Wednesday, March 30, 2005

apachefriends.org - xampp

The distribution for Windows 98, NT, 2000 and XP. This version contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, Turck MMCache, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.

Monday, March 28, 2005

[1.0] A Guided Tour Of Awk

Awk the SQL of Linux...
A wonderful tool,

WARNING: Highly Addictive

Thursday, March 24, 2005

An Industry at Risk

If you are reading this blog... Then you must almost definately be in a IT industry...
Please read this article which is against Patents... reason being.. just take a look at some of the patents that are aquired


  • IBM holds patent #4,965,765 which covers the use of different colors to distinguish the nesting level of nested expressions.

  • Patent #5,249,290 covers assignment of client requests to the server process having the least load.

  • Patent #4,941,125 covers using a digital camera in conjunction with character recognition software to store and index documents on a CD ROM.

  • # And IBM really does charge small companies 1% of royalties to license a single software patent, and 5% for its entire portfolio.

Internet & Web - Web Content

Developer.Apple.com provides the WebDevelopers very decent and useful articles, from Fonts to XMLHTTPRequest to DOM and CSS

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

SitePoint Forums - Javascript - Usefull Tips & Tricks

no need to explain what the link may contain ;)
Apache Ant Demystified[Java and J2EE]

Little bit of Java for now... and a nice tool for it ...
Apache Ant, a nice tool to complile stuff with other intelligent tasks.... !

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

PHP HOW-TO

After a long time... a PHP link :)
Controllable Navigation Bars with JavaScript, Part 1

Nice article if you want to have hide / unhide navigation bars something similar to SitePoint's navigation. (As of today ;) )

Monday, March 21, 2005

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 Released
Mozilla has released Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2, It is basically a security update of their previous stable version 1.0

Thursday, March 17, 2005

EPIC 2014 - Hosted By: Ido

This one takes us into future year 2014 ,where Google, Amazon lead us to a journey where every article, news, blog that we read, hear see is filtered, customized from a zillion posts, articles, news items.

Sunday, March 13, 2005

XMLHttpRequest Usability Guidelines | Baekdal.com
Think you know how to program the AJAX way !?
Here are some guidelines for GUI, and other stuff
Login Demonstration using XMLHTTPRequest
The above one is a nice Login Demonstration, where the author uses the "AJAX" method to get Logged

Friday, March 11, 2005

Future of the Mozilla Application Suite: No Official Mozilla 1.8, Community Transition Plan Unveiled - MozillaZine Talkback

:( A sad story,
From today on there would be no official releases of Mozilla Application Suite (a.k.a Mozilla SeaMonkey)
Mozilla would be concentrating their efforts towards Firefox and Thunderbird

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures

By - Dr. Roy Thomas Fielding

The World Wide Web has succeeded in large part because its software architecture has been designed to meet the needs of an Internet-scale distributed hypermedia system. The Web has been iteratively developed over the past ten years through a series of modifications to the standards that define its architecture. In order to identify those aspects of the Web that needed improvement and avoid undesirable modifications, a model for the modern Web architecture was needed to guide its design, definition, and deployment.

Software architecture research investigates methods for determining how best to partition a system, how components identify and communicate with each other, how information is communicated, how elements of a system can evolve independently, and how all of the above can be described using formal and informal notations. My work is motivated by the desire to understand and evaluate the architectural design of network-based application software through principled use of architectural constraints, thereby obtaining the functional, performance, and social properties desired of an architecture. An architectural style is a named, coordinated set of architectural constraints.

This dissertation defines a framework for understanding software architecture via architectural styles and demonstrates how styles can be used to guide the architectural design of network-based application software. A survey of architectural styles for network-based applications is used to classify styles according to the architectural properties they induce on an architecture for distributed hypermedia. I then introduce the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style and describe how REST has been used to guide the design and development of the architecture for the modern Web.

REST emphasizes scalability of component interactions, generality of interfaces, independent deployment of components, and intermediary components to reduce interaction latency, enforce security, and encapsulate legacy systems. I describe the software engineering principles guiding REST and the interaction constraints chosen to retain those principles, contrasting them to the constraints of other architectural styles. Finally, I describe the lessons learned from applying REST to the design of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol and Uniform Resource Identifier standards, and from their subsequent deployment in Web client and server software.

Thursday, March 03, 2005

हिंदी युनिकोड में टाईपराईटर

ये हे ऐक बहुत ही अच्‍छा ऐडिटर, जिसमें आप हिंदी युनिकोड में टाईप कर पाऐं गे

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

adaptive path | ajax: a new approach to web applications

This one... neatly expains what goes through XMLHTTPRequest...

The term "Ajax" is coined where XMLHTTPRequest, Javascript, CSS