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We come to the end of ‘CRAP design series‘. It has been quite a long series that any other that I have authored before. (The only other series posted here was the ‘SQL Basics Primer Series‘).

To state again what was stated in the first post of the series, there are 4 principles in designing that helps us design any document or web page to look aesthetically good. They are the Proximity, Alignment, Repetition and Contrast principles.

Now one may ask, can we just not use one of the principles and make the design look good? Or some may ask, which is the most important of these principles that one can focus on, in order to save from more work?

Well, there is no one important principle among the four, else there would have been only one principle and all else would have been just expressions of the one principle. That is not the case.

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I was on an idle chat with Thilak few days back, and he mentioned to me that he would be coming to Chennai.  Inquiring of his intention, I learned from him about the WikiCamp event to be held in Chennai.

What more?  I even found out that it is taking place in technology park where my office is situated - Tidel Park.

I registered myself for it.  You too can participate in this event to be held on the coming Sunday, 25th of February.  Just head over to the participant page, and add your name.  You can pay the fees at the spot - Rs.200/- about $4.5.

I look forward to meeting Thilak, and I would be glad to meet you if you come to the city in this regard.  Just head over to the contact form at WiseTome.com and drop me a message.

Today in office I was working on some performance issue, of one of our processes (I basically work in Oracle Pl/SQL and Oracle Applications), a colleague of mine dropped by and told me about this DBA Toolbar (Download Link) from Oracle. Initially it seemed to me as a very recent release of Oracle, as I did not find many results when I googled it. But then I finally found out that in OTN Techblog, it was released at around end of November 2006.

Currently available only for MS Internet Explorer version 5.0 or above, the Mozilla/ Firefox compatible versions are next on the line. It is supported by Windows 98, 2000, NT and XP.

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I had written earlier about how technology is going against nature in the particular case of Apple products. In view of that, I found Tree-Nation, courtesy of TechCrunch.

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Here is a clipart of a pointing hand. You can use it to draw the attention of your readers to something.

Below, I have provided them in three different sizes for your convenience.

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As the regular readers here might know, I have been dabbling with the arts quite a bit recently and that seemed to show up in all the posts here - increasing their quality and appeal.

After much thoughts and planning, I shelled out a bit of cash I had at Paypal on GoDaddy and bought the domain name: kalaalog.com

Kalaa means arts in majority of Indian languages and is derived from the Sanskrit word.

I got hold of the latest version of Wordpress blog engine and set a blog for it where I will be having more art related tutorials as opposed to design related tutorials we have here at Splat. At KalaaLog I would post ‘work-in-progress’ or ‘behind-the-screen’ screen shots of some of the artworks I create. Also, to the extent possible, I would try to cover the art field in India.

So, head over to Kalaalog.com, bookmark it and also add it to your feeds.