Code, Fun and Trivias

Programmer, Geek, Husband and Father of Two

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Path is thus far is the only app that integrates nicely to other networks. The integration looks and feels native.

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Google Plus Wide Layout

Some strong Google Buzz fans have an apparent dislike for the narrow layout of Google Plus. Two developers, Nishad Kaippally and Raveesh Ravindranath stepped in to develop a wide layout similar to Google Buzz. There solutions resulted in a Firefox or a Chrome Extension. I just shamelessly copied their code to create a Safari extension. Please download it here. Just double click on the file to install the Extension

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Telecommuting a Scientific study

There is no contest. I telecommuted for three years. That was the most productive phase in my career. From what I heard, my employer liked it too. Really thankful to my former managers who let me do this.

Examining Telecommuting the Scientific Way | Surprising Science:

What the researchers found should hearten those of us who’d like to telecommute, even once in a while. After a few weeks of the experiment, it was clear that the telecommuters were performing better than their counterparts in the office. They took more calls (it was quieter and there were fewer distractions at home) and worked more hours (they lost less time to late arrivals and sick breaks) and more days (fewer sick days). This translated into greater profits for the company because more calls equaled more sales. The telecommuters were also less likely to quit their jobs, which meant less turnover for the company.

(Via blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

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→ Adobe ends mobile Flash development

Great news!!!. Kudos to Adobe to choose an open standard, HTML5.

→ Adobe ends mobile Flash development:

These changes will allow us to increase investment in HTML5 and innovate with Flash where it can have most impact for the industry, including advanced gaming andpremium video.  Flash Player 11 for PC browsers just introduced dozens of new features, including hardware accelerated 3D graphics for console-quality gaming and premium HD video with content protection.  Flash developers can take advantage of these features, and all that our Flash tooling has to offer, to reach more than a billion PCs through their browsers and to package native apps with AIR that run on hundreds of millions of mobile devices through all the popular app stores, including the iTunes App Store, Android Market, Amazon Appstore for Android and BlackBerry App World.

Oh by the by, on the other end of the fence, Microsoft was busy chopping off silverlight swell. Does that mean, Netflix and hulu will finally have a native client for Mac ?

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Don't text and fly

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Dues Paid

I paid my dues !!!. Quick verdict. Unless you are dying to use siri, don't buy it. Which ofcourse is quite awesome. The speed difference is very marginal. Everything else could be accomplished through the iOS 5 update on your iPhone 4

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RIP Steve Jobs

Steve did inspired a generation and will continue for at least few decades more and possibly a whole next generation too.

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Location Tracker ?

There is huge fuss about privacy; when word came out that apple is storing location information in iPads and iPhones in unencrypted form. Steve Jobs even got a tough worded letter from Sen Al Franken. Andy Ihnatko says not to worry

It is not GPS data, but a location fix based on the cell towers

You need to have physical access to the iPhone itself to grab the cache.

Or you need to have physical access to the machine where you backed up your phone

Macro Arment points out that, apple has no incentive to collect the data. He argues

"Apple's primary business is selling device. Unless apple gets into advertising business like google, they have no use of the data."

DaringFireball thinks that it is most likely a programming bug. Someone wrote code to cache the tower location and forgot to purge the old data. Well, that is a major Duh!!.

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30andbroke:

youmightfindyourself:

daveallday: all that I am taking with me to china and thailand for 18 days. by Robert Scales

love these kinds of pictures.  i wanna do this for every one of my future trips.

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terrysdiary:

Jesus walking uptown.

I think he started walking from Visalia…

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Sure, and it was a short walk from Visalia :-)

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Graceful UIs

Watch the video presentation by William Van Hecke of Omnigroup on UI design. Though the emphasis is on iPad UI, there is lot of general advise as well.

Designing Graceful, Gracious Interfaces for iPad from The Omni Group on Vimeo.

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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

[Brian Kernighan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan)

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A curious intruder that made our day

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Diet can wait

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Merry christmas

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The Grace Programming Language

Reviving good old basic should have worked. Programming should start as procedural.

The Grace Programming Language: "The choice of introductory language is no longer so clear. Java remains the most popular choice, but it is now a large, mature language with many features for supporting professional software engineering, and many other features bearing the scars of Java's evolution over the last 20 years. New languages such as C and Scala have learned lessons from Java's design, but they too are large languages, also designed to support professional practice, and also retain or duplicate many features for backwards compatibility with C or Java. Some institutions are adopting Python as a first language, however many others are wary of an introductory language that lacks a static type system. Scheme, Haskell, ML, GBeta, Smalltalk, and C — to name but a few — have been or are used as introductory languages in particular contexts, but have never gained the widespread acceptance of Pascal or Java. "