Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Marketing strategies

As you know through my posts or tweets, I have disgust for Adobe products in general. They are bloated and power hungry. Adobe Reader over the years has become a bloat with lot of additions which are not really needed if you just want to open a PDF file which someone sent you. So if [...]

An essential part of any web application design is to ensure the size of the page that is downloaded to the user’s browser is kept to a minimum. Notwithstanding the high speed internet access people have and the proliferation of CDNs, it is still a critical design consideration to ensure less packets are downloaded given [...]

We all have used databases hosted by web hosts or cloud infrastructure like Amazon AWS. Be it as a datastore for a blog or a custom application that you have built and hosted. While tools for managing databases that are hosted near you have been excellent, the same could not be said of the web-based [...]

As we started looking at re-designing our application’ look and feel and make it more relevant to the Web 2.0 productivity features we also wanted an upgrade of our icons/images used in the application. Before we started getting a media designer to design the icons we started looking for something opensource/free. After looking at a [...]

Open source software keeps breaking the stronghold of the proprietary software vendors in both the consumer and enterprise software segments. In addition to that the free and freemium business models keep bringing the barrier of entry to software down. As I started striking out on my own, I am relying heavily on free stuff available [...]