Design Coding

Wow!! Superb Video....



lyrics:Your site design is the first thing people see
it should be reflective of you and the industry
easy to look at with a nice navigation
when you can't find what you want it causes frustration
a clear Call to action to increase the temptation
use appealing graphics they create motivation
if you have animation
use with moderation
cause search engines can't index the information
display the logos of all your associations
highlight your contact info that's an obligation
create a clean design you can use some decoration
but to try to prevent any client hesitation
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Weekend special

I have spent last weekend by surfing the below posts & enjoyed reading each and every comment in these post..This is what called really really crowd pulling writeups.....techcrunch used that in a perfect way!!!!!

Its all long posts..please read all the post & its really worth to waste your time in these kind of posts..

main post->
http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/how-to-save-money-running-a-startup-17-really-good-tips/
http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/can-you-have-a-life-and-work-at-a-startup-company/

techcrunch ->
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/08/startups-must-hire-the-right-people-and-watch-every-penny/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/calacanis-fires-people-who-have-a-life/

37-signals - > http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/902-fire-the-workaholics

Zoho - >http://blogs.zoho.com/general/toondoo-office-unproducitivty-suite/

Zoli Blog -> http://www.zoliblog.com/2008/03/08/oops-they-fired-all-their-workaholics/

Scobleizer ->http://scobleizer.com/2008/03/08/calacanis-is-right-startups-cant-afford-slackers/

I am not a bigshot to write my comment about this debate !!!!..if you have anything to say, please write it here as a comment..

btw, i watched couple of DVDs too,
a) Mr.Brooks -
b) Run Fat Boy Run

both are wonderful moives..I have decided to go to gym(regularly!!! :-)) after watching the second movie..!!!! overall, it was a nice weekend!!!!

Happy Valentines Day

GYM(google-yahoo-ms) will become GM

There is a Flickr group against the recent hot deal in the web(Microsoft bid for Yahoo).
I love their creativity..checkout more pictures here.

my favorite picture from that list,


original picture,
http://flickr.com/photos/gnal/2234037367/in/pool-microsoft-keep-your-evil-grubby-hands-off-our-flickr

Best Free Presentation tool in the WEB

Web will become a platform soon(or is it already arrived that stage???!!!). So at that time, everything will be a WEB application only.

My friend used to say
" web1.0 era - If we stuck at anywhere in the application, we used to do the restart the system & everything will work fine afterwards.
web2.0 era - If we stuck at anywhere in the application, we used to do the restart the browser & everything will work fine afterwards "

So that's how our web life has changed now.

For a long time, I have been thinking to explore zohoshow tool.Finally I did it now....its really cool & easy..checkout my presentation using that tool ( last year mobile shots with this year calendar details)

Pongal Wishes to All

If you don't know any thing about this festival, checkout this blog post..

Happy Pongal.

Hello World -2008

I have created one simple page where you can write your 'New Year Resolution' plan for the year 2008..

Checkout that page,
http://writer.zoho.com/public/duraionly/Write-It-Down

Happy New Year Wishes to All.

Happy Christmas!!!!

Goolge - Tamil

I have updated my Tamil blog after a long time... This time i used "google transliterate" page..Its so simple.

especially, word suggestion..wow..really cool. Just imagine, how far google has reached in the other language side!!!

When I was viewing that page, I just thought of one more option like this..:-) :-)

iPhone Vs iRobot(Android)

Android SDK for developers released recently. checkout google blog post to know more.

It got a mixed review in the blogosphere. But in my opinion, google did a great job. And currently released SDK is java based. checkout my first program in that kit.(i used plain editor..not eclipse)


yea...this is the first question everyone asks after reading those links..how it differs from j2me???? this blog has a wonderful answer for that question..

"Kind of like telling someone they have to stay in their hotel room on vacation (J2ME) and giving them free reign of an entire resort (Android)."

that's true..checkout this simple API, you will come to know how deep you can work on this.. http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/telephony/gsm/SmsMessage.html

detailed system-architecture diagram here ....

very soon, someone will write a hack to support an existing j2me MIDP apps to run in this environment!!! (this is also my guess :-))

Join this group, if you are a mobile(java!!!) developer & want to explore more in this area. http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

really interesting times ahead...

Interview: James Gosling

Question : What is your impression of Google?
Gosling : Part of me feels really deeply disturbed that the killer app for the Internet is turning out to be advertising.

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Knowledge Worker 2.0

One more nice presentation from slideshare.net.

In the web2.0 era,a lot of things have changed.. this slide has a wonderful info. about how the transformation happening in the the knowledge worker side...




After reading these slides, I just thought of new roles in the web2.0 period ..its completely different from the old skill set like java programmer / dotnet programmer..etc..

Here is the list :
a) Mashup Developer
b) API designer(REST / XML RPC)
c) Ajax programmer(expert in in one javascript library, json, xmlhttp..etc)
d) Web2.0 UI designer
e) Facebook developer (customize your app to run in facebook platform)
f) Blogger & expert in RSS or ATOM
g) Plugin/widget developer
h) Web2.0 Market Researcher
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etc.

my favorite picture from the above slide..:-)
(click the below toon to enlarge)

Java

Question : Is it possible to write a "robotic" program using Java?
Answer : Yes, you can.....

:-)



source : http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070907.html

Presentation in a pleasant way !!!!

I saw this nice presentation in slideshare.net site. really cool . Especially I liked the 56^th slide which says "No audience? Present to the furniture. But ALOUD. Try it" ..wow..

Somewhere in the net I read like "more than 10 slides will kill yr presentation"..that's what lacking in the below presentation..that's ok if it has nice background images !!!!



Hope you enjoy this presentation..please follow this too..:-)

iPhone Mania

Much hyped "iPhone" is out. A lot of reviews & lot of issues(!) too.. I don't have a iPhone to write a review about that product.If i were in USA, i should have one.hmm...that's ok.

Checkout the review from the below sites..

• The iPhone is a Beta Product
• engadget.com
• scripting.com

Lifehacker started listing top 10 iPhone apps.
Top 10 iPhone applications

no J2ME support & no FLASH support(till now...flash is coming soon..!!!!)..but still it provides a big opportunity for java developers..checkout this below link to know more..
Is the iPhone an Opportunity for Java Developers?

Btw, who is going to write a first killer app for iPhone???
:-)

I am really scared..

Its really a wonderful video to watch & do some action now..whenever i receive any mails regarding GLOBAL WARMING, I just read it & throw it into my trash folder.

But this video makes me to think alot about this issue..

""I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr proclaims, in an emotional talk about climate change and investment."

AppleTV

I love to read Steve's quotes and also collecting that list..recently when I was watching this interview found one..

“That makes Apple one of the biggest developers of Windows software around,” Walt observes. Jobs: “That’s right. … It’s like offering a glass of ice water to people in hell.”

checkout the interview here

simple & useful

For last one month, i am thinking how to have a mail signature with my blog URL. The problem here is, I have more than one blog & member in alot of social websites.
Do i need to list all the sites in the signature or ?

Recently I found this site which is nothing but a collection of my profiles in the web..checkout that
http://profilefly.com/duraionly

So, from hereafter i will use only this link as my mail signature which leads to all my blogs & myspace link..

what do you say?

-Durai.
[http://profilefly.com/duraionly]

Wonderful place to learn

I found this interesting document from the site called scribd....What i loved most in this site is, i can write anything(I mean, something useful) in the .txt file format and share it with the world..cool na!!!!.....

Ajax Vs JavaFX

Sun will roll out a Java-based product family called JavaFX, which covers Java development from the desktop to the Web to mobile devices


Question : is JavaFX makes AJAX obsolete?
Gosling : that was not a goal..

More...

checkout the techcrunch noise here...!!!!

Special Month Toon

Toon Speaks

I am bit late to update about "ToonDoo" in my blog..:-)..
Hereafter, I will write my blogpost via ToonDoo . ( click the picture to view large)

Web Links

I am just listing the links which I bookmarked recently . especially i decided to write a post after seeing this link.

Java popularized object-oriented programming and introduced many important new ideas. It’s used daily by many practicing computer scientists and will probably continue to be one of the dominant languages in use for at least another decade.....
Canada honors Gosling for Java

nothing to say more...he deserved it.

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This is really a cool tool which occupies one tab in my firefox browser ....its simple(only text) and very powerful
Digg Spy - A Real-Time View of Activity

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if anyone asks me to write an essay about WISDOM & INTELLIGENCE, I can't write it more than 10 lines..but check this link..amazing(for me, this page looks like a thesis/research paper on that topic :-))
the relationship between wisdom and intelligence

i used to read alot of books which speaks about customer satisfaction or customer thrill or...etc. but this link has some interesting tips. Check the 4th point "4. Take the blame" [Saying “it’s my fault” was completely out of character - wow !!]
Seven steps to remarkable customer service...

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Web2.0 : 25 startups to watch

See the employee headcount in each company listed in that link..that's really stunning..Does it convey any message to you?

Btw, can you able to judge who will become the next myspace or youtube from that list??? and also i thought surely one big company(obviously google/yahoo) will buy couple of services from that list..and at the same time i found this link which is completely contradictory with my statement..

Great companies are built by entrepreneurs who want to change the world. They have a basic belief that they will be rewarded for either defining a new market or redefining an old one. They do not want to be bought by Google or Yahoo!, they want to be the next Google or Yahoo!.
The Web 2.0 Myth

check the latest news......Google Launches Apps Premier

hmm.......interesting to watch this race!!!!!!!

Happy Valentines Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine's_Day

Happy Republic Day

Got this picture as a mail forward(with this embedded text) and I decided to keep that in my blog..