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I have been part of IT for the last 15 years. I have been on and off internet presence for the last 6 years. I had options to be online however I did not put the effort to seek a permanent place. After a long time I decided it is time that I share my thoughts and experiences with the world and hence this Blog.

Some of my friends Chris, Reed have been my inspiration who have had their web presence for quite some time and have used it to keep friends and family informed of happenings around them. It is time that I do the same as I have quite a few friends who are on the other part of the world.

Quick solution to Ajax caching issue

By ranga | July 22, 2008

I got this quick fix solution to Ajax caching issue from the following site. Thought of sharing this.

http://radio.javaranch.com/pascarello/2005/10/21/1129908221072.html

The question: The Ajax request is grabbing the cached page from the previous request, how do I stop this from happening? Well I have seen some fancy approaches by people, but there is one easy solution that works: a random query string value appended to the request.

So how and why does this work. Well it simple terms, when the browser looks at the destination, if it has a match, then it uses the data it has. Now this is great for when you are going to a static website, but since we are looking for new data, it sucks. By appending a random value to our parameters that we are sending back, it forces the browser to say, “Stop the press! We got new info here! Lets go get the data!”

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HTML select onChange dropdown menu

By ranga | July 16, 2008

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Srirangapatnam and Mysore trip

By ranga | April 27, 2008

We went on a trip to the historical city and erstwhile capital of the Mysore residency Srirangapatna and Mysore last weekend. Being a history lover and an ardent fan of Tippu sultan I was able to visit the grave were he is put to rest. We went to Srirangaptna Sri Ranganatha temple for which Tippu sultan and Hyder Ali his father were patrons.

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My rotating banner pictures…

By ranga | April 26, 2008

Some of my friends got facinated by some of the banner pictures. But it shows up randomly and refreshes once a minute. Some cant wait to see all of them. They asked me to maintain a banner page.

So here they are.