Monday, 19th January 2009
Resurrection
It finally happened. I resurrected my website from a state of utter neglect and while I was at it, gave it a nice facelift. There is still plenty of ideas and work that I want to put into it, but desperation to put out an update got the better of me. The new "crumpled paper" theme is sweet, and for those of you who prefer the older theme, it is still there and you can switch to the "classic" theme on the fly.
For the geeky-minded you will notice that the site is now completely AJAX powered (with a jQuery flavor). The ability to switch themes highlights a nice design principle of seperation of presentation (UI) from the model (data). This design allows me to plug-in new themes in future. I'm also working on a version which uses the silverlight plugin. To achieve this, I'm developing a basic XHTML renderer for silverlight but that might take a while. Building this gave me a greater appreciation for the work that goes into developing a HTML rendering engine for browsers.
Not quite as historic or momentous as the historic event that unfolds tomorrow, but atleast it is a good milestone. Now if only I can overcome the writer's block and write something intelligent!
Posted by Nikhil on Monday, 19th January 2009 in Life in General | Fun