If one has been using python, then installing various libraries and modules is basically a breeze using easy_install utility, however for folks using windows, easy_install utility has to be setup properly before using it. First lets make sure that python is properly installed and PYTHON_HOME environment variable is configured: Install Python on Windows If not already installed download python installer from here. After it’s done downloading, double click to run the installer, and select default options (unless you have other custom needs of course ).

This post is basically a way of quick appreciation to the Google maps Team, they are obviously a bunch of caring, loving people ,who make useful (although surreptitious) tools for the betterment of Geek Kind. So as most of you may have accidently clicked a mysterious looking link at the bottom of your Google maps page ( on the left hand panel) This awesome looking link opens up a popup which lets you choose wonderful goodies which makes your Google maps page more useful than it already is:

Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store, and is quickly picking up momentum in real-time software development , it is now a well known and trusted product and can be used in various problem scenarios as a No SQL implementation. Redis is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets. Here is quick guide to Install Redis in Ubuntu 10.