ItzUpp Accepted - Google Developer Challenge 2012

ItzUpp accepted into the Google Places API Developer Challenge 2012

[Google-Worldwide-News] Last month, December 2012, ItzUpp was accepted as a contestant into the Google Places API Developer Challenge. Seems, it is one of the two selected entries from India! And Google has accepted and listed Top 52 Apps on their website. ItzUpp is one of them!!

The Itzupp details video is ==> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgTc8xp6F_I&feature=youtu.be
The blog post describing ItzUpp is ==> See ItzUpping details
Go HERE to vote ==> https://developers.google.com/places/challenge/gallery

The timeline for the contest is:
August 15, 2012: Submissions Begin
November 30, 2012: Deadline for Application Submission
December 12 – December 31, 2012: Public Voting
December 12 – January 11, 2013: Voting by Judges
January 30, 2013: Winners Announced
2013: Live Streaming of Awards Presentation Hangout with a recap at the 2013 I/O Conference

The prizes are:
Showcase your Google Places API application at our annual Google I/O conference in San Francisco. There will be two categories of awards – Judge’s Choice and People’s Choice awards:
Judge’s Choice Award
Three (3) application entries will receive an immersive experience at Google I/O 2013, including:
2 Google I/O tickets per winning team
$3500 travel stipend
A chance to showcase their app at Google I/O 2013
Dinner with the Google Maps and Places API team
Three runners up will enjoy:
One (1) Google Nexus 7 16gb Tablet
A 15-minute hang out with a Google Executive
People’s Choice Award
One entry will be chosen by the voting public and will receive:
2 Google I/O tickets per team
$3500 travel stipend
A chance to showcase their app at Google I/O 2013
Dinner with the Google Maps and Places API team

Public Voting has now closed.


The Tagline of Itzupp is - Before you visit. The bold letters on the website says "Know The Places Around Before You Actually Visit."

One user has reported the following--
"I always use www.itzupp.com  to find about any place. I can search any restaurant, shopping complex, shops, pubs and discs. I can read reviews too and also see adjacent areas. I have used this in my recent travel to London, UK and Goa, India.  http://www.itzupp.com
Awesome feedbacks and reviews. Very objective details.
AND BEST PART. I SEARCHED "halal meat in london" to get a long list of restaurants serving halal meat. http://www.itzupp.com This is just amazing service!!
I just love itzupping!!""



This is world's first service to find and know the places around beforehand. Find, explore, and review the places around you before you actually visit it. This is called ItzUpping!!
Try http://www.itzupp.com

ItzUpp! Know the places before you actually visit.

What is ItzUpping really all about?

ItzUpp is presumably, the World's First Online Canvass, Review, and Comment Portal for Shoppers, Travellers, Clubbers, Diners, Drinkers, and Strollers, all around the World! As the tagline of the website says, 'Canvass before you visit', you can actually Canvass i.e Examine and Survey freely and Search Places Around Before You Actually Visit it. And as the world shall see it, ItzUpp will be the world's largest service to find and canvass places around you beforehand. With the growing number of visitors, their reviews, the photographs shared, the what's up news, and the increasing number of businesses, one will be easily able to search for places, read reviews, and look what is up there! This is called ItzUpping !!

Try: http://www.itzupp.com/

ItzUpp comes to you as an easy and comprehensive business directory related to what you are searching. Each of the places returned will have their own Profile pages. You can download the details for future reference. The profile of each location is complete with ratings and reviews, maps, events, and more. It uses the power of Google Places API, Flickr photos, and Facebook social networking plugins. With strategic and core technology implementation using PHP, Apache, SQL, XML, Javascript, JQuery, Fbxml, and several APIs, we bring you the best online experience in searching and canvassing into a place before actually visiting it. With strong integration with the power of Google, you can also see Maps, photos, timings, events, etc from the Google Plus Profile of the location.  Find a club, a good florist, the best restaurant around , and even mobile repair!


And for searches resulting into places in United Kingdom, you can find local eating joints with the ratings and reviews by Government of UK. So, whether you are going to any restaurants, or visiting any business, park, shops, check for the choices of healthy foot outlets in the nearby area. The link on the ItzUpp Place profile that says - 'Local Food Reviews by UK Government' is fetched from Website: http://ratings.food.gov.uk. The UK food hygiene rating data API is under Open-Data scheme of UK, and is valid only for United Kingdom. This Project in no way guarantees the accuracy and effectiveness of data, results, and information coming from different organizations. Neither do we modify or alter any result or ranking that is coming.  But you will get First 30 results from that website. So, it helps you abide by Healthy and Hyginic Eating in United Kingdom!! 

Disclaimer: This Project is still in Experimental stage. The Application uses Google Places API, Flickr photo sharing, and Facebook Social plugins features. The author and this website is in no way connected to Google, Flickr, or Facebook. The results and images shown are the output from respective APIs and photos may have copyrights associated with them. Any dispute should be propogated to the respective service providers.

*The Data used in 'Local Food Reviews by UK Government' is fetched from Website: http://ratings.food.gov.uk. The UK food hygiene rating data API is under Open-Data scheme of UK, and is valid only for United Kingdom. This Project in no way guarantees the accuracy and effectiveness of data, results, and information coming from different organizations. Neither do we modify or alter any result or ranking that is coming. 

So, Happy Dining, Happy Boozing, Happy Clubbing.Happy ItzUpping!!!

[I find it a great website, and have personally been trying this for quite sometime now. So, I suggest my readers to make use of this great utility :)]

Ideone.com | Online IDE & Debugging Tool

I came across Ideone. I stopeed there. And I used it. Now I give stars to the IDEone Teams accompalishments. IDEOne is an online IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and debugging tool which enables users to share and run code online. The website describes that It is like a pastebin designed specifically for programmers and developers. All the code snippets run on Ideone and can be accessed conveniently via hash links. The easy to use UI is so easy and you dont have to write extra configuration lines of codes. It is as simple as writing code in and IDE on your device itself. And most importantly, since this runs on server you can run codes even on mobile phones. This is just great.


I created this snippet to test a simple code on IDEOne in C++. And it worked properly!!





IDEOne gives you option to write you code online. It is really useful for beginners and evangelists. The best part is that you can write in 40+ languages. It provides you with details about code and its execution including the memory usage, execution time, compiler version, output generated by program and error messages. This service would be of great use when you have to quickly execute code and don’t have a desktop IDE installed.

You can check this out at Ideone Home page





You can optionally turn on syntax highlighting for your code. Much more to see itself than description. But would be a nice online landup where you can learn and test some rare languages too.

You can also check out the public code snippets executed by other users. Ideone is free to use, does not require installation of any extra software or plug-ins, and can be used as a replacement for your existing desktop IDE.

I even tried with simple Python Code:





I was inquisitive to know on what machine is the code and this IDE really executing. I found out that using above code. Result came out to be ‘posix’.

Veracode as new WhiteBox Testing Tool

Veracode has launched a Software Security Ratings Service, introducing its new system for use in testing the security of applications. Veracode claims to have unveiled the world's first standards-based system for rating the overall security of software programs before they are put into production mode. Again, from usability point of view, Learnin to use VeraCode needs a little more effort than writing 20 lines on Cow!

Veracode SecurityReview delivers benefits to every enterprise:

Exceptional accuracy—The SecurityReview subscription service is supported by a team of world-class experts who constantly review and refine testing methods to deliver the industry's most accurate software security review.
Faster production—SecurityReview accelerates secure application development by providing an application security review that can fit into any development cycle. Because Veracode's solution can handle large volumes of code and return actionable results within 24 to 72 hours, development teams can more easily manage schedules and meet deadlines while ensuring higher security for the enterprise.
Reduced expense—With secure software testing available on an as-needed basis, companies pay only for the services they require.
Complete review—Veracode testing includes tests for malicious code as well as lack of security functionality. It can test both internally and externally developed applications, and can perform dynamic as well as static application security testing. It is simply the most comprehensive software review available.

While many software product have begun using source code analysis tools to look for potential vulnerabilities in their applications, Veracode aims to take the process one step further by offering businesses and ISVs the ability to scan binary code of their programs for problems.

Undoubtedly, there are some constraints on type of build you post to VeraCode for scanning and analysis. There are 5-6 checks as told by VeraCode guideline document. But the, the pre-Scan of VeraCode also helps you a lot if in case you missout something, or forget some symbol files (.pdb files)

Testing binary code allows developers to scan an entire application before it is taken into production, thus increasing their likelihood of finding errors they might have missed along the way, and eliminating the need to pursue code that ends up getting cut from a program before it approaches its final state, Veracode officials said.

The approach also benefits efforts to develop software using the increasingly popular SOA approach by allowing workers to test code being drawn from multiple programs in their final, integrated state, the company maintains. With its great UI, using VeraCode is easy and so helpful!