Archive for July, 2005


Mumbai Marooned (July 26-27, 2005)

Friday, July 29th, 2005 - 9:20 am

We were indeed eluded by our cosy office, we were unaware of what was happening outside. Offices had stop working, people were heading for their homes at around 4:00 pm in the evening, walking all the way. The local train (life-line of Mumbai) had already stop mid-way. Our mobile phones were already dead by then, the landlines followed suit. We had no option but to switch to play CounterStrike, but the pleasure was short-lived as the power supply went away.

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ActionScript Garbage Collection, a Best Practice

Friday, July 22nd, 2005 - 8:23 pm

At the end of last month, I posted an article about Cleansing your ActionScript codes; somewhere there seem I can still add a few more to it. I got few mails regarding the same, on my site log I even found people searching for externalRef and also on MXNA. Read below and I hope the …

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Case Study: Automatic Stream Insertion

Friday, July 22nd, 2005 - 7:31 pm

Yahoo!ǃÙs AdVision automates the process of putting streams into ad spaces. This lets designers focus on what theyǃÙre best at, instead of on the nuts and bolts of bytes and bitrates.

A really good article, Case Study: Automatic Stream Insertion, pretty much in the right time for our Flashcom team when we are about to take …

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Google Copernicus Center is hiring

Friday, July 22nd, 2005 - 6:05 am

Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at their lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007. The opportunity is available only to highly-qualified individuals who are willing to relocate for an extended period of time, are in top physical condition and are …

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AJAX is a Cleansing Agent!

Thursday, July 21st, 2005 - 7:24 pm

I stumble upon something while doing some study. Here is a short story about AJAX.

William Colgate started a candle and soap making company in New York City in 1806. By 1906, the company was making over 3,000 different soaps, perfumes and other products. Colgate Dental Cream was introduced in 1877. In 1864, Caleb Johnson …

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Rich Chart Builder

Thursday, July 21st, 2005 - 5:05 pm

Rich Chart Builder from Blue Pacific is an easy to use chart builder which outputs to SWFs.

I am particularly impressed by the amount of ready-made charts it have. The only put down for me was that I cannot use it in my applications per se. I can neither extend it nor does it allow me …

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IFBIN, Great Software by Example

Thursday, July 21st, 2005 - 2:51 pm

Learn Macromedia Flash and Flex from Industry Experts at IFBIN. IFBIN’s Founder and CEO, Theodore Patrick, have more details.

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Flex Style Explorer

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 - 2:25 pm

I am not sure how I missed this, a free Flex Style Explorer for styling Flex Components via CSS.

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Definition of RIA, the Rich Internet Application

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 - 1:39 pm

Let me have this for my Archives!

Rich Internet Application is defined as

  • use of a high-performance runtime for code, content and communications
  • integration of media types (for instance; video in the same window)
  • a common object model for these multimedia services
  • ability to use and add components, for development efficiency
  • XML data communications with servers
  • online/offline transparency
  • friendly to various …
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 - 11:29 am

The much anticipated 6th book of J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released on July 16, 2005. The release was synchronized all across the globe, including India. I got my copy on the very first day!

We have a quite a few people really into Harry Potter in our development team. In the past coupla days, …

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Sidenotes

Quick notes, scribbles, somehow related to this website and to what I do. Or perhaps I'm just plain lazy to make them into a full article.

12 Hottest Geek Girls on Twitter

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Great Indian Developer Summit 2009

I got a Press Release of the upcoming GIDS '09 and here is an excerpt. The summit's program covers Java, REST, Unit testing, Groovy, Spring, Struts 2.0, SOA, Cloud Computing, Web Services, JRuby, RoR, Ruby, JVM, ...21st Jan, 2009

The flourishing gun market in Pakistan

VICE Travel: Darra, Pakistanby Top-Notch112 (Via: Deep Green Crystals) 20th Jan, 2009

Angry Ringtone for iPhone and others

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IIM Ahmedabad's Leverage 2009

Leverage, the Venture Capital and Private Equity Club of IIM Ahmedabad and the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship bring to you the 1st edition of the Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference on the ...12th Jan, 2009

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