Emergintex

the other day i was watching some series on telly, where online rolepalying gaming crosses the thin line dividing itself with the real world and triggers a real world homicide.

as if this was not enough, today i read that sony online entertainment’s new game everquest2 has capabilites of ordering pizza while you are in the game. the idea is to bring online gaming and real world closer to each other. you can be playing the game (it doesnt pause) and when you are in a safe place, just bring up the command console and type in /pizza and you are connected to pizza hut’s web site where you can order your pizza !

sony online entertainment also had features like in-game email systems, where in you can email your online gamer friends from the game!

first it was gmail. then it was google maps. now it is google suggest & now there are lots of web application architects moving themselves ajax way. asynchronous javascript xml (ajax) engine is nothing much but a javascript layer behind your web ui, that talks to the server (for the data to be rendered). well, this kind of thing has been around for a long, but now with google adopting this in one of their flagship products, its being well recieved by the community. Chris , a fellow blogger did a thorough dissection of google suggest service.

the way it works at the core is, the javascript layer (hidden somewhere on your web ui) is responsible for fetching data from the server using XmlHTTP object. Since the main html components are not doing the data fetch, the page doesnt do a refresh between client <--> server data fetch cycles.

what can this be used for? lots! for starters you can build a powerful autocomplete / filter connected to your database and driven by a web ui. all this without a page refresh in your web ui!

will post more with examples when i have the code reformatted to post here…..

having this idea of taking my hobby of photography to next step. been thinking about this for more than a month now. would be good if i can come up with some 30-40 **good** shots in next 3-4 months, which can then be a part of a small exhibhition held privately in the office. the idea is to take that next step after playing with the hobby for a year or so.

would i be able to achieve that goal? one way to get closer to it would be doing a photo a day technique where i shoot atleast one shot a day, trying to get something **good**

will see !

another breathtaking view from a fort (jaigarh fort) in jaipur, india.

ok i was out of touch for a long time here on blogspot.com.
i was gone to india for a month long and after that, i got busy with home and work. more to come here from now on.