Delhi hosts world’s longest dance party [http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/12dance.htm]. Cleveland’s record of hosting the world’s longest dance party was broken by 40 dancers of New Delhi (India) who have set a new world record.…
NullReferenceException or ArgumentNullException [http://weblogs.asp.net/brada/archive/2004/07/11/180315.aspx] – “The API Design Guidelines encourage developers to check all their arguments and thereby avoid throwing a NullReferenceException. If an argument is null and the contract of the method forbids null arguments an ArgumentNullException should be thrown.…
A 30 second intro to playing with System.Transactions [http://weblogs.asp.net/markjen/archive/2004/07/12/180449.aspx]. “System.Transactions is a new framework library that allows you to write distributed applications in .NET. System.Transactions seeks to be fast, lightweight and easy to use.” [via Mark Jen…
Yahoo acquires Oddpost [http://www.oddpost.com/]. More … [http://news.com.com/Yahoo+acquires+Oddpost+to+bolster+e-mail/2100-1038_3-5266019.html?part=rss&tag=5266019&subj=news.1038.20]…
Bill Gates shares … [http://www.asiacomputerweekly.com/acw_ViewArt.cfm?Magid=1&Artid=24328&Catid=2&subcat=19] > “If you don’t want to create jobs or intellectual property, then there is a tendency to develop open source. It is not something you do as a…
Luxembourg leads the world in alcohol consumption [http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=2877868]. A complete country-wise breakup (for 2004) is also available on the site. Cheers mate!…
A nice and simple example (the TSP problem) [http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~papagel/project/tspprobl.htm] of the heuristic algorithm [http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~papagel/project/kef5_5.htm].…
Inventor of the remote control is “confused†[http://www.engadget.com/entry/7832617637315816/] > “You know it’s a bad sign when even Robert Adler, the retired Zenith engineer who helped invent the remote control over 50 years ago, says that “you need a pilot’s license to…