Two of my female friends complained to me today that my blog was unreadable. I’ve been posting only in code for a while now. I don’t like opening up about myself — putting my fears and my feelings online where everyone has access to it. Of course I could use private posts, visible to only [...]

Google popularized Ajax with GMail. Yahoo’s taken it over the top with their new homepage. It’s just as well that Yahoo moved over to Ajax because I know Microsoft was planning something along that line with Live.
If Ajax doesn’t turn out to be another fad, then bby 2008, most sites will be more like applications.
I [...]

It seems I want to learn everything there is to know in this world — maybe it’s because I get my feeling of prestige from knowing a lot. I’ve always known I can’t know it all — yet, I keep trying.
I’ve always eyed hardware programming right from when I started out. Hardware has always fascinated [...]

IIS is a great server — writen especially for Windows, it functions exactly the way it’s meant to, ignoring the security breaches and high response time from the folks at Microsoft.
One thing that gets me annoyed about using PHP and IIs is the lack of support for url-rewriting. Except you’ve installed some third-party tool like [...]

I knew I was going to find a way out of the IE mess. A little skeptical about what I’d be able to find, I Googled reusing xmlhttprequest objects in ie and hit the jackpot on the first try. Here’s the solution, which I got from Pavan Keely’s blog.
Currently, my custom AJAX class works perfectly. [...]

My novel-reading career started with Dickens’ The Great Expectations when I was five. Since then, I’ve read more than 10,000 books. When I penned my first story at the age of eight, I had come to realize that stereotypes exist in the world of fiction — nothing in most fiction is true to life.
It seems, [...]