iPad. Not for I!

Filed under Gadgets, General, Mobile on February 4, 2010

So like everyone else i was looking forward to the iPad, and not  just because i can’t bear the price my friends are shelling out for the kindle or because unlike my other friends i don’t subscribe to the gospel according to the almighty Jobs. I was looking forward to it because i look out for apps and gadgets that do what they say they do and the fact that some think i suffer from the syndrome techynes-i-tis brought about by the pathogen  gadgetae.

But after going through the iPad can – do’s,  asking myself,  “what will iPad do that my notebook and phone can’t do ?”  I came up with this conclusion. Wait for it….. !nothing.
Apple Steve Jobs and Co have very well figured out how to gain the following of the rest of the folks who generally don’t use desktops/laptops for everything they are advertised to do and do not necessarily need an app device  when they just needed to receive a call.

So for those over gadget feature overloaded techies who anticipated a new device that will change habits for everyone this isn’t it, but it will surely change the regular Joe who doesn’t need all the gigs to check email, read the news, watch a video, stalk old flames on facebook without squinting or calling tech support to turn on the computer.

New Year, New Things

Filed under General on January 10, 2010

So unlike many years i try to forget 09 wasn’t a bad year at all, and even though i have left over resolutions from last year,  2010 is a bag of a lot of goodies for me.

That said, my sole resolution this year is to put all my to-dos into to-done. Which means you will hear a whole lot from yours truly, hopefully most positive.
Here is to a good 2009 and a great 2010 full of bigger and better things.

Happy new year everyone

JQuery and keyboard events

Filed under DOM, JQuery, Javascript on August 18, 2009

One of the many things that can and will induce a headache instantly is working with keyboard events on the multiple browsers.  Thankfully jQuery makes things seem a whole lot easier than they actually are. here is brief example

$(document).keydown(function(event){
  switch (event.keyCode) {
   //ctrl key
      case 17:
     alert("key: ctrl");
  //overide default event action
     return false;
  }
});

Note: The keycodes may be different across browsers and overiding the event action may did not work in ie8.
For a keycode reference and test tool check out http://is.gd/2mf9A

RewriteMap TXT

Filed under mod_rewrite on March 11, 2009

So we all know that  mod_rewrite will destroy your brain cells faster than any other voluntarily ingested toxin, and yet we all seem to inhale it all the time.  In my new found love of design patterns, regular expressions a.k.a regex  (the primary fuel behind all matters rewrite) has become an essential tool in my arsenal of solutions to every day problems. (more…)

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