Ritesh on Jan 8th, 2011Shutter – open source alternative to skitch
Shutter is an open source alternative to Skitch, which is a mac only advanced Screenshot utility. This tool will help you capture screenshots in sections, full screen or multi-monitor mode. You can then do some minor modifications such as adding annotations, highlighting specific regions, adding small icons , free form drawing , cropping etc. It’s [...]
Ritesh on Jan 5th, 2010Extending jQuery validation plugin – custom validation
JQuery validation plugin has saved me hours of development time on projects. It contains definitions for most validation tasks that you would need, including AJAX based validations. But if you have to do anything more than the ordinary, you have extend the library yourself. Here’s an example of an extension I wrote : Functionality : [...]
Ritesh on Dec 5th, 2007How easy is it to build web properties?
You may think building a web property needs not just code but scalable hardware, but you will be surprised to know you don’t need anything but a browser. Thanks to hosted infrastructure you can run and control your online business from the realms of a browser. Even the former, code, is something that is sparingly [...]
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 Jun 18th, 2007Creative Commons India
Creative commons is generating a lot of buzz amongst bloggers, photographers and other individuals who quote, ping, use, plagiarize others contents. Well its not just that, Open source enthusiasts are also lining up to learn about the Creative Commons licensing and how it affects or benefits them. The Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that [...]
