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How attractive is your website?

I was trying to analyze the feedback on my website’s new design. There seems to be a trend that relates their usage of the website with their feedback. While researching on this subject, I found a paper by three people affiliated with the University of Manchester, UK. The paper

Cricket on your desktop

I’m not a cricket buff but the IPL had got even me hooked. Well, at least during dinner. But for people who are crazy about cricket and want to follow ball-by-ball updates and certainly don’t like refreshing horrible-looking websites, then you might find Cricket Nirvana’s CricketCentre interesting:

Web dev frameworks vs RIA

How do traditional web development frameworks cope with RIAs? By RIAs, I am referring to the Flex/Silverlight model (Ajax has a hybrid model in my view, so I’m not discussing that here since I don’t want to muddle up the question). Coming back to topic, I see

Last day at Adobe

As Jeff Atwood said recently in his entry on Choosing Your Own Adventure: I’ve spent the last six months staring at this page trying to figure out what to do. With some trepidation, I’m now turning to page 10. Thursday will be my last day at Vertigo. I

Closed source on Linux is hard

Update: Please read the article carefully before commenting. If you notice, most of the problems being described here is part of Eclipse, which is open source. So, usability issues are faced by open source programs as well, and not just proprietary programs on Linux. The reason I wrote that title

Hack Day India

I was at Yahoo! Open Hack Day at Bangalore on Friday and Saturday. 24 hours of hacking, meeting lots of old friends, and sarcasm unlimited. It doesn’t get better than this. * 2007-10-05 Fri 02:30 PM * Arrived at Taj. * Registered myself, got the schwag * Met Raghu and discussed the

Announcing Flex Builder on Linux

Now presenting the alpha of the Flex Builder IDE on Linux! (this was announced at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference). You can now create Flex projects, write code with intellisense-like hinting, compile and debug all within an IDE based on Eclipse, on Linux. You heard it right, it’s officially

Moxie . AdvancedDataGrid . OutInTheWild()

Flex 3 beta 1 is out, and along with it something that I’ve been part of – the AdvancedDataGrid component. An example built using the AdvancedDataGrid is embedded below (it is a SWF file, requires Flash Player 9 for viewing): Notice the tree view within a grid – that alone is

Widget for Webaroo Gupshup

Microblogging seems to be the rage these days, so I was looking at Indian alternatives to Twitter, and I found Webaroo Gupshup (later I realized that I had already received an invite but hadn’t paid attention to it). Gupshup seems to hit the sweet spot in the Indian context

Evolution of Adobe Flex : now open source

That’s right, the Flex SDK is going to be licensed under the Mozilla Public License – this means the compiler, debugger, the huge libraries – it’s all going to be open source when Flex 3 “Moxie” is going to be released. This news was not so surprising to me because

Big Brother

Long ago, I had seen Nat Friedman show off a small Mono app that displayed the amount of time you spent on each application, and updated the chart in real time – so that you could clearly make out how much time you’re spending in the browser and how much

Moxie

Yep, Moxie. That’s the codename for the next version of Flex. And it was one of the suggestions by yours truly in the internal discussions. Why this name? My reasoning was: flex -> strength -> http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/strength -> mana, pizzazz, moxie, thew, … Ely liked the

But Flex is not open source…

My manager and myself were having an informal chat about the various RIA frameworks and platforms out there. To be honest, I wasn’t convinced about Flex and so, we kept on discussing the pros and cons, and it turned out that I learnt a bit about Flex this way.

Future Adobeans Needed

Quick note: * Adobe needs some Perl developers urgently. * Also, proficient developers with 2+ years (upto 15… but 15+ is also good…) experience needed. If you’re interested, shoot me a mail. Update : The above two requirements are separate.

What’s in a name?

$150,000. That’s what’s in a name. That’s how much Microsoft paid for the name “Zune”: According to Boslet, Placek cited several other reasons for zeroing in on “Zune”: * It’s a short word, reflecting the gadget’s small size. * It has a familiar sound. “‘From tune

Engagement Platform

If you were skeptical about Apollo (, Flash, Flex, …) like me, then you must watch this video by Todd Hay, Director, Platform Marketing & Developer Relations, Adobe. The RIA that he demoed was really something that would be amazing to use. More at adobe.com/devnet/platform/. (via MNR)

Adobe

First Day Today was my first day at Adobe. A month ago, it was so difficult for me to imagine going to a new place, working with new people, and entering a totally new field of work. Today, it was surprisingly easy. Perhaps it is a poignant reminder that the