Nalanda Institute of Computer Technology

http://mynict.blogspot.com/

Institute for pursuing research in computer technology.

EclipseCon 2008

I am speaking at EclipseCon 2008 on following :

Short Talk: OpenDocument Format (ODF) SpreadSheet Emitter for BIRT http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/?page=sub/&id=294

Long Talk: Meeting customer’s reporting requirements by extending BIRT
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/?page=sub/&id=161

Excited to be part of Eclipse community and sharing my thoughts there.

Todays links

An interesting dicussion on ASP vs SAAS.
http://searchsystemschannel.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid99_gci1229276,00.html

Google View of ODF
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/renewed-wish-for-open-document.html

Apple UI Guildelines.. Interesting Read

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/index.html

Architecture features

Have been studying some architectural features and the following thought always comes up..
Disclaimer first; This post is based on my understanding.. as baby steps of understanding some arch and design concepts..

What makes the architecture
a) Extensible b) Robust

This post is about flushing out some practical details on above aspect..
so, lets start with "Extensible". The real question is how to design and validate the systems
are extensible..

Extensiblity means to extend already system for useful variant..
it may means
a) providing clear interface of components participating in system
- Eclipse provides plugin architecture to achieve this. There are extension points to extend
the behaviour.

- I believe COM did the same with home and remote interfaces.. correct me here!

b) The components playing in architecture should be loosley coupled
so what whould be loosly coupled

what next? ..

the post is progress..

Coepin...

myself coepin of batch 2000 E & TC.. relish the memory of college days and nights..

good info. at the wikipedia on college.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Engineering,_Pune

Someone having liking for quiz, may want to catch up http://www.bcqc.org/, normally informal gathering of quiz enthu people at coep boat club.

Joining the blogging world...

This has been my one of resolutions of 07 to create my own blog diary.
Hope to continue the momentum :-)