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Programmers Dont Like To Code!
Duh! In other news, Astronauts on ISS don’t like outer space!. But this link was forwarded to me by my collegue Santosh. Here’s my take on that: Rosenberg is wrong. Programmers don’t like coding, they like problem solving. Mathematicians like problem solving! Farmers like problem solving! Accountants like problem solving! At least most of the…
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It's a blue, blue Christmas for "Men in Blue"
Men in Blue singing at the trophy: I’ll have a blue Christmas without you I’ll be blue thinking about you Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree Won’t be the same if you’re not here with me And when those blue snowflakes start falling That’s when those blue memories start calling You’ll be doin’…
Blue Billion S(t)inks!
I am appalled by the pathetic performance of the Indian team in South Africa. How can a team allow their opponents who were crumbling at 76/6 in less than 20 overs to manage an imposing 274/7? On the other hand, full credits to RSA/Kemp for their amazing performance.
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Fun with Google code search
I was playing with Google codesearch. Found the following interesting: real men program in C and don’t use exceptions! Find out the hidden treasures, aka easter eggs. l33t crowd.. mostly perl/php code. Some extremely complex code. shhh.. quietly ignore! hark to the bugs.. sweet silver bugs.. One guy was creative about twelve bugs of christmas…
Writing and Running Plugin Unit Tests under Eclipse
Let’s say you are developing a bunch of Eclipse plugins, and you want to write some unit tests. I will show you how to develop them in this snippet. This is valid for Eclipse 3.2 and above. 1. As much as possible, try to write the unit tests in a separate plugin. Let us assume…
Geotagging in Flickr
Yahoo maps + flickr = winning combination This is way cool!. Probably the most coolest toy after Google maps. Check out the geotagging feature in flickr. It allows you to attach your photos to geographical locations (on the map). The interface is clean and excellent. I just attached a bunch of my photos to locations…
Child labor in Chennai
We were driving around Chennai on Independence Day (Aug 15). It was quite sad to see many kids selling flags at every other traffic signal. These kids were beautiful, smiling and full of energy. They deserve better things in life like education and security. Every day I believe kids like these are in plain view…