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Oracle buys Sun…Microsoft left high’n dry
Tuesday, 21 Apr, 2009 – 9:20 | No Comment
Oracle buys Sun…Microsoft left high’n dry

Ok this is an IT related entry, but the topic I am discussing here its quite significant to lot of corportations around the World because of its repercussions. Oracle the global leader in Enterprise Database solutions has bought Sun Microsystems. Sun in case you are not aware is behind the JAVA language, another enterprise level [...]

Wordpress Plugin: Show Posts by Selective Category
Thursday, 18 Oct, 2007 – 12:37 | 28 Comments
Wordpress Plugin: Show Posts by Selective Category

‘Show Posts by Selective Category‘ is my first plugin for Wordpress 2.3.x. This plugin will allow you to show specific number of posts from a selective category. To use this plugin, you have to place a tag in the following format in your posts or pages [pbc=CategoryID count=num_of_posts]
Example
To show 4 posts from category with ID [...]

Microsoft, Stolen Code, and Obscenities
Sunday, 29 Apr, 2007 – 12:21 | One Comment
Microsoft, Stolen Code, and Obscenities

[Microsoft 1978]

If you think Microsoft is all about geeky, be-spectacled, money mongering, evil empire syndrome; think again. When the source code of NT4 was leaked after a glorious hack, the source code revealed a lot more than hackers were looking for. The code was littered with obscenities like:
// the fucking alpha cpp compiler seems [...]

WTF: Microsoft’s cheeky cheesy ad!
Monday, 16 Apr, 2007 – 15:38 | One Comment
WTF: Microsoft’s cheeky cheesy ad!

The hell-boy is the new poster-boy of Microsoft! Can’t wait for Apple’s answer to this one!!

Vacancy for Programmers, Coders & Developers
Thursday, 22 Mar, 2007 – 11:27 | One Comment
Vacancy for Programmers, Coders & Developers

I am looking for programmers in the following areas for some projects. The requirement is on project to project basis. These are not fulltime opportunities. If you or anyone you know is interested please apply/forward:

PHP coders with experience in MySQL
ASP coders
VB.NET developers
Oracle Developers

Please send CV to: 

Annoyances : Yahoo! home page
Monday, 18 Dec, 2006 – 9:12 | 2 Comments
Annoyances : Yahoo! home page

Ever since Yahoo! has updated the design and layout of its home page, there is one area that has really pissed me off. Its on the right side of the page to display Mail, Messenger, Weather etc for the signed in user profile. Reason is the pathetically slow and irritating animation to open the tabs [...]

Geek Stuff: Free Robotics development platform
Wednesday, 13 Dec, 2006 – 9:32 | No Comment
Geek Stuff: Free Robotics development platform

Microsoft has just released its Robotics Development Platform. Hobbyists and professionals in this field can benefit from this development platform by implementing the software logic using Microsoft’s Visual Studio. The libraries can be compiled using Visual C# and Visual Basic.
Robotics platform has two versions:

Free for non-commercial development
US$ 399/- onwards for commercial development

Hmmm…now all I [...]

Absolutely Amazing JavaScript !
Sunday, 8 Oct, 2006 – 0:01 | One Comment
Absolutely Amazing JavaScript !

Go to any website; try Google images with some topic to search. Or click here for a sample Google Images page [CLICK HERE]
Wait for the page to load
Now in your address bar copy-paste the code below [bolded text]

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i [...]