We have been talking about Web 2.0 for a little while now. Things are shaping up well and people are coming up with interesting ideas for the next generation web every day. Jon Aquino participated in a “24 hour coding” contest for “Rails Day” (yeah, Rails as in Ruby on Rails). He created a simple tool that would allow invoking commonly used websites from a textbox. Basically, you enter “g ruby” in the textbox to search for “ruby” on the web using Google. You enter “gimg ruby” to find pictures of Ruby using Google Images. The implementation is cool and is gaining a lot of popularity. You can use it in your browser or your blog. Or simply go to YubNub.org and hit a command. Umm.. a command? Well, yes! Apart from being a simple shortcut search mechanism, this is simply a command line for Web 2.0! You can create plugins to this and create your own commands. People have already done a lot of interesting commands. A friend, Shantanu Oak, is working on building an email sending command over YubNub. Interesting, isn’t it?
If you want to send me an email, type the command
send shantanuoak@yahoo.com Happy New Year! – From Uncle
The same command can also be used to send SMS to any cell phone in Canada or USA for e.g.
send 1234567890 call dad ASAP
If phpMyAdmin is installed you can search within your MySQL database.
dbsearch -path http://saraswaticlasses.com/phpMyAdmin/ -db contacts -search nirav
Type the “man” or “ls” command to know more about each command. for e.g.
man dbsearch
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You can also create aliases and use them in the send or dbsearch command. For e.g. to create an alias for the email shantanuoak@yahoo.com you type the command…
shortcut shantanu shantanuoak@yahoo.com
Now you can send me an email by typing
send shantanu Happy New Year! – From Uncle
You can also create alias to the phpMyAdmin directory. for e.g.
shortcut myadmin http://saraswaticlasses.com/phpMyAdmin/
and then use the alias in the command like this…
dbsearch -path myadmin -db contacts -search nirav