Arjun Ram

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 http://www.bloglines.com/blog/arjunram

  http://www.bloglines.com/blog/arjunram/rss

General Windows Developer Numbers

JohnMont (who oughta know) provided these numbers today as “quotable and public” so I thought I would:

• There are ~6M professional developers worldwide, about 90% of whom target Windows
• There are about 2.5M .NET developers
• >60 of the Fortune 100 develop using .NET
• Forrester says that 56% of enterprises in North America are
  choosing .NET for their development requirements vs. 44% choosing J2EE

According the legend (JohnMont didn’t comment on this part), 4-5M of
those 6M developers targeting Windows are Visual Basic developers,
which means that if they ever get tired of being made fun of by the C
family of developers, we’re going to be trapped in phone booths while
they decent on us like the birds in an Alfred Hitchcock movie…

I find it difficult to believe that 56% of enterprises are chossing
.NET over J2EE.. Whats the fine print? It just seems too fishy!

Not So Oddpost

The Oddpost acquisition by Yahoo (at pretty handsome terms) has been announced. Oddpost provides web-based email and RSS aggregation, funded by Venture Strategy Partners and Draper Associates just months before.

Dave has a decent rationale for the acquisition:

Oddpost turned the idea of what you could do with a browser upside down, by producing a clone of Microsoft Outlook in JavaScript and DHTML running in MSIE. Since then, they have labored in relative obscurity, growing a customer base, raising VC money, adding people, and staying out of the way. Then Google launches Gmail, with a very Oddpostish interface, and someone at Yahoo says “Hmmm, I’ve seen that somewhere,” calls up Ethan and Iain and their new VCs and asks “Are you for sale?” and the rest is history.

With Technorati, Newsgator, Feedbuner, etc., get ready for the Social Software bubblet meme. Or at least some interesting Pops.

Look for many more startups in the blogspace to be bought over Ahh sweet.. Yet another boat missed..(May be not )When am I ever going to learn to implement any of my ideas

I am selling some of electronics that I have. Both of these items are brand new! Bought the wrong items I can assure u they are in good condition. 

Griffin Technology iTrip FM Transmitter for iPods (5gb, 10gb & 20gb)
Griffin Technology

Availability: Usually ships in 2 business days

Netgear HE102 802.11a Wireless Access Point
Netgear

Availability: Usually ships in 2 business days

I was pretty thrilled when Bloglines recently upgraded. Lots of improvements, linkBlog the most significant of all the improvements. Seemless integration with ur blog reader and web based! Nothing to setup. Very Very cool. I started using it right away and plugged the link blog onto my blog. Everything looks purrrrfect.. right?

WRONG.. and here is why.. So I subscribe to the feed and then click on the click on the link. Its takes me to the RSS feed instead of the site!! This would work in a perfect world if and when everyone offers full feeds. Most of the sites dont offer full feeds so why would one want to click 3 times to get to read a news item or a blog entry. Now how lame is that! I understand the need for Bloglines keep users within their site and get more users to sign up. If thats the idea then do it the msn way but have a pane with Bloglines logo on it but this is lame.. Not many are going to use it if this is not rectified.

IMHO this is a show stopper and I might think of switching back to posting links on my blog How disappointing! An anti-climax

I have been trying to find a way to setup a link blog seemless to my ways to browsing the web. My brother has always been wanting me to post links and complains most of time that I dont keep him posted on the new stuff (he loves to whine about me he! he) So when Bloglines offered a way to host a linkblog I signed up! So here is my new blog and the RSS feed for it.

 http://www.bloglines.com/blog/arjunram

  http://www.bloglines.com/blog/arjunram/rss

Enjoy!

Its been a couple of weeks since my hard disk crashed. Looks like the spindle isnt running. Does it mean that I just have to replace the hard disk? Is there anyway of recovering the data (has data for the last 3 years ). Its a Maxtor.com – DiamondMax D540X-4K and came with my compaq! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The local stores dont seem capable of recovering it This SUX big time!

Wow! Where are planet earth have I been. I use Yahoo!, hotmail & now Gmail. Now there are tools to get these emails thro POP. So here it goes

POP goes gmail

Hotmail Popper

Yahoo POPs

With Mozilla Thunderbird and these tools, its good bye to those BIG ass flash ads Now if only someone combined these tools to one interface

Its been a while since I promised to work on the JRoller theme contest but due to work load and other things happen in life I did not get to putting up a page together. So finally, here a pretty basic basic that show case some of the custom themes on JRoller.

Please let me know if you like any other there that need to be added to the list. Await showcase of standard themes that ship with roller to be displayed