Posts for March, 2007

Mar 31, 2007

New Approaches For Web Access

There are at least two new approaches for offering Internet community, targetted towards the common man. One is the solution thought up by United Village (via Rajiv Dingra). It will offer basic communication tools and open up the Internet for entertainment. [Continue]

Mar 30, 2007

Size Of The Browser Window

Two web professionals are trying to dig into and voice concerns over browser window sizes. Roger Johansson is running a poll to find out whether you resize your browser window in the everyday use. And Robert Nyman wants you to size a petition to warn the website developer who resize your browser window for their application. [Continue]

Mar 29, 2007

The First Program, The Biggest Block

I had not realized this myself, but now while dealing with students it is getting more than obvious. Even after attending most of the classes they lose their confidence when asked to write code. The main reason that I could dig out was that they were still not comfortable writing code. [Continue]

Mar 29, 2007

Don’t Mock Process

The Times Of India is running a piece today citing Mr. Narayana Murthy Don’t mock process, follow it. Mr. [Continue]

Mar 28, 2007

Good List Of Indian Blogs

Sudhanshu Rahejta at Gyaan Sutra has compiled a list of Indian blogs based on Alexa ranking, and this blog is proud to be a part of it. The effort is to build an A-List of Indian bloggers. I do not agree, because I believe: Alexa traffic is not a good metric to measure There is no A-list I feel that we start stripping blogging of its advantages once we start making classes - it is personal, it is free form, it is opinionated and it is therapeutic. [Continue]

Mar 28, 2007

PHPSESSID In URLs

A while back Binny VA and recently Rishi alerted me to PHPSESSIDs in some of the URLs. PHPSESSID is used to indicate who owns the PHP session, something useful in case you are tracking sessions, like in case of shopping carts. However, PHPSESSIDs in the URL can make search engines to think it is duplicate content since technically there are two different URLs. [Continue]

Mar 28, 2007

Internet Is Still The Unknown In India

About 72% Indians do not know what Internet is. As a plain fact it can seem surprising, especially since India has been reporting the highest rate of growth in Internet usage. I am sure the growth will continue, in fact flourish as times come. [Continue]

Mar 27, 2007

Why Linux Can Be Faster

Out of many advantages cited in Linux v/s Windows is that Linux is usually faster. After using both, I would say it is not the whole truth. The whole truth is that Linux is more customizable because of which it can be faster than Windows. [Continue]

Mar 26, 2007

IA Summit

Luke Wroblewski has been sincerely pointing too and jotting down the points from various IA Summit 2007 presentations and talks. It is of tremendous value, especially if you have not been in a position to attend it. Not only are the topics pretty interesting, they are quite relevant and answer some of the difficult questions. [Continue]

Mar 25, 2007

Is The Paper World Tearing Apart?

There seems to be more and more evidence that the online world is eating into the print world. Tim O’Reilly reported that the San Francisco Chronicle is under danger. Rafat Ali reported that InfoWorld is folding its print operations, and will focus on the online version more. [Continue]