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Having joined Novell recently, the opportunity to learn a bunch of new development skills has come up. Novell products make extensive use of the mono platform for applications development. After 4 long years, I find myself in need of re-learning some windows application development. I tried setting up mono on my windows pc, and encountered some peculiar issues. I had installed mono and then went looking around for an IDE. Well, monodevelop sounded kewl, and tried to get in compiled on windows. I found that I needed to setup cygwin if I need to build it, and another 100 MB download is not what I wanted to be doing. ...

… that, my friends, in Italian means “Good bye! We have arrived!!”. I have recently movd from my 4 year old job at HCL Technologies, Chennai to Novell, Bangalore. The first day at Novell was nice. The experience exuded professionallism on the part of the company and the people that I am going to work with. Life seems exciting. On the very first day, I have a machine, access to email, food coupons, bank account, an airtel connection, travel info and more than I can remember. Amazing how quick things can be done these days! ;) Finally, I did feel the loss I should have felt when I left HCL, my colleagues for the last four years! This quantum change, I hope will bring more challenges and exciting engineering problems for me to work. (God I sound cliched!) ...

As with Discovery, after a lot of hurdles (some within me and some otherwise), here I am about to take-off on yet another journey, that, I hope is going to be as exciting as the last one that I took, when I joined HCL-Cisco ODC. I has been an amazing experience in the last week or so, when I have been reminiscing about what I am about to do, what I have done, the wonderful people that I encountered and worked with, and the good and bad times. ...

Not that many are reading this blog, but hey, I’m back nonetheless!! Let’s see if I can sustain my blogging! I’ve been getting ready for a change from my current job. For those who don’t know, I’ve been working at HCL Technologies, Chennai, Cisco Offshore Development Centre, for the last 4+ years. Reasons 1. my wife’s moving there! 2. My WIFE’s MOVING do you need more!! ;) I hope to start work with a company in Bangalore. So you guys in cool B’lore, here I come! ...

JavaScript, MochiKit, PHP, X, TinyMCE et. al.Nice article comparing some AJAX toolkits that are talked about these days. Also Anant is doing a very kewl project for Google Summer of code, called GuideXML, an online AJAXified XML editor that is sponsored by Gentoo! Way to go Anant.

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Male Restroom Etiquette All men of the world can find common ground in these simple rules of “evacuation” etiquette. Author: zsOverman Keywords: machinima overman sims restroom etiquette rules men toilet bathroom humor Added: September 13, 2006 You must see this!! Wonderfully done and hilarious yet thought provoking!! ;) technorati tags:fun, humor

AJAX Toolkit Shootout « Summer of Code ™ 2006

First Images of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Cabin Virgin galactic is a spaceship/commercial aeronautic vehicle that is being designed to let ordinary people like you an me (well ones with $200,000 spare change) to travel to space and conduct “scientific” experiments (kiss in space? marriage in space? ahem … in space? **pervert**) and I wanna get my ass off to space in just that … 3 days out of the earth! That will mean a lot less coding. Maybe I will come up with the first-ever “out of the world” open source software, or maybe even a yahoo widget or two!! ...

New technology could nip DVD format war in the bud That is what someone needed to do, build an abstraction layer over the various DVD/DVD-like media so that as a consumer, when I am choosing between Star Wars and Star Tre, I don’t need to bother with the media type and the version etc.. Just let me but the disc and get home to watch on the blu-ray drive or at a friends place on HD-DVD drive. ...