Website Performance and Optimization

March 24, 2007

A couple of months ago, I noticed that I was getting pretty close to using up all of my monthly bandwidth allocation for my server and that was a surprise. I run several blogs that get quite a few hits but I didn't think I was anywhere near going over my 250 GB allotment. So [...]

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Will (Or Should) Adobe open-source Flex?

March 1, 2007

I have been building AJAX applications for a while now and absolutely love AJAX and the improvements it can offer in user-interface design, making applications easy and fun to use. But AJAX does have limitations and I, like many others have come to the realization that while AJAX is great for most things, it is [...]

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Carbonite Rocks – Backups Made Easy

December 30, 2006

Update (Oct 6, 2007): I have stopped using Carbonite and switched to Mozy for a while now. I’ve had numerous problems with Carbonite and their customer service was crappy. So I decided to give up on Carbonite even though I had already pre-paid for 2 years – I guess it’s better to lose $80.00 than [...]

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Pictobrowser Rocks

October 9, 2006

Just found the Pictobrowser from Thomas Hawk's blog and it is an amazing way to embed pictures in your blog. Pictobrowser is a simple widget that allows you to display sets of pictures from Flickr directly on your site or blog using Flash and the users never leave your site. Pictobrowser is the brainchild of [...]

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Essential Software for Windows

September 23, 2006

You know the old routine – You get a new machine and then you spend weeks looking for and installing all the applications, tools, utilities, etc that you had on your old computer that made you so productive. There is always that utility that you use once in a while but you just can’t seem [...]

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Amazon EC2 and S3 – Implications for the Enterprise

September 3, 2006

Now that the blogosphere has settled down after the launch of Amazon’s EC2 beta program, I figured it was time to talk about something that I found missing in all the blogs and online discussions. Before we get to the Enterprise implication of EC2 and S3, I should probably let the people that haven’t heard [...]

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Windows Live Writer – Microsoft’s new blog editor

August 13, 2006

Microsoft just launched Windows Live Writer, a new publishing tool for WYSIWYG blog authoring on Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, Typepad and other blogging services.  Found this software via Digg and it looks pretty good so far.  The Live Writer is pretty similar to the Word and so I’m not sure how this product will be positioned in [...]

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Google’s Picasa Web Albums – No Flickr Killer, Yet!

June 14, 2006

Google launched a beta version of the Picasa Web Albums earlier in the week and I got invited to participate in the beta of the product. Picasa Web Albums is Picasa’s newest feature, designed to help users post and share their photos quickly and easily on the web. Picasa has always had the ability to [...]

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Network Neutrality: Why it really matters?

June 7, 2006

Let’s hope Congress does the right thing and adds in adequate protection to guarantee Network Neutrality as life without it could really suck. Can you imagine a world where people who use Verizon as their ISP not being able to get to Google as Microsoft is paying Verizon to make MSN the preferred search engine. [...]

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Google hits a home run with Google Spreadsheet

June 6, 2006

I just got my invite to play with the latest offering from Google, the Google Spreadsheets and my initial reaction after playing with it for the past hour is incredibly positive. Unlike some of the duds Google has launched recently, this is a pretty nice, robust and useful offering. I started off by creating a [...]

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