VijayKiran.com

LESS is an extension of CSS. You can write LESS code just like you would write CSS, except you need to compile it to CSS. LESS extends CSS with: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules.

LESS, written in Ruby, is available as a gem. Just do a ’sudo gem install less’ – if you are using any sane operating system.

There are many ways to make websites run faster. In this section, you can discover performance best practices that real web professionals employ in their everyday work. These practices have improved the user experience for millions of users and we hope they are useful for other web developers.

→ Let’s make web faster

Wordnik wants to be a place for all the words, and everything known about them.

Traditional dictionaries make you wait until they’ve found what they consider to be “enough” information about a word before they will show it to you. Wordnik knows you don’t want to wait—if you’re interested in a word, we’re interested too!

Our goal is to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known.

By “information,” we don’t just mean traditional definitions (although we have plenty of those)! This information could be:

→ www.wordnik.com

DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail or RSS feed. We currently offer over 950 classic and contemporary books available entirely for free or on a Pay-Per-Read basis (with sample installments available for free). You can read your installments wherever you receive e-mail/RSS feeds, including on your Blackberry and iPhone.

Here’s an interesting new online presentation making application. It is called 280slides It looks very similar to Keynote application on Mac. According to the developers the application is built using new a new language/extension to JavaScript, which they call Objective-J. Also the user interface is built using Cappuccino similar to Apple’s Cocoa. I can’t wait to see how this is built. I must say the interface is pretty slick and useable. On my Safari it says 3 errors though.

2.45GB in less than 35 Mins!

After waiting for more than a month for the ADSL connection, today I was able to set it up. The ADSL line has been activated since 30th April, but I did not receive the modem yet. I ran out of my patience and bought Linksys Wireless + ADSL2 Router.  I called up Orange to get the settings.

Configuring the modem was pretty straight forward, except that I had to switch the telephone lines to make it work. Now I can surf around the net with nearly 20 Mbps :-)

“Why does this matter for India? Look at the market cap of Google ($218 billion) vs Infosys ($24 billion). This is not bubble valuation. Both have similar and reasonably valued PEG (Price Earnings Growth ratio, the only rational way I know to compare two valuations) with INFY at 0.81 and GOOG at 1.30. Google has over 9x the value and is about 15 years younger.

When you read the Google story, you won’t see anything created in a Stanford dorm room that could not have been created in an IIT dorm room. What is really wild is that the barriers have come down even further since Google came to market.”

Link : http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/india_innovation.php