The Backend of Tribal Fusion

October 4th, 2005 India’s global image and reputation is rapidly growing. Top Internet decision makers, PIR, have decided to make India a hub for the technical backend of all new websites, a move that is expected to significantly reduce time to resolve websites.

July 2nd, 2007 Twitter is down again. Initially I was getting down for maintenance messages.

April 21st, 2007 Snap.com provide capability to allow web viewers to get a image preview of pages behind the links. While it sounds like an advantage, in my experience it is a major distraction while viewing the site.

March 23rd, 2006 Overview This is a detailed project proposal along with software system architecture which will give you a clear understanding of the hardware requirements and software design required to automate temperature tracking in Hospitals and other buildings. This shows a highly scalable, low-cost architecture using low-cost temperature sensors from Dallas Semiconductor.

April 5th, 2008 TechCrunch got it from a source that Google plans to launch their BigTable, their proprietary internal database which is used for Google Search, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB Web Service. Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers at Google.

July 26th, 2007 You would be surprised to know that the biggest Internet Explorer issue I am facing while writing rather complex cross-browser javascript code is related to just a comma. In javascript array if you add a comma after the last element in the array then Internet Explorer fails with a variety of undecipherable (Microsoft style) error messages.

May 12th, 2007 Mantis is popular php based defect tracking application which works on top of RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Recently I ported our Windows based Mantis installation to Linux.

August 2nd, 2005 This is a brief compilation of essential resources for those venturing in the world of WebDAV, DeltaV and Slide. Apache Slide Slide is a noteworthy, yet often forgotten, project which provides WebDAV Server and client implementation along with Delta-V support.

July 18th, 2006 H. D. Moore (hdm[at]metasploit.com) has devised a Ruby based search engine that finds malicious windows software (viruses, trojans etc.) using standard Google queries. The Malware search engine finds Web sites hosting malicious files after an user enters the name of a virus or Trojan horse.

April 22nd, 2009 Unlike IBM's failed attempt to acquire Sun Microsystems, the $7.4 billion tendered by Oracle to buy the Santa Clara-based enterprises solutions firm makes good sense for all three companies. It is also gives an honourable exit and hope of a new dawn for a setting Sun, in danger of being gobbled up and swallowed.

January 24th, 2006 I have started working on Taragana's Automatic Machine Translation Plugin Version 2. Here is an update on the progress.

January 23rd, 2009 It’s always great to have something for free. When it comes to sending free sms, there are more services than you can imagine.  Hundreds of websites offer sending SMS services in India.

July 16th, 2007 It is never a good idea to mix syntax with semantics. When comparing JSON with XML this is what first came to my mind.

July 27th, 2009 With the increase in availability and deployment of open source software in personal and commercial environments, the Software libre initiative seems to succeed in its aim of putting an end to the predatory vendor lock-in. Especially, during this  period of economic recession the when IT products development costs are rising, open source software are fast becoming viable alternatives.

February 13th, 2004 To day while going through javablogs, I came across an interesting article on .NET side of story from an ex-java (?) junkie - I miss Java already.. :: http://www.vibhu.info :: Be different...