Miguel de Icaza, the founder of the Mono [http://www.mono-project.com] project talks [http://news.com.com/More+than+an+open-source+curiosity/2008-7344_3-5271084.html?tag=nefd.lede] about the path to porting the .NET framework (and its internal mechanics) to Unix. Miguel goes on to say “Today what’…
Have you tried writing a BloodyFingerMail [http://www.bloodyfingermail.com/message.php]?…
Wolfenstein 5K [http://www.wolf5k.com/#] – A fun first-person 3D shooting game in 5k of JavaScript. Now *this* is small code!…
A huge list of eBook sites [http://www.edaboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=55808], on almost everything from .NET to Corba to SQL to Stephen Hawkings Universe.…
Ask any web developer and they know how scary HTML (the language webpages are written in) can be, both to code and to maintain. Infinite table tags, unclosed tags and what not. Mix it with a server-side script (like ASP or PHP) and you have a perfect example of “spaghetti-style”…
IMO, one of the really cool features of the new Yahoo Messenger is the in-built Launchcast Radio. Its a live radio channel with lots of audio streaming radio stations (by genres) with all the latest music. The sound quality is excellent. I was in the mood for some R&…
A few days back, my friend Pankaj was enquiring about a particular case where he needed to automate the backup (in the form of SQL scripts) of all SQL Jobs (schedules) on a SQL Server. DTS doesn’t support automatic scripting of SQL Jobs from what I could tell. I…
Recently I wrote an e-mail to Deepak Mankar, who writes an interesting “blog-like” story collection on the new economy called QuiteATake [http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7170_0,00030007.htm] over at HindustanTimes.com (online portal of one of India’s largest daily newspaper). I had suggested Deepak that QuiteATake…