Web is ubiquitous. An institute’s website is the first impression an applicant has. However, Indian institutes are not gearing up for this changing scenario. Indian academics’ websites are far beyond the quality of US colleges and universities. I understand, in India institutes have other major problems to deal with and building a website comes at [...]
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Showcase of Indian Academic Websites
10-Apr-10Handicapped Software
25-Jul-09[ This post is about software's disability to meet users' expectations. I know you have developed lots of software/applications over your career! Have you ever evaluated them on disability index? No, then read on. "You" = refers to our typical "software engineer" ] Ever heard someone saying “this software sucks”… I love such moments. It [...]
Sony Ericsson W660i: Features (Review)
04-May-08Two days back I bought W660i, a Walkman series mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. It features 2 MP Camera, Walkman 2.0, FM Radio, 512 MB card, Bluetooth, Video Call, Email/RSS, USB mass storage, Flight mode, Synchronization services, Stylish, and all these in less than INR 9K. In addition to those common features, this phone features [...]
Foxit – PDF Reader
18-Mar-07Q: How many times in a day you wait for Adobe Acrobat Reader to load? A: Almost 2-5 items a day, as I’m an avid Internet user. Let me list down where Acrobat Reader sucks: The Adobe Reader 8 installer a massive 20.8MB setup to download and time consuming setup. Version 5 was roughly fast [...]
Preview: LINQ
14-Feb-07Hmmm… a new tool in my hands … and following equation makes me crazy about it! C# 2.0 + ADO.NET = LINQ = C# 3.0 In simple words Language Integrated Query (LINQ) exposes the power of SQL queries within C# syntax. This technology along with its tools allows you to connect to SQL database, extract [...]
