I’ve been busy for the past week with a big coding exercise, and my laptop has to undergo scheduled maintanance.

My laptop has FreeBSD 6.0, Windows XP and Open Suse. I cleaned up my laptop – and finally upgraded to GNOME 2.14 on FreeBSD, removed Linux. Also removed many stale software which I never use. I’ve downloaded more than 1.2GB and had to switch to unlimited plan Internet at home is really bad in Bangalore. 64Kbps unlimited cable internet is Rs.500 (Hathway Cable). And it takes forever to just download 12MB file. In gurgaon it was 192Kbps for Rs.700(Iqara).

I was thinking of switching to DSL but, I’m not sure about the support for DSL modem in FreeBSD.

Last week I worked on AJAX toolkits, since I’d to build some AJAX messenger kind of application at work. Its basically a web-based online Jabber Client. I’ve experimented with AJAX toolkits like: Scriptaculous, Plex and RICO. Building AJAX webapplication is sudden change from “traditional” web applications. In normal web-application, the logic is to think interms of Pages and forwards and sessions. But in AJAX, page IS the application. Just like out normal Desktop applications.

So I’ve started working on Plex toolkit, and trying to understand it so that I can start contributing.