Archive for November, 2009

Journey Of Microsoft ASP.NET Developers : Cowboys To Craftsmen?

Monday, November 23, 2009 8:00 No Comments

Quite an interesting way to put the Journey of ASP.NET (developers) from ASP.NET Page based design to MVC based applications. Hope I am not taking it out of context. Its not explicit, but it is written all over the wall. Nevertheless, towers of abstraction and magic by Visual Studio often make developers ignore the inner [...]

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Google SPDY For a 2X Faster Web

Thursday, November 12, 2009 16:40 No Comments

Google is really obsessed with "Speed". Google’s browser Chrome is already the fastest browser in the world (2X the nearest competitor) and here is some news that will just blow your mind. Your web could get 2X faster. Wow!!!! Today we’d like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced "SPeeDY", an early-stage [...]

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Curated Audience As ‘Everyone’ is clueless

Friday, November 6, 2009 9:00 No Comments

Targeting a specific group of audience for any kind of product is not new mantra. But when Seth Godin talks about it, he hits the nail right on the head so that everybody gets it. Here is an excerpt that exemplifies it: The problem with “everyone” is that in order to reach everyone or teach everyone or [...]

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How To Choose A Database For Your Next Application ?

Thursday, November 5, 2009 22:38 No Comments

Well, it depends. Want to know what options are available and how to choose one for your own application, read this wonderful article by James Hamilton. Though this article does not include all possible options (particularly those on the cloud), but its a nice introduction to classify databases based on what you need. Relational databases [...]

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WordPress 2.8.5 : XML Brackets Stripped Off When Using XMLRPC

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 22:28 No Comments

One of the best features of WordPress is the ability to upgrade to a newer version by just clicking on a link from the dashboard. So, whenever I see a new version available, I just go ahead and upgrade to the latest version. Just a couple of days of back I upgraded to 2.8.5. Everything [...]

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