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HTTP 304: Not ModifiedApril 15 Enter the DragonAfter what seemed like a never ending flight, I arrived in Shanghai on April 2, 2007. (I know this post is a little too late considering that I've been here for two weeks now, but I figured better late than never!). The airport is fantastic. On the ride to the hotel, I got to experience how people drive in China. You make your lane and you honk and you must drive with complete disregard for pedestrian safety. In fact, vehicles even come onto the sidewalk and actually remain parked there. It's quite a sight. And speaking of sights, here's one that ex-Podtcast404er's will be proud of. That's my bag in the hotel lobby proudly displaying one of our podcast404 stickers.
April 01 EastboundIt's time. I am waiting to board my flight to Hong Kong en route to Shanghai. I cannot wait for the experiences that await me. And I pledge to finally update my space with my experiences and perspectives of living and working in what is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. And finally Jim will have a good reason to keep me on his blogroll rather than just cause I am always there when his watch says it's beer thirty. October 02 JavaScript Whiteboard DemoI took a cue from Jim Roos and decided to put together my own JavaScript demo. It's a JavaScript whiteboard that you can draw in. You can draw freeform, rectangles and circles. You can undo your changes, set color and even save drawings. The saved drawings are saved only in the DOM. I have currently no means of saving it on the server.
Here's a link to it: http://home.comcast.net/~vsardesai/whiteboard.htm
I built on top of Jim's JavaScript Graphics class. I made some mods to his class such as the ability to attach the Graphics class to an existing DOM element and also to be able to return a set of points drawn which is used for the undo functionlity. I also added a method to calculate the distance between two points on the canvas given their x and y co-ordinates.
September 25 Ask.com now has TV commercialsAsk.com has a TV commercial that I saw on NBC today. It seems they've redesigned their site and have gotten rave reviews, at least they had snippets from these "rave" reviews flash by on the screen during the commercial. Thier point is that you shouldn't just use Google just because you dont know any better.
I went over to ask.com and give it a try. Their site looks nice and clean (like most search sites do these days after Google's clean and simple UI was found to be preferred by users). Their results seem comparable to google/live. I dont know how relevant they are based on using it for 5 min. They have a very cool feature that lets you save links found in search results to something that they call My Stuff. I dont think google/live offer that. Live.com does let you drag and drop images from an image search onto a collection (just like in local.live.com).
It'll be interesting to see if people really switch to other search engines. Google brought with it a quantum leap in what search meant to users. Users are used to it and they really will continue using Google just because they may not know better. MSN Search was horrible only last year. But now, I find everything that I need on live.com and it really kicks ass. I know this and I use this because I work at Microsoft. How would other users out there discover this?
Maybe TV commercials is the right idea to get the PR machine running at full throttle! Only time will tell.
September 21 ResurfacedAfter a long hiatus, I've decided to jump start my space. Last night, I participated in my first podcast with my friends from work Jim Roos, Carlos Madrigal and Tze Lee. That's occasion enough to want to start posting. I was a guest for last night's show, but the guys think I am good enough to be a regular. You need to go to http://www.podcast404.com to download the episodes or you could just as subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. Mind you, the show is about nothing in particular. In fact we are quite proud of how we've succeeded in keeping it content-free. You never know what you'll get to hear.
Here's a picture of us before we started recording. My future's (as a podcaster) so bright that I gotta wear shades!
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