My CAN-I Thought Process!: IT Industry Archives

October 04, 2006

Conduct a meeting Google way

Business week has an article how Marissa Mayer of google conducts effective meetings: 1. Set a firm agenda. 2. Assign a note-taker. 3. Carve out micro-meetings. 4. Hold office hours. 5. Discourage politics, use data. 6. Stick to the clock. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:55 AM

June 28, 2006

Normal Walsh XML Tutorials

Just came across some really cool xml technology related tutorials by Norman Walsh @ http://nwalsh.com/docs/tutorials/index.html. The tutirials are simple and very useful. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:07 AM

May 12, 2006

7 Reasons why webapps fail

Bokarado.com has an interesting post 7-reasons-why-web-apps-fail Focus on social instead of personal. They solve too many problems, or try to. They’re about making someone other than the user happy. They sell it the wrong way. Not in it for the Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 09:15 AM

April 20, 2006

All Brainbench Exams are Free in May

I have been a fan of BrainBench.com almost from the time it was a beta version. I saw it grow tremendously both in quality and quantity in the last few years. It helped me grow a lot in my career. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 07:50 PM

March 22, 2006

Interview Questions

Just found a site with a comprehensive and growing list of interview questions that one can expect in a techical interivew. A pretty good resource for people who are looking jobs and preparing for interivews. The site is sponsored by Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:00 PM

March 06, 2006

Dallas Metroplex Technology Business Council

Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC) is an association of technology companies dedicated to making the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and all of North Texas a global center of high-tech excellence. It is the biggest pure tech organization in the southwest United Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:01 AM

November 08, 2005

http://www.makemedance.com/

Check out this cool iTunes Cingular - makemedance.com website. Have fun playing on the site. By the way, you can upload your image and dance to the tunes. Enjoy........... Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:45 PM

September 30, 2005

Microsoft FREE Anti Spyware Download

For the last two to three weeks, I have been trying to fix a laptop that is horribly infected with viruses, email hosts and spy wares. I was aghast to see how malicious these can be even to a guy Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 04:59 PM

June 27, 2005

Blogging Pioneers/Gurus/Enablers/........

Tony Perkins of Always On posted a list [Introducing the AO/Technorati Open Media 100 :: AO]of people and comanies who are influencing the blogging world and building open media framework for the new world. Rajesh Jain of www.emergic.org and Dina Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 09:16 AM

June 15, 2005

How to Multiply Your Effectiveness

Champion salespeople also have their antenna up. But messages come through loud and clear because they're giving all their attention to the prospect. They know what they're there to say much too well to give any thought to it Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:24 PM

May 30, 2005

Reviving ASP Business Model

Rajesh Jain is writing a series of articles on revival of ASP market. He mentions in this post about the building blocks of OSS ASP model and gives example of SpikeSource. SpikeSource run their whole website using OSS. Features include: Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:28 PM

April 04, 2005

Global Voices / Atanu Dey on NPR's THE WORLD Program

The recent Global Voices Brainstorm done at Harvard's Berkman Center is covered on NPR's The World program under the Global bloggers report segment. The following blogs are mentioned on The World website: Global Voices Site Ethan Zuckerman's Blog Rebecca MacKinnon's Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:13 PM

March 18, 2005

http://code.google.com/

Google releases Google Code. What is code.google.com? Code.google.com is our site for external developers interested in Google-related development. It’s where we’ll publish free source code and lists of our API services. Now you can use google api's to spice up Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:02 PM

March 10, 2005

BPODigest Down Due to Heavy Activity

BPODigest is down from yesterday. The activity has gone high and server was not able to handle the load any more. I am working on getting it up and running soon. RIght now waiting on Suhit to send the domain Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:02 AM

March 05, 2005

Fascinating Story of Google

The rise of Google is a tale often told as a Silicon Valley classic. Two precocious Stanford grad-student nerds swept up in the fever of the Internet boom invent technology that profoundly changes the experience of the Web; they drop Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:27 PM

February 25, 2005

Open Source CMS Matrix

http://www.opensourcecms.com/ has published The CMS Matrix - cmsmatrix.org - The Content Management Comparison Tool This tool is really cool. It has all the open source CMS's listed with checkeboxes. One can select the checkboxes and compare their features. A comprehensive Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:01 PM

February 01, 2005

TIVO Goes Open Source With Project Tahiti

CNet News has an article about TIVO going opensource: Digital-video recorder company TiVo announced Monday the release of a software development kit that lets third-party application makers add new features to TiVo's DVR service. The move is part of a Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:07 AM

January 31, 2005

The Death Of NewsPaper

Check out the flash movie @ EPIC 2014, narrating how Google is going to take kill New York Times. Its kind of scary. Well, if you look at the happennings in the technology it might be possible that the connected Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:38 PM

January 10, 2005

Understanding and Reading a Blog

John C. Dvorak writes on Understanding and Reading a Blog Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 07:33 PM

Sell your Electronic Waste at eBay-Rethink

Via: Phil Shapiro's DDN Blog: "ebay pushes computer recycling initiative" eBay announced that they were supporting a new program called RETHINK to encourage consumers and companies alike to recycle more of the roughly 400 million electronic products that get through Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:53 AM

December 01, 2004

MSN moves into Blogging

MSN moves into blogging; Ebookers up on takeover talks :: AO Not only did the word "blog" enter Merriam-Webster's dictionary this year, but Microsoft is getting on the personalized e-journal bandwagon. Microsoft's MSN is expected to release a beta version Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 09:43 PM

November 30, 2004

TOP 20 IT Mistakes

InfoWorld: The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid 1. Botching your outsourcing strategy 2. Dismissing open source -- or bowing before it 3. Offshoring with blinders on 4. Discounting internal security threats 5. Failing to secure a fluid perimeter 6. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:19 PM

November 29, 2004

Prof. Jhunjhunwala's Ideas/Projects

Presentation Material, IIT Madras, India Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 05:43 PM

October 27, 2004

ACID is good, take it in small doses

Some of you may remember the Five Minute University by Father Guido Sarducci of Saturday Night Live fame. In five minutes, Sarducci teaches you everything you actually remember from college after five years. His topics include Economics (supply and demand), Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:38 PM

October 26, 2004

Dear Manager, They Need a Build Machine

TheServerSide.com - TSS Featured Entry Dear Manager, When I talk with the developers on your team, they tell me they need a dedicated build machine. I'm partly to blame. See, I've been showing them a free build scheduler that, after Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:31 PM

October 17, 2004

Hosting costs spiralling down

Found this hosting site: Technolojik Internet - Web Solutions & Technologies, really cheap prices. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 07:56 AM

October 09, 2004

Free SMS to India

http://www.textmefree.com/Rest_of_World/India/ has quite a few links, but the following seems to be working fine. http://www.indiamobiles.com/sms/ http://www.vaarttha.com/services.asp http://www.smsjunction.com/index.htm http://www.srilankangreetings.com/ Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:45 AM

October 05, 2004

Open Source Laszlo - RichWeb Platform

Laszlo Systems, Inc.has made the announcement that their Laszlo platform is now open source. The entire platform has been released under the Common Public License (CPL), which means you can build commercial solutions on top of Laszlo. The company itself Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:42 PM

October 04, 2004

Barry's Rules of Software Development

Via: E M E R G I C . o r g: Barry Briggs writes about the rules of Software Development. 1. Great software is built by small teams. If you're building a great BIG software product use lots of Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 08:58 PM

September 28, 2004

Tested, Certified and Supported Open Source Systems

A new company which is focussing on delivering reliable open source systems has come up:SourceLabs Open source is a tectonic shift, as significant as the Internet. Eventually it will affect everyone who works with software, including traditional vendors. But to Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:57 PM

September 22, 2004

Solaris Goes Open Source

Source: Solaris Goes Open Source When Solaris 10 is released late this year, Sun Microsystems Inc. will be culminating years of development work on the operating system, as well as launching a major open-source initiative to go with it. The Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:07 PM

September 21, 2004

Prepare for Disillusionment With RFID - Gartner

Jeff Woods writes Prepare for Disillusionment With RFID In the short term, radio frequency identification cannot live up to the promises that have been made for the technology. When this fact becomes obvious, RFID users will experience the inevitable disillusionment. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:48 PM

IBM open-sources speech code

IBM is donating some of its software for speech-enabling applications to two open-source organizations: the Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation. Big Blue announced its plans at last week's SpeechTEK 2004 Conference to "spur the availability of speech-enabled applications Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:44 PM

Sun Introduces First Pay-for-Use Computing Grid

Source: Digital Silence - Hardware, Software and Technology News Sun intends to offer a diverse set of computing plans and will also work with partners on a wholesale basis to take this capability to various industries and geographic markets. This Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:37 PM

September 20, 2004

http://techvenue.com/

TechVenue.com: Your Regional Business Technology Events Calendar "TechVenue.com: An online calendar and clearinghouse of technology-related business events organized regionally worldwide." Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:35 AM

September 13, 2004

Continuous Integration Server Feature Matrix

There are many Continuous Integration systems available. This page is an attempt to keep an unbiased comparison of as many as possible of them. The goals are: # Make it easier to choose an appropriate CI tool for your project. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:40 AM

September 02, 2004

Why Open Source Software / Free Software?

BY David A. Wheeler This paper provides quantitative data that, in many cases, using open source software / free software is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their proprietary competition according to various measures. This paper’s goal is Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 10:00 AM

August 31, 2004

www.canaca.com

Check this out: Canaca-com Inc, 10 gig space and 40 gig bandwidth, this is awesome deal. Can't get any better. I am not a reseller, just though it will help you guys. I am gonna shift here next time. Read More.......

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 01:13 AM

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