Informative.

http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/mvc-vs-pac

Convincing. Although I still beg to differ.

Off casual interest.

Hardly my domain of things, but anyway

http://www.pervasivedatarush.com/

Worth a read.

http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/microsofts-expensive-rift-with-the-web-has-to-change/

A tad too biased and audacious, but well said all the same.

And in other news

• Chronic mugging for exams.
• One superb outing at Hampi. Unfortunately, my ankle bore the brunt of much of the atrocities.
• [Old]Really taking to Typo3 stuff now. A workable YAML API. Spyc is simply superb, for all I bitch about it. Previously rigged up a workable JSON API. Just for the sake of being 1337 and no real aversion to XML. Ping me if you’d like to help.
• Latest Read: “Hibernate in Action”.
• Latest Read 2: “The Analysis of Mind” - Russell.
• Innovative screwup on a simple mundane GG install. wtf?! HCL sux0rs. Compiz rawks btw. Linux ftw when it comes gfx now k. And really, it isn’t all that crashy either.
• Advocacy: Narendra Modi and more.

News for all Drupallers.

Read Dries’s blog.

http://buytaert.net/acquia-my-drupal-startup 

Pretty obscure there. No mention on any business model and related schema of things in there.

Nonetheless, I hope this helps Drupal all the same.

Much needed too.

News here.

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/11/26/data-recovery-toolkit-for-innodb-version-01-released/ 

To bitch is my right.

For, Deepak and I had nothing to do at Hampi

This was basically about the FOSS.IN registration charges. Really, considering that they had corporate sponsors all the same.. 500Rs / head for students, and the Rs 600 otherwise was too atrocious a price to pay. Also, bear in mind that the event ran through week-days for the most part..and that their primary motive should ‘ve been rather that they promote participation than charge unnecessary sums of money.

To the normal college goer, it’s not just bunking that couple of classes (or days herein) that mattered here, for 500Rs is a fair sum of money by any standards. And they were probably better off charging that extra sum on owners of food-stalls than the attendees themselves. Paying for food is not something we’d bitch about either. But dishing out half a thousand bucks for a FOSS gathering is arguably not the best way to spend money.

I heard that the Postgres session was pretty good. I couldn ‘t get to go on Sat either, Although I really wanted to make it to Rasmus’s talk. But I gave Hampi higher priority, and rightly so =)