Category: Den
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Pet peeve: Industry award surveys
If you are going to give an award, put together a group of real people, make up a criteria you can openly share with everyone, select the winners and announce the awards. Don’t just put up a silly survey with hundreds of possible categories and self-nominated awardee choices. Most people who go there will not […]
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“Changing the world, one kick at a time…”
I enjoyed writing this article on Medium to share, hope you like it. Click on the picture to read the article.
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Where have I been?
Sorry, I haven’t blogged in a while. I have been upto a lot of things at work and hence haven’t been able to carve out any time to blog on my personal site. By the way, I have been working with a lot of talented engineers here at JackBe. The team is bursting with energy, […]
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Hey, What about AJAX?
I just read this and IMO the following statement is somewhat off / biased and the rest of the writeup is has a slant towards Adobe’s Flex: There are three technologies on the horizon that will change the way people use the web: LaszloSystems’ OpenLaszlo, Microsoft’s WinFX (codename Avalon) and Adobe’s Flex 2. Without specifically […]
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Ajax or AJAX?
Just a simple question. I have seen people use both ways, some use Ajax and others use AJAX (all upper case). Michael Mahemoff writes why he chooses to use the former. What do you use and why ? Let me know.
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Who needs these Ajax applications
OK. I might be the only one but I think people need to think beyond what is cool in Ajax. Take ajaxWrite for example. (BTW, it is worth reading Alex Russell‘s take on ajaxWrite from a pure Ajax perspective in his post titled ajaxWrong). Here is the basic premise of ajaxWrite quoted below from their […]
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Thank You for Calling Microsoft. We can’t Help You.
I just bought this new HP laptop and am having problems with sleep/hibernate modes. It friggin wakes up automatically and loses all battery power. The devil inside. Anyway, I found this article on their website that says they have a hotfix that they won’t let me download, but want me to call their support team. […]
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I am still here…
I haven’t been able to blog much in the last few weeks. I am in the middle of transitioning to a new job and have lots of pending errands and personal stuff that is keeping me busy. Just wanted to say that I look forward to blogging anew in the next couple of weeks. Stay […]
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Bye Bye Love! See You Around…
If not for Sun and Unix, I wouldn’t be here, not in this country. Let me explain a bit. My first OS was a Unix System V while I was a student. Then, after graduating from my engineering school, I worked for a cool company in India (CMC Limited) for 6 years. During the early […]
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Welcome to My New Blog!
Hi! This is my personal blog and I am in the process of transitioning my blog from my older blog at Sun, which will be discontinued shortly. All the previously posted entries on my Sun blog will remain accessible on that blog. Any new entries I post from now on will appear only on this […]
Deepak Alur 