Ritesh on Aug 7th, 2009Whats common between Free online ads and Open source
Disclaimer: I am not an Open Source hater. In fact, I am quite the opposite. I believe that for a innovative software marketplace to exist, there must be an equal mix of open and closed source softwares. This also borders on a project that I did on multiagent systems.
There are claims that Open Source [...]
Ritesh on Jul 24th, 2009One Decade of Programming
Sometime around July 1999 was the time I wrote my first “Hello World” program. Yes, its been 10 years since I started programming, and I dont mean L R L T of Logo. In fact, I wrote some BASIC code as early as 1995-96, but I will skip that for reasons beyond the scope of [...]
Ritesh on Jan 14th, 2009New Programming Paradigms
Over the last two or three years, I have seen introduction of many new psuedo programming languages(if I can call it that) that help users build applications over the web. Most of these languages are built to work with or as a service. I shall wildly switch between a web service and also the langauge [...]
Ritesh on Jul 31st, 2008Open source sucks and why ??
I got your attention didn’t I ? Now read on.
The problem with open source software is its lack of quality. And how is this lack of quality downgraded even more ? its due to the lack of proper documentation and support. Its pitiable looking at the so called open source enthusiasts who advocate open [...]
Ritesh on Jun 26th, 2008Coming the full GCircle
Remember early 2004 and the release of Gmail ? The “ooh so exclusive, invite only” mailbox that was so cool. I remember. How hard I tried to get an invite and how I rejoiced when I layed my eyes on Gmail; How I tried to figure out why is the page not navigating or how [...]
