I am glad to donate some bucks to Room to read.

the organization is doing really good. in there own words

“As of October 2006, Room to Read has opened over 3,300 libraries with more than 2 million books. We now have over 2,300 girls on long-term scholarships, and have opened more than 220 schools.”

I started donating 100 bucks a month almost an year ago, which was close to 1/10 of my salary. the best part was to configure visa card for auto deduction.

my perception of change is not to shoot people with guns but give em computers and wikipedia and they will know what the world really is

 

For people who might take there donations too emotionally i must tell you guys that out of this 100 i believe only 50 will reach the needful. rest will be used by marketer, visa, ads and more! this is unavoidable as no one works for free

my bucks are going for “Nepal chapter” 

 

you call it browser, but i call it a desktop application with social internet support.... a nice and good initiative to connect real people in real time

checkout  http://www.flock.com

Don't be fooled, though change is necessary it is very difficult.  If not planned well, it could cause major disruptions.  It is human nature for many to be against change, because it takes us out of our comfort zones.  Therefore, you must ease the change carefully and communicate constantly (including listening) to make sure that people can see the value and need for change but also to reduce conflicts and risks through the process. 

source:
http://chiefskipper.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A59D550BCED8263B!947.entry

29% is huge. but the cause is still USA. its up by 109% in North America. Thats huge, you can guess very well how dynamic the contry is and how influencial the Ads was and powerful iPhone' innovation was.

Alachisoft has released NCache Express 3.2, a free in-memory distributed object cache for .NET. NCache Express can cache frequently used application data close-by and reduce expensive database trips.

Source:
http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49384

YEAR	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	NOV	DEC	AVE
2008	4.28%	4.03%	3.98%
2007	2.08%	2.42%	2.78%	2.57%	2.69%	2.69%	2.36%	1.97%	2.76%	3.54%	4.31%	4.08%	2.85%
2006	3.99%	3.60%	3.36%	3.55%	4.17%	4.32%	4.15%	3.82%	2.06%	1.31%	1.97%	2.54%	3.24%
2005	2.97%	3.01%	3.15%	3.51%	2.80%	2.53%	3.17%	3.64%	4.69%	4.35%	3.46%	3.42%	3.39%
2004	1.93%	1.69%	1.74%	2.29%	3.05%	3.27%	2.99%	2.65%	2.54%	3.19%	3.52%	3.26%	2.68%
2003	2.60%	2.98%	3.02%	2.22%	2.06%	2.11%	2.11%	2.16%	2.32%	2.04%	1.77%	1.88%	2.27%
2002	1.14%	1.14%	1.48%	1.64%	1.18%	1.07%	1.46%	1.80%	1.51%	2.03%	2.20%	2.38%	1.59%
2001	3.73%	3.53%	2.92%	3.27%	3.62%	3.25%	2.72%	2.72%	2.65%	2.13%	1.90%	1.55%	2.83%
2000	2.74%	3.22%	3.76%	3.07%	3.19%	3.73%	3.66%	3.41%	3.45%	3.45%	3.45%	3.39%	3.38%
1999	1.67%	1.61%	1.73%	2.28%	2.09%	1.96%	2.14%	2.26%	2.63%	2.56%	2.62%	2.68%	2.19%
1998	1.57%	1.44%	1.37%	1.44%	1.69%	1.68%	1.68%	1.62%	1.49%	1.49%	1.55%	1.61%	1.55%
1997	3.04%	3.03%	2.76%	2.50%	2.23%	2.30%	2.23%	2.23%	2.15%	2.08%	1.83%	1.70%	2.34%

source: http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/HistoricalInflation.aspx?dsInflation_currentPage=0

its great to see visually how average income is related to wars.

http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/avg-income-2006.jpg


i'd like to see Avg income without war, but i am not sure any technology/science exists to simulate this.



My interpretation of graph is "War is followed by boom"

Started exploring Domain specific languages.
to start with u can look at the following link
http://martinfowler.com/dslwip/Intro.html

Controversial music website Allofmp3.com is being sued by a collection of record labels. The suit has been filed in a New York court against the Moscow firm, which claims that it abides by Russian law.

"Defendant's entire business amounts to nothing more than a massive infringement of plaintiffs' exclusive rights under the Copyright Act and New York law," says the law suit.

Arista, Warner Brothers, Capitol and Universal are among the major companies behind the suit. It claims that Allofmp3.com profits by selling music which they own the rights to without their permission and without compensation.

When an online retailer sells music it typically pays royalties to artists via a collecting society such as the Performing Rights Society (PRS) or the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS).

source:  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/21/us_labels_sue_allofmp3/

FaceStat.com made me wonder if "Wisdom of crowd" is really true:



http://facestat.com/faces/show/1722

You can use the DynamicMethod class to generate and execute a method at run time, without having to generate a dynamic assembly and a dynamic type to contain the method. The executable code created by the just-in-time (JIT) compiler is reclaimed when the DynamicMethod object is reclaimed. Dynamic methods are the most efficient way to generate and execute small amounts of code.

A dynamic method can be anonymously hosted, or it can be logically associated with a module or with a type.

Source: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.emit.dynamicmethod.aspx

.NET version: 2.0,3.0,3.5

Google is beginning to ramp up its information indexing efforts to the point where nothing and no-one is safe. In addition to making some headway into indexing the Deep Web, Googlebots are now also indexing whois domain information. For webmasters, whois needs no introduction. For those of you who don’t own a website, an introduction will be necessary.

Source: http://www.googletutor.com/2008/04/19/google-starts-indexing-whois-domain-information/

"Ranger" Supercomputer Marks New Era for Petascale Science NSF, TACC dedicate most powerful supercomputer for open science 2008-02-22     Faith Singer-Villalobos AUSTIN, Texas -- Ranger, the most powerful supercomputing system in the world for open science research, today will be dedicated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. This first-of-its-kind system entered full production on Feb. 4. Ranger’s deployment marks the beginning of the Petascale Era in high-performance computing (HPC) where systems will approach a thousand trillion floating point operations per second and manage a thousand trillion bytes of data. Ranger is the largest HPC computing resource on the NSF TeraGrid, a nationwide network of academic HPC centers that provides scientists and researchers access to large-scale computing power and resources. Ranger will provide more than 500 million processor hours of computing time to the science community, performing more than 200,000 years of computational work over its four-year lifetime.  "Ranger is the first of the new 'Path to Petascale' systems that NSF provides to open science. It is out in front on the pathway to sustained petascale performance," said Daniel Atkins, director of the NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure. "This system and others to come underscore NSF's commitment to world-class, high-performance computing ensuring that the U.S. is a leader in computational science. No longer used by a handful of elite researchers in a few research communities on select problems, advanced computing has become essential to the way science and engineering research and education are accomplished."

 

 

Soruce: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ta/ta_display.php?ta_id=100379

One of my colleague who is in ASP.NET, mortgage application testing asked me "i am want to move to C++ application testing, how its different from .NET application testing and do i need to know the language, or does it metters at all?"

It took me infinite time to come up with an answer. I didn’t had an answer so give her an example "When i was working on Mac OS X C++ Client-Server application the tester use to pull out the network cable while document changes being transferred from client to server."

So i came up with answer, yes it is different. But after putting a lot of though i believe i was wrong.

there is no different between .NET and C++. .NET is no magic, we might still have network errors. Only difference is handling and processing of these errors are inside the .NET library. passionate people at MS has alrady tested and validate that piece of code and we need not to test it again.


A Product!
Can you come up with a product which will show wot function area one need to test and what not (Testing leads need to business rules to test in that himself) based on language used for product.

For example:
what to test when code is in VB6
what for C++, Mac C++ or cross platform CPP
What when migrating from .NET to JAVA, JAVA to .NET
or even ASP.NET to Silverlight.


Market!

there are a lot of testers and test plans written every day. But since this is going to be a new approach for testing i'd say the market size is Zero
and i'd also say free software fits well in zero size markets

 

Lately i have been in and out of the systems. It feels good to be in : +

i like the watch a few videos on http://radio.xmlstoragesystem.com