Is there a method to Google’s madness?

April 14th, 2005 Privacy invasion behemoths ChoicePoint and LexisNexis have lost control of sensitive data in the past, but deliberately covered it up because no law required them to come clean, executives from both outfits confessed Wednesday during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the recent epidemic of ID theft plaguing the USA. Numerous past breaches went without notification, ChoicePoint President and COO Douglas Curling admitted under questioning from Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (Republican, Pennsylvania).

April 21st, 2005 Voice of concern against Google Search History Tool

February 12th, 2004 Challenge: Resizing applet from within Java code. For example say the applet code calculates that the applet needs more space than it has been allocated, then how to go about it? Last time when faced with this problem I solved it with a nifty piece of Javascript method.

October 27th, 2008 The best way to suppress unchecked or other warnings is to fix the cause of the warning. However in some rare cases, the warning is incorrect and there is no logical way to solve it without compromising the intended functionality.

March 1st, 2007 Most (well written) PHP programs recognize GET from POST requests and handle them appropriate. However most of them are not aware of HEAD requests and handle them identical to GET.

October 22nd, 2007 Communication between Java applets has been an interesting topic from the early days of Java. There are several esoteric ways to communicate like using Javascript as a bridge.

September 15th, 2005 In PHP, unlike Java or C++, $this has to be explicitly used to refer to variables within a class. The value of $this is determined by the context in which it is called.

February 17th, 2006 Google's services today encompass almost every aspect of average users internet experience. They have also ventured in providing the data pipe.

August 14th, 2007 Simple things should be simple. While starting with ExtJS, I saw a screencast on Grid which used a rather dubious method of making an AJAX call using an actual form element.

September 13th, 2005 Google has put up an interesting audio-visual presentation (read Flash) explaining how to use and troubleshoot AdSense in your webpages. After completing the demo you should be able to: Locate the ad code in your account Copy and paste your ad code Determine where to paste the ad code Implement the ad code using two different types of WYSIWYG software Editors using a code view feature Editors using a HTML insert function Troubleshoot additional problems Find answers to frequently asked questions Experience it here.

January 22nd, 2004 Google decided to jump into the social networking bandwagon with the launching of Orkut. Social networking can have a big impact on search engine results as the user's home pages on social networking sites such as Ryze & Friendster are closely connected to each other.

March 9th, 2009 Years ago when computers becoming apart of our life, people thought one day this electronic brain would be able answer almost anything asked to it. Computers  can do miracles, but never answer a factual question.

August 10th, 2004 As a model of XP development (done at a few thousand feet above ground) I was expecting a solid bug free transperant code for JUnit. I noticed few interesting bugs & surprising features in the code.

June 22nd, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian scientists have developed a new method for transmitting data with light that may lead to the development of teleportation technology and super-fast quantum computers. According to a report in www.news.com.au, the research team, from the Australian National University, developed a new approach to generating quantum entanglement in beams of light using only two parts.

May 14th, 2006 Memo to SAJAX team: sajax_init() serves no useful purpose. It is an empty method.