Friday, December 14, 2007
You’ve been here before: After two weeks of working around the clock, you discover that the people handing you requirements still don’t know what they want. You’re delirious from lack of sleep, and everyone around you is just pointing fingers, no one is actually helping. It sucks, and it happens frequently enough that it almost [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The next time you google for a Digital SLR Camera (like the new Canon 40D or Nikon 200D) or a LCD hi-def TV,  beware of fraudulent websites being shown in the Google sponsored links on the top and to your right of the browser search results! Some of these sites, promote with a price [...]
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Google just launched their MyLocation feature. For starters, it looks cool, but there seems to be an incredibly dangerous plot behind it’s inception. Imagine your advanced phone gadget (IPhone, Blackberry, Nokia/Symbian based) able to show you a reasonable approximation of your location, in real time, not just when you *ask* for, but tracking where all [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
I thought the blog title calls in for an interesting research topic, however someone has already presented a paper on exactly the same name. I’ve been working on writing code and not-writing-code-but-getting-paid-for-getting-code-written kinda job all the while, it’s almost a certainty that today, serious women programmers are as fictional as marvel comic characters. Well, I’m [...]
Scenario 1 – You are checking the Status of your package on Amazon. You login in the morning. Click Account. Track Packagaes. Amazon.com ‘forces’ you to login again. Why? Ah. Security. You do this 10 times. You are forced to login 10 times. Scenario 2. Ebay. Imagine you are bidding on an item and are [...]
Thursday, August 23, 2007
“You cannot use the back button of your browser when ordering tickets. Doing so may cause inaccurate information on your confirmation and/or your credit card. If you use your back button, we cannot guarantee your ticket reservation! If you need to make a change or have made an error, you must click Cancel Order and [...]
It’s incredible to see what Web 2.0 could offer these days. PCWorld’s top 25 websites to watch are really impressive & give a hope that there is never ‘stagnation’ in Technology & Innovation. Whilst Google continues to evolve into an indisputable search engine, there still could be an absolute fresh look of competing with it. [...]
Came across this article.Strange that the guy is not a well known author but makes some very interesting points … “Because of this every implementation of any language is interpreted, they only differ in the level at which the interpretation happens, or is most conveniently to look at by us. Languages are not implementations, they [...]
We wouldn’t be old school without an IRC channel. I’ve registered #rtconsole on dalnet. irc://dalnet/rtconsole
Frameworks, Frameworks Everywhere !!! Read this somewhere, thought of mentioning it, in case you’re wondering there are only 5 Web frameworks that exist today! Echo Cocoon Millstone OXF Struts SOFIA Tapestry WebWork RIFE RubyOnRails Spring MVC Canyamo Maverick JPublish JATO Folium Jucas Verge Niggle Bishop Barracuda Action Framework Shocks TeaServlet wingS Expresso Bento jStatemachine jZonic [...]