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Ideal UIMS toolkit or Lightweight PHP frameworks?

When it comes to PHP frameworks, my ideal choice is UIMS kit as mentioned here . UIMS, in my term is a webpage creation kit in which the client/end user can easily create the UI, forms, validations, etc by dragging and dropping (more like Delphi). Though I strongly believe that the future of web application development will totally be driven by UIMS, it needs time and effort to build the UIMS kit. In the meantime, any framework that is lightweight or feature rich is the economic option. Some of the lightweight PHP frameworks: Green Framework - Features (developed by the author of the Frog CMS Extra Light PHP Framework - I believe Green Framework is born out of this fase - By original author of CakePHP

The American College, Madurai - Famous alumni

I'm trying to constantly update this list. It should have been titled "remarkable" or "notable"--instead of "famous". Prof. Kalyani - Social Activist ( link ) Mahendran (birth name: Alexander) - 54PUC?? - film director of Mullum malarum, etc Prof. Solomon Pappiah - 53TAM?? ( link ) Dr. R. ​Prabhakar Vedamanickam - 80ECO?? - Professor, Music Director, Font Creator, known for creativity M. Vallalar IAS - 84ENG?? - Collector of Dindigul District Bala - 83TAM?? - film director of Sethu, etc Vivek (birth name: Vivekanathan) - 78COM59 - comedy actor Ramki - 78?? - actor Thota Tharrani - 64PUC?? - art director Shihan Hussaini - 84ZOO?? - Karate expert and actor Karu. Palaniappan - 90ENG?? - film director of Partiban Kanavu, etc Ram (birth name: Rama Subbu) - 93TAM?? - film director of Katrathu Tamil, etc Shanmugharajan - 99TAM?? - actor (acted in Virumandi, etc Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni - 93PHY?? - Chef and VJ

How girls ruin...?

மது, à®®ாது, சூது (liquor, girl, crookedness) - Tamil tantras list down one's reason for fall/collapse. In recent times, I'm hearing many relational breakups and personal collapse due to "girl". Some even seem to have damaged career, business, friends, family, etc. I'm thinking, how come such girls are getting cabal and ruin things... Not to blame it on them--but to blame it on guys...

Gen Y workforce, a threat to Indian IT?

I belong to Gen X . I'm noticing high change in the way of thinking and approaches of Gen Y (born after 1982 or 1985) workforce. Whenever I sit for interviews, I feel getting quite old... Characteristics of Gen Y (as I noted) Freshers Everybody owns mobile phones and laptop. At least using them for 2-years. Only very few people know touch typing. Almost all are interested to start their career in programming; but they don't have any basic knowledge. Most of the people can speak in English. I'm noticing a huge change here; In our generation, many people would be having good programming skill but can't express them in English People from CS aka Computer Science background says that they don't use computer labs as they own laptop. I can remember my college days at The American College, Madurai during my PGDCA and MCA--we often used to demand more lab time. I still remember that I'd run to computer lab by 7am and would still find few guys

Groupon - Next move?

Sometime ago, I blogged Groupon is chasing GroupDeal , the group buying software platform developed by our team and powers many competitor sites. Groupon has chased our self servicing platform and introduced as Groupon 2.0/stores. In that concept, to overcome the whitelabel group buying platforms, they have offered 2 types of self-services: promoting via groupon with 30% commission and promoting to followers with 10% commission--eventually focusing everyone to use their defacto platform. Unlike groupon, as we have already added friends module , what could be groupon's next move after adding self service platform? I have an answer:-)

Who is RJ Joshua and where is he?

After I have given my Humble Award to RJ Joshua , I have noticed that many people are visiting my blog when they're searching his name in search engines. I used to listen to his English programs on AIR Chennai FM sometime ago; but couldn't get his details on the internet for a long time. Recently I have spotted his photo in potofthots.com and I have stolen that photo too:-) Hope, this little photo of him (with Sanjay Pinto sitting in front) would give good feeling to his fans and well-wishers.

Who is behind Savukku.net (WikiLeaks of India)?

Ever since I've given my Humble Award to Savukku , I've started getting hits about the person behind Savukku website (Julian Assange of Savukku?). In fact, I wasn't aware of the identity of the person behind the Savukku and so I collected the following information. Name Shankar Age 35 Previous job Staff of directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DVAC). He was suspended and arrested for alleged leaking of taped conversation Marital status Single, living with mother (Heleena told me that she read somewhere about this) Native Tanjore Photo Lifted from blogintamil.blogspot.com shows he's arrested on alleged road rage Related links Blogger whips up a following City blogger held for road rage நிà®°்வாண அழகு (வலைச்சரம் ஜோதிஜி 5வது நாள்)

Beware of Chennai Book Fair crime - mobile theft

Unfortunately, lost my iPhone 4 that was gifted my boss on Jan 9, 2011 (Sunday) at the Chennai Book Fair held at St.George Anglo Indian School (Opp to Pachayappan college, Poonamalee High Road, Aminjikarai, Chennai - 600 030). When I visited T.P.Chatram Police Station to file the complaint, I have noted about 20 mobile theft complaint from the visitors of the book fair! So, there is a big chance that a mob is targeting the book fair. Beware! Steps to be taken (general guideline) Try to reach the mobile from other phone (to confirm if it's been stolen) File a complaint with nearest police station Deactivate your lost SIM with the operator, especially if it's a post paid connection. Things to be mentioned in police complaint Handset model IMEI Cost of the mobile Last used SIM (mobile number) Date and time of loss Place of loss Alternate contact details (if the phone is recovered) Have to receive the CSR (Complaint Statement Receipt(?)) as a receipt. Chennai

jobreapr, search better fiverr alternatives at one place

Sometime ago, I blogged that FPPlatform is ahead of other Fiverr clone scripts . FPPlatform, aka Fixed-price platform is a freelance job platform written in PHP/MySQL stack that our team has developed. It's powering many good fiverr alternatives. The panic fiverr then tried to close the competitors through PayPal's AUP through false copyright claim--the problems were sorted out through legal measures of the competitors and I hope, fiverr will be forced to pay damages for alleged copyright claim. Problems with Fiverr For sellers, Fiverr charges hefty 20% commission. There are bunch of related complaints about fiverr on the net. Also, on the net can find many buyers complain that sellers in Fiverr are not serious as they would be getting just $4 for every services; sellers have to focus on quantity--not quality to make profit. Better Fiverr alternatives FiverrWay , tracks all fiverr competitors and also publishes rank every month. Being competitors, these sites takes lot of mea