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Google Reader: Workaround for sharing

December 2, 2011 12:51 am / Leave a Comment / Saira
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[Credit for Featured Image: Marina Zaitseva] As we are all aware Google Reader disabled sharing other than on Google+ in it’s new version. This obviously upset me immensely because I used my share feed for my blog. After trying out numerous suggestions, this is what worked: 1. Subscribe to your original shared feed 2. Pray … Read More →

Posted in: Technology / Tagged: Google Reader

Converting ODK XML Data to CSV

November 9, 2011 6:23 pm / Leave a Comment / Saira
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[Featured Image: Open Data Kit | Civic Commons] Context: Household survey in rural Tanzania Task: Combine data from XML files and display in an Excel File Challenges: Nested loop within survey which required questions to be repeated so survey and questions were not one-to-one Number of fields for survey exceeded 255 Each survey was in … Read More →

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Net Change 2010: Mobile Tech

June 10, 2010 3:52 pm / Leave a Comment / Saira
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Wednesday, 9th June was spent attending the Mobile Tech portion of the Net Change 2010 conference here in Toronto. Following are some highlights and notes related to it: Mobile Takeover: How cell phones are leading to economic and democratic progress Professor Iqbal Z. Quadir (Founder, GrameenPhone) Professor Quadir works at the Legatum Centre for MIT … Read More →

Posted in: Technology, Workshops & Seminars / Tagged: mobile

TechKnowFile 2010

May 27, 2010 12:53 pm / 2 Comments / Saira
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TechKnowFile 2010 was held on the 26th of May at University of Toronto. It was basically a one day conference with the usual keynote speaker and multiple breakout sessions you could choose from. In this post I am going to be sharing some highlights and my thoughts on the content. Oddly enough I wasn’t supposed … Read More →

Posted in: Technology, Workshops & Seminars / Tagged: utoronto

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Saira Qureshi
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Passionate about: Chocolate, Technology, Sunshine, Jasmine soap, Programming Languages and the Nikon D5000

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