15
Jan
I was trying to make a page XHTML compatible when this message came up
Line 32 column 185: non SGML character number 146.I got 22 such errors.
MS Word was the culprit. The content for the page came from a doc typed by someone - God knows whom . I saved the doc as .txt and the the errors indicated by the XHTML validator turned into question marks.
Fixed them and the page is now
14
Jan
Was reading some stuff on how Ajax can pull down your Search Engine rankings. More than the rankings , its the change in Page View model that adds a lot of confusion to Web Marketers. Tools like Google Analytics might help to a certain extent for tracking AJAXified sites.
Many big guys are using an smart alternate strategy to display the content using AJAX for supported browsers and in Native form (pages ) to non ajax browsers / spiders.
7
Dec
I have worked quite a few databases but most frequently land up using MySQL.
I have been working a lot on SQL Server 2005 recently at work.
Some things I love about MySQL are as follows.
High Speed of Operation
If you are talking about high speed database access and operation, there’s no better choice. MySQL became popular mainly due to this. Oracle and SQL server may be enterprise ready and more robust when compared to the database from the land of Dolphins.But I just love the speed of MySQL.
Command line interface
Simple yet powerful command line gives access entire feature set. In times of Server crashes or high traffic, using the command line via SSH is such a great possibility
Cool tools
phpMyAdmin and this database go along so well. MySQL query browser and Administrator are decent tools. Sqlyog is also good enough. There’s a commercial product called Navicat which is quite fabulous.
Keeps SQL really simple
In the land of MySQL, you need not be a SQL guru or know the ANSI SQL 92 standard . You just need to have something people call ” Common Sense ” . Its fairly easy to translate real world requirements into mysql queries. If you have worked in SQL server , I am sure you would know how much of crap SQL you need to know for simple operations. MySQL might not be the Enterprise Database but it certainly follows the KISS (Keep it Simple and Stupid) approach.
Really fast to setup
I remember using this the backend for my final year project. Its just so easy to get this one running.Be it the official installer,zip or 3rd party tools like Xampp
Nice variety of storage engines
MyISAM, InnoDB ,Heap ,Merge are some of the storage engines you can use for your database.
Cross Platform
Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris or even on VMware.
Light Hardware Requirements
MySQL is known to eat some amount of RAM, but its works fairly well even on the most simple configurations like a AMD 1.6GHz 256MB RAM Machine. Short learning curve Pretty easy to learn
Huge User Base
This is one of the best points about MySQL. Since its free , so many people use it and so you can easily find free help.
24
Nov
How are Search engines going to work in 2007 ?
Things might not change much , but just get the basics right.
via [read]
11
Nov
Woah !! This is cool !! I can run PHP5 code only under a certain directory by adding these lines to the .htaccess file in the dir.
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
Sounds like i will be moving all my php4 development to php5 from now
30
Oct
WURFL stands for Wireless Universal Resource File. It is part of a FOSS community effort focused on the problem of presenting content on the wide variety of wireless devices. The WURFL itself is an XML configuration file which contains information about device capabilities and features for a variety of mobile devices. Device information is contributed by developers around the world and the WURFL is updated frequently reflecting new wireless devices coming on the market.
http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/
30
Oct
Was trying Interfaces in .Net . Had a necessity to sort a set of Objects based on a criteria. The IComparable interface comes to the rescue. You can inherit the ICompable interface like this
public class ClassName: IComparable
private string m_Name;
public int Length = 0;
public string Name {
get { return m_Name; }
set { m_Name = value; }
}
I need to add a CompareTo method also in the class.
public int CompareTo (object obj) {
ClassName cls= (ClassName) obj;
return this.Name.CompareTo (ClassName) .Name);
}
Now I can use a Array.Sort method on the Array of objects based on the criteria Name.
27
Oct
Sun Microsystems announces the open-sourcing of the core Java platform. The announcement was made by Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday morning.
22
Oct
I major upgrade is scheduled for one of my projects. Most of you will know which one..
I have been avoiding XML till now but this time round I cant escape without using the same..
I know a bit of XML but using it with PHP is what is puzzling me. PHP5 has built in XML support but PHP4 not much.
Need to use some 3rd party classes I believe.
Building the new system is going to take some considerable time for sure, but its worth the effort.
9
Oct
BlogCamp.in: Six months after the smashing success of BarCamp, Chennai came up with an event tagged as India’s Biggest Blog Unconference. True to the tag, the event attracted participants from around the globe and as many as 60 volunteers owned various parts of the unconference.
After BlogCamp.in: Two weeks later, the same team met again and thought of a DEMO like event for India and Indian products. After some heavy discussions, the event has been named as PROTO. It should be noted that Palm, Java and many other great products were launched at DEMO. Read the DEMOblog.
PROTO cannot be in unconference mode because it will become a bigger BarCamp. This event is one place where we get venture capitalists (VCs) and entrepreuners together so that some of the best brains and ideas in the Indian sphere can get funded. We are aiming for a one-on-one coordination between the entrepreuners and VCs. That is, number of VC companies will be greater than or equal to the number of teams presenting at the event. Ofcourse, there will be a lot of press coverage.
Teams who think they have innovative products will be asked to register at the website that is expected to come up shortly. After that, each team will be reviewed by an expert team from PROTO who have an eye for future trends and the ability to judge products which promise to be the next huge wave. Some teams will be shortlisted for presentation at the event. They will also have the opportunity to have a face-to-face meeting with interested VCs who will gather at the event. The place and time of the event will be announced shortly.
The main reason for coming up with such an event is that, even though there are a huge number of IT companies in India, there is not enough innovation happening on that front. It is like yet another government job where we get a good salary, pension, wife, 2 kids etc. This face of India should change. Entrepreuners should be encouraged. Events like PROTO are a step towards that. As DEMO had set the stage for entrepreuners world-wide, PROTO hopes to be India’s defacto platform for staging new products and technologies. With a pretty huge population and talent raising day-by-day, I think innovation shouldn’t be a problem. It is all in the mindset of the people.
Interested? Read the discussions we had during our first meeting. Our community tech blog says, “India has the potential to become a technological innovation hotspot. It must be noted that, it won’t be the IT majors who make this happen, but startups”. Vijay says, “We are the future of India. Either embrace us, or fear us :)”.
Thanks to Ashwin for the post
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