Archive for June, 2008

iGoogle Portal Implementation: How to do it?

Monday, June 30th, 2008

After developing the draggable div application the other day, I was itched to implement the whole iGoogle portal. Probably the drive came when a few of you asked me "These draggable divs are just like iGoogle", so I thought why not to give a shot at it. Here is what ...

The shocking reality about reservation.

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Hi, I just don't want to hurt anyone's feeling out here. But I just went through a post at our IIT Guwahati orkut community which provided two astonishing links. Go to http://www.jee.iitk.ac.in/result.htm Enter Roll No: 1132131 The guy is some BRAJMOHAN MEENA All India Rank : 4929 Rank in ST category : ...

Draggable DIVs : How to make one?

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

You all must have seen a similar thing on your iGoogle home page. Further for years this application is an integral part of Yahoo User Interface Library i.e. YUI. I tried to tweak into the iGoogle and YUI implementation of the draggable div implementation, but somehow I found them rather ...

2nd Year @ IIT Guwahati

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Attendence of abt 10% in class, CPI of 6.75, a girlfriend, an electric guitar, a rock band, few sucking performance on stage, beer rum whisky vodka and lots of friend : In short this was my first year at IIT Guwahati. But then college life is not ...

My stay @ IIT Guwahati (1st year)

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

I was never a bookworm and didnt liked studies from my school days. Infact I didnt knew about IIT's even when I was in 12th standard. My father always used to hate my frnds, and the reason was quite obvious...none of them looked like a 'seedha saadha padhai waala bacchaa'.....Infact ...

Will google be a new Library of Alexandria.

Friday, June 27th, 2008

What if all the world's information would be available and easy to find? What if all the news, all books, all texts, photographs and videos would be collected in one place, and made available, always and everywhere? This is the goal of Google, and the company seems to be realising ...

Photo Tagging API : Easy plugin for your websites and blogs

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Flickr, Facebook and now Orkut. One by One everyone has implemented the photo tagging feature into their social network. Initially introduced by Flickr, extended by Facebook and finally Orkut was forced to implement it too. Last night I tried to look into it to found out what does it take ...

Caching problem in IE with Ajax : A Solution

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Hello All, Problem Definition: I made my first browser based chat messenger way back in January this year, and I tried making a improved version of it yesterday again. But unfortunately Microsoft continues to give 1000 reasons for a web developer to suicide. They continue to serve the same old buggy browser ...

Microsoft Deputy CEO Puzzle

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Yesterday I got a mail from one of my friend whose title read as: FW: Microsoft Puzzle. I just click opened the mail to have a look at the puzzle. Though I am not too sure if this puzzle was really asked my the Microsoft HR team for recruiting their ...