Disadvantages of being young and innocent
I am not sure if it is because of sheer jealousy(sure to get kicked for this) or sympathy towards my innocence (doubleclick sorry double kick). I have got this gift from my chris mom. Its a baby pacifier.
Any other guesses for who else that could be, and yes it is mathu (every one except me guessed it right until the last day) and so I got that gift for my innocence.
How to deal with me; when i m busy at work
This is what i guess others want to do with me in office.
Collen has already asked me where to buy that beeper thing 
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Commenting code
Dec 6, 2008 Technology
Commenting code has always been a debatable topic, especially if you have people like me in the team who tend to ignore commenting unless and until they think that they themselves may need this comment. But I have seen code files having a comment at almost once every 10 or 5 lines, I m not sure if it is of any practical use other than making the code completely unreadable. I firmly believe in the concept of English text explaining the logic of commenting, but you don’t need to do this to a developer. A developer should be able to understand code in any possible format and not rely in comments, because coding becomes one of the ways of communication for the developer, he has been with it and has to able to talk and understand code.
Never comment code; if it is hard to write, it should be hard to understand as well.
I am not someone who says a complete no to comments, but i have some point of views like these
- if there is a simple routeA way of doing something and a complex routeB way of doing something, and if your code has routeB, there should be comments to say why not routeA. this may not be right example, but for me comments can be used to explain why a a particular piece of code behaves like this
- The code itself can be used to make explanations, or the code can be made readable so that comments become unnecessary (e.g)
// method to run database query
public function oprDB_q() { };
can be replaced by
public function runDBQuery() { };
- well ever famous FIXME’s and TODO’s
- .. well if i find some more reasons, i will put them up.
how to create and password protected zip archive in ubuntu
Dec 3, 2008 Technology
This is the command used to create encrypted zip files(password protected), i was struggling hard for sometime to see if there is a gui option to do this, unfortunately i couldn’t find any. the command will ask you for a new password and a confirm password, once you give it you get the zip file out.
zip -e myzipfile.zip mytextfile.txt
and so it works and i m happy.
Mobile not working…. :(
Nov 21, 2008 General
My Nokia 6233 is not working, so i am mobile less (or immobile) now. Yesterday was good without a mobile, lets see how today goes. I am also looking at options to buy a new mobile but i have two thoughts running in my mind, whether to
option A: buy a good expensive mobile, or
option B: to buy a inexpensive mobile(mobile for calling) and get a PSP for entertainment.
if i choose Option A, then the choices are as follows
Nokia N95 / HTC vox
if i choose Option B, then
Some Nokia
{Preferably a 1100, i simply love this phone}
I might also not choose any of these options and get my mobile fixed at a nokia service centre, but still i will spend this time looking for good phones(like others do).
Phone that i have used
- Nokia 1100
- Nokia N72
- Samsung C 160
- Nokia 6233
- Other phones irregularly (ZTC PDA, Nokia 1110, Nokia N80, Some Sony Ericsson Unknown Model)
