Posted by Akshay Sura on Mar 19, 2009
WebDatamation is pleased to offer a new Firefox Add-on, Current Site IP, developed by our own team which should be a useful tool for any website developer.
This new Add-on gives you an advertising-free, direct way to get a website IP address you need when working on site development.
No doubt you, like ourselves, work with many different internal and external sites during development, and find it difficult to remember which website uses which ...
Posted by Akshay Sura on Feb 16, 2009
Here are a few things Sitecore can improve on:
Sitecore Admin needs to load faster
Need an easier way to assign renderings to place holders
Need an easier way to Assign roles & users to folders and content items
Right now it is a pain to get it setup on Windows 2008 with SQL Server 2008, it would be nice to get an installer which does this for you (Sitecore posted a note saying that this is in the works).
I don't know if I say it ...
Posted by Akshay Sura on Jan 11, 2009
The internet has transformed into a superfluous repository of information in the present era. Consequently, this information overload is causing a deficit or a scarcity of attention. Now if you are not quite familiar with the usage of the word “attention” in the context of this discussion, it simply refers to consumption of information.
Herbert Simon has quite elegantly pointed out that, “A wealth of information creates a poverty of ...
Posted by Akshay Sura on Dec 16, 2008
Should Google earth be censored? This question has been going around for quite a few years and now after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month, a petition has been submitted in the country’s high court by legal advocates to blur sensitive areas such as Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Google Earth.
According to the TIMES report, the petition says that Google Earth “aids terrorists in plotting attacks” and offers “absolutely no ...
Posted by Akshay Sura on Nov 19, 2008
This week we launched a new site ACureIsInOurReach.org, for a Non-Profit , The Life Raft Group. It's for a great cause.
Here is a little bit about the project:
"The Life Raft Group (LRG) launched this website, What does a cure mean for you? to find out exactly that…
We want to know what a cure actually means to those people who are dealing with cancer every day. Unfortunately, cancer has touched us all in some way - whether you’re ...
Posted by Akshay Sura on Nov 07, 2008
DotNetNuke - another powerful content management system to add to the existing list. With so many CMS's around and each one of them offering you a vast set of features, you feel pampered. A few years back, building your dream website for your organization and managing its content simultaneously, seemed such a daunting task. However after Content Management Systems have come into existence, publishing dynamic content in a consistently structured ...
Posted by Akshay Sura on Oct 15, 2008
JQuery was developed by John Resig at BarCamp NYC and was released on January 2006. It is a lightweight JavaScript library that assists in the rapid development of powerful client side scripts. Interaction of JavaScript with the underlying DOM (HTML) of the web page and its associated CSS in a more procedural manner is basically what JQuery has to offer.
JQuery is dual licensed under the GNU General Public License and the MIT License and is ...
