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All of us are aware of the fact that the Mobile web apps concept is gearing up very rapidly. In-fact many mobile web applications have rolled out and are already being used by people across the globe. Recent mobile devices are having good processing power and capabilities. Specifically, the WebKit based browsers are more powerful [...]

In recent past, I came across requirements about creating mobile application for IPhone and Android platform. One of the obvious choices was to create a native application for IPhone and Android respectively. After understanding the requirement, it was learnt that the application doesn’t need to access any of the native feature of mobile device like camera, [...]

Apache Lucene is an open-source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. Lucene collects, parses, and indexes (or stores) data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval.

It is a general perspective that CSS is a designer stuff. IMHO this is not completely correct as having fundamental understanding of CSS and how it works is very important for every web developer. It not only helps you to improve your presentation skill but also improve your understanding of DOM and how to parse [...]

This is third blog in a series of blogs which would be focusing on optimizing the performance of an ASP.NET web application. Below are links to previous blogs: 1.       Optimizing ASP.NET web application - Part 1 (Let the journey begin) 2.       Optimizing ASP.NET web application - Part 2 (Measuring Performance) In this blog we will be focusing on [...]

  This is the second blog in a series of blogs which would be focusing on optimizing the performance of an ASP.NET web application. In the first part I tried to explain where we should start while investigating the poor performance and why measuring the performance is the key to the entire exercise of performance optimization.   Let [...]

“Website is too slow” how many of you have heard this complaint either from your manager or client or worst case from the end user. Fortunately I have heard this few times General trend I have seen is that the dev team is pushed into a “stress + stretch” mode and project crash landing into the [...]

Amazing talk by Colin McQuade on BSkyB journey. Talked about trends in Digital Media, Mobile, Agile and 3D! Talked about the importance of cultural/ mindset fit while picking Agile product development partner. Popularity: 21% [?]

All knowledge is not equally useful all the time. Any particular piece of knowledge gets more valuable as you move closer to its application and diminishes more or less quickly thereafter.... When we speak about Knowledge as a Service℠ (KaaS) we are really talking about moving the point of knowledge acquisition as close as possible to the knowledge inflection point — without going beyond. This is what distinguishes KaaS as a field as opposed to other kinds of knowledge services such as classroom teaching or scientific research.

Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0 The tale of these two Webs is best told once we understand the meaning, importance and the differences between the following key words for each of the two versions of the web: * Communities * Content * Communication *Conversations Communities: Humans are social creature and associating with a [...]