Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
My personal preference goes for Python rather than Rails. Ruby was too... magical for me to understand at times; and it was too magical for me to comprehend how they worked at the back. I missed the database schema migration on Rails though. Unit testing was done easier.Django is written ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Adobe Thermos looks quite promising. I tend to believe the future of Internet Applications lies in offline syncing and RIAs. :)Next Gen Apps Won't Be Pushed Around By the Browser - ReadWriteWeb
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Tired and Sick of Social Networks? Sign up for Hatebook - An anti-social utility that disconnects you from the things YOU HATE. :PHatebook – Welcome to Hatebook
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Awesome innovation by Johnny Lee - Virtual Reality using the WiiRemote!! This will change the future of 3D gaming more. Super exciting!Other than gaming, what other uses can this technology be used for? Virtual conference? Can't imagine having virtual conferences with this technology. Hmm..YouTube - Head Tracking for Desktop VR ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
It appeared that previously, RFID tags can only identify groups of objects. Any attempt to track objects individually (for example a specific bottle of shampoo as opposed to the entire brand of shampoos on sale) was costly and ineffective. The advancement in RFID technology now solves this problem.RFID reader can ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
An excellent graphical comparison between Google's App Engine and Amazon EC2. Google seems to offer a better whole product solution that Amazon EC2 because of their ability to leverage on web frameworks, toolkits and their social graphs.
Amazon seems to be stronger on the infrastructure side - The flexibility to integrate ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Valid points made. But it does not address one key issue - how difficult it is for business guys to convince smart hackers to work together.Does a Business Guy have a Place in Software Startups? - Tony Wright dot com It turns out that it’s not so simple as ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Y Combinator is a venture firm based in the States which provides funding, networks and mentorship for early stage web technology startups. The underlying philosophy of the founders are that young hackers are smart, and should start their own company than to be miserably stuck working in cubicles.Peter Christensen toyed ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
A good checklist to guard against cross site scripting attacks. I believe most of the web frameworks (especially RoR, CakePHP and Django) out there should have in-built protection against all these attacks?XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheat Sheet
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I'm not sure whether this news is positive or negative. On one hand, Google is making everything free for everyone. On the other hand, free web applications edges out small web startups who needs the income to sustain themselves. It's interesting to observe how sustainable a business model based on ...
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