Ritesh on Jul 5th, 2007Getting Familiar with Google Gears
Google Gears was released recently as an effort to promote offline web. I have written time and again about this genre of web applications and have spoken about the advancements like the Dojo Offline Toolkit, AIR and the new Silverlight that try to blemish the line between web and desktop applications.
Google Gears is designed [...]
Ritesh on Jul 2nd, 2007Social Design and the Opaque value problem
I read this post by Joshua Porter about the value of social networks and the opaque value problem and it got me thinking. Why and for what do we actually use web based services.
The fact that we don’t understand what value others get from social web apps is part of the paradigm of social software. [...]
Ritesh on Jun 7th, 2007Rules for high performance websites
My recent interest in building scalable applications has led me to learn a lot of simple yet effective programming and deployment techniques, to scale and deliver web apps with ease. Its not rocket science to build for scalability but it certainly gets challenging when your app really scales you come across problems about your environment, [...]
Ritesh on Apr 17th, 2007Infrastructure as a service
I just read an article from the web2.0 expo where Jeff Bezos of Amazon gave a talk on how Amazons S3 service , which essentially allows you to use Amazon’s servers as your data store, crossed 2 Billion stored objects. For a meager sum of money you get the scalability and the reliability of [...]
Ritesh on Apr 12th, 2007Web Application Security - Part 1
Making web apps secure has been an effort ever since the advent of web
applications. The strange mix of technologies interwoven with the complexities of each one of them hasn’t encouraged the setting up of standards for these. Scripting hacks, Cookie hacks, cross site scripting, malicious users and other common problems plague web applications. If all [...]