Ishan Sharma http://ishansharma.com Blogger and Entrepreneur From India Tue, 25 May 2010 16:10:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 ishansharmahttp://feedburner.google.com Following The Standards, Breaking The Rules http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ishansharma/~3/rGfS438tifY/ http://ishansharma.com/opera/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 16:08:40 +0000 Ishan http://ishansharma.com/?p=69 Opera

Follow The Standards, Break The Rules

For those who don’t know, this is the tagline of Opera.

I had been trying to use Chrome for last 3 weeks. But something was missing!

I had tried my best to get comfortable with Chrome but finally, had to return to Opera.

My main reasons to switch from Opera were:

  1. Redirection Problems: With Opera 10.50, team Opera must have done something bad that caused redirects to screw up. For example, I could not log in to Facebook or any Google service at all.
  2. Occasional Hangs: Now, I won’t blame Opera at all for this. It is natural to hang on a 800 MHz Pentium 3 processor. However, it was still annoying and after reading about how light Chrome was on resources, I decided to try it. Chrome annoyed me even more. It annoyed me in more creative ways. For example, if I entered a address and immediately switched to another tab, it would clear the address bar and would not load page!

Initially, I liked Chrome’s extensions. but soon, they started to feel more like Opera’s widgets(widgets that will hide the moment you switch to another tab. On a slow connection, this is irritating!)

So, today, I decided to get back to Opera and use it as my primary(read “only”) browser.

I use other browsers only if  a site is extremely necessary otherwise, I find an alternative that works with Opera!

Let’s see how my second run with Opera goes. Previous one lasted for 2 years and ended just 2 weeks ago.

]]> http://ishansharma.com/opera/feed/ 0 http://ishansharma.com/opera/ My New (future)Skills! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ishansharma/~3/hvzwFL0qqck/ http://ishansharma.com/my-new-skills/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:44:12 +0000 Ishan http://ishansharma.com/?p=49 Since I have lot of free time after my exams, I decided to learn some new things. Right now, I am refreshing my knowledge of HTML. After this, I will move to XHTML.

I already know basics of CSS and it will be next in line.

After that, there’s javascript.  I don’t know much of it and it will be both fun and challenge for me.

And once that is done, I will move on to PHP.

Long plans, huh? Well, it will interesting to see how much I can learn in one month.

Stay tuned for updates!

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Apart from a personal space, this will also be my portfolio. Let’s see how I handle it.

I have about 1 month of free time. There are no studies and I have to sit at home. But this is good for me.  I plan to become a full time freelancer and blogger, so I should form the habit.

But the internet connection is very slow, 144 kbps! I have asked parents for a broadband and it may still take time!

Let’s see what happens.

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