Technology – Developer's Columns

New Web citizens–html 5, CSS 3 & IE 9

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:51:02 +0000

I recently attended a seminar hosted by Microsoft at Pune, India unveiling the potential of new standards (html 5, css3) and innovations (IE9) that are going to make the entire web experience different (for better). The discussion, no doubt, offered good amount of food for thought. What I intend to discuss here is not comprehensive …

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video:Introduction to Remoting

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:36:00 +0000

Here is a quick video blog on Remoting Architecture. This has been well received and appreciated in the inner circle. The video training discusses the working and architectural overview of how a remoting system works. The discussion doesn’t talk about any particular remoting framework and the same idea, in principle, govern the working of technologies such as Java RMI, .Net Remoting and WCF.

Video: Introduction to Http

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:42:00 +0000

I have already devoted several posts on HTTP Protocol, its significance in web application development. Here is a short video talk on Http.

Internet Internationalized

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:02:35 +0000

Finally Internet is changing. And its not a change that we come across every other day. It is the internationalization of Internet and we stand to witness the history getting created. The ICANN chairman Peter Dengate declares the event as the

biggest technical change to the Internet since it was created four decades ago

Asp.Net Http Handlers (Part 1)

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:49:37 +0000

The Article discusses the need and implementation of an .NET HTTP Handler. In this episode we create an ImageGenerator Handler and deploy it for an asp.net website. The article covers creation and deployment in detail.

Http Handlers

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:15:59 +0000

The article discusses the motivations and concerns in creating and deploying a HTTP Handler. It discusses the design of Http Handlers in general and emphasises its deployment of ISAPI Handlers in IIS. The article is essentially and extension of what we discussed in last instalment Http Hacked

SDDL

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:46:13 +0000

A brief discussion on Security Descriptor Definition language, its significance, construct, constituents and the various enumeration. The article is likely to help people trying to manually write SDDL. One such use could be to use it with httpcfg tool to configure ACL for WCF.

Http Hacked

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:01:24 +0000

We learnt that http was originally designed to publish a set of static hyperlinked document not much different in purpose from the paper publications. However, fate had something else in mind. It was entrusted a much bigger responsibility than it was designed for. This episode details on how http was hacked to make it a programming platform. This understanding is essential for any one willing to programme web in any web technology.

story of www – between http and html

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:09:20 +0000

A brief discussion on the importance and limitation of http protocol and html specification that governs the world wide web. The idea is to record the rise of www from a humble protocol to encompass the entire internet and to critically examin its ability to be the vehicle of next generation programming.

Http Through Ages

Vivek Dutta Mishra — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:00:08 +0000

As www went on to become the synonym of internet, http as the carrier of www assumes a so significant a position that is won’t be wrong to say http is www. With the passage of time, almost the entire weight e-business is thrust up on the http protocol. And, indeed, http has changed significantly over ages. But is it sufficient enough? Here we look at the magnificent journey of http from its inception to current times.