There were many incidents, revolutions that erupted before the First War of Independence in 1857. However, that particular movement in 1857, which also goes by the term “Indian Mutiny” or the “Sepoy Mutiny”, really ignited the Indian independence movement which eventually got its Independence on 15th August, 1947 from the British and foreign rules. The movement involved many political and social organizations and armed and unarmed struggle. Many political ideas also added to the movement.
60th year of India’s Independence
— By Brajeshwar
10 tips to reduce the burgeoning IT costs, to a cheaper, better IT
— By Brajeshwar
I just read an article from Nicholas Carr and I like it enough to reproduce it here. How to cut on IT budgets and still have the computing capabilities a company needs?
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
— By Brajeshwar
I remember starting off beta testing huge bunch of ActionScript codes from Joey Lott which was supposed to be for the ActionScript 2.0 CookBook. However, at that juncture there was an announcement of ActionScript 3.0 from Macromedia (now part of Adobe) and the whole development shifted to – what is today the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook by Joey Lott – from O’Reilly.
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook is written by Joey Lott along with Darron Schall and Keith Peters. It is another must-have book for any beginner to intermediate ActionScript Programmer.
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Big Corps losing high executive to Google and Startups
— By Brajeshwar
Very recently, Venture Beat carried an article – Chief Architect Brad Fitzpatrick left Six Apart – a Silicon Valley start-up that offers several blogging software platforms, including Movable Type, Typepad, LiveJournal etc.
It is believed that Fitzpatrick, after selling his company – Danga Interactive to Six Apart, got bored with his team members and misses the excitement of a fast-paced, innovative environment. Speculations are high that he will join Google. Recently, LiveJournal faced quite a backlash after the mass deletion of several journals with sex-themed groups.
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Google Mashup Editor
— By Brajeshwar
The Google Mashup Editor (GME) allows developers to quickly build and deploy compelling web applications. Besides being able to host your mashups on a sub-domain at googlemashups.com, mashups created with GME can also be published to a hosted environment. GME provides simple tools and features that allow you to create mashups in minutes.
Familiarity with XML, Javascript, CSS, HTML is all that you need to start some cool mashups. Of course, the are Javascript API for the advanced developers.
US outsourcing implodes, India looking for pastures overseas even though it ain’t that green
— By Brajeshwar
It wasn’t a total surprise but I felt a little awkward when I read the news about a big Indian Outsourcing giant setting up a customer-service call center in Reno, Ohio (US). This is at a juncture when the western and the european world feels India and China like itches that you can’t really scratch; and when a tangent of love-hate relationship is growing organically on its own.
The Indian conglomerate Tata Group has setup a 250 seater call center to serve the online travel agency Expedia across the street from an Army Reserve center and next to a farm in Reno, Ohio. It definitely looks like ‘Outsourcing’ is imploding back to the US.
TemplateBrowser is pirating your WordPress Themes
— By Brajeshwar
Few days back, I read 5thirtyOne reporting about TemplateBrowser re-distributing WordPress Themes (and Joomla Templates) and adding malware links. Templates Browser have modified the public blog themes in such a way as to exploit the end user by inserting hidden spam or malware links and removing the Author credits.
Spam and how it all started
— By Brajeshwar
“We invite you to come see the 2020 and hear about the DECSystem-20 family”, wrote Gary Thuerk of the Digital Equipment Corporation in an effort to let people in the technology field to know about his company. That email written in 1978 marked the beginning of the unsolicited junk emails which is notoriously known in the internet term as SPAM.
After selecting six hundred West Coast addresses, Thuerk realized that he would never have time to call each one of them, or even to send out hundreds of individual messages. Then another idea occurred to him: what if he simply used the network to dispatch a single e-mail to all of them?
The next moment he finished writing the message and hit the “Send” button, he became the father of SPAM.
Get your invites to 8Apps, FlowChart, iMedix and I’m in like with you
— By Brajeshwar
I still have many invites to be sent out for Joost. However, I’m willing to give out more invites for the following Apps
- 8Apps
- FlowChart
- iMedix (Thanks to Mashable)
- I’m in like with you
Download FREE Adobe AIR Book
— By Brajeshwar
Authored by Mike Chambers, Danny Dura, Kevin Hoyt and published by O’Reilly – Adobe Integrated Runtime for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide – is for HTML and JavaScript developers who wishes to get started with Adobe® AIR™. Before it was named Adobe® AIR™, it was popularly known as Adobe Apollo.
Adobe® AIR™
Adobe® AIR™, erstwhile code-named Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
The book Adobe Integrated Runtime for JavaScript Developers has the following chapters:
- Introduction to the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Getting Started with AIR Development
- Working with JavaScript and HTML Within AIR
- AIR Mini Cookbook
- Command line tools (Appendix A)
- AIR JavaScript Aliases (Appendix B)
This book gives a general overview of Adobe AIR, shows how to set up your development environment to start building applications, provides an overview of the HTML and JavaScript engines within AIR, and shows how to perform a number of common programming tasks within AIR. This book can be best used as an introduction to and overview of Adobe® AIR™, as well as a step by step guide to getting started with AIR Application development. The book, including all text and code samples, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Download the book for FREE
- Ajaxian has made the book available for FREE Download (PDF).
- Access the online version of the book.
REFERENCES
- Adobe® AIR™ Showcase Gallery
- Adobe® AIR™ Sample Applications
- Download the Adobe® AIR™ SDK
- Adobe® AIR™ Mailing List
Note: Just in case the above download link goes off or do not work, here is a secondary back-up copy on my server.