BarCampMumbai so far

The best thing about BarCampMumbai so far, has been the interaction. It’s a like a large BoF session. I have already met more geeks here than I meet in a quarter. My intention of coming here is served – meet hackers and geeks. And learn what they are upto. The most common discussions I witnessed […]

BarCampMumbai

Hey, there is a BarCamp in Mumbai! BarCamp is an unusual conference! It’s ad-hoc, people gather and share about technologies they like. People listen to and speak. It’s going to be the first BarCamp I will visit, but I have heard lot of good things about BarCamps. So it’s going to be fun. I am […]

AJAX Ahoy – embraced by Laszlo and Flex

I knew OpenLaszlo was working on an AJAX implementation for a while. But when the FABridge was announced, it was a surprise. This means that you can now write applications in OpenLaszlo that will render as DHTML and use AJAX for communication. Single set of source files can produce both Flash and AJAX versions! Without […]

Visual effects – shaky shake

I was on the script.aculo.us site and tried the search visual effects! Particularly I tried typing two characters and submitting. Hey! Haven’t I seen that effect before? It’s the same effect we added to Glancer on a login failure, and what Vijay demonstrated in his AJAX talk at Foss.In/2005! And yes, it is inpired from […]