Category Archives: Technologies

Using JSON in Alfresco WebScripts

In my current project, we are using Alfresco for the content repository and all the extra functionalities required are developed using Webscripts. While working on one functionality, I had to serialize javascript objects to JSON and also deserialize it. For doing this, there is a nice javascript code on Alfresco Wiki for converting the object [...]

Humorous Video: Agile vs. Waterfall

Many big guys have participated in discussions regarding agile and waterfall model. Hold on big guys, look at this video where two kids have nicely presented the debate on agile vs. waterfall.

Is it really true that something is better than nothing?

They say that something is better than nothing. To some extent even I don’t disagree with this statement. But sometimes, you might end up collecting a lot of that ‘something’ which may not serve your purpose at all. You might end up collecting so much useless information and advice that you will actually feel that [...]

Fring with Airtel GPRS

Fring is an application for mobile phones that allows you to make calls using VoIP. Yesterday I decided to try it out myself. I had mentioned in one of my post that it is possible to make free calls with fring if you have access to public Wi-Fi hotspots, but in Goa, there are no [...]

3 reasons to install anti-spyware tool on your PC

Many times I have noticed that people tend to make their computers secure only by installing a good anti-virus tool and keeping it updated regularly. Most of them use free version of AVG antivirus tool thinking that it will keep their machines free from threats. But AVG product comparison page clearly shows that there is [...]

New adsense killer trojan

A trojan which hijacks adsense advertisement and redirect users to some other sites that may contain malicious content has been identified by BitDefender. Even though this trojan (Trojan.Qhost.WU) is not resulting in a serious threat to adsense as of now, but in future could affect the revenue of publishers as well as the number of [...]

Make free calls from your mobile phone (Even without sim card)

Imagine how nice it would have been if you could talk to your friends using your mobile without paying huge bills. Well, you can stop imagining now cause, a new mobile application called Fring is going to turn that dream into reality. Fring uses internet connection available on your handset to make VoIP calls. This [...]

Releasing your software : Delivery model confusion

Software applications, once they are developed have to be released so that people can use it as per their needs. Long back, I used to think that, one day I will develop some good software and sell it. Few years later I came across GNU/Linux which introduced me to the world of open source system. [...]

Why software projects fail?

Developing of software project is not just a task related to computer programming. Software development involves of lot planning, understanding of requirements, proper design, maintainability and of course, programming. As software planning involves so many tasks, it should be very easy to guess that software projects don’t fail just because of wrong programming, but mostly [...]

Handling loss of data access due to server downtime

On 28th and 29th of September 2007, P.C. College of Engineering had organized a technical event called ‘Blitzkrieg 2007‘. I was involved in creating the script to allow users to register themselves as participants for various competitions. This simple script had two responsibilities. Registration of participants Listing of all participants The script was pretty simple [...]