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Sarat Pediredla

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• Piece of cake

  Posted: 04 Jun 2006 at 21:11 by Sarat Pediredla

  Just when I was singing praises for Prado, it seems like another very capable and “cool” (as in I love using it) MVC PHP framework turns up that can finally convince me to switch to the MVC model. CakePHP is the latest MVC framework to go into a mature release phase and man am I [...]

• Can change and architecture play together?

  Posted: 04 Jun 2006 at 19:46 by Sarat Pediredla

  An architect has an unique role in the initiation, progress and completion of a software project. The very success or failure of a project depends on the skills and decisions made by architects during project inception. Until recently, this was an alien role to me, only needed for the Gods that be c

• Prado nets PHP

  Posted: 17 Apr 2006 at 20:49 by Sarat Pediredla

  With an increasing feeling of guilt due to the lack of my commitment to doing anything outside of work, I started on a rejuvenated quest to create a new web application before the end of the summer. What and how it is, is not important. However, in my quest to “fast-track” the developmen

• Simplicity is beautiful

  Posted: 03 Mar 2006 at 23:34 by Sarat Pediredla

  I have not been able to get online much outside work due to hectic schedule and my Windoze machine dying on me at home. However, I just had my new MacBook Pro delivered last night and I am hooked onto it. As a first time Mac User (I have always had Windows desktops and laptops), I [...]

• Your opinion counts

  Posted: 31 Jan 2006 at 22:02 by Sarat Pediredla

  I have just been going through the final stages of planning for Xhelpdesk and thought it would be a great idea to collect popular opinion. I know not many read my blog but the few of you who do, “What is the killer feature you find lacking in your helpdesk”, or “What would make an

• Moaning time

  Posted: 31 Jan 2006 at 21:57 by Sarat Pediredla

  I just spent the last 30 or so minutes writing a post until Windoze decided to crash on me. Why on why doesn’t Wordpress have an auto-save draft feature built in!

• What Web Standards?

  Posted: 25 Jan 2006 at 22:44 by Sarat Pediredla

  The Web Standards Project has been campaigning since 1998 for professionalism in designing and developing websites. In an overzealous move to be actually recognised as a professional, I jumped ship a while ago, turning myself from a server-side developer who was fluent in churning out <font>

• It’s Official. TH_NK rocks!

  Posted: 23 Jan 2006 at 23:04 by Sarat Pediredla

  Today was my first day at TH_NK and I must say it was an exciting induction into the team. We are doing a lot of interesting things which I probably cannot talk about at the moment but some of the stuff we are working on involves cutting edge application of XML/XSLT/CSS which I have not [...]

• New theme

  Posted: 22 Jan 2006 at 20:18 by Sarat Pediredla

  Since being bugged by friends about looking like a Spam Blog, I have laboriously scoured the Internet to find a new theme which I really like. It is still not upto the standards of a real deseloper, I kinda like it and it is a great canvas for me to work with.

• Splogged!

  Posted: 20 Jan 2006 at 17:06 by Sarat Pediredla

  A friend of mine who was visting my blog for the first time today said it looked too much like a Spam Blog. Hmm! I wonder where he got that impression. Turns out it is because of the standard Wordpress theme which many Spam Blogs use as they cannot be bothered with the effort. Time [...]

• Tabtastic

  Posted: 20 Jan 2006 at 11:47 by Sarat Pediredla

  Michael Moncur links us to this very interesting piece of Javascript at Tabtastic. The code for it is compact and simple but why not check this cool looking alternative out? Silver orange tabs

• Dream Job? (NOT)

  Posted: 19 Jan 2006 at 16:26 by Sarat Pediredla

  Google has an opening for a Web Developer in their London office. I wonder if people consider this a dream job. Who doesn’t want to work at Google? You? Then welcome back from your cryogenic casing cave man. However, looking at Google’s corporate pages, I assume you needn’t be Inma

• New Job

  Posted: 16 Jan 2006 at 18:34 by Sarat Pediredla

  I have been dying to post this for a while now but could not until I handed in my resignation today. I will be quitting my current job on 13 February 2006 and joining Think. I will be working as a Senior Web Developer in the Interface Development team to start with, contributing CSS and accessible [

• The correct templating solution

  Posted: 14 Jan 2006 at 20:47 by Sarat Pediredla

  One of the key goals of Xhelpdesk is to allow users to customise the presentation to a great extent. This ensures greater user buy-in and more willingness from to adopt a system. I started to consider how I would approach this problem and came up with a few burning issues. The historical solution us

• Accessible Forms for a better Web

  Posted: 12 Jan 2006 at 10:13 by Sarat Pediredla

  Here is a little gem of an article from the brillient WaSP team talking about accessible web forms from beginner to expert.

• If stock prices could talk

  Posted: 11 Jan 2006 at 21:45 by Sarat Pediredla

  Don’t get me wrong. I am an avid Windows fan and my main skill at my job is developing using .NET and C#. It earns me my money and I love the ease of programming it brings. However, I have been reading a few articles following the MacWorld annoucement of the new MacBook Pro (which I [...]

• What is your business mission statement?

  Posted: 11 Jan 2006 at 20:51 by Sarat Pediredla

  Jeol (Spolsky ofcourse!) has a great article about his foreword for Micro-ISV (a book by Bob Walsh). It was very nostalgic reading it as a person who has had first hand experience of having a go at a startup and failed (and that isn’t necessarily bad). There can be no teacher like experience.

• Difference between Web 1.0 and 2.0

  Posted: 10 Jan 2006 at 15:48 by Sarat Pediredla

  I couldn’t help but laughing at this accurate and fact-based differentiation between Web 1.0 and 2.0.

• Betta not be a Beta

  Posted: 10 Jan 2006 at 09:20 by Sarat Pediredla

  Mike Arrington has an interesting list of definite things software publishers should take into account when releasing a beta. I remember not so long ago Beta’s were considered a bad thing to go public with and needed to be kept under the hood. However, I am not going to comment on my opinions

• Open source Helpdesk/Support software

  Posted: 07 Jan 2006 at 18:18 by Sarat Pediredla

  I was on Sourceforge tonight looking for inspiration for a helpdesk solution we are considering in-house. I am completely disappointed at the lack of decent helpdesk solution that addresses my problems and, the quality of open source helpdesk software available (not to mention my total lack of decen