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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.”

Villakku Pooja

Bird & Sun
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

Higher-Order Ruby

The Flash Timeline Clock Topics : clock, cool, flash, time

Malcolm Gladwell's Method “I fill my life with people from diverse backgrounds.”

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The Best Programming Books “Top Books Every Programmer Should Read”

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CSS Compressor By Moraes Topics : ajax, css, compressor, beta, bandwidth, save

The meaning of Life ?

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Next Generation Data Storage with CouchDB “Next Generation Data Storage with CouchDB”

Tiger, Trivandrum Zoo
Deeply disappointed with this shot. Couldn't get the focus right :-(

Redesign and an explanation

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

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

Shipwreck
Topics : mauritius, underwater, submarine

Sunset, Indian Resort
Topics : mauritius, sunset

Streaming programmatically generated content from Rails

Why Apple is the best retailer in America “The subject won't sit still for its portrait.”

Shipwreck
Topics : mauritius, underwater, submarine

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Give your résumé a face lift

Rails Toolbox

Tutoo

The Most Important Idea in Computer Science “Lisp is the most important idea in computer science.”

Us feeding the fishes
Topics : mauritius, subscooter, underwater, grandbay

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”

Tutoo smile
It is tough to take a picture of my niece. She is never still. The moment she senses the camera, she shies away (or her expression becomes artificial). So I tend to take her picture when she is unaware of the camera's presence. Topics : gayathry, tutoo

SBI plans first-ever floating ATM in Kerala

A Temple in Mauritius

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

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.”

Striped Fish (Taken by our guide during the underseawalk)
Topics : mauritius, underseawalk

Magic Realism.

Using Amazon's Web Services from Ruby

Give Hawk-Eye a chance

49 Amazing Wallpapers

Continuations

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

Sunset at Shangumugham, Trivandrum
Topics : sunset, beach, shangumugham, trivandrum, kerala, india

wow!

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Shalini's Cubicle

Ambition

Me !

A Boat Making Factory

Suresh (back from the temple)

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.”

Vulture / Trivandrum Zoo
Topics : zoo, trivandrum, kerala, india

The unblinking eye
Topics : zoo, trivandrum, kerala, india

Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1

Patterns in Nature (Photo Galleries)

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.”

The best one yet !

Business 2.0: Silicon Valley faces Web startup glut “"You can't take Ajax, AdSense, and arrogance and call it a company,"”

google

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Indian Resort, South Coast, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, indianresort

India Writes U.S. Texts “The circle of knowledge will be complete.”

White Flowers in Trivandrum Museum
This was altered with GIMP .. Topics : white, flowers, museum, trivandrum, kerala, india

A cutebaby girl

Yesterday

Source code generation is unreliable and inadvisable in every language except Lisp

Cool Programs! Need to check them out when I get some free time Topics : programs, cool

Mamallapuram / Mahabalipuram.

Buddha, Indian Resort Spa
Topics : mauritius, buddha, indianresort

Power, prescience, and the paradox of patterns “Language must follow patterns to achieve meaning.”

The Choice

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.”


The Operating System Resource Center Topics : os, operating, system, tutorial

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Vishu kanni
Topics : yellow, blue

Refactoring to REST

Red Flowers
One of the many photographs from our club cabana trip .. Topics : red, flower, club, cabana

Shalini playing with water
Topics : mauritius, shalini

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

The last immigrant song ?

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Our guide feeding the fish
Topics : mauritius, subscooter, underwater, grandbay

Pamplemouses Botanical Garden

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The cute little girl on the beach!

Vijay Chegu

BBC opens up its content The licensing looks a bit draconian though .. Topics : api, bbc, content, open, feed, license

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.”

Shipwreck
Topics : mauritius, underwater, submarine

Sarovar : Open Source in India

Q&A with Krishna Bharat of Google News

The sun and the tree
Topics : veli, trivandrum, kerala, india

India bridges digital divide

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India

Memory Management

Shalini's Cubicle

( trackback ) ( testing ) ( again )

Highest tennis court in the World

Presentation on Treetop (packrat parser generator)

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Writing a compiler in Ruby bottom up

Igniting India's mind By A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM

The ABC List Topics : blogebrity, blogger, famous, list

U never know what's in store ??

Sachin Tendulkar.

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.”

Poetry

Dhirubhai Ambani

Tamizhan

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Topics : eagle ridge, bangalore

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Amazon.com's AJAX Diamond Search Topics : amazon, ajax, diamond, search, cool

I want to live.

Baghdad Burning

Advanced Programming Languages “it is oriented to researchers on programming languages .”

Chamarel Falls
Topics : mauritius, chamarel

Experimental del.icio.us Posting Interface Thing Generator Topics : bookmarklet, del.icio.us, tools

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.”

Crocodile Park, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, crocodile

Opacity change using Scriptaculous

Black River Gorges

College of Engineering, Trivandrum ( CET ) update

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

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Topics : airport, bangalore

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Linux backdoor ?

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.”

Sunset, Indian Resort
Topics : mauritius, sunset

Chad, Eu Tu ?

Shooting in the dark!
Topics : navarathri, golu, vijayadasami

scrAPI toolkit for Ruby “So how about scraping HTML with style?”

Coral
Topics : mauritius, underwater, submarine

The Brahma Hypothesis

Top 5 Ways to Build a Wonderful Life “Top 5 Ways to Build a Wonderful Life”

People do not believe something is saved if it happens too quickly Topics : human, intuitive, javascript, xmlhttprequest, mind, understanding, usability

Our guide feeding the fish
Topics : mauritius, subscooter, underwater, grandbay

Nuvvenaa...

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Me at a webcafe ..

An exhausting week....

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.”

Git It, Got It? Good! “Last week, I gave a presentation on the git version control system.”

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Le Caudan Waterfront, Port Louis
Topics : mauritius, lecaudan, waterfront, portlouis

March 20th 2006

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Being Indian abroad

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?

Images that talk.

War is never an answer

Developing Erlang at Yahoo “The slides can be viewed online and there is a PDF available.”

rediff.com

“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


Google’s MapReduce Programming Model — Revisited

I am back :)

More is Less


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Seven Coloured Earth, Chamarel
Topics : mauritius, chamarel

./method coming in PERL 6? Syntactic sugar! Topics : method, perl, 6, self

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Small is the new big only when the person running the small thinks big Topics : small, idea, think, big

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Linux Cheat Sheets

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop CS2

Will Indian IT industry realise its potential?

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).”

Greying of Kerala to cause headaches

Lobby
Topics : club, cabana, bangalore, india

Happy Birthday

The moon over the swimming pool
Topics : mauritius, moon

Boats waiting for People

Shangumugham Beach, Trivandrum
Topics : shangumugham, beach, trivandrum, kerala, india

Anonymous

Happiness

Ruby Cheat Sheets

2003

More people in India travel by train in a day than travel by air in a year Topics : india, people, travel, airline

Cluster Computing and MapReduce - Google Code University

A Butler “Gene woke and nudged her once”

A Temple in Mauritius

Death

Wall Street Lays Another Egg “Credit and money, in other words, have for decades been growing more rapidly than underlying economic activity.”

Blogs play cupid

How to Snatch an Expiring Domain

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.”

Music from Tibet Topics : tibet, music, soothing

Building a Social Network Site in Rails “the”

“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


Scary eyes
Topics : zoo, trivandrum, kerala, india

Besant Nagar Beach, Chennai

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.”

After the first meeting...

Crocodile Park, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, crocodile

A Deer In Motion

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Anonymous

Sunset, Indian Resort, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset

Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt “Consider a photo of someone you think is you eight years ago.”

Pamplemouses Botanical Garden

Amma's recipes Looking for south indian recipes? Watch this blog for more.

Tuple Spaces



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.”

Mountains

Coral, Grand Bay, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, subscooter, underwater, grandbay

I've never been to the Grand Canyon, and now I don't have to go Topics : earth, google, high, imagery, maps, resolution, satellite

Ireland is the best country to live in (2005) Topics : best, country, ireland, life, world

The decline of the Dollar

“If I let them compute those statistics, they will want to use them for planning”

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.”

Will natural-born humans into an endangered species ? Topics : endangered, human, evolution, natural, species

Why I started blogging....



TutoSmile
She is my niece .. Hyperactive and always smiling. Topics : tuto, gayathry

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.”

koi jab tumhara

Vikram's many faces in Anniyan Topics : anniyan, movie, shankar, tamil, vikram

What is Linda? “What is Linda?”

Data Decoupling Patterns

Wedding Pack

Free mini pixel icons (DeveloperFox)

What the Amish are Teaching America “Each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done in life.”

Laying Tracks

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Kerala selected for 'India Today' award

Pamplemouses Botanical Garden

Sunset, Indian Resort
Topics : mauritius, sunset

A change of colour!

A sunday evening stroll!
Topics : myna, sunday, stroll, lalbagh, bangalore

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TopWriteCorner.com

The Moving Finger Writes

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Code Generation Templates Using XML and XSL

Sunset at Shangumugham, Trivandrum
Topics : sunset, beach, shangumugham, trivandrum, kerala, india

Just painting hanging on the walls of our home ..

Gris Gris Beach, Mauritius

Cloud Computing Promise & Reality “To me, cloud computing is the natural evolution of the Internet and World Wide Web”

Sugarcane, Mountains and Clouds

ActiveRecord Tutorial

oru kochu kinaavu

The End of Wall Street's Boom “model for home prices had no ability to accept a negative number”

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The best indian websites ?

Rails Tips

It’s about Cricket Topics : about, blog, cricket, mad

“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.”

The blog is better than the movie Topics : blog, darth, george, lucas, star, vader, wars

Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Continuity Topics : einstein, lynd, mechanics, newton, quantum

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Ile Aux Cerfs

Early retirement

Tag Clouds Generated Using Amazon AWS If amazon were to blog, this is how it will look like Topics : amazon, aws, blog, cloud, tags

Barely controlled chaos Topics : _why, book, chaos, editor, ruby, wiki

Global Popularity of Programming Languages “I performed the searches using Google Insights, and restricted them using the programming filter.”

God is an intermediate layer.

The Ajax transport method “There's more to Ajax than XMLHttp”

The Semicolon Wars “Every programmer knows there is one true programming language. A new one every week”

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Navarathri Golu Bommai
Topics : navarathri, golu, vijayadasami

Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System “The Smalltalk-80 programming language includes dynamic storage allocation, full upward funargs, and universally polymorphic procedures”

Dreams

Valmiki's Ramayana

Nostalgia.

Vande Mataram

When Linux Runs Out of Memory

Hadoop Summit and Data-Intensive Computing Symposium Videos and Slides | Yahoo! Research

The Dojo toolkit is impressive! Topics : authoring, dojo, javascript, ajax, toolkit, widget

The meaning of Sati in the matrix revolutions

Quantum physics says goodbye to reality “reality does not exist when we're not observing it”

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Feb 5, 2005

Star Entrepreneurs

Scary Doll

Us feeding the fishes
Topics : mauritius, subscooter, underwater, grandbay

Wedding Pack

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”

Sunset, Indian Resort Private Beach, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset, indianresort, shalini

A Lovely road sitting between a mountain and the sea

Ideas On Creative Career, v1.1 “The initial process of creation has to come from a place of wonder and curiosity.”

Dow 13K and the Second Great Depression “the current young generation will likely be shaped by an extreme crisis”

Words of Wisdom

Defining Cloud Computing

Concurrency “This is a wonderful time to be a software engineer.”

If ...

Memoize Those Ruby Methods

Dilbert pokes fun at IIT grads - The Economic Times

Why men are happier ?

mail.yahoo.com

Bangalore

Sunset, Indian Resort, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset

Sunset, Indian Resort Private Beach, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset, indianresort, shalini

imaginati0n.com

A Travel Guide for India. An interesting new startup by a friend of friend.

How to solve Sudoku puzzles

Announcing Dolt, a drop-in Libtool replacement which cuts build times in half

Malcolm Gladwell asks is there such a thing as pure genius? “There was plenty of time to check it twice.”

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Topics : eagle ridge, bangalore

SMS beep tone in Nokia is morse code for SMS? Topics : beep, nokia, sms, texting

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Unknown to you

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Topics : eagle ridge, bangalore

Blog Swara BlogSwara started as a collaborative musical endeavor by a group of Indian bloggers around the world.

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When do you plan to retire ?

A Temple in Mauritius

The Top Ten Most Beautiful OS X Apps

Rim jhim gire saavan

The Philosophy of Less.

TableKit

I am going back into the cave ..

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Excellent MySQL Tips Topics : mysql, tips

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Passing thoughts -5

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Blue Safari Submarine, Grand Bay
Topics : mauritius, submarine

The war has begun

Another Angle
Topics : club, cabana, bangalore, india

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The Bhagavad Gita in Pictures

The Bangalore Blogger's Meet.

History

ClassRoom: A Ruby class server (or DRb on steroids)

Crocodile Park, Mauritius

How I Learned to Love Testing

A serious Gayathry (for a change!)

This is heaven for a seinfeld fan like me :)

How to start a company (Private Limited) in India ?



Green Fishes
Topics : mauritius, underwater, submarine

:(

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.”

A little help can go a long way

Sunset, Indian Resort Private Beach, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset, indianresort, shalini

Holiday fun.

A drop-in replacement for Ruby on Rails’s scaffold generator

Die every day

SQL Joins Explained “This is not a technical discussion - just concepts.”

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

Ruby EventMachine - The Speed Demon

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Generic Programming Techniques “Generic programming is about generalizing software components so that they can be easily reused in a wide variety of situations.”

Air-India announces special fares on local sector

Offshoring - The Punch Card Era

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.”

In the mirror

Sathish Chimes in

Tutoo side
Topics : gayathry, tutoo

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My Niece

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Site Update

Rhino / Trivandrum Zoo
Heavily altered with GIMP .. Topics : rhino, trivandrum, kerala, india

Anand at his menancing best :)
Photo taken by my wife ..

Containing Heterogeneous Types

From the side ..

Let us try this again.

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

Another Angle
Topics : club, cabana, bangalore, india

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The dot doesn't matter

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The Photographer's Shadow - A Flickr Group Pool Topics : flickr, group, photographer, pool, shadow

Passing thoughts - 6

Crocodile Park, Mauritius

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Endless

dragtable: Visually reorder all your table columns “That's it! Your table will instantly become interactive.”

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Topics : eagle ridge, bangalore

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.”

We keep passing the baton between California and India Topics : 24, california, day, hour, india, portalplayer, tcs

Too cute for words!

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

View full

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

The Indian PC

Architects having a ball!
Will Howard Roarke approve ?

Passing thoughts -6

How iPods Work

Blogs Opening Iranian Society?

Thiruvananthapuaram based Toonz Animation has a great website!

Le Caudan Waterfront, Port Louis
Topics : mauritius, lecaudan, waterfront, portlouis

Villakku Pooja

Ah Aah!

Nayakan I would have picked Mouna Raagam as Mani Ratnam's best Topics : mani, nayakan, ratnam

My Foot!
Topics : mauritius, sand, foot

Ambanis planning to enter retail ? Topics : ambani, anil, mukesh, reliance, retail

Poetry

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. ”

Ruby Script Beautifier “I have always felt that a language hasn't really arrived until there is a source beautifier utility for it.”

Google Earth First Look Topics : earth, google, high, maps, resolution

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Rockstar's Table Tennis How To Videos

Sunset at Shangumugham, Trivandrum
Topics : sunset, beach, shangumugham, trivandrum, kerala, india

Sunset at Shangumugham, Trivandrum
Topics : sunset, beach, shangumugham, trivandrum, kerala, india

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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.”

Sunset, Indian Resort, Mauritius

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.”

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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 ?”

Colourful!
Heavily altered with GIMP .. Tried for a menancing look .. Topics : zoo, trivandrum, kerala, india

The Other Side

Song of Love

George Dantzig, 1914-2005

40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download

Sunset, Indian Resort, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset

Our saga continues....

The philosopher series - 1

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.”

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Something new

Sunset, Indian Resort Private Beach, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset, indianresort

Maldives seek to buy a new homeland

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Google News Alerts

Onamashamsakkal !

Bus Turn

Kerala Monsoon Holidays - Photo of a newspaper ad
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

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.”

Lakme Peach Moisturizer

What is the Completely Fair Scheduler?

Funny Firefox Videos Topics : europe, firefox, fun, videos

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Mountains & Clouds

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Favourite ads...

Winner of the Personal Visualization Project “From email spam, to beverage consumption, to aches and pains, Tim embraced the spirit of self-surveillance.”

Rochester Falls, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, rochester, falls

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Sunset, Indian Resort Private Beach, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset, indianresort

Assumption Reversal “The future is often a reverse of the assumptions of the present.”

Shopping and women

Greetings!

Deep Quote lets you link directly to specific quotes in web pages

Audioengine 2 powered loudspeaker “In nearly 25 years, it's been rare that I've reviewed an exciting breakthrough product.”

New York Underground

A quiet evening on the beach ..
Topics : veli, trivandrum, kerala, india

Gayathry

Villakku Pooja

A Temple in Mauritius

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meek

Quote of the day

Programming Languages and Lambda Calculi

SmugMug's AWS Based Architecture

Writing a parser

New kid.

Woork: 10 Beautiful icons set for web developers and designers

Gayathri

Threaded Code “Threaded code is a technique for implementing virtual machine interpreters”

Minutes of a meeting

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.”

Crocodile / Trivandrum Zoo
The unblinking eye staring at you.Since the crocodile was on the other side of the cage, I couldn't avoid the wire mesh coming in the way .. The white haze you see on the right is actually the wire mesh. Topics : eye, crocodile, trivandrum, zoo, kerala, india

FT's Report on India and China Topics : asia, china, emerging, giants, india

Crocodile Park, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, crocodile

ActiveRecord behaviour with associations

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Information Gateway

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.”

Important.

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.”

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India on par with china ?

Love and marriage.

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Techniques for Scientific C++

Distance.

Happy New Year!

Ourvie.ws

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

Free CSS Templates

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

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Watch Wikipedia change in real time Topics : wikipedia, real, time, change

Flag Fish (Taken by our guide during the underseawalk)
Topics : mauritius, underseawalk

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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.”

Remote Scripting with IFRAME Need an XmlHTTPObject alternative (for cross domain scripting). Filed for future reference.

After two centuries of Western domination, China and India are poised to claim their places

Moving on

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

MCMXC a.D “It would change the musical world as we know it.”

Tumblewagon “TV is a time waster, all too often sucking you into other people's lives when you should be living your own.”

TutoNatural
She is my niece .. Hyperactive and always smiling. Topics : tuto, gayathry

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I Finally Understand Closures! “I have been trying to understand closures off-and-on for what seems like forever now.”

Finland

E K Nayanar

Ile Aux Cerfs

Foreign funds' Sept inflows to India beat '02 total

Best Vim Tips

Pamplemouses Botanical Garden

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.”


A 100,000 Swiss franc ($83,000) blanket to reduce the summer melt Topics : blanket, glacier, melt, reduce, summer, swiss

The day after

Weird things can happen underwater
Topics : mauritius, subscooter, underwater, grandbay

Breathing Techniques that reduce Stress “When you can control your breath, you can control everything.”

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jgrowl “jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages within the browser”

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.”



Better half

Will’s Guide to Mashing-up Remote Databases using Page Scraping

Feb 12, 05

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.”

The Shuttle will be a complete beautification of the Wordpress Administration Panel Topics : beautification, interesting, shuttle, wordpress, admin

Technology Rewrites the Book “This is as good as any book in a bookstore”

On a tightrope “Being on a tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting. — Karl Wallenda”

Our photo (taken by the guide)
Topics : mauritius, subscooter, underwater, grandbay

Green Fishes
Topics : mauritius, underwater, submarine

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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.”

The view from the other side
Topics : squirrel, lalbagh, bangalore



Ajax Edit In Place (EIP) Example

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Best background music for programming

REST & Rails

India & China will fight it over to become the next America

Indian Resort, South Coast, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, indianresort, moon

Pretty Peacock

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

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.”

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God's Own Country.

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Multicasting in Ruby

Ground-breaking work in understanding of time

Nee

Introducing the Catenator

Yellow Flowers
White with just a tinge of yellow .. Topics : club, cabana, bangalore, india

Implement acts_as_threaded without a plugin

How the BPO industry will change our lives

There is no place on earth like india

Why Do We Forget Things? “our memories also vary considerably in their precision.”

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.”

How to Design a large AJAX Application

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Pretty in Pink

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.”

New age architecture ?

Giant Statue of Shiva

Using Vim as a Complete Ruby on Rails IDE

Pamplemouses Botanical Garden

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A Beautiful Yellow Flower
Don't you think, it is a lovely shade of yellow ? Topics : club, cabana, bangalore, india, nice flower

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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.”

Who will be no.1: China or India ?

Gnome's Guide to WEBrick

Staying Alive

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A Zen Moment “You can see the path you couldn't see before.”

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.”

Pyaasa Topics : dutt, guru, pyaasa, rehman, waheeda

Happy Diwali!

Things Caches Do “I want to talk about gateway caches — or, “reverse proxy caches” — and consider their effects on modern, dynamic web application design.”

8 Legs.

The Kernel Boot Process “May your uptime be long and untroubled.”

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Glory is as ephemeral as smoke and clouds Topics : america, china, glory, kaifeng, most, important, newyork

Scary Doll

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Virtual Machine Opcode Resolution, Performance Tests

Raining in the middle of summer
Walking in the rain.
“I love walking in the rain, 'cause then no-one knows im crying.” Topics : walking, rain

Shalini against a sunset
Topics : mauritius, shalini

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”

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SWIG/Ruby Examples

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.”

Nucleus Tags Autocomplete Plugin
This is how the tags autocomplete plugin looks like.. Topics : nucleus, tags, autocomplete, plugin

CSS Message Box collection

Mea Culpa

Look, ma, no servers

DSC_0013

Sign Up Forms Must Die

LightWindow Demo “Check out the ultimate light-'whatever' ;)”

Kalavaara Halli Betta hike

A great wired article on MIT Open Course Ware

Being a woman !!

Theory Introduction to Programming Languages Filed for future reference.

CodeProject: Parsing and Grammars

How can a system that differs sharply from all currently fashionable approaches score any kind of success?

A blogger's last entry helps solve his murder The full story about the investigation .. Topics : arrest, blogger, entry, last, murder

Blogging from Word 2007.

Pattern Matching, S-Expressions, and Domain Specific Languages in Ruby


Kerala Monsoon
Uploaded by subix_S


Will you still drink coca cola / pepsi ?

Villakku Pooja

500 hours of MS Paint Unbelievable! Topics : art, microspft, paint, masterpiece

Artists who are similar to Enya

Basics of Compiler Design

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Life is Elsewhere

Nigerians happiest people, Indians 21st

Ile Aux Cerfs

Rails Acts As Taggable On Plugin

Gorilla Mountain

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”

Idle Talk

Candle and the Glasses

A Temple in Mauritius

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Topics : wedding, tutoo

A nice set of programming articles

Sunset, Indian Resort
Topics : mauritius, sunset

club cabana 094
Topics : green, white, tree, two

December.

Emotions don't always translate into words.

How to write a blog in Rails 2.0.2 (not quite in 15 minutes)

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.”

Suresh Pallavur Hariharan.

chit chat

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The Reality Distortion Field


Submersed Songs | Cançőes Submersas from ∆LEX on Vimeo.


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.”

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Topics : wedding, tutoo

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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.”

The three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris Topics : hubris, impatience, larry, laziness, programmer, three, virtues, wall

BDD with Shoulda

The most informed Indians ?

India's one billion population could leverage growth'

Metaphors “Metaphor is an attempt to understand one element of experience in terms of another.”

Is there a place more beautiful than swizterland ?

The world @ 2050

Classy Flickr Gallery PHP Script Topics : php, photos, flickr, tool

Nano headset!

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.”


Tamizhan.com
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

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.”


MapReduce: Simplied Data Processing on Large Clusters

My Julieclipse “I will not, however, be okay.”

30 Incredible Free Fonts for Designers

Outfoxed / A firefox extension / Personalize the internet Topics : firefox, extension, internet, outfoxed, personalize

Life and growth

Sunset, Indian Resort, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset

Gayathry kutty
Topics : wedding, tutoo

A Temple in Mauritius

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.”


India Today website re-launch

Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them

Gris Gris Beach, Mauritius

Bloggies

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Rs 1,000 Crore Expansion Planned For Trivandrum Technopark Topics : 1000, infosys, outsourcing, tcs, trivandrum, technopark, expansion

Suresh and his car ..

bahaaro.n phuul barasaao, meraa mahabuub aayaa hai

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Dummy post.

My ego states

“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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The new rediff.

The Police Babe!
Topics : doll, police

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.”

Crocodile
Topics : zoo, trivandrum, kerala, india

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The $25 million Boone County creation museum Topics : creation, debate, evolution, god, man, science

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Silence

Why women stop thinking when they go shopping

Gadling


Solar from flight404 on Vimeo.


Grand Bay, Mauritius

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”


A request.

Are cities the new countries? “Is the nation state under threat from the rise of the super-city?”

Software development magazine “A Decision Table Based Methodology
for the Analysis of Complex Conditional Actions”


Besant Nagar Beach, Chennai

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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.”

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”



Amazing serve

instant poetry.

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”

Template Metaprograms

Capitalism is not the answer

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Corn Roaster, Besant Nagar Beach, Chennai
Topics : besant, nagar, beach, chennai, corn, roaster

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.”

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:”

Sweet Irony.

Sunset, Indian Resort Private Beach, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset, indianresort, shalini

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Create your own comic! Topics : character, comic, create

Do you want to know how rich you are ?

Making money online ?

Superators Add New Operators to Ruby “I'm releasing this into the wild to hopefully see what mischief it stirs.”

Ile Aux Cerfs

Exams

LinkedIn Architecture

Sleeping On A Bench.

Papers and Presentations at Adobe Open Source Wiki

Shopping malls must be banned!

Le Morne

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.”

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.”



How Computers Boot Up “The solution is the venerable unreal mode.”

Great going Sania !!

Living In India : A new community blog

Happy new year!

My Pithamagan review

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.”

The cult

Us feeding the fishes
Topics : mauritius, subscooter, underwater, grandbay

Tour de Babel “Every 15 years or so, languages are replaced with better ones”

A gentle introduction to Template Metaprogramming with C++

'Let Us Keep Aside Non-Issues' by Abdul Kalam

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Olympics and India

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Indian real estate has enormous potential “a housing shortage of currently 20 million units will call for extensive residential construction.”



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Ruby Blocks Rock! “Blocks are one of Ruby's greatest assets.”

Shipwreck
Topics : mauritius, underwater, submarine

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A roadside Church

Web Input Completion Kit Must use to rewrite my tag autocomplete plugin .. Topics : autocomplete, google, suggest, javascript

Army Launches Operation Olympic Medal

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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.”

How The Interpreter Works - Cat Language

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.”


The Count of Monte Cristo

A Temple in Mauritius

Blog of the day.

Pamplemouses Botanical Garden

It's back to boom time for Indian IT

A bus against a mountain

Sunset at Shangumugham, Trivandrum
Topics : sunset, beach, shangumugham, trivandrum, kerala, india

Google spotlights data center inner workings

How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming

Deliverance from bondage

My 10 Favorite Swirls & Decorative Brush Sets

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.”

Add a little more random to your product

Pablo Neruda - Poetry of Pablo Neruda

mehboob

Villakku Pooja

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Day and night.

Yahoo! News Tag Cloud Yahoo's Term Extraction service throws up a lot of interesting possibilities. Topics : api, extraction, tag, cloud, term, yahoo

Black River Gorges
Topics : mauritius, blackriver

How to Rid Your Home of Cockroaches

Zoomer “Video From a Picture”

Code Generation: The Safety Scissors Of Metaprogramming

Punar Janmam.

Yippeee !

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.”

Sunset, Indian Resort, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset

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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.”

Birds and Frogs

First glance at exciting Indian websites

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What is a 'Natural' Pattern? “The whole of human scientific and artistic endeavour can be seen as the attempt to discover Pattern in Nature.”

An interesting philosophy...

Onaashamsakkal :-)

The 100 Best Movies Of All Time Topics : 100, best, movies, time

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DCOM,CORBA,Java-RMI - A Step by Step Comparison

Trixie | Greasemonkey for IE Topics : greasemonkey, ie, trixie, firefox

Surprise

Self-Sufficient Headers In C++ “A good C (and C) coding standard is that every header file should be self-sufficient.”

The idea behind Ajax *does* revolutionize the web paradigm Topics : asynchronous, future, javascript, ajax, slashdot, comment, web, application

Technical Debt “Remove cruft as you go. Build simplicity and clarity in from the beginning, and never relent in keeping them in.”

10 Tips for Moving From Programmer to Entrepreneur “Code is 5% of your business”

Ezhuthapurangal.

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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).”

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Candle on the Glass

Puthu varshashamsakkal :-)

100 Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs

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Random Links

Why communism must go away

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Sunset, Indian Resort Private Beach, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset, indianresort

28th Bharateeya Blog Mela

T20 World Champions!
T20 World Champions!

The .in domain name.

Films.

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.”

Anbe Sivam

WordPress Comments System built with Yahoo! UI

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

The Game Within the Game “People were complaining that a game was ruining the quality of virtual life inside a game.”

Navarathri Golu Bommai
Topics : navarathri, golu, bommai

Ghajini Review

Zebra fish ?
Topics : mauritius, subscooter, underwater, grandbay

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Distributed Hash Tables, Part I

Goddess

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Addictive little online games

Of languages and movies

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A Temple in Mauritius

Sun sued.

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Bill Joy's greatest gift to man “People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore”

Taken at a cafe ..
Topics : anand, tamizhan

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What Geeks Want Topics : cheat, mug, reference, sheet, vi

Life etc

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.”

TCS to expand in Thiruvananthapuram

Corn Roaster, Besant Nagar Beach, Chennai
Topics : besant, nagar, beach, chennai, corn, roaster

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

Cool ideas need an outlet.

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you and me.

Passing thoughts -4

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I was wrong

wc

THE WONDERFUL WOMEN IN MY CIRCLE!!

Waterfall
Topics : club, cabana, bangalore, india

Adding plugins to your Ruby application

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,"”

:(

POVCOMP 2004: Hall of Fame I used POVRAY to design my final year's magazine cover Topics : 1999, povray, cet, cover, final, magazine, year

An Introduction to Lean Thinking for Software “Lean is the technology that can recognize and eliminate waste - activities which don't produce additional value.”

If China can have its blog empire, why can't India ? Topics : blog, china, denton, empire, india, jason

The Atheist Blogger “On the first day, man created God.”

Waterfall
Topics : club, cabana, bangalore, india

Sunset, Indian Resort, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset

How to install RESTful Authentication on a Ruby on Rails 2.0 application

Smiling for you!
Topics : navarathri, golu, vijayadasami

Sunset, Indian Resort Private Beach, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset, indianresort

Interesting.

The google portal is here Topics : google, homepage, pesonalize, portal

Memory: Making Your Influence Last “Therefore, memory is not simply recall, but reconstruction of the past.”

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Fishes in the water

Ruby has become “Programming Language of the Year 2006”

Lost and never found

Sunset, Indian Resort Private Beach, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset, indianresort

Top 11 Rails Plugins

The Top Ten List Of Top Ten Lists

Grand Bay, Mauritius

Sunset, Indian Resort, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset

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suresh's smiling face
This is the first picture taken with my digital camera. Topics : suresh, hariharan, natural, smile

The Brahma Hypothesis.

Nairomia

Sunset at Shangumugham, Trivandrum
Topics : sunset, beach, shangumugham, trivandrum, kerala, india

Black River Gorges



A Temple in Mauritius

Shalini's Cubicle

Kavidhai

A tags implementation how to A similar de-normalized approach is what I used. Topics : blog, de-normalized, tags


Metamorphosis from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.


Five tips for developing Rails applications “Pimp your rails console with colors, history and tab completion”

Learning REST “How do I learn about REST?”

Getting Things Done Using Javascript Topics : gtd, javascript, wiki, tiddlywiki

I dig...

A self portrait

On Ruby “Ruby is remarkably, perhaps irresistibly, attractive”

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Chamarel
Topics : mauritius, chamarel

70 Amazing Houses from Around the World

Tutoo and the dolls

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.”

Eight Ways to Win an Argument from Schopenhauer's The Art of Controversy State a false syllogism Topics : advice, controversy, opponent, tips, win, argument

Besant Nagar Beach, Chennai
Topics : besant, nagar, beach, chennai

Mental Case :-)

+5 Insightful comments on slashdot.org Topics : slashdot, +5, insightful, comment

Table Tennis Advanced Techniques

Third Annual Weblog Awards.

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Domain Specific Languages: Molding Ruby “Domain Specific Languages: Molding Ruby”

21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code

Top down cosmology “Quantum mechanics forbids a single history”

Rangoli (Part of the Navarathri Golu)
Topics : navarathri, golu, vijayadasami

Google ROCKS !

Metaprogramming Ruby

Recursive Fun with Flickr

Moon Fish (Taken by our guide during the underseawalk)
Topics : mauritius, underseawalk

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.”

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“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.”

Space Based Programming

C is Predictable

IBM article on countering buffer overflows Topics : ibm, security, buffer, overflow, tutorial

Indian Resort, South Coast, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, indianresort

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”

I dig

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Pamplemouses Botanical Garden

Villakku Pooja

An idea conceived 150 years ago gets the green signal Topics : channel, india, tamilnadu, sethusamudram

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My Favorite Free Fonts, by Vukan Karadzic

Sweetie | Cute and clear icons

White bird, Trivandrum Zoo
I somehow like this one a lot .. Must be the contrast between the white feathers and the dust ..

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Sunset, Indian Resort, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset

Maatrangal

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

MP3 Players.

The 6 Most Important Experiments in the World “From the smartest artificial brain to the first artificial life”

7 Questions with Roger von Oech “Look for the second right answer.”

India

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.”


Shalini is hiding the sun!
Topics : mauritius, sunset

Kutti Kisna
Topics : kisna, krishna

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The moon over the swimming pool
Topics : mauritius, moon

:-)

Innovation in Startups Topics : hackathon, innovation, jotspot, startup

Jason kottke

The Apu Trilogy Topics : apu, ray, satyajit, trilogy

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Interesting outsourcing/BPO marketing strategy using blogs

Salam's story

What Programming Languages Should You Know?

Somewhere in the island

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Ever wondered ?

Lexical Analyser Example

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HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR RUBY “HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR RUBY”

Lobby
Topics : club, cabana, bangalore, india


Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.


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Web Design Dashboard

Happy Mother's Day !

13 Tips for creating a successful new online product

The matrix explained

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Creeps

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Sunset, Indian Resort Private Beach, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset, indianresort

Basic journey of a packet

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

Follow your dreams


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.


A Little Kid

PreTemplateSet Nucleus Plugin API Call
Topics : nucleuscms, plugincall, pretemplateset

Sunset, Indian Resort, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset

Pamplemouses Botanical Garden

Nice Smile
Topics : gayathry, sleep

Sunset, Indian Resort, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, sunset

MSN Virtual Earth To Take On Google Earth Topics : earth, google, imagery, msn, satellite, virtual

Pamplemouses Botanical Garden

Continuations Demystified

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?”

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Reflections In Water

White and Cyan (Taken by our guide during the underseawalk)
Topics : mauritius, underseawalk

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Tuple-Space Based Middleware for Distributed Computing

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Topics : zoo, trivandrum, kerala, india

YAR

An excellent Boys review

Ruby language features

Reuse good — Abstractions better! “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking.”

New standards

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.”

My mom
Those wrinkles could tell a thousand stories about me! Topics : mom, wedding

Camel corp

Naan taanda tamizhan!

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.”


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Ruby Discoveries and Idioms “A place to share useful Ruby code snippets and ideas about using and improving the Ruby language”

Sunset at Shangumugham, Trivandrum
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

A conversation with Dr.Muralidhar Pai.

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?”

Streamlined - Real world scaffolding “Streamlined is an open source framework for quickly creating data-centric applications with Ruby on Rails.”

Who am i ?

Cobra vs Mongoose

AA002A

A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus with Animated Reduction

rajini style :)

Introduction to BackgrounDRb

Chamarel Falls
Topics : mauritius, chamarel

Sugarcane, Mountains and Clouds

Sunset, Indian Resort
Topics : mauritius, sunset

Sunset, Indian Resort
Topics : mauritius, sunset

Daisypath Ticker


iTunes Export M3U Playlist Exporter

mindless

Navarathri Golu Bommai
Topics : navarathri, golu, vijayadasami

Presentation Files: RailsConf 2008

Villakku Pooja

Villakku Pooja

Nucleus.

Yaaro ?

Food for thought

The Sun playing peekaboo ..
Topics : sunset, beach, shangumugham, trivandrum, kerala, india

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.”


Metaprogramming and Ruby on Rails

Fantastic site

India Shining

:)

Google App Engine: The missing piece of the Cloud Software revolution

The top 10 “new” hot colours I liked Ruby Wine Topics : 10, colour, hot, new, top

Google I/O Session Videos and Slides

Grand Bay, Mauritius

Taking a break from food gathering
Topics : squirrel, lalbagh, bangalore

Villakku Pooja

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”

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.”

Bhutan

Cubicle Culture

Besant Nagar Beach, Chennai
Topics : besant, nagar, beach, chennai


iHologram - iPhone application from David OReilly on Vimeo.


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Shalini's Cubicle

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Topics : chenkottah, tamil nadu

This guy is good

Door kahin jab mountain dikh jaaye
Topics : mauritius, mountain, sea

Ruby Advent Calendar : 25 Days of Ruby Joy and Celebration

Carousel Prototype Extension

Rails.vim “TextMate may be the latest craze for developing Ruby on Rails applications, but Vim is forever.”

Crocodile Park, Mauritius
Topics : mauritius, crocodile

Avan....

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No hopers give a great hope to Irish film-maker “This is a Bollywood kind of script”

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Remotely hosted Trackback

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Orson Scott Card “Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”

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The Number Game.

Solitary flower
The focus has come good in this picture. Topics : club, cabana, bangalore, india

Gayathry Kutty
Strong colours in this one ..

A pink flower
Topics : mauritius, pink, flower

DUM

At least 46 feared killed in Mumbai blasts

100 Awesome Adobe AIR Apps for Productivity “Read on for 100 of the best apps that will increase your productivity with Adobe AIR.”

Mukesh Ambani's Makeover Plans for India

Giant water lilies, Pamplemouses Botanical Garden, Mauritius

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 IndLinux Project : A Linux distribution from India

A Liger is a cross between a Lion and a Tiger Topics : liger, lion, tiger

Goodbye

Flickr integration is over

Murugan

10,000 Watt smile !

Le Rosche qui pluer- The rock which cries