Month: September 2006

The purpose of me moving to this domain name was to become the most important Varun on google and other SEs .

Now this site ranks 6th out of 1,210,000 results for the keyword Varun

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I had the need to store user form data in a array and then put the array into and arraylist . Now I put the array list into the session and accessed the session object in another page to display the entire contents of the array list.

I had to typecast the session data and get them into an array list.
Now I had code file, filename.aspx.cs which had the class definition, methods ,constructors and the getters,setters.

Will post the code soon.

I was trying to figure out whether ASP.Net is better than PHP. I have been in PHP for some 2 years now and also tried my hands on ASP. Now trying my hands on Asp.Net

PHP’s OO is not the best even if PHP5 has pretty good OO support.
Found these interesting reads in this regard.
Sitepoint Debate

Sitepoint Top 10 Myths

PHP vs Asp.net Redux

Microsoft Whitepaper

I will be working on .Net from now. Really excited about it. I have worked with VB and ASP but never got to work on .Net

So expect a lot of M$ coverage on this site from now 🙂

Today I was playing with my pet site FoneArena.com

Was figuring out ways of improving the site. And I had not added some highly accessed columns in a table as Indexes.

So i checked out what diff a query was going to make with and without an Index.

consider this simple query :

[code lang=”sql”]

SELECT Distinct col from table ORDER BY col ASC LIMIT 10

[/code]

The above query took 0.0034 seconds to execute

Now how indexing helped me reduce the query time to 0.0009 seconds.

Can you believe that ?

nearly 400% of time saved just by adding an Index.

Sudhir Syal covered the blogcamp.in for Madras Plus.

Really great to catch up with a friend from School.

FoneArena.com got a mention in the article

Headlines Today was also there during blogcamp.

I spoke on what blogcamp was all about.

But missed the telecast on TV

Rohini Mohan covered the event for CNN IBN

I am spotted in the video a few times .

[youtube]4AxML5ceqwY[/youtube]

Today I needed to test a bunch of code which is given here

The article talks about using Dojo and JSON for AJAX applications.

There is a sample application available on the site for the article.Its a zip file when extracted

has the following structure.

• web

• actions
  example1.jsp
  example2.jsp
  example3.jsp
  index.jsp
  js
  WEB-INF
  welcome.jsp.html
  

java

README.txt

build.xml

Now i need to build a WAR ( Web Archive ) for deployment on my container – Tomcat.

Continue reading Build and Deploy WAR file using Java alone

I am planning to Digital Camera as I currently dont have one. My budget is around 15k Max.

I might go for a Sony Cybershot DSC-S600 or a Nikon Coolpix S6

The Nikon Coolpix attracts me because of the Wi-fi feature. I can easily transfer pics from the cam to my laptop.