Ambanis planning to enter retail ? Topics : ambani, anil, mukesh, reliance, retail
Tumblewagon “TV is a time waster, all too often sucking you into other people's lives when you should be living your own.”
Eight Ways to Win an Argument from Schopenhauer's The Art of Controversy State a false syllogism Topics : advice, controversy, opponent, tips, win, argument
Passing thoughts -4
A blogger's last entry helps solve his murder The full story about the investigation .. Topics : arrest, blogger, entry, last, murder
Nayakan I would have picked Mouna Raagam as Mani Ratnam's best Topics : mani, nayakan, ratnam
Experimental del.icio.us Posting Interface Thing Generator Topics : bookmarklet, del.icio.us, tools
Javascript Closures A closure is formed by returning a function object that was created within an execution context of a function call from that function call and assigning a reference to that inner function to a property of another object. Or by directly assigning a referen Topics : javascript, closure
D-Bus Tutorial “D-Bus is designed for two specific cases:
* Communication between desktop applications in the same desktop session; to allow integration of the desktop session as a whole, and address issues of process lifecycle (when do desktop components start and stop running).
* Communication between the desktop session and the operating system, where the operating system would typically include the kernel and any system daemons or processes.”
Cool Programs! Need to check them out when I get some free time Topics : programs, cool
CSS Compressor By Moraes Topics : ajax, css, compressor, beta, bandwidth, save
I dig
Interesting. As is every single one of google's ideas ;) Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will .. Topics : google, web, accelerator, world, domination
Rim jhim gire saavan
The Last Bite “The World Bank recently announced that thirty-three countries are confronting food crises, as the prices of various staples have soared. From January to April of this year, the cost of rice on the international market went up a hundred and forty-one per cent.”
The Philosophy of Less.
LinkedIn Architecture
What the Amish are Teaching America “Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done in life.”
Minutes of a meeting
God's Own Country.
Ghajini Review
India
Why pop culture loves the 'butterfly effect,' and gets it totally wrong? “Science helps us understand the universe, but as Lorenz showed, it sometimes does so by revealing the limits of our understanding.”
Refactoring to REST
DCOM,CORBA,Java-RMI - A Step by Step Comparison
Unrealised Moscow “The competition for the Palace of Soviets in Moscow was one of the most extensive and impressive of this century. The idea of constructing a building which could be a symbol of the "imminent triumph of communism" in the capital of the world's first state of workers and peasants was mooted in the 1920s.”
How Computers Boot Up “The solution is the venerable unreal mode.”
How can a system that differs sharply from all currently fashionable approaches score any kind of success?
How to solve Sudoku puzzles
7 Questions with Roger von Oech “Look for the second right answer.”
8 Legs.
LightWindow Demo “Check out the ultimate light-'whatever' ;)”
Power, prescience, and the paradox of patterns “Language must follow patterns to achieve meaning.”
Valve announces Steam Cloud “At a conference on Steam and the future of PC gaming at its Seattle headquarters today, Valve announced that it would be introducing a new feature to its digital distribution platform that allows remote storage of all game data for Steam games.”
U never know what's in store ??
Concurrency “This is a wonderful time to be a software engineer.”
The Best Programming Books “Top Books Every Programmer Should Read”
A change of colour!
ActiveRecord behaviour with associations
Q&A with Krishna Bharat of Google News
The best one yet !
The Indian PC
Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1
The World's 10 Most Magnificent Monasteries “While all monasteries are beautiful and mysterious in their own way, there are some that stand out from the rest.”
The decline of the Dollar
Zook's research finds, more than one in three Fortune 500 companies “completely transformed their core business, some even reinventing themselves completely,” and the pace of business change continues to accelerate.">Core Businesses Are Changing: Are You Ready?
Third Annual Weblog Awards.
My 10 Favorite Swirls & Decorative Brush Sets
Advanced Programming Languages “it is oriented to researchers on programming languages .”
Rafat Ali Launches Content Sutra His paidcontent.org is among my daily reads. Looking forward to this one .. Topics : ali, rafat, bollywood, content, media, paid, sutra
Programming Languages and Lambda Calculi
Simple MapReduce in Ruby “Here's a simple version of the MapReduce framework presented in the now-famous Google paper by Dean and Ghemawat. My version of MapReduce is not intended as a usable high-performance framework, but rather as a learning tool. My goal is twofold: first, to learn to write algorithms in distributed/parallel MapReduce style. Second, to see how simply these concepts can be expressed in Ruby.”
Dummy post.
Web Input Completion Kit Must use to rewrite my tag autocomplete plugin .. Topics : autocomplete, google, suggest, javascript
Suresh Pallavur Hariharan.
Happy Mother's Day !
A drop-in replacement for Ruby on Rails’s scaffold generator
Kalavaara Halli Betta hike
The philosopher series - 1
Google Earth First Look Topics : earth, google, high, maps, resolution
The Best and the Interesting “My hope is, at some point in my life, I will hit such a stride, some skillset I have where the best of me just happens as a matter of course. I'm good at some stuff, bad at others, but I would love to hit some point, in a few years, where I throw out perfection as calmly as a child tosses a ball. It's something to strive for.”
I was wrong
Lost and never found
Endless
Making money online ?
The Top Ten Most Beautiful OS X Apps
Ajax Edit In Place (EIP) Example
Exams
Nuvvenaa...
MCMXC a.D “It would change the musical world as we know it.”
Poetry
Rails Toolbox
Will you still drink coca cola / pepsi ?
Git It, Got It? Good! “Last week, I gave a presentation on the git version control system.”
God is an intermediate layer.
Introduction to BackgrounDRb
Redesign and an explanation
The End of Wall Street's Boom “model for home prices had no ability to accept a negative number”
The Flash Timeline Clock Topics : clock, cool, flash, time
:-)
A Butler “Gene woke and nudged her once”
Look, ma, no servers
100 Awesome Adobe AIR Apps for Productivity “Read on for 100 of the best apps that will increase your productivity with Adobe AIR.”
Zoomer “Video From a Picture”
Web Application Testing in Ruby “The format of this example will be to show the Ruby test case scripting code in a box as you would see it in a text editor, with an explanation after it.”
Outfoxed / A firefox extension / Personalize the internet Topics : firefox, extension, internet, outfoxed, personalize
Ireland is the best country to live in (2005) Topics : best, country, ireland, life, world
The matrix explained
To do with the price of fish “One particularly popular tale is that of the fisherman who is able to call several nearby markets from his boat to establish where his catch will fetch the highest price.”
The road to self-esteem is, indeed, paved with gold “They remind us that, essentially, our bodies are made up of the same elements as Usain Bolt, and the fact that they seem to be made from marshmallows and potato skins is entirely due to our own sloth and greed.”
Ragel wins! “One of Ragel's key advantages is that there is absolutely zero internal function call overhead. This is because the are no internal function calls; everything is done with basic C control structures (for loops, gotos, case statements and the like). Once you're in the Ragel machine you can stay there until you've scanned all the text.”
Excellent MySQL Tips Topics : mysql, tips
Passing thoughts-3
The Number Game.
Anbe Sivam
First glance at exciting Indian websites
Life Is Elsewhere Book Review “The title of the novel is a quotation from the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, which was also used by André Breton in the last paragraph of his surrealistic manifesto in 1924. The expression also became a slogan used by the protesting stidents in Paris May 1968.”
The Brahma Hypothesis.
Blogging Like a Hacker “I wanted to write great posts, not style a zillion template pages, moderate comments all day long, and constantly lag behind the latest software release.”
Important.
24
Happy new year!
C is Predictable
Finland
An Introduction to Vim Macros “Justin Lilly has created a 3-part series on using Vim macros, Vim is a powerful editor that has a bit of a learning curve.”
A Travel Guide for India. An interesting new startup by a friend of friend.
Goodbye
Basics of Compiler Design
Yaaro ?
Do Ocracy “A do-ocracy (also sometimes do-opoly, which is a more obvious pun on %u201Cduopoly%u201D) is an organizational structure in which individuals choose roles and tasks for themselves and execute them. Responsibilities attach to people who do the work, rather than elected or selected officials.”
dragtable: Visually reorder all your table columns “That's it! Your table will instantly become interactive.”
Love and marriage.
Sun sued.
How The Interpreter Works - Cat Language
CalendarView “The Calendar widget is a JavaScript-based calendar that can either be embedded within a page or popup when a trigger element is clicked.”
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SQL Joins Explained “This is not a technical discussion - just concepts.”
:(
I want to live.
Writing a parser
Why women stop thinking when they go shopping
The dot doesn't matter
Life etc
Creating Heterogeneous Containers “Although STL doesn't support polymorphism directly, the technique I've presented enables you to overcome this limitation and create a heterogeneous container while benefiting from the advantage of STL's high-performance and simplicity.”
Torque launches arm to tap mobile media market “Started a little over 18 months ago by a group of engineering students from Thiruvananthapuram, Torque has developed an array of solutions and services in the wireless space. It has developed Campaign Manager, a one-step solution to create, manage and run mobile phone-based promotional campaigns across the country.”
Bhutan
More is Less
Baghdad Burning
Hercules - a Liger - Part Lion, Part Tiger - 10 feet tall - Runs at 50 mph Kaal would have been watchable if they had used ligers instead of tigers ;) Topics : 10ft, 50mph, hercules, kaal, liger, lion, tiger
rajini style :)
ClassRoom: A Ruby class server (or DRb on steroids)
A Zen Moment “You can see the path you couldn't see before.”
A little help can go a long way
Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Continuity Topics : einstein, lynd, mechanics, newton, quantum
Domain Specific Languages: Molding Ruby “Domain Specific Languages: Molding Ruby”
After two centuries of Western domination, China and India are poised to claim their places
If China can have its blog empire, why can't India ? Topics : blog, china, denton, empire, india, jason
Introducing the Catenator
40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download
Offshoring - The Punch Card Era
Happy Diwali!
The Bhagavad Gita in Pictures
Naked Objects “Most people who believe they are doing object-oriented design and development are doing no such thing, because they are ignoring the most important principle of object-orientation. We describe that principle as 'behavioural completeness': an object should completely model the behaviour of the thing that it represents. Instead, most people continue to design business systems that separate procedure from data, albeit dressed up in the language and technology of object-orientation.
Why is this distinction important? Because behavioural completeness is the key to realising the principal benefit of object-orientation: the ability to cope with unforeseen changes in requirements.”
Wall Street Lays Another Egg “Credit and money, in other words, have for decades been growing more rapidly than underlying economic activity.”
Top down cosmology “Quantum mechanics forbids a single history”
21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code
D-BUS “At the protocol level D-BUS can be used as a peer-to-peer message transport for applications to communicate directly with each other. The real power of D-BUS comes from the bus daemons which act as routers for messages. There are two standard buses that a developer can rely on always being around. These are the system bus and the session bus.
The system bus is a global daemon that any application running in any context can use as a transport. It is a single point where applications can export services that anyone can use. Only one system bus daemon can be run at a time.
The session bus is a bus local to the current user's session. It is used for communication between applications running within the same X session. For every login to X, a session bus daemon is started.”
Passing thoughts -5
After the first meeting...
Feb 12, 05
:)
C++ 0x: The Dawning of a New Standard “It's been 10 years since the first ISO C standard, and 2009 will bring us the second.”
Free CSS Templates
Getting Things Done Using Javascript Topics : gtd, javascript, wiki, tiddlywiki
Remotely hosted Trackback
Why men are happier ?
Ruby Advent Calendar : 25 Days of Ruby Joy and Celebration
Converted to Greyscale using GIMP .. Used a mix of blending options on the green and red channels while discarding the blue channel (too much noise) ..
Topics : veli, trivandrum, kerala, india
YAR
Google ROCKS !
bahaaro.n phuul barasaao, meraa mahabuub aayaa hai
Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System “The Smalltalk-80 programming language includes dynamic storage allocation, full upward funargs, and universally polymorphic procedures”
Mukesh Ambani's Makeover Plans for India
Give Hawk-Eye a chance
Song of Love
Add a little more random to your product
Six Principles for Making New Things “The Reddits pushed so hard against the current that they reversed it; now it looks like they're merely floating downstream.”
How to start a company (Private Limited) in India ?
Tuple Spaces
Words of Wisdom
Google I/O Session Videos and Slides
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete “Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud.”
The .in domain name.
Business 2.0: Silicon Valley faces Web startup glut “"You can't take Ajax, AdSense, and arrogance and call it a company,"”
Breathing Techniques that reduce Stress “When you can control your breath, you can control everything.”
FUEL “FUEL is a JavaScript Library designed to help developers build extensions using terminology and interfaces that are familiar to them. FUEL is new in Firefox 3 and will be backported to Firefox 2 as well.”
Anonymous
MP3 Players.
The Kernel Boot Process “May your uptime be long and untroubled.”
Infoviz Art “Display an unwieldy mass of data in clever visual form and you may gain über-insight into questions you hadn't yet put into words. That is the promise of information visualization, infoviz for short.”
Living In India : A new community blog
jgrowl “jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages within the browser”
My ego states
Rails Tips
Laying Tracks
Five tips for developing Rails applications “Pimp your rails console with colors, history and tab completion”
India
Orson Scott Card “Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
A conversation with Dr.Muralidhar Pai.
Rockstar's Table Tennis How To Videos
My Favorite Free Fonts, by Vukan Karadzic
The Lazy Way to Success “The paradigm-shifting concept is "Smart Laziness" where success comes through cleverly avoiding work but still getting the job done.”
Cubicle Culture
Tamizhan
Funny Firefox Videos Topics : europe, firefox, fun, videos
( trackback ) ( testing ) ( again )
Life is in small things
The day after
Bloggies
Adam Smith on Outsourcing (1776) “It is maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy...What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry employed in a way in which we have some advantage”
The three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris Topics : hubris, impatience, larry, laziness, programmer, three, virtues, wall
Ruby language features
The Photographer's Shadow - A Flickr Group Pool Topics : flickr, group, photographer, pool, shadow
Multicasting in Ruby
A Little Kid
College of Engineering, Trivandrum ( CET ) update
Random Links
Interesting outsourcing/BPO marketing strategy using blogs
Ruby programming is art “I would dare to say that programming style in Java is enforced by the company code standards, whereas programming style in Ruby comes from the personality and the programming experience.
Ruby programming is art. And it's part of the reasons why it's fun.”
meek
History
A great wired article on MIT Open Course Ware
Higher-Order Ruby
How the Mind Works | Video channel on TED.com “At a conference about ideas, it’s important to step back and consider the engine that creates them: the human mind. How exactly does the brain — a three-pound snarl of electrochemically frantic nervous tissue — create inspired inventions, the feeling of hunger, the experience of beauty, or the sense of self — and how reliable is it?”
CodeProject: Parsing and Grammars
FT's Report on India and China Topics : asia, china, emerging, giants, india
Innovation in Startups Topics : hackathon, innovation, jotspot, startup
Ezhuthapurangal.
Barely controlled chaos Topics : _why, book, chaos, editor, ruby, wiki
A gentle introduction to Template Metaprogramming with C++
:)
Tuple-Space Based Middleware for Distributed Computing
100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques “From the funny to the poignant, these glimpses into the lives of teachers and their students will keep you entertained while learning a little something as well.”
Ruby Blocks Rock! “Blocks are one of Ruby's greatest assets.”
Sweet Irony.
Ideas On Creative Career, v1.1 “The initial process of creation has to come from a place of wonder and curiosity.”
Is Object Orientation Working? “A database is essentially a truth reasoning engine. You take a collection of facts, a series of inference rules and you use these to ask it questions. A object orientated language is essentially about setting up classes of object; templates, if you like, from which instances are created.”
Memoize Those Ruby Methods
Truemors by the Numbers “One thing is for sure: no entrepreneur can tell me that he needs $1 million, four programmers, and six months to launch this kind of company. With products like WordPress, MySQL, and Salesforce platform, things are a whole lot cheaper and easier these days.” Topics : entrepreneur, wordpress
Follow your dreams
Woork: 10 Beautiful icons set for web developers and designers
The Brahma Hypothesis
Being a woman !!
Small is the new big only when the person running the small thinks big Topics : small, idea, think, big
In the mirror
Poetry
Why Apple is the best retailer in America “The subject won't sit still for its portrait.”
Passing thoughts -6
The Atheist Blogger “On the first day, man created God.”
Sweetie | Cute and clear icons
Punar Janmam.
Pattern Matching, S-Expressions, and Domain Specific Languages in Ruby
Papers and Presentations at Adobe Open Source Wiki
How the BPO industry will change our lives
Audioengine 2 powered loudspeaker “In nearly 25 years, it's been rare that I've reviewed an exciting breakthrough product.”
The Bangalore Blogger's Meet.
Silence
Is Your Brain in a Box? “You know how it goes: The left brain is logical and analytical; the right brain is spatially-oriented and creative. Careers and fortunes have been made off of this one, and people tend to get passionate about it. But the real story is much more complex. While there are clearly differences in how the hemispheres of the brain process sensations, neither side is %u201Cspecialized%u201D to the degree that more popularized left brain/right brain theories suggest. A normal brain acts in an integrated fashion whether it is focused on painting a masterpiece or analyzing a profit and loss statement.”
Bill Joy's greatest gift to man “People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore”
25 Cinema 4D Tutorials for Spectacular Animations “Cinema 4D is a high-end 3D graphics application capable of procedural and polygonal modeling, animating, lighting, texturing, and rendering.”
On Ruby “Ruby is remarkably, perhaps irresistibly, attractive”
Nee
Tag Clouds Generated Using Amazon AWS If amazon were to blog, this is how it will look like Topics : amazon, aws, blog, cloud, tags
MSN Virtual Earth To Take On Google Earth Topics : earth, google, imagery, msn, satellite, virtual
My Pithamagan review
India Shining
Kerala selected for 'India Today' award
wow!
Distance.
List of cognitive biases “A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgement that occurs in particular situations (see also cognitive distortion and the lists of thinking-related topics).”
A Neutrino feed is a collection of pointers to other syndication feeds I am solving the distributed data problem by aggregating all my content on tamizhan.com. Topics : api, blog, data, distributed, del.icio.us, feed, flickr, remote, tamilizhan.com
rediff.com
Birds and Frogs
Rails.vim “TextMate may be the latest craze for developing Ruby on Rails applications, but Vim is forever.”
The Nature of Lisp “I've achieved an almost divine state of mind, an instantaneous enlightenment experience that turned my view of computer science on its head in less than a single second.” Topics : lisp, programmer
TableKit “TableKit is a collection of HTML table enhancements using the Prototype framework. TableKit currently implements row striping, column sorting, column resizing and cell editing using Ajax.”
Why I started blogging....
New York Underground
Creeps
The new rediff.
Top 11 Rails Plugins
Announcing Dolt, a drop-in Libtool replacement which cuts build times in half
At least 46 feared killed in Mumbai blasts
Hadoop Summit and Data-Intensive Computing Symposium Videos and Slides | Yahoo! Research
Vijay Chegu
Maatrangal
Glory is as ephemeral as smoke and clouds Topics : america, china, glory, kaifeng, most, important, newyork
Theory Introduction to Programming Languages Filed for future reference.
Winner of the Personal Visualization Project “From email spam, to beverage consumption, to aches and pains, Tim embraced the spirit of self-surveillance.”
Dhirubhai Ambani
The world @ 2050
10 Tips for Moving From Programmer to Entrepreneur “Code is 5% of your business”
Query Anything with SQLite “With virtual tables, you query not only what is in a database, but what is outside of it as well. For instance, with a little coding, you could use SQLite to search through your filesystem”
March 20th 2006
Bangalore
The Myth of Superman “For Superman, it's mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent thats the disguise the thing he aspires to, the thing he can never be. He really is that hero, and he will never be one of us. But we love him for trying. We love him for wanting to protect us from everything, including his own transcendence. He plays the bumbling, lovelorn Kent so that we regular folks can feel, just for a moment, super.”
“An old Cherokee was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, ”A battle is raging inside me ... it is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.“
The old man fixed the children with a firm stare. ”This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.“
They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, ”Which wolf will win?“
The old Cherokee replied: ”The one you feed."
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10,000 Watt smile !
TCS to expand in Thiruvananthapuram
The war has begun
What is Linda? “What is Linda?”
70 Amazing Houses from Around the World
Ambition
Template Metaprograms
Magic Realism.
Concatenative language “There are two terms that get thrown around, stack language and concatenative language. Both define similar but not equal classes of languages. For the most part though, they are identical.
Stacks are a pretty fundamental concept in computer science, and many languages use stacks internally in the implementation. Any language that allows recursive definitions uses some type of call stack to save return addresses between function calls, and often the same stack is used to spill values which cannot be allocated in registers. However, this is just implementation detail, and this call stack is not exposed directly to the programmer (except in languages with first-class continuations; I'll touch upon this later).
So what makes stack languages different? The key concept here is that there are multiple stacks: all stack languages have a call stack to support recursion, but they also have a data stack (sometimes called an operand stack) to pass values between functions. The latter is what stack language programmers mean when they talk about "the" stack.
Most languages in widespread use today are applicative languages: the central construct in the language is some form of function call, where a function is applied to a set of parameters, where each parameter is itself the result of a function call, the name of a variable, or a constant. In stack languages, a function call is made by simply writing the name of the function; the parameters are implicit, and they have to already be on the stack when the call is made. The result of the function call (if any) is then left on the stack after the function returns, for the next function to consume, and so on. Because functions are invoked simply by mentioning their name without any additional syntax, Forth and Factor refer to functions as "words", because in the syntax they really are just words.”
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
India bridges digital divide
E K Nayanar
instant poetry.
I've never been to the Grand Canyon, and now I don't have to go Topics : earth, google, high, imagery, maps, resolution, satellite
India & China will fight it over to become the next America
Ruby Script Beautifier “I have always felt that a language hasn't really arrived until there is a source beautifier utility for it.”
Happy New Year!
SmugMug's AWS Based Architecture
Shoes vs. AIR “To really give you a sense of how sad I am as a human being, here%u2019s what I woke up thinking about”
Air-India announces special fares on local sector
Linux Cheat Sheets
Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt “Consider a photo of someone you think is you eight years ago.”
via (I am rice) “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
%u2014 Elbert Hubbard”
Code Generation Templates Using XML and XSL
Favourite ads...
Ruby Cheat Sheets
Sachin Tendulkar.
Images that talk.
Idle Talk
Passing thoughts - 6
Been a while
No hopers give a great hope to Irish film-maker “This is a Bollywood kind of script”
A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails “Over the last few months I have analyzed a number of Rails applications w.r.t. performance problems”
Life is Elsewhere
Implement acts_as_threaded without a plugin
?
Adding plugins to your Ruby application
Solar from flight404 on Vimeo.
Using Amazon's Web Services from Ruby
Greying of Kerala to cause headaches
500 hours of MS Paint Unbelievable! Topics : art, microspft, paint, masterpiece
Table Tennis Advanced Techniques
On a tightrope “Being on a tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting. — Karl Wallenda”
Something new
The Moving Finger Writes
2003
The Shuttle will be a complete beautification of the Wordpress Administration Panel Topics : beautification, interesting, shuttle, wordpress, admin
The last immigrant song ?
Superators Add New Operators to Ruby “I'm releasing this into the wild to hopefully see what mischief it stirs.”
Foreign funds' Sept inflows to India beat '02 total
The Count of Monte Cristo
Yippeee !
Ruby has become “Programming Language of the Year 2006”
Vikram's many faces in Anniyan Topics : anniyan, movie, shankar, tamil, vikram
Streaming programmatically generated content from Rails
Ah Aah!
Of languages and movies
iTunes Export M3U Playlist Exporter
Continuations
Capitalism is not the answer
The meaning of Life ?
People do not believe something is saved if it happens too quickly Topics : human, intuitive, javascript, xmlhttprequest, mind, understanding, usability
It's back to boom time for Indian IT
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop CS2
Indian real estate has enormous potential “a housing shortage of currently 20 million units will call for extensive residential construction.”
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus with Animated Reduction
Gayathri
Bollywood's Long Tail I get a bit annoyed when people equate Indian movies with Bollywood. There is so much happening outside the hindi film industry in India .. Topics : bollywood, demand, distributed, longtail, malayalam, movies, india, tamil, telegu
3
Tour de Babel “Every 15 years or so, languages are replaced with better ones”
Passing thoughts -2
How iPods Work
The most informed Indians ?
A request.
Nairomia
Ruby EventMachine - The Speed Demon
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
Pyaasa Topics : dutt, guru, pyaasa, rehman, waheeda
I was waiting and hoping to click the picture at the exact moment the boat was underneath the sun. Looks like I managed to do so ..
Topics : sunset, beach, shangumugham, trivandrum, kerala, india
The Apu Trilogy Topics : apu, ray, satyajit, trilogy
Cobra vs Mongoose
Blogcadia.com / Bloghosting using the nucleus content management system Jeff is a nice guy and has written some really cool plugins for the nucleus cms. Give him a look if you are looking for a blog provider .. Topics : blog, blogcadia, jeff, nucleuscms
How to Design a large AJAX Application
My Julieclipse “I will not, however, be okay.”
I Finally Understand Closures! “I have been trying to understand closures off-and-on for what seems like forever now.”
:-)
Who will be no.1: China or India ?
Twitter Quote “when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”
Nigerians happiest people, Indians 21st
Food for thought
More people in India travel by train in a day than travel by air in a year Topics : india, people, travel, airline
Web Design Dashboard
Ruby on Rails Reference “This is a "short" Ruby on Rails reference. It's goal is to give you an overview over the most used functions / methods / classes. It's not a tutorial, but as a handy guide when you already know your way around.”
Thinking Cap using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation “Professor Allan Snyder and Dr. Elaine Mulcahy say they have completed experiments that proved they could increase the creative function of the brain using magnetism.
The device works by using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to temporarily shut down the left hemisphere of the brain, where speech and short-term memory are supported.”
China sees 60 million bloggers by year's end “The expected 60 million bloggers would account for more than half of China's 110 million netizens”
Code Generation: The Safety Scissors Of Metaprogramming
Mental Case :-)
Noted Tamil writer Sujatha replies to a blog post! Guru Subramanian's Lazygeek is a high quality regularly updated blog. Topics : blog, getting, lazygeek, popular, tamil, writer, sujatha
Recursive Fun with Flickr
Do you want to know how rich you are ?
HAL “Traditionally, desktop applications discovered hardware by talking directly to the operating system kernel (the kernel maintains the list of devices attached to the system). This is a tedious process and is not exact because sometimes the kernel doesn't know everything about a device. For example, some digital cameras and portable music players show up as just another hard disk in the user interface. Thus, not many user interfaces have been built for hardware discovery.
With HAL, all the interesting information about certain classes of hardware is easily accessible in a well-defined format. When a new device is added to the system, an asynchronous signal is broadcast on the system message bus detailing what kind of device was added.”
Blogs play cupid
The meaning of Sati in the matrix revolutions
Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library “"What's so wonderful about our knowledge of the human body is how remarkably constrained it has been over time,"”
Give your résumé a face lift
December.
Will Indian IT industry realise its potential?
Create your own comic! Topics : character, comic, create
ActiveRecord Tutorial
I somehow like this one a lot .. Must be the contrast between the white feathers and the dust ..
BDD with Shoulda
Best Vim Tips
The cult
Google's Data Interchange Format “Protocol Buffers allow you to define simple data structures in a special definition language, then compile them to produce classes to represent those structures in the language of your choice. These classes come complete with heavily-optimized code to parse and serialize your message in an extremely compact format.”
How to Stand Out in Any Job “Leadership rarely involves telling people what to do. Instead, it's usually about helping people and teams create synergy and accomplish great things by working together.”
Death
Staying Alive
Early retirement
Passing thoughts - 1
DUM
100 Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs
Dreams
Thiruvananthapuaram based Toonz Animation has a great website!
Yesterday
Salam's story
Die every day
Gadling
Mamallapuram / Mahabalipuram.
Metaprogramming and Ruby on Rails
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Using Vim as a Complete Ruby on Rails IDE
Things Caches Do “I want to talk about gateway caches — or, “reverse proxy caches” — and consider their effects on modern, dynamic web application design.”
The idea behind Ajax *does* revolutionize the web paradigm Topics : asynchronous, future, javascript, ajax, slashdot, comment, web, application
mehboob
Highest tennis court in the World
SWIG/Ruby Examples
Programmer's rant: What should and should not be added to C/C++ “premature optimization at the level of language and framework choice is not evil.”
Streamlined - Real world scaffolding “Streamlined is an open source framework for quickly creating data-centric applications with Ruby on Rails.”
Day and night.
Information Gateway
Submersed Songs | Cançőes Submersas from ∆LEX on Vimeo.
Ground-breaking work in understanding of time
The $25 million Boone County creation museum Topics : creation, debate, evolution, god, man, science
REST & Rails
Cluster Computing and MapReduce - Google Code University
30 Incredible Free Fonts for Designers
Armored Against Turmoil, Lebanon Lures Investors “Lebanon's very instability, its 15-year civil war and frequent political crises, appears to have bred the banking sector's fiscal prudence, analysts say.”
Threaded Code “Threaded code is a technique for implementing virtual machine interpreters”
Is there a place more beautiful than swizterland ?
Rs 1,000 Crore Expansion Planned For Trivandrum Technopark Topics : 1000, infosys, outsourcing, tcs, trivandrum, technopark, expansion
oru kochu kinaavu
An Introduction to Lean Thinking for Software “Lean is the technology that can recognize and eliminate waste - activities which don't produce additional value.”
Next Generation Data Storage with CouchDB “Next Generation Data Storage with CouchDB”
Google’s MapReduce Programming Model — Revisited
POVCOMP 2004: Hall of Fame I used POVRAY to design my final year's magazine cover Topics : 1999, povray, cet, cover, final, magazine, year
Amazing serve
Developing Erlang at Yahoo “The slides can be viewed online and there is a PDF available.”
The Reality Distortion Field
Metaphors “Metaphor is an attempt to understand one element of experience in terms of another.”
Great going Sania !!
The best indian websites ?
Patterns in Nature (Photo Galleries)
scrAPI toolkit for Ruby “So how about scraping HTML with style?”
Why communism must go away
What Programming Languages Should You Know?
MattBango.com “Aperture, shutter speed and ISO, the big 3 that usually cause the most confusion early on. If you can get a grasp on how the big 3 work together to affect your exposures, taking pictures will be a much more pleasant experience and will have a lot less frustration.”
Linux backdoor ?
Sathish Chimes in
Onamashamsakkal !
Source code generation is unreliable and inadvisable in every language except Lisp
Adobe Open Source “In the beginning the programmer created the language and the code. And the code was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the screen of the computer. And the programmer moved upon the keyboard of the computer. And the programmer said, let there be Photoshop: and there was Photoshop. And the programmer saw Photoshop, that it was good: and the programmer divided the Command Parameter Modeling Code from the Underlying Framework”
Will’s Guide to Mashing-up Remote Databases using Page Scraping
The top 10 “new” hot colours I liked Ruby Wine Topics : 10, colour, hot, new, top
Become a specialist at being a generalist “Almost always, the candidates seem to fall into one of two types - the specialists and the generalists. The specialists are those who come from a strong background of fundamentals.”
./method coming in PERL 6? Syntactic sugar! Topics : method, perl, 6, self
Chad, Eu Tu ?
Addictive little online games
Moving on
The Dojo toolkit is impressive! Topics : authoring, dojo, javascript, ajax, toolkit, widget
The Greatest Movies Ever From what I can see, there is no Indian film on that page. Since this is wikipedia, you and me can change that now! Topics : indian, movies, greatest, wikipedia
Cog VM Blog “Conceptually every method or block activation in Smalltalk is represented by a context object, each of which has its own small stack holding its temporaries and intermediate results. Each context points to its caller via a sender slot. ”
Searching with find “The find command is one of the darkest and least understood areas of Linux, but it is also one of the most powerful. The biggest problem with find is that it has more options than most people can remember — it truly is capable of doing most things you could want”
If ...
Indians smash cell-phone sales record “A new world record has been set in India. On October 19, an auspicious day to purchase new products in the country, mobile-phone maker Nokia reportedly sold more than 400,000 handsets, a number not achieved in a single day anywhere else in the world, including China, one of the most rapidly growing mobile-phone markets.
The firm's previous sales high was about 100,000 phones in a single day.”
13 Tips for creating a successful new online product
mail.yahoo.com
Olympics and India
Space Based Programming
Aquarium for Ruby “Aquarium is a framework that implements Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) for Ruby. The premise of AOP is that some concerns in an application will cut across the natural object boundaries of the problem domain. Rather than scatter duplicated code in each object to handle the cross-cutting concern, AOP modularizes the specification of which execution points are affected (called join points) and the actions that should be invoked at those points.”
Ruby Discoveries and Idioms “A place to share useful Ruby code snippets and ideas about using and improving the Ruby language”
Rails Acts As Taggable On Plugin
Blog Swara BlogSwara started as a collaborative musical endeavor by a group of Indian bloggers around the world.
Blog of the day.
Easy Role-Based Authorization in Rails “Once user authentication has been added to your Rails app, authorization isn%u2019t far behind. In fact, very basic authorization functionality exists the moment you implement user authentication.”
Distributed Hash Tables, Part I
Music from Tibet Topics : tibet, music, soothing
War is never an answer
Maldives seek to buy a new homeland
Lightweight data exploration in Excel “For in-cell bar charts, the trick is to repeat a single bar “|”. When formatted in 8 point Arial font, single bars look like bar graphs. Here’s the formula behind the bars:”
Short Term Memory and Chunking “Prior to the creation of current memory models, George Miller argued that human short-term memory has a forward memory span of approximately seven items plus or minus two.[12] More recent research has shown that this magical number seven is roughly accurate for college students recalling lists of digits, but memory span varies widely with populations tested and with material.”
What is the Completely Fair Scheduler?
TopWriteCorner.com
Avan....
Dilbert pokes fun at IIT grads - The Economic Times
Presentation on Treetop (packrat parser generator)
Memory: Making Your Influence Last “Therefore, memory is not simply recall, but reconstruction of the past.”
An excellent Boys review
Don't you think, it is a lovely shade of yellow ?
Topics : club, cabana, bangalore, india, nice flower
How to install RESTful Authentication on a Ruby on Rails 2.0 application
This guy is good
THE WONDERFUL WOMEN IN MY CIRCLE!!
Emotions don't always translate into words.
Malcolm Gladwell's Method “I fill my life with people from diverse backgrounds.”
Software development magazine “A Decision Table Based Methodology
for the Analysis of Complex Conditional Actions”
Holiday fun.
Carousel Prototype Extension
India Today website re-launch
Metamorphosis from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.
Relativity/Quantum Mechanics “One concept of time is the idea that there is a state called the present which divides the universe into two different realms: the past which cannot be changed from the future which cannot be exactly known. The second concept of time is that it is the reading off a clock. These concepts are fundamentally inconsistent with one another.”
Site Update
Juggernaut “The Juggernaut plugin for Ruby on Rails aims to revolutionize your Rails app by letting the server initiate a connection and push data to the client.”
Google spotlights data center inner workings
Generic Programming Techniques “Generic programming is about generalizing software components so that they can be easily reused in a wide variety of situations.”
Will natural-born humans into an endangered species ? Topics : endangered, human, evolution, natural, species
Programming Fonts “Programmers have very particular font needs. A font for programming must be monospaced, extremely readable, and must sharply distinguish between similar characters, such as capital O and zero and the number 1, capital I, and lowercase L. In addition, good programming fonts allow you to view more lines of code on screen at once.”
The IndLinux Project : A Linux distribution from India
It’s about Cricket Topics : about, blog, cricket, mad
Building a Social Network Site in Rails “the”
Sleeping On A Bench.
Vande Mataram
Background Scores in Tamil Movies: Iruvar “When the Iruvar Maniratnam and Rahman join hands, not only the songs but also the background score is special and this movie is a sample of that and I hope everyone will agree”
Kavidhai
Assumption Reversal “The future is often a reverse of the assumptions of the present.”
The Top Ten List Of Top Ten Lists
Why not use commas as tag delimiters ? The tags plugin i wrote for the nucleus content management system uses commas. Topics : intuitive, tag, delimiter, comma
Remote Scripting with IFRAME Need an XmlHTTPObject alternative (for cross domain scripting). Filed for future reference.
George Dantzig, 1914-2005
Dow 13K and the Second Great Depression “the current young generation will likely be shaped by an extreme crisis”
Best background music for programming
mindless
Jason kottke
Virtual Machine Opcode Resolution, Performance Tests
Charming Ruby Compiler “The Charming Ruby Compiler (CRC) is a thesis project at the Computer Science Department at Chalmers University of Technology. It's goal is to create a proof of concept compiler from Ruby to C--. The only supported platform at the moment is x86 Linux.”
Shopping and women
This is heaven for a seinfeld fan like me :)
Who am i ?
Connectionism from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy “A seductive but naive idea is that single neurons (or tiny neural bundles) might be devoted to the representation of each thing the brain needs to record.”
Kerala Tourism is a well run government organisation - a not so common occurrence.This new ad, in the Sunday supplement of Times of India (Bangalore Edition), is eye catching. The romance of monsoon is wonderfully conveyed.
Topics : kerala, monsoon, ad
Feb 5, 2005
Blogs Opening Iranian Society?
The 6 Most Important Experiments in the World “From the smartest artificial brain to the first artificial life”
New standards
Better half
Reloaded !
Our saga continues....
Camel corp
Ourvie.ws
Nostalgia.
Yahoo! News Tag Cloud Yahoo's Term Extraction service throws up a lot of interesting possibilities. Topics : api, extraction, tag, cloud, term, yahoo
Opacity change using Scriptaculous
How to Rid Your Home of Cockroaches
Technology Rewrites the Book “This is as good as any book in a bookstore”
A nice set of programming articles
Lakme Peach Moisturizer
Cloud Computing Promise & Reality “To me, cloud computing is the natural evolution of the Internet and World Wide Web”
There is no place on earth like india
Sarovar : Open Source in India
How I Learned to Love Testing
Free mini pixel icons (DeveloperFox)
49 Amazing Wallpapers
Reuse good — Abstractions better! “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking.”
The Most Important Idea in Computer Science “Lisp is the most important idea in computer science.”
Why Do We Forget Things? “our memories also vary considerably in their precision.”
'Let Us Keep Aside Non-Issues' by Abdul Kalam
Being Indian abroad
Army Launches Operation Olympic Medal
Techniques for Scientific C++
Presentation Files: RailsConf 2008
Surprise
A Liger is a cross between a Lion and a Tiger Topics : liger, lion, tiger
TableKit
chit chat
A 100,000 Swiss franc ($83,000) blanket to reduce the summer melt Topics : blanket, glacier, melt, reduce, summer, swiss
If you're not blogging, you're wasting your life “You should be sharing the things you learned so other people will learn from it and maybe teach you something new.”
Igniting India's mind By A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM
The Ajax transport method “There's more to Ajax than XMLHttp”
Google App Engine: The missing piece of the Cloud Software revolution
Artists who are similar to Enya
Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? “There was plenty of time to check it twice.”
Defining Cloud Computing
Continuations Demystified
The ABC List Topics : blogebrity, blogger, famous, list
Films.
iHologram - iPhone application from David OReilly on Vimeo.
Deliverance from bondage
Removing the Submit or Save button is likely to cause users to question whether or not their data was stored Topics : asynchronous, javascript, ajax, web, application
How to write a blog in Rails 2.0.2 (not quite in 15 minutes)
A tags implementation how to A similar de-normalized approach is what I used. Topics : blog, de-normalized, tags
Technical Debt “Remove cruft as you go. Build simplicity and clarity in from the beginning, and never relent in keeping them in.”
Metaprogramming Ruby
Happy Birthday
Let us try this again.
WordPress Comments System built with Yahoo! UI
Trixie | Greasemonkey for IE Topics : greasemonkey, ie, trixie, firefox
Container classes “You can't, but you can fake it pretty well. In C/C all arrays are homogeneous (i.e., the elements are all the same type). However, with an extra layer of indirection you can give the appearance of a heterogeneous container (a heterogeneous container is a container where the contained objects are of different types).”
Ruby Programming Language Enables Concise Network Programming “Not only is Ruby a high-performance programming language that minimizes software development and maintenance costs, but writing software in it is just fun! Ruby is a very concise programming notation, so you can write programs quickly. The readability of Ruby code also makes it easy to make changes later.”
The balance of power is slowly shifting towards the young Here is a link to the mp3 of the talk. Topics : graham, paul, education, hiring, power, startup, youth
+5 Insightful comments on slashdot.org Topics : slashdot, +5, insightful, comment
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Top 5 Ways to Build a Wonderful Life “Top 5 Ways to Build a Wonderful Life”
“This is why Erikd insists on the fact that writing quality code in functional languages requires from people coming from OO backgrounds to discard old habits and ways of thinking and to ignore object oriented and imperative programming features for as long as possible.”
India on par with china ?
Ever wondered ?
Flickr integration is over
25
The Other Side
Anonymous
“Being in this village has been an experience I will *never* forget, it's changing my life. It's good. I feel it in my heart. I have to follow this new path unfolding before my eyes. It's my destination. It's real life. I love it, I need it.”
:(
New kid.
Puthu varshashamsakkal :-)
Nano headset!
koi jab tumhara
When do you plan to retire ?
Insecure Minds Wired for Pattern-Finding “A perfectly healthy human mind can trick itself into seeing things that are not there, and new research has exposed exactly the sort of conditions under which that happens.”
What Geeks Want Topics : cheat, mug, reference, sheet, vi
The blog is better than the movie Topics : blog, darth, george, lucas, star, vader, wars
An interesting philosophy...
This is a screenshot of tamizhan.com running the nucleus content management system.It is aggregating posts from del.icio.us and flickr as well.
Topics : tamizhan.com, screenshot, nucleus cms, plugin, delicious, flickr
Lexical Analyser Example
Shopping malls must be banned!
CSS Message Box collection
Valmiki's Ramayana
The Semicolon Wars “Every programmer knows there is one true programming language. A new one every week”
Gnome's Guide to WEBrick
Sign Up Forms Must Die
Simple AJAX Code Kit (SACK) Once I complete the flickr integration, need to AJAXify tamizhan with this kit or the prototype js library. Topics : ajax, code, kit, javascript, toolkit
Ruby On Rails and Flex “For the un-informed, Flex allows you to build Rich Internet Applications, defined in XML and delivered on the Flash player. Let's set one thing straight Flex is Free The SDK and compiler cost nothing.”
Are cities the new countries? “Is the nation state under threat from the rise of the super-city?”
Nucleus.
Watch Wikipedia change in real time Topics : wikipedia, real, time, change
We keep passing the baton between California and India Topics : 24, california, day, hour, india, portalplayer, tcs
Writing a compiler in Ruby bottom up
An exhausting week....
Unknown to you
Quote of the day
BackgrounDRb “BackgrounDRb is a small framework for divorcing long running tasks from Rails request/response cycle. With HTTP it is usually not a very good idea to keep a request waiting for a response for long running actions. BackgrounDRb also allows for status updates that in combination with ajax can render live progress bars in the browser while the background worker task gets completed.”
How brain cells make good connections? It’s a specialty involving vast numbers. There are an estimated 100 billion neurons in the average 3-pound human brain. Connecting them are as many as 10 trillion synapses, the circuitlike chemical pathways that link neurons to one another. “The power of higher brain areas,” said Murthy, “is in numbers.”
Learning REST “How do I learn about REST?”
Onaashamsakkal :-)
India Writes U.S. Texts “The circle of knowledge will be complete.”
28th Bharateeya Blog Mela
Amazon.com's AJAX Diamond Search Topics : amazon, ajax, diamond, search, cool
HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR RUBY “HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR RUBY”
Global Popularity of Programming Languages “I performed the searches using Google Insights, and restricted them using the programming filter.”
Life and growth
I dig...
The Operating System Resource Center Topics : os, operating, system, tutorial
Who is “As Seen On TV” ? For a while, I have been grepping apple related stories on slashdot for this guy's comments. The technical depth in his comments and his cross-domain knowledge are amazing (to say the least). Now the question is how long will apple allow this to continue ? Topics : apple, asseenontv, comment, slashdot
REST Channels: HTTP Channels with JSON support “HTTP Channels is the proposed Comet protocol for leveraging the semantics of HTTP REST for subscribing to resources and receiving resource/data modification notifications and closely integrates with HTTP.”
IBM article on countering buffer overflows Topics : ibm, security, buffer, overflow, tutorial
MapReduce: Simplied Data Processing on Large Clusters
The google portal is here Topics : google, homepage, pesonalize, portal
SBI plans first-ever floating ATM in Kerala
The Completely Fair Scheduler “Life is a game, and if you aren't in it to win, what the heck are you still doing here?”
Basic journey of a packet
How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming
A History of Decision Tables “Tables are easy to read and can convey more information in a smaller space and clearer format than flowcharting, pseudo-code, narratives and other conventional documentation techniques. They are also easier for both analysts and users to construct and alter than conventional system analysis techniques. The non-analyst user can be given an empty decision table and be asked to fill it out himself. He can provide information to the systems analyst which would normally require intensive interviews and a great deal of time to obtain.
Tables can be used to automatically generate source code in any programming language which supports if/then/else or switch/case control constructs. While the time saved by generating code would be worth the effort of learning decision tables, there are other benefits.”
imaginati0n.com
The Choice
SMS beep tone in Nokia is morse code for SMS? Topics : beep, nokia, sms, texting
Fantastic site
Star Entrepreneurs
Mea Culpa
India's one billion population could leverage growth'
Interesting.
Cool ideas need an outlet.
Google News Alerts
What is a 'Natural' Pattern? “The whole of human scientific and artistic endeavour can be seen as the attempt to discover Pattern in Nature.”
I am back :)
The 50 most significant moments of Internet history “We decided to plough the history of the entire Internet, from the roots of its underlying technology, to the Web properties that helped it explode, the litigation it endured on the way and disasters companies have suffered as a result of the Net's popularity.”
Containing Heterogeneous Types
Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them
Self-Sufficient Headers In C++ “A good C (and C) coding standard is that every header file should be self-sufficient.”
BBC opens up its content The licensing looks a bit draconian though .. Topics : api, bbc, content, open, feed, license
“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa and the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, to present-day scientific figures such as Oxford physicist Roger Penrose, have spent endless hours over this simple ratio and its properties. But the fascination with the Golden Ratio is not confined just to mathematicians. Biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal. In fact, it is probably fair to say that the Golden Ratio has inspired thinkers of all disciplines like no other number in the history of mathematics.”
Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, The World's Most Astonishing Number
The 100 Best Movies Of All Time Topics : 100, best, movies, time
An idea conceived 150 years ago gets the green signal Topics : channel, india, tamilnadu, sethusamudram
Memory Management
Pablo Neruda - Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Deep Quote lets you link directly to specific quotes in web pages
Amma's recipes Looking for south indian recipes? Watch this blog for more.
you and me.
Chandramukhi is shaping out to be tamil cinema's biggest hit ever Manichitrathazhu was a big hit in malayalam as well Topics : chandramukhi, cinema, jyothika, manichitrathazhu, rajini, tamil, hit
The Game Within the Game “People were complaining that a game was ruining the quality of virtual life inside a game.”
Me !
Classy Flickr Gallery PHP Script Topics : php, photos, flickr, tool
Data Decoupling Patterns
Quantum physics says goodbye to reality “reality does not exist when we're not observing it”
Happiness
Blogging from Word 2007.
“If I let them compute those statistics, they will want to use them for planning”
When Linux Runs Out of Memory
An introduction to Ruby/DLX “Now, you can obviously use these great libraries by writing a binding for it in Ruby. This has the advantage that it is fast, however, it requires you to maintain the binding. This means that the binding needs to be updated whenever you or some upstream party updates the C library. This is a real pain, and it also requires you to deploy the updated binding to all the target machines. Because the bindings are written in C, this requires compilation which is not all too great, especially if you consider that ruby is an interpreted language. Part of the fun of programming in ruby is that you don't need to recompile. Wouldn't it be great if you could just import C library calls in Ruby directly ?”