If Loving Computers is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right

Computers are like drugs: we begin by spending just a little on them but soon get so excited by the experience — and so hooked — that we wind up spending more and more to feed our this new habit.

our first computer experience seems innocent: just turned the computer on, play a game, and suddenly the computer’s screen shows dazzling colors and it feels a supernatural high.

after few months of freaking out with new computer, the high wears off and wonder, Now we’re in really hooked. We becomes addicted to computers.

Look at me. I’m a typical computer junkie. Somebody help me! My computers have taken over my life. Whenever I try to go to sleep, I see those computers staring at me, their lights winking, tempting me to spend a few more hours in naughty fun, even if the sun’s already beginning to rise.

take care while i take few winks ;-)

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Follow Feeds

Wouldn't it be really cool if you could put a watch on some websites and be able to see the articles that come up on that site without actually going to that site and checking it every day? I will tell you one great way to do that - using RSS Readers.
RSS is a technology by which websites publish their contents in an  XML format which can be read using special softwares called RSS readers. Most of the popular websites support this feature - orielly.com, serverside.com, , this very blog ;-) to name a useful few.

Here,I will tell you the easy way to go the RSS way:
1. Install Firefox
2. In firefox, go to Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks. Create a new folder called RSSFeeds. This is where you will be keeping your RSS feeds
3. Install Brief. It comes as a firefox add-on.
4. Configure Brief to pick up the feeds from the new folder you created ( RSSFeeds, in this case ). Instructions below:
i. Click on the Brief icon ( orange color one next to your address bar, or in the bottom part of firefox)
ii. Click on the spanner icon in Brief to open the settings dialog
iii. In the tab named 'Feeds' select the folder you created earlier
iv. Configure other preferences like how often you want it to refresh from the website etc.
5. That's it! Its all ready now. Whenever any of your fav sites publish some content you will get a popup inside firefox - something like email - that new messages are available. Just click on the icon to read them.

Now You have configured your feed reader. Lets see how you can subscribe
1.        Go to the site you wants to subscribe
2.        Look for the RSS icon for example    
3.        Subscribe and select the RSSFeeds folder you created for storing the feed

That should keep you informed!!

Certification which matters

Finally I found a certification which matters . If your code have this certification that means it executes on your machine and you are NOT responsible if it does not works on some other machine.Wicked , isn't ;-)
This new certification communicates to team members, testers, Business Analyst and project sponsors that not only did you compile the code before checking it into the version control system , but that you actually ran the application and exercised in some small way the feature(s) in question.


But attaining such a prestigious, rigorous level of certification would be quite challenging. But luckily, Certification designer Joseph Cooney was gracious enough to provide us a outline.
Now I will write certified applications only ;-)
 

SCBCD exam

Today I took the Sun Certified Business Component Developer exam and passed it too So lets call that a small milestone, i will make a larger blog on how it went. C'Ya

Shakespeare

Bloody Shakespeare got it in one; tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved.

Quote !!

             Love will hurt you, but lack of it will kill you.

Wonder from where this come from  ;-)

Bruce is Guru

Computer programming is tremendous fun. Like music, it is a skill that derives from an unknown blend of innate talent and constant practice. Like drawing, it can be shaped toa variety of ends—commercial, artistic, and pure entertainment. Programmers have a well-deserved reputation for working long hours but are rarely credited with being driven by creative fevers. Programmers talk about software development on weekends, vacations, and over meals not because they lack imagination, but because their imagination reveals worlds that others cannot see.
—Bruce Eckel and Larry O’Brien

Today I read this quote by Bruce in a book(Practical Dojo Projects) . It brought back some very fond memories of my engineering days .
If I say Bruce Eckel is one person who taught me Object oriented programming I than it would not be a over-statement. It was his fantastic “Thinking in” series which made me passionate about software development . I use to carry around his book in whole campus of my engg. faculty and would recommend to each and everyone.
I and my friend ovais use to say read “bruce uncle” ki books , then only you will know what an object is .  
His writing style is very simple and can easily explain even complex topics. He just does not talk about the syntax of a language but the conceptual importance of that language semantic in a program. It is because of his books I feel suffocated if someone asks me to think in non-OOP way . it just don’t comes to me anymore .
Thanks bruce uncle !!