I just reviewed my E61i for FoneArena
Check out the review here and post your feedback.
Month: August 2007
Feedburner Email Subscriptions Gone since Sunday
Hey Folks,
I have lost all Email subscribers for my mobile blog
Damn it was showing 153 till yesterday.
Can you see the sudden dip in the graph.
The Feedburner Email Subscription Service is missing from this section today.
It was present yesterday as you can see below
Don’t know wtf is wrong.
No info on the Feedburner blog
Page Prediction is Dead
I always have a passion for monitoring pageranks of my websites and other websites.
I use the Google toolbar and Live PR (currently down) for monitoring current page rank.
For Page Rank Prediction / Future Rank I have used a lot of websites like
http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction and http://www.rustybrick.com/pagerank-prediction.php
iwebtool and rusty used to work like a charm, but not anymore.
Has Google banned users from finding out future page rank ? or is the algorithm these tools are based on a failure for a change in Google’s Algo?
Only one tool at PageRankPrediction seems to be working now.
Web Project Management
Managing a Web Project is a challenging task. I’m not talking about the Project Manager’s role alone. Consider every Individual in the process, right from the client to the developer.
The hierarchy below is pretty common for any web based project.
- Customer
- Project Manager
- Technical Lead
- Senior and Junior Developers
Each person has some amount of responsibility on his shoulders. And it’s not the managers and leads alone who are responsible for running the show on the whole. Even a developer must be capable of doing some Project Management from the developer’s angle like tracking open issues, working based on priority and deadlines.
While the project manager’s role is to track what each team member does, It’s up to each member to be at least aware of what is his current responsibility. It’s better that the technical status of issues is managed by Tech Lead and developers as most often Managers are meant to be tackling issues like scheduling , planning, billing etc.
I will post a few more posts on Web Project Management – a Developer’s View and a Manager’s View and a Customer’s View
DataPager in .Net 3.5
Pagination is something we face eachtime when we build a web application. My project needed some kind of paging functionality last week and we were evaluating various options. I hate SQL Server for one reason and embrace MySQL for the ANSI defying LIMIT clause.
Pagination in MySQL is simply fun. Just say LIMIT starting record number,items per page and Voila you get the wanted result set.
Pagination in SQLServer is not that easy.You can however achieve paging using some work arounds like ROWORDER and ROWCOUNT in SQL Server
You need to be passing around the PrimaryKey and must sort the data based on the key for the pagination.You need to add a Numeric Primary Ke if your schema does not have one.
DataPager is a brilliant new Pagination Control available since .Net 3.5.
You can use it with the Repeater Control or the new ListView Control.
Its not like the DataGrid which uses tables for the markup. You can use it with Divs.
I was playing with Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Beta 2 when i found this control.
Akamai CDN Prices – the Battle Continues
The Content Delivery Network Market is hotter than ever now. The number of websites delivering content to a Global Audience is on the rise.
I came across an interesting post my Om Malik in this context.
Akamai Technologies (AKAM) has lost over $3 billion in market cap in the last one month due to increased costs and reduced prices due to heavy competition. Akamai has a presence in India as well with a lot of Indian websites thronging them for collocation. A long time customer of Akamai in India is rediff.
Just see the ping time for rediff india’s homepage
Reply from 220.227.238.168: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=62
VSNL ,Bharti, Reliance, Sify have their data-centre businesses but the costs are to high. VSNL has been there for a long time .
I would debate later on the difference between partnering with a CDN vs getting up a dedicated server cluster.
Will be interesting to watch how CDN players / prices perform in the current web2.0 scenario.
Online Video is currently booming and broadband penetration is also rising.
Google answers unicorn horn question
You must have heard of Google Calculator . You can type math expressions in the query and get the result.
Now try this link
Only Unicorn
But you will see no answer for a Bull , Ox, Rhino or any other creature
Google programmers are known to have some sense of humor.
Really funny.
Nokia E61i lost all contacts
I feel I made a mistake by choosing the Nokia E61i. The so called Enterprise phone does not give a damn warning when deleting all contacts when uninstalling the BlackBerry Connect software. The cost – lost all my contacts and calendar entries on the phone.
Luckily I have an old backup of my 6630 to give me some peace.
The phone does not come pre-installed with BlackBerry connect. You have to manually initiate the setup. I did it and paid the price for it.
But not a single warning anywhere. I’m afraid Nokia loosing its trustworthiness !