One of the most pressing issues with the new Web applications is connectivity. If not connected, the browser is nothing but a useless window. One of the solutions is to take the Web applications offline, which Google has given big push by releasing Google Gears. [Continue]
skip to navigation | content
ifacethoughtsPosts for May, 2007
GupShup – Emailgroups For SMS
GupShup is a SMS service from Webaroo, a startup based out of IIT Bombay. It lets you create your group and invite friends to join it. Send a SMS to the group and all the subscribers of the group receive it. [Continue]
JavaScript And vi
The guys at Internet Connection have implemented vi in JavaScript (JSVI) (via Ajaxian). JSVI might not sound appealing to you instantly, but it gives a good break from all the WYSIWYG editors and actually lets me use my favorite editor on the Web. Many of my friends ask me about the reasons behind my liking for vi. [Continue]
Free Mumbai Map
Artur Bergman discusses the effort by Collective Research Initiatives Trust (CRIT) to study urbanism by using Mumbai as a case study. In the process they have created Free Mumbai Map. This has been created using volunteers and using software from OSGeo, the open source geospatial foundation. [Continue]
Customizing Firefox
Serdar Yegulalp reveals hidden configuration options in Mozilla Firefox (via E@zyVG). Firefox already gives a lot of configuration options, but it has many more under the hood. The article shows how you can use some of them to customize Firefox to your liking. [Continue]
Wordpress – HyperDB and HumorDB
Today Matt announced the mailing list for HyperDB – an enterprise DB class for Wordpress. It is a drop-in replacement for WPDB, the default database class for Wordpress. It will boast of features like replication, failover, partitioning which will help it in high-volume environments. [Continue]
Welcome Back, Phew!
This blog has been down for last 10 hours or so. The long weekend did not help in expediting the investigation, but it has been resolved nonetheless. BlueHost was efficient, once it started looking in to it, in responding and fixing the issue. [Continue]
Python Moving
Krys Wilken wonders if Python is getting used more and more. Of course this can be called one of the biased posts, and it is quite true that personal preferences does create a bias. But there is something else to look for here. [Continue]
Doing More With OpenOffice
OpenOffice is a popular open source office suite, that other than being excellent office suite, lets you extend its functionality through extensions. Made popular by tools like Firefox as addons or by Wordpress as plugins, these extensions let you add more. Unfortunately the OpenOffice extensions are not as popular, but they are all the same effective. [Continue]
Intel Highlighting Need To Upgrade Programming
Intel is pushing for upgrading programming to leverage the multicore processors. “The software has to also start following Moore’s law,” Intel fellow Shekhar Borkar said, referring to the notion that chips offer roughly double the performance every 18 months to two years. “Software has to double the amount of parallelism that it can support every two years.” I do not think software can really follow Moore’s Law, but we have to cope up with the new advancements. [Continue]
freshthoughts
- Help Yourself With xdg-open
- Software Patents And Open Source
- Another FUD Against Open Source
- A Xubuntu User Again
- Advice On Building Great Products
- Ubuntu Defaults To Google Docs For Netbooks
- Inherently, Design Is A Combination Of Art And Engineering
- New Tools I Picked Up In 2009
- Microsoft Agrees To Free Browser Choice
- Get OpenID With Google Profiles
contactme
badgesand...
- accessibility
- blogging
- books
- cms
- css
- design
- desktop
- entrepreneurship
- estimation
- feeds
- for executives
- india
- linux
- mindworks
- mobile
- open source
- process
- programming
- project management
- rant
- requirements
- roi
- software for business
- standards
- testing
- this
- toc
- tools
- usability
- web
- wordpress
- wordpress global variables
This is the weblog of Abhijit Nadgouda where he writes down his thoughts on software development and related topics. You are invited to subscribe to the feed to stay updated or check out more subscription options. Or you can choose to browse by one of the topics.