Ajay on February 13th, 2007

My extensive development and maintenance work requires me to work with a lot of code. The worst part of maintenance is keeping track of what changes have taken place. Most of the time I don’t need to worry about the software I am upgrading.
However, I need to worry about the same whenever I have modified [...]

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Ajay on January 11th, 2007

This one is for PHP developers out there. I started getting my hands dirty with PHP about a year and half back when I started developing WordPress plugins and themes.
Given my little exposure, I’ve still got a long way to go to even call myself a “PHP Developer”. And hence this article is ideal for [...]

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Ajay on January 9th, 2007

Color is one of the most important elements while designing, be it graphics or webpages. A good color combination can work wonders and a bad one … well!
I browse though a huge number of sites every single day. Every site has something unique to offer and many a times this uniqueness tends to be the [...]

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Ajay on January 6th, 2007

With the Web 2.0, it is great to see new startups, each one trying to outbeat the other. The ones who benefit are us users.
Every once in a while we see a unique concept as is the case with Leafletter.

Michael Patrick wrote in to tell me about their launch. Will be extremely lazy and let [...]

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Ajay on December 19th, 2006

Digg has updated its page design which has received a good amount of news today.
However, one report that interested me the most was the post on Mashable.
The social news site Digg announced some updates today that are generating lots of fawning, as usual. The changes are neat, but it seems that Digg is being congratulated [...]

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Ajay on December 12th, 2006

Google has released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) source code under an Apache License 2.0.
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java development framework that lets you escape the matrix of technologies that make writing AJAX applications so difficult and error prone. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java [...]

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Ajay on December 5th, 2006

If you have just started a new website, it can get really difficult to bring in some visitors. I usually promote my new site via my other sites. While this is good, it means I am limiting my horizons to only visitors to my current site and that too only a percentage of these may [...]

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Ajay on November 21st, 2006

The Google blog has announced that Google Page Creator has just received a major upgrade.
Features that have been added include complete image editing. Images that you upload to the page can be rotated, lightened, darkened, cropped.
I gave this a shot. The functionality is basic but it does what it promises.
Earlier you could create only one [...]

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Ajay on November 16th, 2006

This definitely is good news for all webmasters. Yahoo! and Microsoft have joined Google in supporting the Sitemap Protocol.
If you are new to this, Sitemaps is a good way to tell search engine robots which pages in your site you definitely want indexed.
While not a guarantee that they will be indexed, it definitely [...]

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Ajay on November 13th, 2006

It was long awaited and finally Sun has release Java under an open-source license.
Sun’s implementation of JSE (Java Platform Standard Edition) and a buildable implementation of JME (Java Platform Micro Edition) will be the first to be released under this new license, with plans to release JEE (Java Platform Enterprise Edition) too.
Sun had already opensourced [...]

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