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Archive for June 2005

The (un)official Sania Mirza Blog

Posted by: anand on: June 17, 2005

Go to Google.
Key in sania mirza blog as the search keywords.
Look at the first result you get.
I am thinking of a new title for this blog already

BumpNet

Posted by: anand on: June 17, 2005

Imagine implementing a queue and not a stack on a user’s access to a public wireless network that only supports a maximum number of connected clients.
So if you are a user of thie Bumpnet network and decide to connect, then the user who is currently first on the queue will be “bumped out”, ie., will [...]

A job well done

Posted by: anand on: June 14, 2005

It is a wonderful feeling meeting your deadlines, let alone beating them! The project I am involved with is more or less complete. We( I and my partner,) are quite satisfied with the way it has evolved. There were some hiccups when in the middle, the bosses here wanted things to be done in a [...]

User Interface Blues

Posted by: anand on: June 14, 2005

With every passing day here, I am getting more and more convinced that designing a good interface is alien to most programmers. The biggest hurdle I feel is the reluctance of people to accept that a simple and neat UI can also be eye catching, besides scoring high on usability scales.
All people seem to want [...]

MVC Architecture and user authentication

Posted by: anand on: June 10, 2005

Something has been baffling me for a while. Why do developers, using the MVC framewok, check for user authentication on a JSP (which is supposed to be a strictly view component), and not in the Controller???

Sania Mirza and this blog

Posted by: anand on: June 8, 2005

Sania Mirza and this blog share a very special relationship. No not because she is a contributing writer or a guest editor here, but simply because of the number of hits she has attracted to this blog! There was a time when people in counts of hundreds would be here looking for sania Mirza pictures [...]

The world is flat and India rocks

Posted by: anand on: June 4, 2005

Thomas Friedman’s new book, The World is Flat, is already at the top of NYT best selling non-fiction list! From The Indian Express:
Indeed, there is a huge famine breaking out all over India today, an incredible hunger. But it is not for food. It is a hunger for opportunity that has been pent up like [...]

Time to switch to steroids?

Posted by: anand on: June 3, 2005

I was wearing a red shirt yesterday. And yet achieved nothing!

Firefox: Slow Startup after periods of inactivity

Posted by: anand on: June 3, 2005

The slow startup of Firefox browser after long periods of inactivity, like minimized window or other, may become history soon! This will be fixed in Firefox 1.1 as Brendan Eich marks it as blocking 1.8b3.
(via minghong)

SMS in Morse Code

Posted by: anand on: June 3, 2005

Morse Texter lets you key in your SMS in Morse Code.


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