The U.S VFS visa application site for India is a wonderful example of how not to design a website. However, rather than ranting, let me cut to the chase ...

If you received the error message Cast from string "undefined/undefined/undefined" to type 'Date' is not valid. while filling in the visa form, it's not your fault. You are probably using Firefox (very likely on Linux). The following are a few recommendations that will help you in filling in the form (in its present state):

I just finished reading a truly hilarious (and rather dated) ">interview on LJ with Larry Wall, Benevolent Dictator For Life of the Perl project. I'm not a Perl user, but this guy is one of those chaps who just ooze humour.

Linux Journal incidentally runs on Drupal :)

-K

Just had this happen (without any valid reason) in F8 with all files on a network server. The fix, atleast in my case, was to make sure that the network server's date/time settings are not ahead of your box :o Like seriously.. this is one inane error!

It was purely by accident that I noticed that the file timestamps were ahead by a couple of minutes (as was the server) ... *sheesh*

:-/
-K

I dug these up for somebody:

http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
http://www.behr.com/behrx/workbook/
http://www.triplecode.com/munsell/
http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
http://colormixers.com/mixers/cmr/

Bill Gates, in a speech in Bangalore, announced a talent search contest - 1337ly titled 'Code 4 Bill' - to recruit the best India has on offer. The contest is scheduled to commence in January and will feature eight stages that will include technical and analytical tests along with face-to-face interviews. The winners (20 of them) get to intern at Microsoft India and eventually get assimilated by Microsoft Redmond.

Full story: Times of India.

Getting Flash to be MSAA accessible is a chore in itself. And if you are converting a poorly written app to be accessible, welcome to hell :/

For my own reference, and due to the lack of any practical documentation on the net, here are a few things to keep in mind. Also, these were primarily tested with JAWS, a popular MSAA compliant screen reader. I'm just extemporising here, so feel free to correct any errors or recommend stuff I've left out (by adding a comment) and I'll edit it in..