Ogg Vorbis
Ogg Vorbis is a new audio compression format. It is roughly comparable to other formats used to store and play digital music, such as MP3, VQF, AAC, and other digital audio formats. It is different from these other formats because it is completely free, open, and unpatented. Click here
Distributed Caching using Hashmaps
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~manku/research.html
Yet another AJAX site
www.meebo.com
Friday, December 23, 2005
Friday, December 09, 2005
Web FrameWorks Unlimited
A feed of every major technical forum will present atleast one framework a day. Smalltalk supposed to be "The OOPS Language" has been long proclaimed dead. But every modern OOP language claims its existence to smalltalk and no book on Java fails to pay a "rich" tribute to this illustrious predecessor. Well confusing.. I started with WebApp Frameworks and now talking about smalltalk.. Believe me smalltalk has risen to present its new avatar with a WebApp Framework SeaSide developed for Smalltalk. Seaside has got rave reviews all over and is being touted to do to Smalltalk what Rails has done for Ruby. Well most of these make very interesting and rather surprising reading.. a framework reviving a language... huh.. well that seems to be the order of the day but.
Not to be left out you have Django and Turbogears for Python .Java, the internet language has been relegated to a position of nonexistence. The good old struts is not even a worthwhile competitor to all these hypersmart frameworks... But surely the all this opens up a large field and a plethora of choices to develop websites in a jiffy..
A feed of every major technical forum will present atleast one framework a day. Smalltalk supposed to be "The OOPS Language" has been long proclaimed dead. But every modern OOP language claims its existence to smalltalk and no book on Java fails to pay a "rich" tribute to this illustrious predecessor. Well confusing.. I started with WebApp Frameworks and now talking about smalltalk.. Believe me smalltalk has risen to present its new avatar with a WebApp Framework SeaSide developed for Smalltalk. Seaside has got rave reviews all over and is being touted to do to Smalltalk what Rails has done for Ruby. Well most of these make very interesting and rather surprising reading.. a framework reviving a language... huh.. well that seems to be the order of the day but.
Not to be left out you have Django and Turbogears for Python .Java, the internet language has been relegated to a position of nonexistence. The good old struts is not even a worthwhile competitor to all these hypersmart frameworks... But surely the all this opens up a large field and a plethora of choices to develop websites in a jiffy..
Google Inside....
Wondering what languages power Google .. Here is the list..
"In actual progress stuff, C++, Java, Python
Some Perl used by Operations (others almost have to get permission to use Perl)
PHP creeeps in for internal webapps
Saw Ruby sneaking around
Small amount of C# " says Greg Stein of Google.
For more on this Go here.
And Google too feels Python is cool and easy to use than Perl.. Python Rocks..
Psst... Gmail Core is written in Java....
Wondering what languages power Google .. Here is the list..
"In actual progress stuff, C++, Java, Python
Some Perl used by Operations (others almost have to get permission to use Perl)
PHP creeeps in for internal webapps
Saw Ruby sneaking around
Small amount of C# " says Greg Stein of Google.
For more on this Go here.
And Google too feels Python is cool and easy to use than Perl.. Python Rocks..
Psst... Gmail Core is written in Java....
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Monday, October 17, 2005
Y2K at 1985.....
One of the earliest threads on the then usenet groups on the impending Y2K problem can be found here
One of the earliest threads on the then usenet groups on the impending Y2K problem can be found here
Paul Graham shows the way.....
A must read essay "How to Start a Startup" for anyone who has an idea of starting a company or interested in good sensible practical business reading . It is available here
"So if you want to invest two years in something that will help you succeed in business, the evidence suggests you'd do better to learn how to hack than get an MBA"
And the evidence is there are only four MBA CEO's in the Forbes top 50.
"There are plenty of other areas that are just as backward as search was before Google. I can think of several heuristics for generating ideas for startups, but most reduce to this: look at something people are trying to do, and figure out how to do it in a way that doesn't suck"
"You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible"
"In a startup, your initial plans are almost certain to be wrong in some way, and your first priority should be to figure out where. The only way to do that is to try implementing them"
"A 10% improvement in ease of use doesn't just increase your sales 10%. It's more likely to double your sales".
"So if you want to win through better technology, aim at smaller customers"
"If you build the simple, inexpensive option, you'll not only find it easier to sell at first, but you'll also be in the best position to conquer the rest of the market"
"In technology, the low end always eats the high end. It's easier to make an inexpensive product more powerful than to make a powerful product cheaper"
A must read essay "How to Start a Startup" for anyone who has an idea of starting a company or interested in good sensible practical business reading . It is available here
"So if you want to invest two years in something that will help you succeed in business, the evidence suggests you'd do better to learn how to hack than get an MBA"
And the evidence is there are only four MBA CEO's in the Forbes top 50.
"There are plenty of other areas that are just as backward as search was before Google. I can think of several heuristics for generating ideas for startups, but most reduce to this: look at something people are trying to do, and figure out how to do it in a way that doesn't suck"
"You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible"
"In a startup, your initial plans are almost certain to be wrong in some way, and your first priority should be to figure out where. The only way to do that is to try implementing them"
"A 10% improvement in ease of use doesn't just increase your sales 10%. It's more likely to double your sales".
"So if you want to win through better technology, aim at smaller customers"
"If you build the simple, inexpensive option, you'll not only find it easier to sell at first, but you'll also be in the best position to conquer the rest of the market"
"In technology, the low end always eats the high end. It's easier to make an inexpensive product more powerful than to make a powerful product cheaper"
Friday, April 08, 2005
well in my quest to do some "insightful" reading i landed up on quite a few articles regarding Crosssite scripting on the wiki. It gave a very good idea on the security loopholes that could unknowingly be open and with a potential to cause good damage to the business running on the server.
Working on a few sql perf tools came across something called a puma (internal to oracle) which rather than throwing up crude explain plans , explains the sequence of the query execution based on the driving table/index and is very extensive. There is absolutely no inference to be drawn by the person trying to tune a query on seeing the puma report, it is all there .
Working on a few sql perf tools came across something called a puma (internal to oracle) which rather than throwing up crude explain plans , explains the sequence of the query execution based on the driving table/index and is very extensive. There is absolutely no inference to be drawn by the person trying to tune a query on seeing the puma report, it is all there .
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