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August 2005 - Posts

Friday, August 26, 2005 6:46 PM

Best repro steps. Ever

The worst thing for a dev to get is a bug with no easy repro steps. Invariably, what happens is the devs and tests exchange quite a few strongly-worded mails till the dev knows how exactly the tester hit the bug. The issue gets more complicated with LadyBug
Posted by sriram | 8 Comments
Thursday, August 11, 2005 7:14 PM

[Non-techie] Aamir Khan starts blogging?

I saw this on Swaroop 's blog first and was stunned - it seems like Aamir Khan , one of India's leading movie stars has started blogging on MSN Spaces (note that I say 'seems' since I haven't got any confirmation that it really is him). If you're totally
Posted by sriram | 6 Comments
Wednesday, August 10, 2005 6:37 PM

Winning an Oscar

Within the span of 2 days, I get linked to by first Don Box and now, Rico Mariani . This has meant that my readership has increased by over 500% in the last 48 hours. To all the folks who are visiting my blog for the first time, hope you stick around
Posted by sriram | 2 Comments
Sunday, August 07, 2005 4:00 PM

Functional Programming in C# - Currying

Everytime I make a post about C# or any other statically typed language, I get hit by a ton of comments from dynamic and functional language programmers who look down upon me for using a statically typed language( *cough* , *cough* ;-) ). And being a
Posted by sriram | 33 Comments
Sunday, August 07, 2005 1:05 PM

Chains of affection: The structure of adolescent romantic and sexual networks

That is the title of this paper studying high-school dating. There are not too many academic papers that talk about spanning trees while having paragraphs like " ...Consider four individuals, Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice. Imagine that Bob and Carol were
Posted by sriram | 3 Comments
Friday, August 05, 2005 5:32 PM

[VSD] Long names in the device emulator and other hacks

Do you hate the long names in the device emulator manager in Visual Studio 2005? Want to know where Visual Studio reads all the device emulator properties from? Do you think we should have named Windows Mobile versions after boybands instead of the year-suffix
Posted by sriram | 0 Comments
Monday, August 01, 2005 8:44 PM

Object test bench rocks!

You ever get that feeling when you stumble across something truly mind-blowing and you want to blog about it instantly? You feel that you need to just tell someone how cool something is? Well, I've just had such an experience and the cause is a new Visual
Posted by sriram | 7 Comments
 
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