Finally I managed to squeeze out some time and get a much needed job done - i.e. devote a separate section in my blog to Coding. I’m primarily a .NET & PHP coder and I intend to showcase little pieces of my work in there. The stuff will mostly consist of what I dabble around with in my free time.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been extremely busy designing a CMS (Content Management System) for one of my clients as a result of which, regular visitors may have noticed a sharp drop in my frequency of posting. I’ve more or less completed the work there - the outcome being a full-fledged CMS that leverages the AJAX technique to the maximum. One of the by-products was a AJAX based Currency Converter, which I’m going to use to roll off the new section.
Along with each code snippet that I publish in this section, I also intend to run a series of tutorials highlighting the various nuances of coding & related tips & tricks. It’s going to take a while to plan & organise this section properly. Till then … 
You think you can turn your back to what has come to be “man’s best friend” for 24 whole hours? If you are brave enough, do let Denis Bystrov and Michael Taylor know. These experimenters have proposed March 24th, 2007 as the World Shutdown Day in an attempt to figure out if we can really cope up with a life …
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I just came across an interesting tool that calculates your blog’s worth in dollars. The applet is written by Dane Carlson who runs the Business Opportunities Weblog and can be accessed via this link.
The applet is powered by Technorati’s API with the help of which it computes and displays your blog’s worth based on the same link to dollar …
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For people like me, who download a lot from the net and work with a wide-varitey of files spread over different drives, it’s an eternal headache to navigate between drives and folders every time I try to save some file. The common file dialog that is brought up …
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Yep ! At last it has really happened. Gmail is now officially open for public sign-up. No more invites and no more of haggling other’s for those invites either. This was long overdue though.
Past couple of months there’s been an incessant trail of rumours announcing the public release of Gmail - none of which could be verified. Apparently it was …
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Intel, the world’s largest chip-manufacturer is all out to set a ground-breaking record that’ll far surpass all it’s prior achievements. The brand new introduction is going to be an 80-core chip that crunches numbers at the rate of 1 trillion floating-point operations/second. That too running at a 3.2-GHz clock speed with a total power consumption of 62 watts, to yield …
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Am sure all of us have done it at some point of time i.e. just cleared out our Recycle Bins and then to our horror realised that some really important file has also taken a hike with it. Or maybe you were simply trying to act tech savvy on your friend’s computer and used Shift+Del to successfully wipe out a …
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PayPal, the reknowned online payment service has recently rolled out a hardware key, that adds an extra layer of security to your online transactions.
How does the so-called “Security Key” work?
The key is actually a small hardware device that works in conjunction with your PayPal and/or eBay account. Everytime you try to login into your account, you’ll be asked for a …
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