Ritesh on Jun 5th, 2007Suffer from bloat ? try these techniques to improve performance
All you javascript programmers, are you one of those people who are bitten by the RIA bug and write endless lines of JS code and include 200Kb header or bootstrap files. Then you suffer from bloat, a condition in which a content 3kb in size brings with it 300kb of javascript for presentation purposes. Bloat [...]
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 [...]
Ritesh on Apr 9th, 2007Push for offline web applications
We have come full circle with regards to the web. The work offline option in IE that was used in the dial up era has resurfaced because of unreliable broadband . Unstable wireless connections have made offline availability of applications very critical, at least for productivity apps like spreadsheet and mail (mind you, these apps [...]
Ritesh on Apr 1st, 2007Tips on Usability
This was the presentation given on usability of websites , there are some basic tips that you must read.
1 . anticipate what the users expect and provide those features.
2. Autonomy : giving the users a sense of mastery. and providing status messages.
3. don’t rely only on colors , many are color blind
4. consistent commands [...]