Multi-Language online IDE

An online IDE (ideone.com) that supports compiling and running software programs written in various languages showcases the idea of SaaS where compilers and runtime environments are provided as a service. I think this is an extremely useful service and will be helpful for trying out snippets of programs without the need to find and install compilers and runtime [...]

Guess + estimating = guesstimating

How many times have you guesstimated your software project? I think we all do it all the times though we tend to view and term it as a scientific process. Reading this article on Dr. Dobbs by Chuck Connell about the differences between software engineering and computer science, reiterates the common knowledge of how important [...]

Preparing for a Marathon

From past 5-6 months, I have been training to run a Marathon, well actually a semi marathon. I started by running 10 minutes everyday and slowly increased the duration and now I am currently doing about 82 minutes. I am just training for sustenance rather than speed because I just want to complete the marathon [...]

What happens when you delete a wave?

So what happens when you delete a wave in Google Wave? I tried it and found that it is almost impossible to do that even though you are the creator of the initial wave.  When you have created a wave and added participants to the wave, deleting just moves the wave to your trash bin [...]

WebSockets now available in Chrome

The Google Chrome developer channel release 4.0.429.0 now supports HTML5 WebSockets. This is great news for people who want real time asynchronous communication on web and were till now relying on polling or other non standard mechanisms. WebSockets  is a new bi-directional communication channel that is part of HTML5 specification. WebSockets allows full duplex communication [...]