Rethinking Web Application Development Choices

Oh man…its has been more than a month that I blogged ..okie..so I am posting this half baked blog just to keep my blog rolling. I am still working on this post, trying to create a comparative table, but till then below are some thoughts on web application development choices.
A dynamic web application, minimally, involves [...]

Dummy’s guide for converting character set of a web application

When developing a web application, one has to be careful about the “character encoding”. There are many options such as latin1, utf8, etc, and the best character encoding depends on the language that your targeted audience use for writing. Since most  web applications are required to handle all types of languages and, thus, are required to handle all different types [...]

Google Scholar Webservice (Beta)

Google Scholar is a valuable resource for all students and academic professionals. However, its potential usage is seriously limited by the lack of an API. Since Google never bothered to create one, I tried to create one myself. I have created a REST service which can take a query string and returns back first 10 [...]

Making web buttons using MS Powerpoint 2007 and Macromedia fireworks

Can you believe this? I made the above web button in less than two minutes using “Microsoft Powerpoint 2007″ and “Macromedia Fireworks”. But before I go any more, probably I should clarify why I didn’t just use Fireworks or Photoshop to build the above button. The answer is that I am not a graphics designer and was never able to [...]

PHP gearing up for semantic web

The idea of “semantic web” is not new; In 2001, Berner’s Lee described it as “an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.” However, in even after six years, web industry has rarely put into practise. One of the reason for the lacking enthusiasm and [...]