Matt Jadud has written a guide for students on blogging. It is a must read for any student who is looking at doing more with his/her academic work. Blogging is one of the best ways for students to communicate with rest of the world, including the industry. [Continue]
While detailed requirements are important as foundation for a good solution design, requirements can never be detailed enough. There are so many possibilities at every step of a design that it is almost impossible to look at requirements for all the design decisions. This is the biggest factors that makes software difficult. [Continue]
Django does a great job of mapping your model fields to the database columns. The ORM works for most of the common cases. One of the cases where it does not work is working with calculated fields while displaying reports. [Continue]
W3C has decided to abort the XHTML 2 effort. It is said that this will allow more time and effort towards HTML 5. There were some indications towards lack of interest in the XHTML evolution, so this is not exactly a surprise. [Continue]