Windows 2000 Launch in Chennai
(Flashback date: October 15, 1999) The other day while going through my photo archives spotted these photos – rows of desktop PCs, bulky CRT monitors and people sitting on ground…
Flashback
MSDOS.NET
(Backdated Post: 25/08/2000) Being April 1st, it is appropriate for this post. In late 2000 when the Microsoft world was going crazy on announcement .NET, it was .NET everything everywhere.…
Project Spiftcar
Project Spiftcar was one of the challenging projects that I am proud to have directly worked on, which set the stage for my next 15 years (ongoing) partnership with MSN…
Founding & Quick demise of Mango Idiots
(Flashback Post: April 2, 2000) In the height of Dot com boom at April 2000, along with two of my friends (Satheesh Ramamurthy & Srivatsan) we launched Mangoidiots.com. By then…
Computer History Gallery
After nearly 8 years of being at one location, we moved our office (Vishwak Solutions) from T.Nagar to Guindy recently. It turned out we had accumulated a lot of Computer…
Air Tickets to remember
Do you remember the days, when we (Air travellers) carried big stubs of Paper Tickets, flew Air Deccan and initial years of KingFisher? I recollected these while going through my…
Clipper Programming Language
I have written earlier about my first experience with FoxBase & Clipper here & it is no secret I love the Clipper platform. During my Engineering college days (1992-96) I…
How SQL Injection saved a day
The incident happened more than a decade back, should be in 1998 or 99. At that time I was a consultant to a popular online news portal, I got a…