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There are a lot of great programming quotes out there. Which one do you like? Here are few that i love :
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Recently i have shifted to mac, although what i feel now is somewhat similar to a jet lag but still overall experience is great.Expose and spaces are really useful,and by using widgets useful information like currency convertor,calculator is just a button away.Overall i must say experience is lovely.
For most of common day to day needs products from Apple’s iLife suite work just out of the box but what about common need on a developer ?
Here is a list of application that i have recently fallen in love with, they are …
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Today Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav presented the interim Railway Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament, fares will be reduced,new trains are launched and everything but what i seriously complain about railway is not fares but Side Middle berth.
I know that number of people travelling by trains in india is far greater than the resources railway ministry has,and they are doing something about it.But Side Middle brith is not a good option,i get it.. its way to increase the capacity of a carriage but not a good option,certainly not for passenger travelling on these berths.
But whats …
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Amazon has launched new Amazon kindle 2,the next generation wireless reading device. With a sleek and thin design that makes Kindle 2 as thin as a typical magazine and lighter than a paperpack, the new Kindle has seven times more storage and now holds over 1,500 books. It has a longer battery life and faster page turns. An advanced display provides even crisper images and clearer text for an improved book-like reading experience. And Kindle 2 even reads to you, with “Read to Me”, amazon’s new Text to Speech feature.
New Features …
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On Jan 20 2009, Barack Hussein Obama officially became 44th president of USA with a beautiffuly written inaugural speech. But whats interesting is how the twitter was buzzing with related news tweets worldwide.Guys at flowingdata.com have visualized how excited was twittersphere starting from early Moring morning, with huge activity on tuesday. You can check out the visualization of Twitter here.
Another interesting point to note about Obama’s speech is that “Hope” is the most used word after “Change”. Words like “common”,”generation”, “prosperity” and “world” featured prominently but no use of words like “Policy” and “recession”.
Here is the visual …
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John Resig and his team had rolled out new version of jQuery, on birthday of jQuery.Today jQuery becomes 3 year old and got a new present .. new selector engine named Sizzle.
Along with sizzle, jQuery v1.3 includes many new features :
Live Events: Event delegation with a jQuery twist
jQuery Event Overhaul: Completely rewired to simplify event handling.
HTML Injection Rewrite: Lightning-fast HTML appending.
Offset Rewrite: Super-quick position calculation.
More details can be found on release notes.
This is great news for jQuery developers like me, Happy Birthday jQuery
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It’s been a long long time i haven’t posted anything ..almost a year,first my blog was down for around 3-4 months due to hosting issues, then didn’t had time to revamp the blog ..in the meantime i lost some data :( .Anyways,.. whats gone is gone .. plan for the future ..right ? So here i am .. with a new blog design which is much cleaner that previous design and better too.
and Happy new year to all of you.BTW i am taking new year resolution to write more frequently …
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Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores the birth, limited commercialization, and subsequent death of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile makers, the oil industry, the US government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.
About General Motors EV :
The EV1 was the first production quality battery electric vehicle produced by General Motors in the United States and, at the …
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read following line today,and kinda liked it….as i have always believed history what you know is not always the history that passed by,…
“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” – Maxwell Planck
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“Happiness is just an illusion between those who have it and those who don’t “
“There’s nothing wrong with building dream castles as long as you don’t try to move in.” –Unknown
“Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.” –Unknown
“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.” –Dr. Who
“History doesn’t repeat itself. Historians merely repeat each other.” –Unknown
“Do something worth remembering.” –Elvis Presley
“Research is the process of going up …