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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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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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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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Cost of War
My son pointed this out to me today about how much a war costs. It is mind boggling to think about this. Take a look for yourself. Source : costofwar.com Astonishing ways the resources could have been alternatively spent: Paid for 23,570,077 children to attend a year of Head Start. Insured 106,559,360 children for one […]
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Chatting and Business – Using AIM to Connect with Customers
OK, chatting online cost me a lot of money this week. But, I am not complaining. I was looking for someone to help clean my rain gutters on my roof which are clogged with so much leaf debris, thanks to some pine trees in my yard. I searched on … Read More
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TGIF: Powers of Ten – From Universe's Edge to the Quark!
I remember this old but cool movie called Powers of Ten, which was an elaborate creation of photographic art based on the work of Ray and Charles Eames. The movie is basically a series of images that scale up or down by a power of 10 to show the continuous connection between the very large […]
Deepak Alur 