Ritesh on Dec 19th, 2007Are days of the RDBMS numbered ?
Most programmers know databases and its importance. Thanks to the new generation of software as a service and web services, traditional RDBMS’s are sparingly used and the number is bound to deteriorate further as enterprises adopt the Saas platform. Data has far outgrown the domains of just text. Today we talk of mutlimedia data, urls, [...]
Ritesh on Nov 29th, 2007Towards Semantic Interoperability
Is it true? Is Indian IT industry surviving because of lack of Semantic Interoperability? Incorrect Semantic Interoperability describes mismatch in the format and representation of data belonging to two parallel applications which prohibit them from interacting with each other or prohibits possible migration. Take the example of ERPs like SAP and Oracle Apps, they essentially [...]
Ritesh on Oct 8th, 2007The saga of the legacy lovers
Gone are the days of the digital divide, there is a new kind of divide amongst many computer professionals now. Its the generation gap. Its hard to comprehend this statement, but anybody, whose is exposed to at least 5 years of industry dynamics, will know exactly what I am talking about. Call it Moore’s law [...]
Ritesh on Sep 20th, 2007Performance and its importance for websites
Recently, the field of performance has been taken by storm. Right from the people in my company who came to improve performance of our websites to the people who gave talks about performance in unconferences held in the city, performance seems to be the thing to talk about. A recent trip to the Yahoo Developer [...]
Ritesh on Aug 13th, 2007Personalization is one cookie away
I wrote about personalization some time back and about how we should actually be approaching this problem. Google has got their act into place and are making your own light weight personalization meter, but its for ads Google is going to put a cookie in your browser that will record information everytime you read an [...]
