And then there were the days when a good old desk used to be a waste paper basket with drawers where you could conveniently lug around slitting wrists at the edge of the piles-a-files. The first glitch is we, as human beings, have made too many wrong mist akes. Like inventing the outlandish gadget, which does little more than redefining a desk to a waste paper basket with circuits, popularly known to mortal souls as a computer. Sooner than you could spell the word 'Integrated Circuits', it became another paraphernalia of the Kooky. The second glitch is that computer technology has begun to move faster than anything else . Which brings us to the amorphous blob of the Internet and the vast scaffold of the World Wide Web. One of my idiosyncrasies is to be o n the dashboard of state-of-art techie lore and like it or not, that can be as intoxicating as a goblet of golden ambrosia. So while my human equivalents out there cavil over Gulf wars and gorky WhiteWaters, I am cosily ensconced in my chair, blanket and all, lurking in the rigorous techno-wilderness of cyberdom.
Here I have a wagon load of caboodle on the latest technologies of the world (which are known for their propensity to send the the most geeky of nerds somersaulting) all shoehorned into one page.
Everyones told you how difficult this topic is, but if you click up there, you're going to discover how stunningly simple Server Side Programming really is. This tutorial is still being worked on, so keep coming back to check up on our progress.
If you thought Java was a good idea, this is going to blow you out of your socks !! Sun has just pioneered a new concept, TClets ! These are programes written in the Tcl/Tk scripting language and which can now be used on the Internet, thanks to a Netscape Plugin by Sun. The effects are mind-blowing !!! Web pages never looked this good before and programming TClets is far easier that writing Java applets. And with Sun's legendary marketing department behind it, it won't be long before this relatively unknown language becomes an international celebrity !
Slake your thirst with a brand spanking new type of coffee that is all set to change our lives
A more eligible successor to HTML on the relatively arid pastures of the web, Javascript is stuff even that motor-mouth female neighbour of yours can work on!
Lets face it, programming with the MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) is not everybody's cup of eggnog. Meant preferably for the people who swig down Classes faster than Budwieser, feel at home on the C++ turf and nibble on Precompiled Headers for grub, this section on plug-ins breaks the ice about what in blistering barnacles is a plug-in anyway (if you are not feeling pa rticularly ornery, however, it might have you wishing for a crystal ball!)
Three major players in this drama (Java, Java Script and Netscape plug- ins)
The vagaries of the digital black-OLE created by the 'who-else?' Microsoft. If you are talking Internet, you should be talking ActiveX.
3D Game programming comes to Windows 95 !
OLE 2.0 and OCX containers have had many a computer folk staggering back to the garret. Here is some beef on the pizzazz of these two knotty technologies.
Enter the whole new 3 D world (virtual worlds) of Virtual Reality and the best part is that you don't need 3 D glasses for it. (Tutorials on VRML 1.0, VRML 2.0 - Moving Worlds and ActiveVRML.)
Intel - A Monopoly In The Making ?
Finally a chance to talk to someone who thinks like you do !!! If you do think Microsoft has won the Internet marathon , then, why don't we get together? The Microsoft Internet Technology Association (MITA),made up of people who believe they've won. Way to go Microsoft . . . . . . .
India takes a sip of hot sizzling Java...
If you know anybody who knows anybody in the brass plaque business or has an acquaintance in the higher echelons of the Nobel prize giving organizations, please befriend me. I will be more than delighted to know you. :) Seriously though, feel free to get in touch with all the comments, suggestions etc you might have regarding these no-holds-barred endeavors.