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How to disable IE Nag : This page contains both secure and insecure content…blah blah blah

This is probably one of the irritating nags that anyone would encounter with Internet Explorer (Including IE7).
This page contains both secure and non-secure items. Do you want to download the non-secure items?
  One would encounter this message at least once a day while surfing web. I am not sure if IE team is really looking [...]


What’s new in Firefox 3 Release Candidate

Mozilla has released the Release candidate of thier browser Firefox 3. Mozilla has made several enhancements in this release compared to the release “Beta 5”. Some of the enhancements are really super impressive. Let’s see what’s in there for us…
One Click Site Info :  Though this feature looks stale for now, it could become [...]


Indian Space Program has created history

Today, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has created a marvelous milestone in the world history of Satellite launch programs.
ISRO used thier state of art launch vehicle PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) to put 10 satellites in to outer space at one time. The launch was made out of Satish Dhawan Space Center.
You can [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 7

12:40 PM
Session : Women in IT By Kavita Vemuri, Technical Manager, IIIT-H
Kavita Vemuri delivered a splendid Off-beat topic on Women in IT and problems and how people think different, studies and statistics. The statistics that were demoed are very compelling.
She also talked on how things are seen from Women perspective.
I think this is one [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 6

11:45 AM : Tea Break ! It’s suffocating due to some problem with AC system in Google !
Session : Amit Aggarwal talks about Build a Successful Blog.
Amit talks about his experiences around doing blogging for living….i.e Professionally…he is a well known tech blogger who get indexed by techmeme.com from India.
He blogs @ labnol.org.
Amit has [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 5

11:24 AM
Session : Lighting the Web, Silverlight 2 By M.S.V Janakiram, Microsoft.
I somehow feel people tend to show MS as a devil and people doesn’t like them, but the fact remains that they use MS technology in and out in thier life. This session was started with a disclaimer that Janakiram will be talking much [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 4

11:00 AM
Hysea Representatives talked on their activities and events. Boring  for developers like me !
Session : Prasad Y, CMD of  teleonto talking about his experiences about Product development. Boring again. More like self perspective session and people seems to be taking an unofficial break in Bar Camp….:-)
I will take a break too….
-Happy BarCamping !
Technorati [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 3

10:47 AM
Session : Building Low Cost Scalable Web Apps - Ramesh Rajamani, Compassites, Bangalore.
Session seems to be focussing on High Availability, Performance and Storage solutions planning for such demanding applications. I feel, this session is more technology centric rather than practice centric (which I hate to listen in events like barcamp where people think technology [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 2

10:30 AM
The first session is kicked off post introductory welcome by Ramesh Loganathan, VP, Pramati.
Sanjeev is doing Behavioral Driven Development  (BDD) now. He is from a little startup called “Corners“
This session started with Test Driven Development introduction…
BDD focuses more on defining the behavior of the system rather than designing the code. This comes [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 1

Barcamp 5 @ Hyderabad is scheduled today and Google India is hosting the show for us. Thanks to Google
9:30 AM : I reached Google’s office at around 9:30 AM. Entry is super smooth (took just 5 mins including an official entry for my laptop) with pleasant welcome from Google’s reception.
Googlers turned their Cafe [...]