Professional Ajax Aseem N wrote this at 11:37 pm • Filed under Tech •

Was really busy for the last few days and yes for atleast another week more to come. Managing academics and business interests isn’t an easy job as I thought it was. And then there is this now hebetudinous blog of mine, I want to kick live with newer posts.

Well, everytime I go to Pune, I don’t miss ‘Appa Balwant Chowk’ a street known for 1^st hand, 2^nd hand and probably even N^th hand books… All in good form and shape as though they were all new and more importantly at some dirt price (only if you know to bargain well).

Ajax has been around for quite some time now. But never got a project that demanded its use. But recently got a development project for a local newspaper website. Thought, a good read on Ajax should be useful. For all the not so common books there is one stop there at Appa Balwant Chowk. ‘Unnati Book House’, I never miss that! I have taken hours to search the books there on the street, but this book stall hasn’t ever disappointed me.

There were some 4-5 books on Ajax that the guy there showed me. Hmm… I was particularly searching for a SAM’s publication one, my favorite series. Wasn’t there :(. So ran through the contents of the ones in front of me. I found a couple of them interesting. But since Ajax being a newer technology… even a 200 page book had an overhead cost. So had to settle for one book.

I was impressed with this book - ‘Professional Ajax’ by Wrox publications. The Indian Edition costed me some Rs 325 odd after discount. Well, its also available at Amazon.

Will read the book the next weekend when I have a little more time for myself. And will definitely come up with a review of it. At first glance, it looks to be the best and most comprehensive book around for learning Ajax.

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Digesting Shastriya Sangeet Aseem N wrote this at 2:08 am • Filed under Gaana Bajana, I, Me and Myself •

Took out some time off my busy schedule, and had been to Pune for a 2 day break. I thought I will have some jolly time, but then had to attend a ‘Shastriya Sangeet’ program for my cousin singing in it… Quite comfortable for the first hour I thought that classical singing was so misunderstood by majority of the teen generation who prefer Eminem or Enrique on the beats… or beat up their beats with Metallica or like crazy rock band.

But my belief didn’t remain so for long… Every raag and song presented there was like 20-25 mins each….. The program extended for 5 and a half hours!!! :( (Thanks to the coffee break) At the end of it I was like FUSED! :dizzy: Tapping my feet, shaking my head on the taal(I dont know if I found it right), clapping at times, wearing a plastic smile on the face… well to show all, that I was enjoying so very much. Everyone was doing that, and I didn’t want to be the odd one out there. Infact, I was completely the wrong guy for the program. I don’t even understand the ‘S’ of singing…So then I preferred switching on to SMSing pals… My only savior! ;)

Well after leaving the program, way back home… I realized I was humming some tune… gave it a little thought and found it was a tune of one of the ragas I heard at the program. Hehe… It wasn’t all that bad! If not me, I am proud that many have continued our culture through our rich singing domain. May be the next time I am at such a program, I will give a little more thought and time to it!

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BlogCamp kickstarts in Chennai today! Aseem N wrote this at 2:48 pm • Filed under General •

Well I have been waiting to catch this event since quite some time now. BLOGCAMP - India’s biggest blogging unconference. Few of my blogoshpere m8s have made it there but me due to time and commitment constraints could not. (Well money constraints as weel ;))

Newez I am catching the event through flicker, videos, podcasts… etc etc… Well those who want to catch the event live this is where you should be looking upto: www.blogcamp.in.

Also this is where u can check out my friend Deep’s Flicker Set of the event.

A must catch for all bloggers around!

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