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• What will be the next generation internet application platform?

  A few years ago I was a firm believer in the Rich Connected Client application model, which was based on running applications installed locally on the users desktop. From the time of the Ajaxian explosion , the quality and quantity of Ajax based web applications... Posted Jun 24 2008, 08:45 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: General Software Development

• Subversion as a deployment tool

  I was thinking on the way to work today that subversion would be a great tool to overcome some of the difficulties associated with frequent deployments to the web serevers. Here's how I see it working Create a production/live build folder in your source... Posted May 05 2008, 09:05 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: General Software Development

• Programmer Competency Matrix

  Having worked with programmers with an extreme variance in skills, I sometimes get the feeling that there is an big lack of good programmers but when I thought about it a little more I realized that it's not very clear cut, some of the programmers have... Posted Apr 30 2008, 10:49 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: General Software Development

• An alternative model of computation for concurrency

  I recently came across an old article that I had written for my company newsletter, it's always fun to discover old stuff that you've written and see how much your perception has changed since then. Copied verbatim below, this was a print article which... Posted Apr 12 2008, 06:11 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: General Software Development

• First alternative to google that I actually liked

  SearchMe - Still in beta and I was able to get an account easily. Check out the screenshot of their search results Not only are the results categorized but I loved the visual search results that don't require me to open the page in another window to further... Posted Mar 28 2008, 05:20 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: General Software Development

• How to leak memory in .Net - Statics and Event Handlers

  For the past few days I’ve been investigating some memory leak issues in our desktop application. The problem started showing up when we saw that opening new documents and then closing them didn’t have any negative impact on the memory usage. Initial... Posted Aug 03 2007, 12:43 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, General Software Development

• .Net framework hotfix wreaks havoc

  Last week all of us were baffled when suddenly one part of our application that uploads files to a FTP server stopped working. The strange thing was that the same build has been working without any issues for the past one week. We looked at everything... Posted Jul 18 2007, 06:46 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, General Software Development

• In defense of hacking

  I read a very interesting essay today - Hacknot - To Those About to Hack that talks about why planning upfront always pays in the long run. There is a very nice story that illustrates the value of planning upfront. I think that when people write essays... Posted Jul 09 2007, 11:44 AM by Sijin Joseph with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: General Software Development

• What they don't teach you in CS class

  Software Engineering!!! A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build. - Fred Brooks in the Mythical Man-Month. Following up on my post about the need for a CS degree for programmers , I had started writing this post on how... Posted May 26 2007, 04:58 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: General Software Development

• Make sure you know what you're fixing

  I’ve been working on this bug for the past one week, basically a call to the GDI+ APIs MeasureString and DrawString was failing with a very useful exception “A generic GDI+ error has occured” , my initial hypotehesis was that the problem was coming because... Posted May 18 2007, 10:13 PM by Sijin Joseph with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, General Software Development