oCricket and they look like the one below:

But don’t you think it would be cool if you could put live cricket scores on your website/blog too? [...]

Managers' Deadlines vs. Developers' Estimates

Deadlines come from external sources, for example, “Feature X needs to be ready for the summer trade show”.
Estimates come from internal sources, for example, “Feature X will take me N weeks to complete”.

Bliv.tv, Metacafe and Picasaweb services added

Recently we added the ability to submit Cricket related articles from other websites, including photos from Flickr and videos from YouTube.

We’ve just added 1 more photo service — Picasaweb and 2 more video services — Blip.tv and Metacafe.

Go ahead and test it out.

Submit Photos from Flickr and Videos from Youtube

Well, we’ve been working hard to improvise our codebase and enhance a lot of the internal code framework. The broad updates with this beta release are

Upgraded to the more powerful Python 2.5 Release.
Upgraded the code to the sparkling new Django 1.0.
Added the ability to easily add photos — service starting with Flickr, more services will [...]

All set to move to Slicehost

Fixed all outstanding issues on Slicehost just now. We are now all set to move to Slicehost. Yay!

Yahoo! releases its Address Book API

Everybody is opening up their closets these days — freeing up their source codes, bare opening their APIs. Yahoo! have released their Address Book API, which will give 3rd party developers access to Yahoo! users’ contact lists without the need for those traditional and primitive method of page scraping.

The Yahoo! Address Book (AB) API is [...]