Archive for January, 2007

 

Ritesh on Jan 31st, 2007Enterprise Search and the Google Mini

[digg=http://digg.com/hardware/Google_Mini_and_Enterprise_Search]Well Google Mini has been around for two years now and its official. Google mini is hardware with built in firmware that acts like a mini google server in your own enterprise. Picture this, you own a job consultancy firm with over 30 employees and each of these employees have reumes of hundreds on candidates [...]

Ritesh on Jan 31st, 2007Back after a long time……

Had been really busy for sometime. My current project was up for release and we did a pretty good job of it in the timespan that we allocated for ourselves. Read all about it here.  It was a sleepless, nerve wrecking experience seeing all our code failing on production. But we( as in the developers) [...]

Ritesh on Jan 25th, 2007Geni - make your family tree 2.0 style

First it was Organisational Charts and now its relatives. I just love what Geni has to offer. Its a method of cataloguing and making family trees and the concept just rocks. Just add your name , your fathers name and mother’s name and your email id.  After this you just add your relatives and their [...]

Ritesh on Jan 25th, 2007Enterprise Software Maintainence - steps to reduce maintanence costs

Interesting article I came across in Sadagopans blog, about software expenditure. Google’s GM for enterprise applications says that almost 75 to 80% of software expenditure by CIO’s are used up in maintaining the systems that they have. Enterprise products sell at high costs, the money usually is for customising existing SOA’s to fit business models, [...]

Ritesh on Jan 24th, 2007Giki - Google Groups out of beta - looks more like a wiki

Google groups just announced that its out of beta and completely revamped. The experimental groups concept was started almost two years back and has finally come of age. It packs with it some amazing new features and usability tricks.
The immediate distinction is the slick new UI that is introduced, which has customisable colors and image. [...]