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Project Statement The goal of the LifeType project is to create a stable multi-user and multi-blogging platform, to strengthen the concept of communities around blogs. History The LifeType project started in February 2003 when its leader, Oscar Renalias, needed a set of dynamic scripts for his personal web page. Even though he did not know about the idea of weblogs back then, the outcome of

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Ami was attending a retreat with some of her work colleagues at Lonavala last Friday and Saturday. Although I was not sure what I would be doing while she was gone, I was certain that it would involve cycling. Some of my colleagues had gone out to lunch on Wednesday and amongst them was good friend and fellow biker Amit (not to be confused with good wife and fellow biker Ami). He owns a Trek

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It seemed like ages since I rode anywhere just for the joy of riding. Running errands and commuting does not count because in those situations the ride is just a means to get to point B. The weather was balmy and I was in good spirits after watching “Buddha Mar Gaya” on television. I donned my cycling outfit (new shorts!) and hopped down. Ami asked where I was headed off to and I said I did not

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It's been a while since we did the whole rolling around on two wheels thing through the city. We've both been very busy with our jobs as well as social commitments. Last Sunday we finally dropped everything and decided to do a short ride - less than 5 kilometres away - to a movie. We got tickets for the morning show for Sarkar Raj, which turns out to be an economically viable option as compared

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We hit the road again last Saturday. I think it is turning into a habit now where we need our weekly long-ride fix else we start showing withdrawal symptoms, curl up into a ball and turn pale-skinned. This week we set our eyes upon Empress Botanical Garden on Solapur Road in Camp. Amongst the concrete morass that Pune has been turning into lately, 59 acres of green cover stands out like an

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After last week's ride, I was itching for more this weekend. But Ami has not been keeping well and I did not want her to exert herself again on a marathon ride. Luckily though, there were some errands to be run at Pune Camp and the peth's. So I dusted off my faithful two-wheeled friend and took off on Saturday afternoon. Return to the War Graves During the course of my research for Kirkee War

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My passion of late has been exploring Pune on two wheels. Since having made my home here last August, I have been thrilled by the city. It has a rich cultural scene if you know where to look, and of course the sights are all new to us. We used to love to go out on weekends earlier on by autorickshaw to far-flung areas in the city. However, in the spirit of frugality and environment-friendliness,

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In my previous post, I wrote about the mind-numbingly stupid processes that the Reliance ADA Group seems to follow when fulfilling customer requests for something as basic as an internet connection. It took them over 4 months to show up at my door-step and complete the installation. Even after that I had several connectivity problems about a month later. I had pretty much made up my mind to

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Reliance took away my money and all I got for it was a bird feeder. So you’ve finally decided to go for a Reliance WiMax internet connection. The happy faced executive shows up at your door, fills up the form on your behalf, gets photocopies of the relevant documents for you, takes the cheque and walks out of your life forever. Congratulations! You have kissed Rupees 562 goodbye. The Reliance

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I have recently moved to a smaller city that can’t quite boast of the public transport system that Mumbai provides to its citizens. It does exist on paper, and when you go out you do have the option of trying to locate a public utility bus or train. But that task is so difficult that most people cave in to the temptation of flagging an auto rickshaw. Even if it costs up to ten times the price of

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Remit2India has put up a banner outside the Siddhivinayak Temple at Prabhadevi to advertise its donation program, that lets you contribute to the temple's fund from anywhere across the world. For those who haven't heard of them, Remit2India provides an internet based money transfer service that lets Indian's abroad send money back home. The company is promoted by the Times of India Group and UTI

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We all know the quirks of HTML while rendering spaces and tabs. Due to this indenting text is a source of great grief. Until you hear of the pre tag, that is. For my previous article, I needed to display code samples to illustrate certain points. But the browser just wouldn’t render the HTML correctly. No matter how hard I tried, getting opening and closing braces to align just wasn’t happening.

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In my previous post I described Daryl’s experience as a programmer writing an inventory control system for a candy store. Over the next few weeks Betty, the store owner, spread the word about Daryl’s fantastic inventory and billing management software amongst her friends. Daryl was flooded with requests for a computer application “just like the Betty’s”. So he got down to work again. But Daryl

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Its been quite a while since I wrote about a serious programming-specific problem. In this two part series I will show you a popular database normalization method (don’t touch another database until you don’t grok that), and an alternative use for delegates. All code is written in Flash Actionscript and is purely illustrative. Betty Green runs a candy shop that is wildly popular with the

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There used to be a humble family of three a long time ago. A windowed grand mother, a windowed mother, and a hapless child. All simple souls, they barely knew their way around their own home. Neighbours treated them with indifference. Relatives took the trouble to call upon them at times. But mostly, they spent their time ekeing out an honest living.Then evil befell them. The grandmother and the

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I've made a posting on Writers against Terrorism on Google Groups, in response to the bustle created about the Mid-East crisis. "I've been rather pressed for time lately, but I feel a comment has to be made about this before it becomes irrelevant like so many other causes citizens like to stand up for. So I'll borrow one of P J O'Rourke's quotes here - 'Everybody wants to save the earth, nobody

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I am appalled at the depths to which the government of this country is sinking in order to curb freedom of speech. The Sri Krishna Commission Report is allowed to gather dust by labelling it classified. Fanaa and Da Vinci Code get “banned” in certain states in the country. Now, less than a week since the Mumbai train bomb blasts, ISP’s across the country are confirming that according to a DoT

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In the coming days I will be posting a series of articles on certain enigmatic syntax and operators. By harnessing the power of these commands not only do you make your code more readable, but also improve performance. I'll begin with the simplest of them all - the ?: operator.This operator provides conditional execution based upon the boolean evaluation of a condition. The syntax is as follows -

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When I first jumped into programming in ActionScript about a year ago, I was carrying a lot of baggage with me from 6 years of Director/Lingo development. I was expecting more than just a change in syntax - this was going to be a paradigm shift for me! From coding in a language that comes close to writing a sentence, to something that resembled a real programming language. Heck, it even had {}'

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I’ve spoken to several people since July 11 and can’t help notice the anguish that creeps through their voice when they speak about our government’s inability to stop terror strikes on our soil. Why is it that the largest democracy, heralded as a world power by many, isn’t able to protect its citizens? When the United States was attacked in 2001, President Bush came down hard upon the terrorist

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In my previous post I showed how to use the CSS display attribute to change visibility of an element. By setting this attribute to the value ‘none’ the element will collapse and the elements under it will shift up. This can be done either by submitting the page and generating a new one at the server with this attribute changed, or more preferably by using Javascript to change this attribute at

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I was going to write this as a full length tutorial, but I figure it’ll be a lot easier for people to follow if I simply state the concepts and let them figure out the applications themselves. How does one hide a HTML DOM element in the browser (at runtime or during authoring)? Most people familiar with CSS will say that they use the visibility attribute in the element style and set its value

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In an unprecedented move, that could have far reaching consequences on the country’s ornithological populace, the Balasaheb Thackarey led Shiv Sena has officially banned birds from entering the country’s financial capital, Mumbai. Shiv Sena spokespersons say it is an unfortunate step, but is required in order to maintain the dignity of statues and busts scattered throughout the city. Earlier,

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Daryl is a programmer. He works at a small ISV, writing web based applications and online games. Daryl is also a very good communicator and has a fair amount of graphic design skills in Photoshop. Because of his communication skills Daryl's boss entrusts him with writing the specs of any new project. He's doing a fairly good job at it too, and is looking forward to a good review at the end of the

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I took up a weekend project to help a friend who was upgrading his website and wanted a single feature addition – uploading images onto his website through his existing control panel, so that he wouldn't have to FTP files every time he added a new product. The existing website was developed in ASP/VBScript, which I'm only just beginning to learn. I already know some PHP programming, so the

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