You should have knowledge of and/or strong interest in:

• HTML5 and the HTML5 Boilerplate framework
• jQuery mobile and responsive design
• Ways to integrate Facebook and Twitter APIs into a site
• A/B testing with Optimizely
• Web performance optimization
• Collaborating with other digital team members to spec out web applications aligned with the campaign’s strategic goals
• Keeping code clean, and ensuring performance across browsers
• Typography, white space, and other details that occur at the intersection of design and code
• Managing expectations; balancing scope and timelines
• Translating requests from non-technical people into asks of very technical people

If you’re more of a PHP/Python/Mobile programmer, we’re also looking for web and mobile developers.

Good read for entrepreneurs …

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Mobile World India 2012 brings together thought leaders and experts from different aspects of the mobile ecosystem. Tailored specifically for mobile application developers and technologists this conference will at the same time help startups, investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers to better understand the latest technologies that will define the mobile market of tomorrow. Mobile World India 2012 includes Sessions, Workshops, App Lounge which hosts Application Developers, a Forums Series, app exhibition, and over 1,000 platform developers

Disclaimer: Please note that this is for educational purpose only and illegal use is not recommended or endorsed by me.

Now, the real part:

Let’s say you wanted to download multiple files, text, data, mp3 or videos etc. Take an example of MP3 sngs for new hindi movie Delhi Belly. These songs are available on multiple sites including one URL here.

Again note, that downloading songs from this or any other site may be against local & any other applicable laws based upon where you reside.

Here are the steps

1) Open the URL.

2) You would find that the download URL is something like http://link1.songs.pk/song1.php?songid=8520  for the first song. and the download URL for the last song is something like http://link1.songs.pk/song1.php?songid=8529

3) Now, if you wanted to use cURL pattern base download use, you can do something like:

curl -L http://link1.songs.pk/song1.php?songid=85{20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29} -O

-L option is to follow redirect, in case, the server is throwing some intermediate redirect.

-O option is to save them as local files rather than sending it to STDOUT.

4) This would download all files one by one and it would have having typing each file individually, handling redirects, and then saving them to local files.

5) After that you may need to rename all of them as MP3s, s you can run ren * *.mp3 (on windows) or mv * *.mp3 (on UNIX).

Happy cURL ing …

for any questions or doubts, please post in comments.

first of all, if you want to download a copy of a page to a local file, you can use

curl http://www.example.com -o local_copy.htm

If you don’t want to neccessarily download the file but only want to see response headers, you can do

curl -I http://www.example.com

If the web site is returning a redirect, 30x HTTP response code, you can ask curl to follow the redirect for example

curl -IL http://www.example.com

You can specify multiple URLs to curl as part of pattern for instance:

curl -I http://{www,play,sawaal}.ibibo.com

Output:

[1/3]: http://www.ibibo.com –> <stdout>
–_curl_–http://www.ibibo.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:19:05 GMT
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
ServerID: Myibibo-34
Content-Type: text/html

[2/3]: http://play.ibibo.com –> <stdout>
–_curl_–http://play.ibibo.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:19:08 GMT
Server: ibibo-WS
Cache-Control: no-transform
Vary: User-Agent,Accept,Accept-Encoding
ServerID: 25
Content-Type: text/html

[3/3]: http://sawaal.ibibo.com –> <stdout>
–_curl_–http://sawaal.ibibo.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:19:08 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=tu5c1y555oywv4fvxj1vj245; path=/; HttpOnly
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 112910

You can also specify advanced regular expressions when using the URLs for instance:

ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt  ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt (with leading zeros)  ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt

Nested sequences are not supported, but you can use several ones next to each other:

http://any.org/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html

You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched in a sequential manner in the specified order.

You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or letter:

http://www.numericals.com/file[1-100:10].txt  http://www.letters.com/file[a-z:2].txt

More later in another post.

Update (Jul 4th, 11) : After about 10 days, since Dr. Nalini Jain, Director, Medanta Hospital Contacted me, I am yet to hear regarding any response or update regarding any inquiry or action, whatsoever. Still Waiting for any response from Medanta

Update (Jun 24th, 11) : Dr. Nalini Jain, Director, Medanta Hospital Contacted me & asked me further details about the experience, She consented that the behaviour of Parking Manager Mr. Rakesh Ranjan was extremely disrespectful and improper. The Medanta hospital doesn’t condone or approved of such rude behaviour to the visitors to the hospital, who anyway may be going through some distress upon arrival to the hospital. She assured me to look into this matter & take necessary action. I am glad to have talked her and look forward for the action.

First of all, I would like to congratulate & thank you from deep of my heart for having setup, such an esteemed medical institution, The Medanta medicity in Gurgaon, which has been a boon not only to Gurgaon / NCR residents but to patients from all across India and abroad.

I myself, have gone there a number of times and found the doctors, administrative staff, nurses, housekeeping, radiology, sample collection, cafeteria and all others staff extremely courteous & polite & helpful. My experience has been more than fulfilling & I thank you for the same.

On several occasions, I parked my car on the surface parking and there has never been any issues and the staff was very helpful. Today, I went there for some blood tests and to Meet my doctor again & happen to decide to park in the under-ground parking.

That is when, a nightmare, which I wouldn’t even expect even from the worst of worst hospitals in India started. On basement 1, there were a number of vacant parking slots available but those were being cordoned by ropes and a few cars were being allowed, reasons best known to the parking attendants. I inquired, if I can park here as I was getting late for appointment, but was very rudely told that this floor is reserved for staff only and I need to go further down. When all over the campus, it is mentioned that the underground parking is Rs 20/-, It was beyond my understanding why the first floor was reserved for staff.

Upon asking, why some cars are being allowed, I was told that they are staff or they are pass holders. Never the less, I went one floor below again and wanted to park in the early free slots available but then again, I was told that I need to go further down and these are reserved. Again note, there were more than ample parking spaces available but they were cordoned by ropes. I asked to talk to supervisor but wasn’t allowed to do so. Finally I parked my car & then I went up and then I wanted to meet the Parking Manager Mr. Rakesh Ranjan. I was hoping that he would at-least listen to my grievance but to my extreme surprise, he started giving me excuses that these spaces that are cordoned by ropes are meant for doctors. Upon my asking, where is it mentioned that they are reserved for doctors, he said that the boards are damaged and we would get new boards. He was so rude in his language.

He even showed me a Mercedes and said this is Mr. Trehan’s Mercedes and how can you park next to it. OMG !!

I asked his manager number & he told me that he is not in India, albeit he gave me the name Mr. Rajiv Kaushik and some email address, which proved to be invalid.

Respected Sir: After this experience, I am having serious thoughts of ever visiting Medanta again as the same doctors are available in nearby hospitals also. In any case, I am not going to park my car in Medanta compound.

I am extremely surprised that such a reputed hospital has such a poorly managed underground parking and if I may say so, some goons running the parking lot. (please note, I am only talking about underground parking. my experience with surface parking has been without any issues so far). Lastly, after paying so much for a world class hospital, I fail to understand, how one can accept such a humiliating experience. Hope you would look into this matter.

Regards

PS

Convenience charges – It is quite true that vendors save cost with customers doing the booking online instead of doing physical transaction, In India, most of the time, as of now, you end up paying higher if you do the booking online. This is the case for train bookings, movie tickets etc.

Higher pricing for driving lessons for women – as the perceived value to women drivers is higher and as, very right mentioned in the article, they would likely be coming from rich family – Many driving schools have higher pricing for driving lessons for women.

Other examples such as “Peak rate mandis” & different prices for foreigners  for tourist attractions are also very interesting.

The last one “language” is also very interesting that shows price discrimination based upon the language.