I had been busy with some developments in my search product, but nothing interesting enough. My team has just started putting into shape one of our long pending objectives. Hope to release it by end of feb.
The future of web is in sharing. It is time, web sites providing online services should gear themselves for this. It is better than to slog inorder to avoid competition. In coming years (or months.. who knows), online features will be rated on their plugability/mashability, along with useability and speed.
With the web developer community already looking into next generation online solutions, it becomes imperative that user experience is seemless and tools are provided for the user which ensures optimum value with respect to time spent online. Search engines within applications have thus become integral part of every system. Today, i'll be discussing about the important factors to be kept in mind while developing a search engine for your database. Most of this i have learnt while working with my current organization.
Was going through various online journals on search engines when i stumbled upon this document published by mondosoft. Its interesting as they have argued the importance of human intervention in search engines. I wish i could attach the entire pdf here, but you may be able to download it from here
Had always thought of exploring the php extension creation part. Although i have always encouraged my team to go for it wherever it makes sense, never got time to sit down and write my own first piece of extension. Today i sat and decided to write my first php extension. Doing this on a saturday definitely helped as i didn't get distracted with daily fire fightings and meetings.
Finished my days work. Just going through different websites using latest technology. Visited netvibes.com and found it interesting. But i sincerely wonder, how useful these "myspace" kind of concepts would be. Whole lot of it depends on how the entire web progresses crossing limitations of bandwidth. I'll definitely love to create my workarea on the web and stick to it provided i have limitless bandwidth :-)
I don't know if i should use this (web 2.0) term, but the hype associated with it has definitely given a wider perspective to the web and its components. The emergence of AJAX is the biggest achievement of this era. Although many of us had used javascript to fetch server side data as as early as 6 yrs ago, somebody had to come out with a fancy name like "AJAX" to make it popular. Same is true with "Web 2.0"
