Muthukumar Rajamani : Interaction Designer/Manager, Bangalore

Product Experience Management,User Reseach at Cisco Systems, India

Archive for the 'Web Technologies' Category

Structure of a RSS Feed

Sample RSS 2.0 Feed

http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/ An example of a simple RSS feed. This is the description of the feed itself, not an item.

http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/entry.html This is the text that will appear in the feedreaders. It describes the post itself, not the entire feed. http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/entry.html

  How to Build an RSS File from Scratch Let them know that … [...]

13 May 2008 at 02:30 - Comments

Top AJAX Frameworks of 2007

Prototype, JQuery and ExtJS are the top 3 AJAX frameworks used in 2007 based on a survey conducted by Ajaxian. Interestingly 42.5% of the respondents also used one of these frameworks, toolkits and libraries to design proof-of-concepts and prototypes. 46.5% of the developers used them in conjunction with PHP followed by Java (27.6%) and .NET [...]

26 December 2007 at 09:51 - Comments
I have used Extjs from Prototype-Production recently and love it..love it :)
21 February 08 at 17:13
senthil, glad to hear that you luved it. its such a brilliant tool and the best part it that its ...
21 February 08 at 18:18

Web Innovation 2007 : Day 1

Just got back from attending an interesting Day 1 of the Web Innovation 2007 Conference. Promise to upload photos soon. It was heartening to note that finally, User Experience was given its due recognition in many of the Web 2.0 related presentations. Both Adobe & Microsoft extensively promoted Flex, AIR, Silver Light and Expressions [...]

18 December 2007 at 08:39 - Comments

CLI > GUI > CLI on GUI!?!

Update : Read Enso’s take on Why Quasi Modes are more user friendly than Modes

And now CLI gets contextually integrated with GUI! Atleast, that’s what Jono DiCarlo from Humanized has demonstrated through Enzo. All you need to do is press “Caps Lock” key to invoke/trigger the Command Line Interface and start keying in your commands. The [...]

16 November 2007 at 01:42 - Comments
I tried enso for a bit, but I still find the CLI too tedious. I'm a bigger fan of Autohotkey ...
26 November 07 at 20:06
Mac
Vanakkam, I want to move into the UI side of software technology, not by the lure for money due to ...
30 November 07 at 08:12

Flex Overview

High level overview on Adobe Flex. Using a tree navigation to provide the overview aint a good idea. Creating a Simple RIA: Watch Video of the Tutorial Learning Points * Flex applications are Flash applications. o Flex is a programmer-centric way to create [...]

31 October 2007 at 03:23 - Comments