Web 2.0

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 [...]


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 [...]


Can I Trust my Open ID ?

This is what I see, when I try to use my Open ID credentials to comment on a blogspot blog.
I seriously doubt, how reliable is this so called “Single Sign On” solution for the Web 2.0.
Poor exception handling ? Huh ?


PicLense - Browse the Web like a 3D Presentation Show (Firefox Only)

PicLense is a highly creative and performant Add-on for Firefox which can give you a decent experience for any website with lots of pictures on it. You can literally turn the website in to a showcase of pictures with an interactive zoom in, zoom out, drag feature set. Download PicLense
 
Try the following page once [...]


Sync your browser to any computer (Firefox only)

I use multiple computers at home and office. Some of them are portable and some are desktops and servers too. For me, the biggest problem on this earth is using browsers at different computers with different set of settings and bookmarks. How cool it would be if I can have my browser be with me [...]