Writing

9 April 2009 · 2 comments

I was trying out a GTD application the other day called The Hit List. The application is superb, and I was really impressed with their attention to detail. One…

6 April 2009 · 2 comments

We shifted servers a few days back, but we seem to have some interesting problems. Right now, I see a two different versions of this blog in Firefox and Safari.…

25 February 2009 · 6 comments

We applied for an iPhone developers account at start of December. It’s been about 3 months now, and we have not yet got the Developers Account despite sending…

16 February 2009 · 4 comments

I was doing some reading on retail industry in India and watched a presentation Kishore Biyani (of Future Group / Big Bazar / Pantaloons) made in 2008. He made…

28 January 2009 · 12 comments

There are many classes available to generate a WSDL file from PHP. But I wanted to create PHP classes out of a WSDL file. SOAP allows passing complex data…

27 November 2008 · 8 comments

You most probably know that there are issues opening links using the navigateToURL() method in Flex. The three most common problems / issues are: -…

19 November 2008 · 9 comments

In a Flex application we are building, we want to listen to Ctrl+N to create a new file. The browser listens to the keystroke and opens a new window. We do not…

9 November 2008 · 4 comments

I love books, I read some of what I collect! I may go from one book to another without finishing it. I love coming back to books I read earlier. Two weeks ago,…

2 September 2008 · 11 comments

I have been playing around with a lot of Java tools these days! I was trying out XPlanner and when I ran the startup shell script, it spit out the infamous…

20 August 2008 · 14 comments

We have been struggling with zooming TextArea in Flex for 2 months now. Tried lots of combination but nothing worked. Can someone help? Essentially, we scaleX…

31 July 2008 · 9 comments

I've been playing with a few open source CMSs for my new book. And I am actually surprised! Most of them are just so darn difficult to use! Not only they are…

29 July 2008 · 3 comments

We work on outsourced software development projects. One of the biggest challenges in that is to communicate effectively. We started having weekly telephone…

24 July 2008 · 2 comments

What do we normally do when we hear from an irate customer? The first reaction is to justify our position. No matter how much we say that "we understand your…

23 July 2008 · 1 comment

If you could relive yesterday, how would you live it? What will you do? What will you avoid? Most of us will try to do more and be better if we could relive…

14 July 2008 · 5 comments

It's been more than two weeks that we are back from Uruli Kanchan Nisargopachar Ashram. I wanted to write a lot about it, but have been so busy with work that I…

3 July 2008 · 4 comments

Adobe is teaming up with Google and Yahoo! to improve indexing of dynamic content in rich internet applications made with Flash. This means Google and Yahoo!…

23 June 2008 · 2 comments

How was the last month for you? What are your achievements? What are the things you wanted to complete, but did not? And if you could redo yesterday, how would…

21 June 2008 · 12 comments

We were thinking about a vacation for time. There were two options - a naturopathy retreat or an adventure trip! The nature's call won this time and we will be…

19 June 2008 · 5 comments

Working on a project that allows user to change the color of an image using Hue, Saturation and Brightness adjustments from Flex. The same image should then be…

13 June 2008 · 1 comment

Aliza Sherman reviewed my Mobile Web Development book on the Web Worker Daily - a GigaOm site yesterday. One, it was good to be on GigaOm network (I am…