Anand’s Blog

Somebody posts something about a bot’s (supposedly from Google) hyperactivity on a calendar oriented site and then some people link to some very irrelevant blog posts about possible things Google could provide and then what you get is a complete speculation in the whole Internet community of Google building a killer calendar application.
It would be [...]

ZDNet.com has a very interesting article that raises a very simple question: What should be the priority of Open Source? FREE or OPEN?
The free side sees complex software licenses as an enemy, binding each algorithm to different conditions, making real progress impossible.
The open side calls the GPL the “most restrictive” possible license, because it [...]

In a world that is ever so cruelly dominated by IE, we are fortunate to have with us alternatives. And so we all get busy figuring out which is the best alternative! Not everyone will love Firefox, or for that matter hate IE, and understandably so. Individual preferences vary and so does the usage pattern. [...]

A few days ago, I had the opportunity of attending a talk by management guru C. K. Prahlad, the propounder of the concept of “core competence”. Amongst a variety of topics he had covered in his lecture, he talked of the recent evolution of the entrepreneurial culture in the country, the needs of grassroots innovation, [...]

Sheer demonstration of ther power of open source.

The world is on fire!

Whoever believes that there isn’t any difference between a programmer and a ’software engineer’ is living in an illusionary world. By the way, when I talk of a software engineer here, I refer to a person who tries to address the requirements of the client applying the rules of engineering systematically (I don’t understand why [...]

I am currently playing around with c|net’s Newsburst. It might just be another web based RSS reader, but certainly it looks nice to use.
What is interesting here is that this reader is provided by one of the biggest news providers via RSS itself. This launch of newsburst follows the launch of similar branded RSS readers [...]

From Business Week, What exactly are web services?

Web services refer to a set of programming standards used to make different types of software talk to each other over the Internet, without human intervention.
Like Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that’s the face of all Web programming, no one owns these technologies.
Web services can also refer to technology [...]

Blogger has just overhauled its comment system. And an overhaul it certainly is. The work done by the team is simply fantastic. This new system now comes with:
- option to show or hide the original blog post that the comments relate to.
- display of any comments that have already been made.
- and the profile photos [...]

This Friday happens to be a special day. No not just because I pay an honoured visit to the Lecture Theater for Prof M’s sake, but for it also is my good friend’s birthday. (You might recall him as the one with Orkut profile in red boxers! ) Now, ever so cruelly, when everybody was [...]