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Archive for November 14th, 2005

Market Buzz – AJAX

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In a week, I at least see around hundreds are blogs being published on Ajax. On "Technorati" in top searches also Ajax is present. When people first saw a freaky interface on google maps and google suggest, it made a click. How does it works? There came the AJAX into picture. AJAX is giving now ability to send/receive XMLHttpRequest and XMLHttpResponse from the client/server to and fro.

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November 14th, 2005 at 3:13 pm

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Moving to OpenOffice.org

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I just had a look at OpenOffice.org 2.0 and it rocks! You just see how many features are loaded there. Moreover, its free. I have decided that from now on I will install only viewers for Microsoft Office and for my day to day office purpose I will use OpenOffice. There are few differences in them like the macro definition language. But almost any office document can be opened into OpenOffice. Good work OpenOffice team. Just have a look at here.

Written by Sachin

November 14th, 2005 at 3:08 pm

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Open Source Wave

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Open Source is no more geek's job! Linux and other OS projects are already working in this model from years and now many commercial players are joining 'em. This is really interesting. I get to much surprised when I see Microsoft is also trying to join OSS. Well, already they have made their couple of projects as open source and now they are also commenting on the "Shared Source".

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Written by Sachin

November 14th, 2005 at 7:49 am

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