Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Software Engineer Named 'Best Job in America' by Money Magazine

MONEY Magazine and Salary.com researched hundreds of jobs, considering their growth, pay, stress-levels and other factors. These careers ranked highest.

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Consulting... deep in the weeds: $10,000 is the magic number

Ajax based chat ?


Results for one to one chat are satisfactory
Chat requires database layer or static data structure
Server will be busy even when there is no message
Peer to peer chat is not possible
File transfer will be slow
File transfer will involve server that requires space and security attentions
Privacy will be an issue as chat logs are stored at server side
HTTP is slower then Sockets due to headers and parsing issues
Transfer of serialized objects is not possible

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Design for Web 2.0

An article describing in detail the do's and dont's of a web 2.0 design taking other famous 2.0 sites as example.

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Saturday, April 08, 2006

O my sinus! Anyway

Online communities where overcome the problem of space and time to bring peoples in contact with to each other. Similar geographic and demographic feature of participants reinforce the bond between peoples in virtual world. They extend their relations from real world into virtual world. This phenomenon can be observed on IRC chat where chat channels named on city names, languages have huge participation.