yeah jo desh hai mera...

yeah jo desh hai mera...

Today is the day three brave men gave their lives for their country. They were no ordinary men. They were men who dedicated their lives, who fought the British till their last breath. One of these men, who's a bit more famous than the other two, went on a fast for 52 days at a stretch!!! I'm not sure if even half a million in this country know about this great deed!

The three of them were mercilessly killed on this day by the British. The three men were Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru. There's not one word in the papers or in the news about the importance of this day. Every newspaper/news channel is full of news about the "friendship" cricket series, between India and Pakistan!! Let us show some respect to these great men.
Please pass this onto every one.

[ via: Arun]

Over 275,000 valuable images & free access..

Over 275,000 valuable images & free access..

New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Gallery has launched free access to their 275,000+ digitised photos. While browsing this amazing collection, curiosity took me to the section of Indian pictures. They are mesmerizing and amazing both in quality & naming convention,which is very intact.

I wonder about the challenging task in indexing such a huge voume of image bank. They obviously call it: 4 years of hard work is put into this mammoth work. Naming or indexing is very important task which facilitates each image to attract search spiders. I still remember the hard ship of similar task. While working in a webhosting company way back, the team which was vested with the responsibility of indexing thousand plus stock images, were literally struggling to attatch meta tag to each & every image, which went unsuccessful at last ! ;)

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NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

The technical team that built the software, briefly describes how the publishing system uses XML to ensure fast public delivery.
They say: "the Digital Asset Management System is a homegrown labor of love with an Oracle back-end and ColdFusion web-based front-end. The publishing system is based on an extract from Oracle that is delivered via XML. This allowed us to have a heavily normalized repository database and a rather flat and fast public delivery. More on the use of XML later."
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Why Flash Developers Should Care About Flex ?

Why Flash Developers Should Care About Flex ?

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Many have questioned the validity of Flex as a platform, and wondered why I like it and use it. I believe for many this is to understand if it is worth investigating, and to shed more light onto where it fits in our future.

I will attempt to explain now why I like it, my inferences on where Macromedia see's Flash & Flex going, and where I see Flash Developer's within that path.
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While, working on the similar project & technology, I just wanted to jot down a write up on the transformation of Flash to Flex, specificlly in the environment I am familiar with. Btw, Via 'Flog' I landed onto this nice and timely article by Jesse Randall Warden. He chronologies the transformation of Flash to Flex from designer & developer perspective. I hope, it's worth reading connoisseur's words.

If anything to go by the rhetoric of the writeup, it's suppose to be the greatest transformation we have seen in the timeline of Flash pushing the limits across the boundaries of RIA applications.

It's worth reading, while Macromedia is on a launch pad to update Flex RIA 1.5 framework.
click here to read the article in detail.

Plus, Link to Breeze demo on Flex.

Cute XML slideshow..

Cute XML slideshow..

Now, This is what I call a penultimate slideshow based on xml/ActionScript component created in FlashMX2004 by Todd Dominey. What's uniqe is SlideShowPro supports RSS 2.0 and OPML for organizing feeds. As of now,It's not at all free and it's worth of $20 and payable only through PayPal.This slideshow rocks both in performance and usability.

I was looking for this kind of nice stuff for quite some time.
Sometime back, I was able to build a xml feeded Flash based slideshow for one of my corporate presentation(standalone). But always stuck up with a xml refreshing and image swapping durations were conflicting with :

 clearInterval(intervalID);

if;

function autoSlide() {
if (currentRecord == nodeCount)
{ // *is first slide, or any count of slideimage appears,
normally gets into loop mode mostly when it reaches the end of the slide.
got the workaround. But on slower FPS systems it made a lot of difference in clearing
set Interval.
This slideshow, beats Darshan's component in eliminating that disadvantage.
}

While on R&D of the same, I found pretty interesting slideshow created by Darshan Sawardekar a year ago. That was a master piece with elegant design. And made a lot of news in Flash community.

Dream Picture
Wow ! What can I say about this beautiful picture taken by Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20 ( see above )digital cam. Initially I thought to go for Kodak or Canon stuff. And was seriously thinking of getting one from Dubai shopping festial, where I would be getting outright 8% discount. But I just fell in love with panasonic Lumix series, when I saw, point and shoot Panasonic DMC-FX5 with my friend Sonal.
Fianlly I decided to go for:Panasonic DMC-FZ20.
This camera fits my needs and tastes.
Infact I was more keen on:
36 - 432mm (equiv.) F2.8,12x Opt Lens factor rather than its 5.3 mega pixels.

This is announced at the end of July 2004. DMC-FZ20 is the flagship model of the third generation of 'super zoom' cameras from electronics giant Panasonic. If everything goes well, surely I would be placing my snaps on Lumix Awards for 'the best photograph' ;)

My profile..

My profile..

Offcially I started blogging 'Today' ;)
It's my first post and let me call this as a test post rather.

And I started questing a catchy phrase line to put into words -'me'.
I know, it's the most easy & the most toughest task to talk a loud on self.

My innovative thought tank was pure blank and empty...not even responding to the such a nice service offered by google blogger. So, wanted to grab a line out there from the web ( a typical designer attitude- you know ?!)
whaatever:

It's a quote from one of my favourite bloggers :
"I want to live only for ecstasy. Small doses, moderate loves, all half-shades, leave me cold. I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers."

Watch out this space for updates. Let's catchup here again and again...
you got every right to correct me if I'm wrong or out of context.

Cya.