Internet explorer: death is inevitable
As much as I love and endorse Microsoft whole heartedly I have not and will not ever endorse
Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer is more of disgusting product from Microsoft’s warehouse
than Windows ME. As any web developer will tell you, working with Internet Explorer is one of
the most difficult and frustrating things they have to deal with on a daily basis, taking up a
disproportionate amount of their time. Beyond that, Internet Explorer support for modern web standards
is lacking to say the least, restricting what developers can create and holding the web back. Acid test
always makes sure how web standard a browser is and as a matter of fact IE 6 did not even Acid 2 test where
as other browser engines namely Gecko and Webkit and also Presto passed it years back. Acid 3 test well
Internet Explorer is still short of it but anyways it is at least not a design hassle so serious. Microsoft
has also proposed that it might abandon its Trident engine for a more modern engine like WebKit but until
that happens which we all dream to be we have to leave Internet Explorer in its grave. People Internet Explorer
6 and also Internet Explorer 7 is dead. People who are still stuck up with Windows 9x well I DON’T CARE about
you all and people with Windows XP my piece of advice get Windows 7 you will not regret it. People on Vista
well upgrade now to Windows 7 too. And if both XP users who cannot upgrade well then can be primitive as long
as they wish and for Vista user who can’t upgrade well atleast get Firefox or Chrome or Internet Explorer 8.
As always I endorse Firefox and Chrome, and IE8 well it aint so bad. You all should run JamesUnified.com through
IE 7 and below and see something special. Do not cry about it later. As a sample screen I have linked it below.
Windows 7: the era of modern computing has begun, whether you want an efficient desktop manager, a graphically
advanced draw system, an effective file manager, a secure OS architecture or may be radically modern interface
Microsoft Windows 7 will cater to you all. Windows XP is dead, Windows Vista was great and Windows 7 is awesome.
Windows XP honest from heart opinion would it is so 90s. Windows XP undoubtedly bought stability to the Windows
Family of client Operating System by merging the Window 9x and Window NT families together but Windows 7 radically
shook things up. Windows 95 was a major changing point for Windows series and Windows 7 does the same brings about a
revolution on how we touch and work with our system. Touch would literally touch. Windows 7 adds the power of intuitive
touch interface if your system is equipped with a touch sense capable monitor. It brings in superbar the new taskbar. A
stronger secure Firewall and coupled with Microsoft Security Essentials it bring free powerfully security right to the
Windows desktop. Speaking about desktop, window management has been newly defined, Aero Peek, Aero Shake and just few of the
changes. Windows 7 is a magnanimous success even before it launched. The most sought out feature would be modified and very
less annoying User Access Control; Windows UAC is redefined to auto allow certain privileged user actions. Taking not on behalf
of Microsoft or as a Windows lover but as a true technological enthusiast who has been closely following Window 7 from the Milestone
days and shifted to Windows 7 full time way back in July when RTM was out, take it from me people Windows 7 is a huge as it gets.
Join the club, Get Windows 7 now!
Designing is a lengthy process, you got to choose the colors,
make the layout, build the structure, draw the images, vectors
drawn from illustrator then glorify them in Photoshop, get all those CSS classes and identifiers right and
not forgetting about the pseudo class. All this and then finally you go bananas over which color is right is
it #008C8C or #008C8B, those pesky little details are the most troubling part. Now all that is equally applicable
to coding since undoubtedly coding is art too. Now here comes the pain part when you got to do both. Redesigning
and worker for your own self is having the worst client ever. Every time you finalize something a new thing crops up
in your head from the deep cavers of your mind and then you wonder yet again and ask yourself ‘what if’. What if you
made than blue? What if you made that in right instead of left? What if you added a new section? Those what ifs
never end! But the shiny color of success comes on curled in a rainbow is when you actually finish you work and
archive a new zenith all together. JamesUnified v1.9 is JamesUnified redefined. Welcome to the blue edition.
Well Twitter was an innovation when it was established! I was left out a little from this twitter world
for a while but in anyways I had seen it quite often but never mugled up the time and effort to join and check it out.
As per as my own norms I do not join lot many social networking sites this keeps things clean and simple but to my very surprise
one day I did have enough free time to get an account over it. Now I am like addicted to twitter. Now the funny part is my
I know I am a little of a Microsoft fan boy but looking at it with proper
regard one cannot look away from the present Linux and Linux technology market.
PHP, Perl, Ruby all leave their mark on Web Technologies and many developers are
shifting from the regular ASP.net and Microsoft to open source. Though i am more
comfortable with MS technologies but non-MS tech is not a distant market for me.
Today after a little week of testing I upgraded my web server to IIS 7 and the best
part is I added support for PHP. What this mean i can host open source applications
and make my own developments in PHP. There are also few more changes I got in to my
server. I also upgraded from 10GB HDD to a 150GB one. Bought more network bandwidth
with a awesomely cool limit of 1500GB; yup you read that right. Added support for;
rather bought support for hosting more MSSQL and MySQL databases. The best part is
all the benefits that come with IIS 7 itself. Integrated pipeline mode handles all
requests through a unified pipeline because of the integration of ASP.NET's runtime
with the Web server. IIS 7's classic mode behaves in the same manner as IIS 6, using
two pipelines to process requests. It also adds support for numerous Web technologies
namely, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows
Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WC) and Silverlight. Well that
is all for now and the next time will be that JU v2.0 i am working on.
Stay sharp, stay cute and keep visiting me :D
Finally the long awaited and long rumored Google Browser.
Wow what a simplistic and functional design. Google made a breakthrough
I would say! Again the core is based on AppleWebKit which gives 78 on
the Acid3 test; for the comparison of W3C set standards IE8 beta 1 gives
18 out of 100 so making Chrome a fit and healthy standards supporting browser.
Chrome has the Google backbone and also borrows the company’s standard for
simplistic and minimal and useable design. It is currently in beta and thus
it lacks huge number of features; for starters say and AdBlocker, Popup Blocker
and mouse gestures. But again Chrome is in beta and is also open source so it
will not be too long before it is all feature packed. The best feature is its
page rendering is done super quickly and also not to forgot the way the browser
handles the different tabs and pulgins as separate processes so one darn website
or ill designed plugin will never crash your web experience. The only downside of
Chrome other than being to scarce in features is at times it gets a little big memory
hog. But it won’t be such a bothersome for modern systems since most of nowadays ships
with bare 2GB minimum. So try it out today and let me know how you feel about the next Google Revolution!!
It seems as if it was just the other day I launched my first website. It was MyLegendSwap.com. The only problem I faced then was
deciding a name for my site. Man it was tough :D Then I was a senior in my high school, in
other words a 12th grader! I had
always wanted to have my own domain on the web from when i was in my 5th grade, but at that time was different. Cost, internet, servers
all were a concern and was quite impractically for personal sites back then. Email then was slowly
gaining popularity. I got my first email
account when I was in 5th grade. it was swapnendu@123india.com. I used to
hardly get more than a few mails a month. Internet was slow, floppy
discs still trying to dominate and Windows 98se crippled every system. Those were the days of CTRL ALT DEL, if you know what I mean. Finally
in the summer of 2006 I got my childhood dream into action and launched my first website. It was the grand day of 4th of
July my website dawned.
