World of python programming language

I am now doing my summer internship in a company called ASML. It is a nice experience to me to work in a company with lot of good technical people. My assignment here is on python programming language. I haven't learned this language before. So I was a bit curious and quite interested on my new assignment.

Python turned out to be a very strong programming languages. Lots of good features. The data structures in python is excellent. Passing of variables and objects were very nice. I recently learned that google mainly uses C++, java and python for majority of their programming.
With this I got convinced that python is such a strong programming language.

Internship is going fine. Doing programming using Python and Tkinter. Good experience for me. Looking forward to complete the assignment in the best way possible to me

IT world - the world of magic

Hi, I was busy for some time due to my exams and now I am back.

Lots of things happening in the IT industry. Fight between google and microsoft (google offcourse leading the show). Last week, I was going through a book on developing application using GWT (Google window toolkit). GWT was announced by google in the javaOne conference held last year. I was virtually thrilled to complete the development using this tool kit.

You write the java code and GWT takes all the the pain to convert them to muti-browser compatible ajax code. Cool right.

Last night, I was trying to run the GWT application in the apache tomcat server running in my Red hat fedora 6 OS running in my laptop. I had some troubles getting it done, but it was a reallu nice experience. I would be posting the issues you can anticipate while doing this configuration and how to solve them.

OK then...get ready.. to learn and to share

Sijith

Yahoo! Bridges email, IM Divide

According to reports, Yahoo! has blended its free email and Instant Messaging (IM) services, thus making it simpler for users to chat online from any computer connected to the Internet. The company said that starting yesterday and continuing over the coming months, Yahoo! will activate this feature for users of the new version of Yahoo! Mail, which is in beta phase but available to all users of the service.

In a statement, John Kremer, Vice President, Yahoo! Mail, said that they are bringing the fun of instant messaging into the e-mail experience. It is about bringing to the masses choices on how they communicate. They are hopefully bridging the gap between email users and IM users, as there is still a chunk of Yahoo! Mail users who are not using IM.

According to Yahoo!, the new feature alerts Yahoo! Mail beta users if their contacts are logged on to Yahoo! Messenger and gives them the option of starting a text chat session from within the mail interface. And if the user is composing an email message but wants to chat instead, Yahoo! Mail can take the text and paste it into the text chat window. Similarly, the chat session can be automatically imported to an email message form.

First Look: Apple's iPhone - a Revelation

Apple's steve jobs introduced the most awaited iPhone in the MacWorld conference. The entire world is looking forward for this product. After the magical success of iPod, there is a very much excitement in the industry to see what steve jobs and his team is up with.

Well, one of the editors of the foxnews was able to get hands on experience on iPhone piece and he is excited on the product.

let us look what he has to say us on the product.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243395,00.html

Top Stories of 2006

PC mag released a list of top stories they had for 2006. I think this should be an interesting on to you all.

For reading in detail, look at the below link

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2078287,00.asp

Sijith

2006 at a glance

Hi all

We saw a lot of IT trends and products in 2006. Google obvioiusly lead the game with apple following with their iPod music success.

2006 saw the release of much delayed vista operating system and office 2007 from microsoft. Microsoft launched the live services pack with some good features, but I am not whether they were able to keep up with innovation sparkled by google.

I expect a very good competition ahead for the 2007 and I wish all my users a happy new 2007.

Sijith

GATES VS. GOOGLE Search and Destroy

The fight between google and microsoft continues. Recently I read an interesting article on this, and I thought I would share them with you all. There has been talks that google be the next microsoft. The way google is moving forward gives the audience the same sign. That they are going to take on microsoft.

Last week I was watching a video of steve balmer being interviewed by ZDNet team. When he said his microsoft team is "innovating", the audience gave a big laugh. They know that when microsoft releases a product in 4 year, google does it each month.

Here is the article I read.

http://pipi68.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!7D93A15A5B18BFA!561.entry

Microsoft says it knows how to compete with Google

At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer explains to Gartner analysts Dave Cearley and Tom Pittman that the software giant plans to compete with Google in the search market by delivering more value and relevance to users.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/itlibrary/webcasts/0,39044504,39283307,00.htm

The Best Ajax-Based Apps

Hi all

Today I was reading an article on top AJAX applications and I found it very interested.

Check the below link to browse the article

http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=196603519

Sijith

Mozilla puts up alpha version of Firefox 3.0

Mozilla fans still starry-eyed from the recent release of Firefox 2.0 can already get a glimpse at what the next version of the browser will look like, as an alpha version of Firefox 3.0 has recently been uploaded to Mozilla's public FTP server.

According to the Mozilla Wiki entry about Firefox 3, several enhancements are in developmentfor the successor to Firefox, which was released less than two months ago. One new feature planned to be in the new browser is called "places", which takes a new approach to bookmarks and page history. Reportedly, these items will be transitioned to the left side of the browser, sort of like Internet Explorer 7.

Microsoft Betas Book Search ready by tomorrow

The Redmond, Wash.-based company announced that it will release the beta version of its Live Search Books application tomorrow.

This is an important part of the company's strategy to turn its Windows Live platform, which it just took out of beta in the last few days, into a hub of experiences that create customer loyalty, thereby driving incremental advertising revenue gains.

Currently, Live Book Search returns queries on books that are no longer protected by copyright.

Next year, it will include books that are currently under copyright protection as well.

That, Microsoft hopes, will make its users come back more often.

Leopard OS from Apple

Apple is working on to release MAC OS X leopard operating system.

To know more on this OS, please visit the below web link

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html

I am sure you all will enjoy the snapshots of this OS.

Google to end fee service for answering questions

Hi all

Google is shutting down Google Answers, a service that lets users pose questions to a panel of researchers and pay for useful answers.

The service, about four years old, failed to gain much traction with users, especially when compared with a rival service offered by Yahoo, which is free.

Google Answers never generated much traffic or revenue for Google, said Danny Sullivan, editor of the online publication Search Engine Watch.

"Yahoo has an answers product that works," he said. Because Google Answers required users to pay, he said, it "could not have been that product." Sullivan noted that unlike Yahoo, Google had not promoted its service very much.

Microsoft Launches Vista

Hi all

Today microsoft launched their much awaited operated system. Windows Vista .
It is since 5 years that microsoft has come up with another operating. Windows XP was their previous desktop OS.

Microsoft will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to market its new versions of windows and Office and plans to release more than 30 additional business products in the next year that piggyback on their technology, CEO Steve Ballmer said todayin New York.

For more details,

http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600601

Symantec Vista security advances despite Patchguard

Symantec has released a public beta of its Norton Internet Security 2007 and Norton AntiVirus 2007 suites for Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating system.

While the software supports both 32 and 64-bit versions of the operating system, Symantec stressed that it still requires access to Microsoft's Patchguard security technology that is built into the 64-bit version of the operating system.

Security vendors including McAfee and Symantec have been pressing Microsoft to cooperate and have lobbied the European Commission and Korean government to force the Redmond firm to open up its kernel.

The PatchGuard technology blocks access to the Vista kernel, blocking security technologies that rely on behavioural profiling as well as anti-tampering features that verify a system is running anti-virus software and a firewall.

Google sued by French moviemaker

Hi all....

Google is being sued by French movemaker for copyright infrinchment.

Flach Film says that Google acted as a fully responsible publisher (rather than a passive host) when Google Video users streamed or downloaded the filmmaker’s documentary, "Le monde selon Bush" ("The World According to Bush").
The film, which is no longer available on the French Google Video site, had more than 43,000 views in a short period of time, Flach said. Google Video displays a tally of how many people have viewed each clip.

Sijith

Microsoft Unfazed by Google Office Threat

One of the two new heads of Microsoft Corp.'s Office software team downplayed the threat from Google Inc.'s Web-based word processing and spreadsheet applications, saying they are unlikely to appeal to corporate customers.

Antoine Leblond, who became co-leader of the Office group in June, said Google was the latest in a long line of challengers to the Office software suite, which includes Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Outlook e-mail and PowerPoint presentations.

Microsoft will release the long-awaited Office upgrade to business customers next week along with its new Windows Vista operating system, which has been more than five years in the making. These products are the core of a broad product upgrade cycle aimed at restoring the software giant's growth.

Microsoft believes new web services will work in tandem with PC-installed software, a vision that differs from that of "software as a service" advocates, such as Salesforce.com and Google, who expect services delivered over the Web to eventually replace software that resides on local PCs.

Safari web browser

Hi all..

Any one heard about safari web browser ? It is a web browser from apple which is available for download since a long time. Even though this was in the market for some times, I dont think this browser has taken the market, which is being dominated by Mozilla and IE.

You could download this for free and have a try on the software.. It could be downloaded from the url.

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/safari.html

Ok then..bye for now

Sijith

Google file system

Hi all...google has come up with a new file system called google file system. This is capable of
handling large 64 megablocks of data. Significantly, the file system was designed to assume that a failure, such as a failed disk or unplugged network cable, can happen at any time.

Google's PC servers, which number in the thousands, run a stripped-down version of Linux, which is based on the Red Hat distribution but is really just the operating system kernel modified for Google, he added.
Urs HoelzleVP of operationsand of engineering,Google

The company has also devised a system for handling massive amounts of data and returning rapid responses to queries. Google splits the Web into millions of pieces, or "shards" in Google tech speak, which are replicated in case of failure.

Microsoft to release Vista and office 2007 on Novemeber 30

After years of development work and a last flurry of testing, Microsoft finalized windows vista last week.

On Thursday, Microsoft made the code for Vista available to subscribers of the MSDN and TechNet developer programs, a milestone that was noted on a number of Windows enthusiast sites.

The software maker plans to offer Vista and Office 2007 to volume license customers on November 30, while consumers will have to wait until Januaryfor the latest versions of Microsoft's flagship products.

Meanwhile, the company is giving free copies of Windows Vista to members of its technical beta program who filed at least one bug report during the testing of the operating system. The offer does not apply to technology enthusiasts who downloaded Vista as part of the broader Customer Preview Program.