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Review: Flying High with Fedora 7

Nilayan Sharma,  July 1st, 2007 at 9:10 am Comments: 12

Fedora 7 is a first class distro that demonstrates solid progress in improving the user experience, easing the move to virtualization and enabling the user to create their own custom spins with open source build tools.

Updated Weather gDesklets

Nilayan Sharma,  April 20th, 2007 at 1:00 am Comments: 9

Updated versions of some weather gDesklets with fixes and additional features.

A Sneak Peek into AJAX

Nilayan Sharma,  July 9th, 2006 at 8:10 am Comments Off

Ever since the first Web application was written, developers have attempted to create dynamic user interfaces that offer an interactive experience, much like desktop applications. Traditional Web applications feel clumsy and unresponsive because every update to the interface involves a full roundtrip to the server and back. In this article, we will see how AJAX, a recent Web development technique, tackles this problem.

Review: Ubuntu 5.10 “Breezy Badger”

Nilayan Sharma,  October 19th, 2005 at 11:45 am Comments Off

In the short time that I've spent using Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger), I've really come to like it. The installation was painless, all my hardware was detected and configured correctly, package management was easy, and the clean-cut GNOME desktop is terrific.

Backups are a snap with rsnapshot

Nilayan Sharma,  August 20th, 2005 at 10:40 pm Comments: 2

A look at rsnapshot, a handy backup utility based on rsync, a well-known open source tool.

Review: Fedora Core 4

Nilayan Sharma,  July 25th, 2005 at 10:30 pm Comments Off

A review of the newly released Fedora Core 4 distribution.

Review: Ubuntu 5.04 “Hoary Hedgehog”

Nilayan Sharma,  June 23rd, 2005 at 10:25 pm Comments Off

In this review we look at Ubuntu 5.04 to see why it is creating a lot of excitement in the Linux community.

Review: Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4

Nilayan Sharma,  May 22nd, 2005 at 10:20 pm Comments Off

A review of the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Snappier Web Applications with XMLHttpRequest

Nilayan Sharma,  April 27th, 2005 at 6:40 pm Comments: 2

As web applications take on roles traditionally served by pure desktop applications, creating interactive user interfaces with the ‘real-time’ feel of a customary desktop, is a challenge facing UI developers today. In this article, we will explore a solution to this problem using JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object.

Book Review: The Definitive Guide to Plone

Nilayan Sharma,  November 26th, 2004 at 2:55 pm Comments Off

Review of ‘The Definitive Guide to Plone’ by Andy McKay, published by Apress.

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