At Shipra mall, originally uploaded by Maverick’s eclectic vicissitudes.
We shifted to Indirapuram, a suburb next to East Delhi. The city shot into prominence with Shipra suncity and Shipra Mall. Now, a lot of constructions are taking place. Shipra mall can easily be told to be architecturally most aesthetic mall in NCR. Akshat frequents there a lot.
| Prasoon turns 32 |
| IMPTT: Bd’day pix are at http://flickr.com/photos/prasoonk/sets/72157594300226229/ |
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| So it this day again, when Prasoon adds a year to his age. Our good friend Nikhil’s adorable wife Suparna also has the same day as her bd’day. So, come join in the fun at our apartment in Patpadgunj. Remember the landmarks:- Mother Dairy, Vardhman Plaza, CNG gas station. Dance, music, cake and sumptuous food is on us. The party spirit and a good gift is on you. |
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I turn 32 today. It ia customry to look at the past year on this day. So I summarize myself in the next post.
So, I read about Windows Live Writer on a link through Social Software - topix.net. This product was developed by OnFolio, a company Microsoft acquired. I go on to download it. I wrote my first post from it on my Live Spaces blog. Connecting it to the blog account of mine was a snap. It does support TypePad, WordPress etc. Although, I was unable to connect it successfully to my WordPress blog.
I enter my account information (see below). It does a couple of things :-
Analyzing
And, here I am ready to blog.
Will I move away from Performancing plugin of Firefox? - hell no! It doesn’t allow me to blog inside of the browser. I am lazy. I’d not like to fire away a separate application to blog. My blogging is still about my reaction to a couple of research on the web as they relate to my life and work.
If I were a professional writer, I’d use such a tool. I’ve heard of support for writing blog from within Word 2007, which I’ve yet to try. I guess this could still be a free tool for somebody, who doesn’t want to pony out Office license fee. The Mozilla based Flock browser includes a very nice blog editor, which I want to try soon.
Wow! Microsoft: makes the MSDN Library available for free download. I am a big fan of the developer documentation MSDN. I’ve worked with IBM software, and the lack of an MSDN-equivalent is devastating to productivity. And I’ve worked with (and continue to work with) open source software, where the lack of decent documentation and organized support materials
is infamous. The investment Microsoft has always made around supporting developer productivity through documentation and MSDN is one of its key success factors - at least in the development world.
And, I don’t think this will devalue the MSDN subscription. The vast majority of the Library is available online anyway, all Microsoft has done here is provided a more convenient way to access the data. It isn’t like they decided to give away the software for free! This is just another small step in Microsoft’s continuing support for developers on their platform.
An MSDN subscription is an unbeatable deal for a developer. The ability to get almost every OS, server and development tool for the purposes of development at just over the cost of Visual Studio alone is really quite amazing when you think about it.
Here is an observation you’ll chuckle at. You have to love the instructions;
So why aren’t they named .iso in the first place?
All in all: Great stuff. Although I’m going to use the online version also in the future… Takes less HDD space and is also searchable and nice to work with.
The following tips can help in optimizing object-orientated PHP.
1. Initialise all variables before use.
2. Dereference all global/property variables that are frequently used in a method and put the values in local variables if you plan to access the value more than twice.
3. Try placing frequently used methods in the derived classes.
Warning: as PHP is going through a continuous improvement process, things might change in the future.
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I have found that calling object methods (functions defined in a class) are about twice as slow as a normal function calls. To me that’s quite acceptable and comparable to other OOP languages.
Inside a method (the following ratios are approximate only):
1. Incrementing a local variable in a method is the fastest. Nearly the same as calling a local variable in a function.
2. Incrementing a global variable is 2 times slow than a local var.
3. Incrementing a object property (eg. $this->prop++) is 3 times slower than a local variable.
4. Incrementing an undefined local variable is 9-10 times slower than a pre-initialized one.
5. Just declaring a global variable without using it in a function also slows things down (by about the same amount as incrementing a local var). PHP probably does a check to see if the global exists.
6. Method invocation appears to be independent of the number of methods defined in the class because I added 10 more methods to the test class (before and after the test method) with no change in performance.
7. Methods in derived classes run faster than ones defined in the base class.
8. A function call with one parameter and an empty function body takes about the same time as doing 7-8 $localvar++ operations. A similar method call is of course about 15 $localvar++ operations.
The word is out:- The mobile Monday event is happenning in Adobe, Noida on the 1st Monday Saturday of August i.e. 5th from 930am till 630pm. Adobe is graciously hosting the event. They have become un-conference world’s best friends in NCR. They had offered their conference rooms, free WiFi in the 1st Barcamp held in India. Uzanto again gets going with a good volunteering, like they did the last time. I am still a parasite of these un-conferences by being the audience and doing networking at such sessions. I am trying to change this by becoming a volunteer this time. I am also trying to spread the word by writing this blog and emailing a couple of friends. so, mobile enthusiasts of Delhi gear up and signup at MoMoDelhi wiki. I will also share some recent developments in the mobile space. Let me start doing that right now.
Some key benefits of Linux as a mobile OS include its small kernel size, open source, and low (no) cost. But, the lack of a single set of standards can be detrimental to its adoption.
Apple closed down a Support Center, barely 3 months old. It came as a rude shock to the employees and pro-India bloggers and media alike, esp after a sound plan announced earlier. Apple had set itself a hiring target of 600 by the year-end. After a gala induction ceremony on April 17, the operations team went to Transworks for training. Some of the managers were about to leave for the US for further training when they were asked to stay put.
My friend and an enterpreneur, Gaurav Bhatnagar, lamented that “Apple has taken this drastic decision in too short a time“. Another one was supportive of Apple’s intended motive, as India has started its sheen as an outsourcing destination, citing rising wages and lack of liquidity in workforce as the reasons. I heard some more citing quality as the reason also.
I think otherwise. It reminds one of the November 2003 “celebrations” over Dell pulling back from India. Dell, barely 6000 something at that time, today has close to 15,000 people supporting its products from India.
I doubt if many know that it is not three months back that Apple started offshoring to India. The company had started outsourcing to a third party Indian service provider, Transworks, an Aditya Birla Group company way back in 2004. And that contract still stands valid. Simply speaking, Apple has not left India. It has just favored one offshoring model over another. My take is that,
The company stock has also been on a southward route. Apple has realized that it makes business sense to work through a third party route rather make more capital investment here in India at this point of time.
I’d say please pay attention to some of the recent news, like and chill:
Update: Here’s slashdot discussing the news published in Business Standard.
Google is all set to launch online spreadsheet. This increases the range of Web Office offering from Google. A few months ago, Google had acquired Writely, which is an online Word alternative. There's Google Calendar, the day planner that matches a lot of the functionality of Microsoft Outlook's calendar. There's also Google Pack, a collection of online desktop features that compete with many of Microsoft's. More recently, Google Notepad is an alternative to Microsoft OneNote. There are already a bunch of such offerings on the web, including NumSum, ZohoSheet (part of Zoho Office) JotSpot Tracker, iRows, wikiCalc etc. The screenshot of NumSum is here.
Reports Reutors:
For now, the Google Spreadsheet, which can import or export data from Excel's .xls format or the open Comma Separated Value (.csv) format, is aimed at small work teams in social life or small business, not big enterprises, Rochelle said.
Google has rolled it out to only a handful of subscriber and I am not one of them! So, here's a summary from news and media about it.
Pros:
Cons:
Reference: New York Times coverage.
DNA reports: 
Indian media company the Television Eighteen (TV18) is spinning off its internet division as a separate company. The move is a consequence of the internet division attaining significant revenue growth. The division - which has portals like Moneycontrol.com and Commoditiescontrol.com, clocked revenues of Rs 6.03 crore ($1.34 million) for FY05-06, up up 480% from Rs 1.04 crore ($230,000) in FY04-05.
Haresh Chawla, CEO of TV18 Group, said,
“The new wholly owned subsidiary will aim at imparting focus and unlocking value in the Internet business. Besides, it will allow raising funds in the future.”
The new subsidiary will be in place in a couple of months. The group had earlier announced its foray into multiple Internet verticals (by acquiring 50 per cent in the Indian operations of Jobstreet.com). The group had earlier announced its foray into home shopping network with the help of SAIF Partners, which was looking to leverage TV18’s network of five channels (CNBC-TV18, CNN-IBN, Awaaz, Channel 7 and SAW) and six internet properties (moneycontrol. com, ibnlive.com, poweryourtrade.com, commoditiescontrol.com, yatra.in and Jobstreet India).
TV18 Group is one media company that has grown tremendously fast, and I admire them for this. The company as a whole has recorded a turnover of Rs 152 crore for the whole year of 05-06. Its net profits jumed 112% compared to 04-05 at Rs 52 crore. And these numbers are excluding that of CNN-IBN and Awaaz channels.
Now Patent Pending
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