Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina is devastating the New Orleans life, this reminds me of two things. One, the flood situation in Mumbai a month ago. It was the highest rains in Mumbai for the century and it hit the city bad. Thousands were affected, many swept away, many homeless, many were stranded for days. A lot of […]

Browser resize, iFrames, toggling the sidebar and JS debugging

A project that I am working on, teaches me some cool Javascript techniques every now and then. We needed to show a navigation area and the main content area. The obvious answer was to use frames. We also had to have something that can control both these frames. I decided on using iFrames since they […]

Being trustworthy and making a difference

How does it feel when you realize that people trust you? It was a humbling experience for me! I created the possibility of trust and freedom in my Landmark Advanced course and here I was stunned by the trust people put in me. After completing the four days of the advanced course, I was in […]

What is Freedom?

What is the meaning of freedom? Wordnet says: the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints exemption: immunity from an obligation or duty Wikipedia has very nice explanation of Freedom, and interesting content linked to it. The article about Liberty is also interesting. The French philosopher […]

Developing cross platform interactive applications

Cross platform interactive application development is the need of the hour. Between the myriad of technology choices, the critical factor is to balance user interaction consistency, code reuse and easy portability to newer platforms and devices. We have been thinking about a solution to this and came up with this: The Dagwood Sandwich Approach. The […]