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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:42 PM

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We all know that Hungarian notation is bad. That has been debated a thousand times and closed upon. It has been proven that having type information as the variable name can lead to trouble. Some nice examples are here and here . However, though most developers
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:36 PM

The first Zune in India

Actually that should be one of the first zunes in India, but hey what the .... Our dear AmitChat the resident gadget maniac got himself a Zune (nah, not the Brown one). This is sure to be one of the first Zune's to come into India. He got it from Redmond
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Friday, November 17, 2006 7:42 PM

Program performed illegal operation. Let's call the police

One of our Colleague's young kids were working on a computer when it popped up a message " Program has performed illegal operation and will be shut down ". He got urgent call from his 9 year old daughter "Dad, does this mean that the police will come?".
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Friday, November 17, 2006 4:05 PM

IE 7 menu bar

I'm using IE 7 for some time and lovin it. I had believed that IE has done away with the menu. Whatever functionality I needed were available through the Tools and Page split buttons in the toolbar and I always printed using Ctrl+P so I never felt the
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Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:42 AM

Scheme of things

Programming in Static OO languages for a long time numbs the brain. These languages are designed to be simple and efficient. These criteria not necessary create beautiful languages. In the world of C++, C# our imagination get severely restricted. Take
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:42 AM

Tea-shots

When I visited USA for the first time I was surprised by the size of the servings. Specially the sizes of drinks (Starbucks starting from Tall :) ). I remember asking for a large Coke in a Panda Express outlet and was handed over a bucket of coke. In
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:42 AM

Indian Rope Trick

Even though Wikipedia expresses doubts over the validity of the great Indian rope trick I saw a variant of it in MS India. I call it the great indian ladder trick .
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