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My client argus media sells this data via product called fundalytics. Get in touch with sales.

We scrape power and gas data from various sources - we are also working on to get fertlizers , bio fuels and other data from across globe.

I work on collecting (ETL) data of European power data sources and supply them to clients via web service (in almost real time). For the client i work on - wrote cloud based distributed ETL system to collect data from approx 100 importers and exporters of power, gas, wind, nuclear. Its quiet possible to collect this data in real time as EU regulations asks each of them to provide data on their websites. For some of the websites - i use selenium which is much better than using webrequest via http/s

Friend(s) of mine in Mumbai are easily accessible using WhatsApp on their android phone than they were on their home desktop machines and Instant messengers.

Just like other developing countries, I think Next generation of India will be skipping whole desktop and Laptop and move straight to mobile and tablet based computing devices.

May be im wrong but why not set LIMIT of only X no. of mails can be Sent/Minute via user account.

Find out how many emails people usually send per minute/hour and just DENY relaying anything else over that limit. That way it'll be less profitable for spammers to acquire user account details if he/she can only sent X mails every minute.

I do think that clash of clan is much better than other games i have played so far. I have played other games (dungeon hunter) which asks me to pay up for virtual coins, gems if i have to progress in next set of levels, but with COC i can do just fine without spending any money.

Love COC ;)

File manager ideas 14 years ago

While we are at topic of file manager - is there a file system manager for ios devices? I mean i want to browse disk of my iphone & see where and how it arranges files

Is it even possible?

I started with VB6 Back in 2000. It was easy to pickup as my first programming language was gwbasic/qbasic. I really loved event driven development, IDE and easy Compile and run procedure.

IMO VB.net offers almost everything that VB6 has plus extra features of .net libraries. It can also do project conversion from VB to vb.net (upto extent) but as fellow commenters have mentioned there's cost of jumping from VB to VB.NET based windows app. Therefore VB6 will continue to thrive until corporation justify that cost.

Just saw on backify home page :

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Backify is no longer in service. LiveDrive has terminated Backify's reseller account, and Backify.com is no longer in service.

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Enough of this nonsense.I have uninstalled livedrive client from my desktop. Any one knows how to delete backed up files from livedrive?

@dberube

I have used same method to collect beta tester for one of my idea. Google adword has given amazing reults so far. Thats why i am interested to know if cost factor the only reason to choose microsoft adcenter over google adwords ?

Does it give more ad impressions for less price + better click through rates?

I like both codeigniter & cakephp.

codeigniter is super easy and joy to work with. 1> simple 2> great documentation (most amazing docs i have seen so far) + forum 3> you can not go wrong , its so easy to write apps using it

cakephp because of 1> "bake" utility to generate code from looking at table 2> easy to access database using models classes 3> built in auth component (and few other components at cake bakery)

never needed to look at anywhere else ;)

True, It can happen on any platform, but at least you will get time to improve your app + add new features + fight with biggies while they are trying to copy from you.

On facebook and Apple they will just kill your app in a day.

Thast why i would never rely on closed platform.

I will never waste my resource in build apps that solely rely on closed commercial entities like facebook, apple. If they choose to ban/block/delete you then all of your hard-work is gone in a second and will leave your users unhappy.

and this can happen to any of us

Company i worked for in India sold very innovative products plus usual IT service. Because of products, Sales team cross sold IT services to product users and vice versa

An good example of utilising human resources and generating revenue when you dont have many clients using your IT services.