Sameer Ahuja

Month: April, 2007

Dear WordPress: Why not an XML-RPC for commenting?

We’re very much in the middle of the Syndication revolution – Everything out there on the web can be syndicated  – Be it the latest news, your friends’ photos and videos, your favorite TV Show episodes, and so on. Even sites lacking any technological platform for publishing can be subscribed to using online tools. Now [...]

Google web history – and how to turn it off

Ever asked yourself the question – “What was that awesome hit-the-boss game I played yesterday lunch break?” Well, Google just stepped forward to help you answer that very question. Google just upgraded their Search History feature to Web history, allowing people to have a look at all the pages they’ve browsed in a timeline based format. [...]

Welcome the hybrids

Adobe’s recent announcement of the Apollo framework has had me excited for a while. This weekend, I plan to get my hands dirty with the SDK and see if I can build something. The really exciting thing about Apollo is that it’s going to bring Hybrid web applications into the limelight. Already, Adobe has announced a media [...]

CakePHP and AJAX: First pitstop

I started out with the Cake framework for PHP some time back, and it’s been a mixed ride so far. Cake is a very powerful, but still somewhat incipient framework built on the MVC pattern of Ruby on Rails. Among it’s several cool features is inbuilt support for AJAX based applications. A good starter tutorial [...]

Hello world!

If you came here looking for the icedlabs blog, well, the sad news is that it is dead. The reason behind that is obvious and rather bland – too much generalization killed the cat. So what’s this one about? My thoughts and observations on what is happening in Technology, and my learnings from what I [...]