Software design, little has changed in the last 70 years
On 19 February 1946 Alan Turing designed the first well-known software for a stored-program computer. Seventy years later, each of us is carrying numerous apps (software) in our pockets and…
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Are we all messed up?
We are living in one of the best times in human history, enjoying unparalleled access to wealth of written knowledge dating back 2500+ years. And all this through what Sir…
Securing your business’ website
The other day a friend of mine called and asked for guidance. He is owning a small business and had registered his domain name for the business, got a web…
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…
R.I.P – Microsoft Mix
World over Microsoft conducts lots and lots of events every year. Their flagship events are two – Professional Developer Conference a.k.a. PDC (this is where they announce the next big…
WWW: Technology, Standards and I18N Conference in New Delhi
Today there was a conference in Hotel Lalit, New Delhi on “WWW: Technology, Standards and Internationalization Conference” and the inauguration of W3C India office in TDIL, Government of India. Ms.Swaran…
Nice user interface – Undo!
Alan Cooper (the father of Visual Basic) in his famous book – About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design, talked about how we have to build software that matches…
Yahoo! showing Google favourite Icon in IE
Recently I came across a problem from one of my friends. Whenever he browses to Yahoo! in Internet Explorer it was showing Google’s favourite icon (Favicon) in browser address bar….