Bits From My Life

We all are hearing the buzz about Rich Internet Applications (RIA) about a year or so. But, what the heck is that beast ? You may ask. For the user's perspective, it's the desktop like experience delivered over web. Yes, you feel like you are using a real desktop application (well, at least sort of). The richness of desktop controls is transferred to web. How RIA is build? Arise another question. These all started with that amazing kid called AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML). Then more and more tools become available, like Java FX , Adobe Air , Adobe Flex (and Adobe Flash ), Microsoft Silverlight . But these tools, though it gives rapid and organized web application development, required some kind of plug-ins to be installed on your browser. There is the importance of AJAX based RIAs, because JavaScript is enabled in almost all browsers in use today. However, It's not a fool proof solution, because there are people who switch off JavaScript for some reason, lik...

I know all of you, who tried to learn C++, someday wishes to have a good understanding on Files in C++. But It's not easy to find all that stuff in one place. Today I completed writing a seminar paper on the same topic. Although it's for my collage, and is a work given by my C++ lecturer, I decided to publish it for interested audience. So I uploaded it to my Google Docs account. You can find it here . But still you may find that it's not so explanatory or there is not so enough examples., etc. But don't worry, I am going to write a series on the same topic. So wait for it. And I guarantee to provide many examples too. One more thing this document is published under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.