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Technical Peregrinations
Been a while since I posted on my blog. The year is ending, so I will round off with a few technical sojourns I had recently.
I started and maintain the translation site http://ruwiray.in and there is nothing on the site except for a Wordpress blog. When Wordpress prompts that a new version is available, I just click on the hyperlink and that’s it. ( Read more... ) -
An Open Mini Letter to Shahrukh Khan
All my reading life, I have encountered open letters in the print media. I don’t know if they achieve any purpose. But they are interesting. So I thought I should also have a go at an open letter. These days, who has the time to read letters? Hence I’m settling for a mini letter.
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The rest (or most) of us just do jobs
My iMac and its iTunes radio are an integral part of my spare time at home. The Sunday before last, 02-Oct-11 was such a pleasant day and in my tweet I mentioned all the components: iMac, iTunes radio streaming smooth jazz, low-sugar instant bru coffee, relaxing Sunday at home. Proper mood for blogging.
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Furious Against Fiscal
When we moved from C to C++, one of the benefits object oriented programming brought was improving our communication. Both parts of communication - the articulation and comprehension - got easier. We could talk about our code in terms of clasess/objects as persons and methods as transactions/operations. “The CreditChecker rejects Customer whose ( Read more... ) -
Associating with CSI
I have been a subscriber of CSI Communications magazine for the last few years. (Note: CSI = Computer Society of India). My name is on their email list.
In July, I received an email from Prof. I.L. Narasimha Rao, Vice Chairman of their Hyderabad chapter about a session on Qt. The operative phrase that attracted me was the first two words of the ( Read more... ) -
Day-2 at iCMG Architecture World 2011 (Bengaluru)
The conference concluded on Thursday and when I returned home, it was past midnight. Went a bit late to the office Friday and was occupied with a lot of activities till Sunday evening. Hence posting today.
On the second day also, I took notes. Noticed that there was another lady also taking diligent notes. Spoke with her after one of the ( Read more... ) -
Day-1 at iCMG Architecture World 2011 (Bengaluru)
Day 1 at iCMG Architecture World, Bengaluru had interesting sessions. I did absorb a few concepts and metaphors and came to know of good implementations. I'm writing this blog post in my hotel room, and (mostly) from notes I had jotted down at the conference. Hence it will be as not refined as my other posts, on which I normally take some days on ( Read more... ) -
Saturday and Sunday
Saturday
extended, deep, and peaceful sleep
happiness in the air
energetic: fresh and cheerful mood
delayed bath
laughter: joking a lot
talking to or meeting people that you *want* to
lots of ideas
going to cinema
awake very late in the night
Sunday
extended but not very deep sleep
heavy breakfast from restaurant
slight element of sadness
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Bees Saal Baad
First year at college (87-88), I along with fellow hostelers must have heard the songs of Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak a million times. Inside rooms, on the terrace, everywhere. When ever I listen to QSQT songs now, they take me back to my first year and the warm days when we were studying for exams. Guys and girls, every body saw the movie multiple ( Read more... ) -
Unreported Dell Sucks
One of the issues I faced a few years ago with using Dell products was their servers’ under performance of multiple processors with hyper threading enabled when doing load testing of our applications. I won’t divulge too much into that episode in this post. I’ll just say that the analogy is that you buy a truck that has one extra gear and two ( Read more... )