2007
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India Breaks into Top 5 Supercomputers List!
Can you believe it? India has the Asia’s fastest supercomputer, and the world’s 4th fastest! I first heard the news on All India Radio (AIR) while channel surfing AM stations for cricket commentary. It is named EKA and built by Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons. This is an wonderful…
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The Changing Face of Chennai!
This is the second Cayenne I have spotted in Chennai!. You can see a grand old Ambassador peering through the rear view mirror in contrast!
RoR and Scalability
I always had a doubt on the scalability of Ruby on Rails (RoR). I happened to meet a few RoR evangelists from ThoughtWorks at JAX India 2007 and I asked them about it. However, the answers I got were not convincing. Now here is an account of a guy who has encountered actual scaling issues…
Lane Discipline
Nice sign, but er, where are the lanes?!!
Use of Recursion!
This piece from Stevey’s blog was hilarious! – The engineer has formulated a proof that invalidates one of the most fundamental results in Computer Science, specifically that “recursion” and “iteration” are formally equivalent. — snip — The anonymous author of the paper has found that there is in fact one thing you can do using…
Paradox
Saw this interesting note on a blog comment – “But then again… what in life is not a paradox… that the more you love someone, the more you’d be taken for granted.“
Reminiscing Kinzan
I was talking to my former colleague at Kinzan, Trent Barnes, today and he mentioned it was the 2nd anniversary of closing of Kinzan, which prompted this blog post! I had the privilege of working with many expert programmers there and learnt a lot. We did a lot of cool stuff on cutting edge web…
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I’m iNFp
I took the online personality test based on Jung-Myers-Brigg typology. It classifies each person in one of 16 types, either Extravert – Introvert Sensing – Intuition Thinking – Feeling Judging – Perceiving I came out to be iNFp (Introvert-Intuitive-Feeling-Perceiving). Scary – seems to be fairly accurate! One thing I’d like to find out is that…
Sign that don’t make sense
What sign do you see on the picture? If you said “FREE LEFT TURN”, no marks for you! It actually says “NO FREE LEFT TURN”. If you look closely, you can see the word “NO” in red. It is so tiny and what choice of a color is red over blue? This sign is on…
Loving Beauties!
I just got a browser message on my phone that said: “Loving Beauties: Click here to capture”, and I thought to myself, what an oxymoron!
Yahoo using Google Code..!
There is a really cool syntax highlighter in the YUI documentation. I was wondering how they did it and clicked on the “?” link, that opened an about page that said “dp.SyntaxHighlighter” Version 1.3.0, with a further link to http://www.dreamprojections.com/syntaxhighlighter/, which redirected to know where? http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/. I thought it was very interesting. Kudos to Yahoo!…
YSlow Benchmarking
I was playing with YSlow for Firebug, a neat little tool from Yahoo!. It is actually a plugin to Firebug which analyses the performance of your web pages. My projects barely managed to get a passing grade :(. It was fun to check the performance of various sites: Site Score Grade Google 99 A Yahoo…
"INTRESTED PEOPLES" can make more than Rs.60000 !!
I took this picture when getting off the electric train yesterday night. It says “Job Opportunity” at the top, and a categorization of how much an individual can make depending on their education: * Uneducated – 6,000 to 20,000 * 6th to 12th Grade – 7,000 to 30,000 * Diploma & any degree – 10,000…
Why no parachutes on planes?
I’ve always wondered why there are no parachutes on airplanes, sort of like lifeboats on ships. There is a nice discussion on slashdot today that pretty much answers my question.
Welcome to my Tech Blog
Hi there. I hope to post technical related stuff in this blog. I’ve named this blog in honor of the first PDA I owned in 2000, the amazing Palm Vx.
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Oh what a week!
Pretty eventful I’d say. Last thursday, RKM and me hit the road early morning for a 280km drive to Mayavaram to attend a wedding of our friend’s sister. It was a nice smooth drive upto Pondicherry, but after that we had to make our way through lots of small towns and dirt roads. We made…
Visit to Nazareth
The weekend before last, I was in Nazareth, my native place. Nazareth is a small town, around 45 kms from Tirunelveli. Here are some of the snaps I took during that trip.
Today’s Attraction on GST Road
Today morning, around 10:15 AM, I was driving near Saidapet, and something unusual caught my attention and made my head turn to the left. So did the hundreds of motorists on two wheelers. It was a blonde white guy on a bicycle! He must have certainly looked different to people in this part of the…
Tamilnadu
Just wanted to test tamil fonts.. செந்தமிழ் நாடெனும் போதினிலேஇன்பத்தேன் வந்துப்பாயுது காதினிலே!
At JAX India 2007
We were at JAX India 2007 conference last week. It was a great experience to meet many like minded people under one roof! We had a booth representing our company, Impiger Technologies. The guys with me, Sai, Mahesh, Ashok, Umaima & Kamlesh were an enthusiatic bunch. We were busy throughout (well, for most part :))…
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Moving to Blogger…
After being on JRoller for a while (my first post was dated Jul 24, 2004), I decided to switch to Blogger, primarily because of the tools that are available and the neat templates. I have named this blog in honor of the first computer I owned in 1989 (thanks Dad!), called the Color Genie CG…
Speaking on GMF at JAX India 2007!
I’m going to be talking at JAX India 2007 on Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF). Check out the sessions.
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…