So you want to build the next fancy Web 2.0 site? You'll need some gear. Most likely in the form of a big complex MVC framework with plenty of layers that abstracts away your database, your HTML, your Javascript and in the end your application itself. If it is a really good framework it will provide a dozen things you'll never need.
I am obviously not a fan of such frameworks. I like stuff I can understand in an instant. Both because it lets me be productive right away and because 6 months from now when I come back to fix something, again I will only need an instant to figure out what is going on. So, here is my current approach to building rich web applications.
I have been with the 'IITian' for almost 10 yrs now. Most of my frnds who I used to hang out with since Std 8 have gone on to become the reason of concern for memebers of this community. I will try my best to answer you with all my experience. And I wud like to do it using the technique that we are allegedly best at.Solving it as a problem.
We are happy to announce the finalists in our Extend Firefox Contest, a contest held to award the best and brightest extension developers in the Firefox community. The contest asked entrants to create Firefox Extensions that are innovative, useful, and integrate with today's Web services. Over 200 Extensions were submitted to the contest. Many thanks to everyone who entered and everyone who helped spread the word about the contest.
Yesterday I decided to undertake an experiment. My favourite browser, Firefox, allows its users to add extensions. Currently 1148 extensions are available at Mozilla update. I decided to install 100 of the most popular extensions at the same time, trying to avoid those that duplicated others functionality.
We're sending out Serialized PHP love via our Yahoo! Web Services. In addition to returning XML, our Travel, Search, and Maps Building Block Web Services now return Serialized PHP. Serialized PHP is PHP data structures encoded as text. It's easily consumed by PHP, and all you have to do is add the output=php parameter to have your web services request return it.
Personally, I think the jury's out on the whole 'fun' JavaScript thing, but nevertheless Prototype is a really well executed JavaScript library which, although the situation has been improving of late, has had notoriously sparse documentation. This article provides a whirlwind tour of the whole library. It aims to give you enough examples and resources to get started using Prototype in your DOM scripting projects.Blogged on Ajaxian.com
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Jonathan Snook has posted some graphics (”cheat sheets”) over on his blog today - various sized disections of the popular Prototype Javascript framework.
In getting to know Prototype a little better, I decided to go through the latest version of the Prototype library (1.5.0_pre0) and detail every method and property that was available. In doing so, I got a much better understanding of how the code works. Here are the files in a 1280×960 and a widescreen 1440×900 version.
There are two different versions - one on white and another on a black/gray fade. The 1280×960px sizes are about 123kb and the 1440×900px sized are about 125kb.
The language spoken by the students of IIT Kharagpur is a typical example of linguistics development in a semi-closed system. While many of the words in the dictioanry of the students are borrowed from the cultures developing elsewhere, a lot many words are native to IIT Kharagpur.
Student Linguistics in IIT Kharagpur
The IBM developerWorks site has posted several parts of a series related to working with Ajax, building developers up from knowing nothing about the technology to some of the more advanced features it offers.
With the new portfolio page of Christof Wagner, wollzelle demonstrates the potentials of their JavaScript library script.aculo.us in combination with an elegant portfolio design.
Bitty makes it easy to add navigable content to your Web site -- it's like Picture-in-Picture for the Web
And so for the first time in my one and half year stay here in IIT kgp, i went to the central libary. Exams start tommorrow. This pic shows me trying to under the "function generation synthesis of a four bar mechanism" from the book. In background is the central library. This pic was taken by Brij. 
We like to use Web 2.0 applications. Many services are expected to replace our desktop applications. How about we list all of the Web 2.0 software available?
This is a picture from the wedding ceremony of Mithu didi (my elder sister). I had lab on the wedding day, so i missed most of the important - and very uninteresting - part, but somehow managed to get there before the dinner. this pic show didi in brides dress and the groom sitting beside her.
ROBOTIX is the annual Robotics Competition of IIT Kharagpur. And I am a proud memeber of .:The ROBOTIX Team:. . We held the events just a few days ago. This is a picture having all team members with Two Canadian guests in middle.
