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Are Indian Software Engineers really Code Donkeys?

November 19th, 2009

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Sometime back I wrote a post about Are Indian Software Developers “Code Donkeys”? . Soon after writing this post I became more active in stackoverflow and started seeing lot of “worst” questions. Almost 80% of the questions are from Indian Developers. This made me think “Are Indian Software Engineers really Code Donkeys?” Don’t believe me? Check out the below questions

1. Give real life examples of Queues?

Answer :

2. I need a free php-ajax enabled contact us form script and mail should come in gmail inbox not spam folder?

I need not tell you why this question is stupid.

3. How can I assign the same IP address to 2 computers on the same network?

Same IP to two computers? That breaks the reason for us to use IP address. I seriously think he should not be coding if don’t know the basics?

4. give the source code in c graphics to show circuit and functions of tri state logic

For your information we don’t sell code in stackoverflow.

5. Browser compatibility problem

And the question goes like this

hi i created a web page , in that the menus are proper in Google chrome and in Mozila Firefox, What should i do for recovering ..

Recovering what? If both works fine then whats the issue? What menu? What programming language? What is the error?

6. what is meant by cloud computing? give some examples

Never heard about Google or Bing?

7. Can someone send me the JAVA LDAP code to connect and to search/modify in a directory server

Stackoverflow is for learning new things and coding better and not for exchanging code.

8. I need finishing my ocaml assignment.

We are not here to do your homework.

Not enough? Just check out more here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions?page=7627&sort=votes . Look for Indian Names.

My MVP Kit arrived today

July 15th, 2009

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Receiving an award is a wonderful moment. Receiving it first time makes the moment even more beautiful. I received my MVP kit today. First thing I said looking at the award was “Wooow!!!” … Have a look at it yourself . The total Kit weighed about 3 Kgs which had a badge, certificate, MVP ID card and the award.

MVP Kit

Certificate

Badge and ID Card

Award Case

Award

SQL Server free ebook

May 21st, 2009

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SQL Server MVP Jacob Sebastian from Ahmedabad, India has just released a new free Ebook entitled, “The Art of XSD – SQL Server XML Schema Collections”.

This Ebook is designed to help database developers learn and use XML Schema collections in SQL Server. The Art of XSD starts with the basics of XML schemas and then walks the reader through to building powerful XML schemas in SQL Server.

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TweetMyPC – What next?

May 10th, 2009

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Update : TweetMyMac is available for download now. More details here : http://themacbox.co.uk/tweetmymac/

Downloads for TweetMyPC crossed 2000 yesterday. This is 10 times more than the Twitter application which I released about 6 months back. Thanks to everyone who Tweeted and blogged about TweetMyPC . I am receiving lot of emails asking about the new version. Here is the list of planned additions and changes to TweetMyPC version 2. I have fixed few bugs as well.

Commands are no more case sensitive : Yes Shutdown and shutdown does the same job
Replies : TweetMyPC will reply to you after a command is executed. Replies will be in the form of Tweets. Below is a screenshot of how the reply will look for “lock” command
lock : This command locks your Windows pc
physical memory : As the name says, this command will let you know the Physical Memory of your pc
virtual memory : Want to know the virtual memory of your pc? Just tweet virtual memory
os : This is one of the command which does not have much value. Tweeting os will make TweetMyPC to tweet about your OS version.
ip : Know your pc’s ip from anywhere in the world with this command
standby : Don’t want to shutdown? then make you pc go to standby mode with this command.
hibernate : hibernate your pc with a tweet.
screenshot : Want to know what is happening in your pc when you are not around? Just tweet screenshot and TweetMyPC will take a screenshot of your desktop and post it to Twitpic. Below is a screenshot of how the reply will look like.
getprocesslist : This is one of the very useful command. On receiving this command TweetMyPC will generate a list of running programs, along with the process ID, and email it to a predefined email address.
kill <process id> : This is used along with the above command. Once you recive the process list you can close a program using the kill command.
download <url> : Want to download an intresting video but you are on the move? don’t worry just tweet download followed by the download url and TweetMyPC will download it for you and it will be ready when you return back. Note: Twitter automatically converts long urls into short one using bit.ly. TweetMyPC can download files only if the url is in the short form. Please use bit.ly to shorten your url before posting.
getfile <filepath> : Missed an important document and you are travelinlg some where? No problem. Just tweet get followed by the file path and TweetMyPC will email the file as attachment to a predefined email. Don’t know the path? dont worry. Just checkout the next command.
getfilelist <drive> : This command will make TweetMyPC to send you the list of files and folders in a drive. You can use this command to email you a file once you know the complete path of the file.
Custom Command : This is the most interesting feature of TweetMyPC. Do you think the above command are not enough? then create your own custom command. You can choose a command and then chose a file to run. For example you can choose a command winamp and make TweetMyPC to run winamp by tweeting winamp.

I am sure there will be lot of questions about security and privacy issues. I will be explaining in detail once I release the new version. So dont forget to subscribe to this blog via email to or rss feed to keep you updated. in the mean time if you have any suggestions and comments dont forget to let me know through email : shobankr[at]gmail.com or follow me in Twitter. Thanks for the beer

Update: Why Gmail (Only)? . We tested the app with many email providers and Gmail was the only one which worked in most of the PCs.

You can learn about TweetMyPC at these blogs too :

TweetMyPC in TechEd?

May 7th, 2009

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Today I received the following email from Sara.

Hi,

I’m the Program Manager for CodePlex. Just wanted to drop a quick note to say i’ve been enjoying reading all of the tweets about your project. It’s definitely an interesting project.

I’m doing a talk on CodePlex at TechEd next week and I’m going to mention your project to show a sampling of the various projects we host. I am curious what’s the actual scenario for shutting down or rebooting your PC remotely? Or is it just more to show what you can do with twitter?

Thanks!
-sara

Even though TweetMyPC is just one of the applications in the list its great news for me. Thanks to everyone who blogged and Retweeted about TweetMyPC.

TweetMyPC Home page : http://tweetmypc.codeplex.com/

If you don’t know already Sara has a wonderful blog in which she frequently writes about Codeplex and Visual Studio Tips. You can check out here blog here.

Great Indian Developer Summit

April 17th, 2009

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Are you worried that you will not be able to make it to Tech Ed 2009? then here comes the Great Indian Developer Summit.

Tools, Technologies, Tips and Tomfoolery to Beat the Downturn. The economic downturn will run out of steam trying to outdo the ‘ready and waiting’ software professional. Packed with premium knowledge, action plans and advise from been-there-done-it veterans, creators, and visionaries, the 2009 edition of Great Indian Developer Summit features focused sessions, case studies, workshops and power panels that will transform you into a force to reckon with. Featuring 4 co-located conferences: GIDS.NET, GIDS.Web, GIDS.Java, GIDS.Cobol and an exclusive day for in-depth workshops, GIDS.Workshops.

Date : April 22-25

Venue : Bangalore

More details here.

TechEd India 2009

April 15th, 2009

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Yes, TechEd is back in India after almost three years. Unlike previous years TechEd India is different in many respects

· It’s happening only in one city, Hyderabad. The dates are May 13^th, 14^th and 15^th

· It’s going to be the biggest ever TechEd in India in terms of participation. I am expecting thousands of people to attend this tech-festival

· Good news for IT Professionals, there are more sessions and speakers in the IT Professional track. Some of the tracks for IT Professionals are Windows Server/Client, Security, System Management, Virtualization, Database & Unified Communications

· You’ll find your favourite speakers from both Microsoft and rest of the industry

So don’t miss this event. For more details and latest update please visit http://www.microsoft.com/india/teched2009/

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Microsoft F# language

March 12th, 2009

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F# developed as a research programming language to provide the much sought-after combination of type safety, succinctness, performance, expresivity and scripting, with all the advantages of running on a high-quality, well-supported modern runtime system. This combination has been so successful that the language is now being transitioned towards a fully supported language on the .NET platform. Some of the reasons for this move are that F# gives you:

succinct, type-inferred functional programming,
interactive scripting like Python and other languages,
the foundations for an interactive data visualization environment,
the combination of type inference and safety, like that of ML,
a cross-compiling core shared with the popular OCaml language,
a performance profile like that of C#,
easy access to the entire range of powerful .NET libraries and database tools,
a foundational simplicity with similar roots to Scheme,
the option of a top-rate Visual Studio integration, which is usable with the freely available Visual Studio 2008 Shell
the experience of a first-class team of language researchers with a track record of delivering high-quality implementations,
the speed of native code execution on the concurrent, portable, and distributed .NET Framework.

Some interesteding links below.

Stackoverflow Favorites wordpress widget

February 18th, 2009

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Do you love stackoverflow? Are you a frequent user or stackoverflow? Then why not share your Favorite programming questions from stackover?

Here is a wordpress sidebar widget that will make your job easy. Simply download and add the sidebar widget to your theme and your Favorite questions will automatically be displayed.

Usage :

Download the plugin from here
Open stackoverflow_favs.php and edit the userid on line 11 (You can get your userid from your stackoverflow profile url. Example : http://stackoverflow.com/users/12178/shoban
Upload the changed file to your plugins directory and activate it.
Add My Favorites from SOF widget to your sidebar from your widgets menu.

Do you have any suggestions? let me know

Moonlight 1.0 Release

February 12th, 2009

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Finally Moonlight is available for download. Moonlight enables Linux users to view Silverlight content and Silverlight applications.

Congrats to the team behind this . You can read more about the the release in ScottGu’s blog.

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