Android for wordpress is a free android app that lets you manage your wordpress blog from your phone. Though quite basic, it certainly seems to be the best blogging solution on the android right now. Making this post using the app. Wonder if we will get the plugins for this app in the near future.
I got this invaluable piece of advice while reading the book Code Complete by Steven Mc Connell. Program to the interface, not the implementation.
Coding to the implementation is a mistake which most developers (including me), are guilty of. Now, digging deep into the external classes for educational purposes is a perfectly healthy activity [...]
You spend a lot of time in creating an application, starting with abstractions and slowly moving to the specifics, hours of heated debate to painstakingly design each and every intricate detail, working on all possibilities for extensibility, even going through every line of code other developers write to make sure they stick to [...]
I have started this series of posts dedicated to exploring the internals of the .NET framework and runtime. To get started on probing of internals of .NET, we need a debugging extension called SOS (Sons of Strike). Visual Studio comes packaged with this assembly (SOS.dll). The first posts is about one of the [...]
The Vancouver Olympics has been generating considerable bit of interest with everyone speculating on the country which bags the most number of golds. To make it easier to keep up to date with the medals tally, I wrote a Chrome extension which displays the top 10 countries. It can be downloaded at the chrome site here.
As applications grow more and more complex, they cost more money to develop, test and maintain. Each bug that leaves the development stage, needs the QA’s effort to identify and notify the developer who again spends time to fix it and get it signed off from the QA. Hence its imperative that good [...]
After months of begging for a google wave invite, I had given up on the possiblilty of ever getting inot GWave at the preview stage. But yesterday my orkut status message got me two invites from friends.
Ever since I got it, am trying to find someone to start a wave with, but as luck would [...]
This one was lone long due. TRAI has been talking about giving consumers the freedom to switch operators without actually switching the number, but cell phone cos seemed to be dragging their feet on this one. After a long time, a date has been given – the end of the year Dec 31st 2009.
It doesnt [...]
Rupert Murdoch is at it again taking his frustration out at Google, Bing and other search engines. If the speech at the Beijing conference wasn’t enough, Murdoch has threatened to block search engines from indexing his news websites. Quite a nice way to say Thank you for getting 40-50% of traffic to his site.
Murdoch’s idea [...]