Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.“Christopher Morley American writer and editor 1890-1957 So I decided to read a Guid…
Rob Walling has posted an excellent article today “Using Technology to Fight Poverty” explaining his experiences of recent trip to Ghana. A must read for everyone who believes in “One does evil enough when one does nothing good.”
Mark Haddon's Curious incident of the dog in the night time is an excellent read (Thanks for the recommendation David!); I finished it couple of weeks ago and want to go back and re-read it. Its the story of autistic boy, Christopher John Francis Boone, which is not reinforcing the stereotype of the mathematically gifted social inadequate and…
Not much left to say about the following dialog box; leaving format specifier unpopulated. Where is the QA guy!
Nick calls it a digital leash but I love my new tech-toy; BlackBerry is a developer's dream come true. I can get app errors, process status and a whole lot of status when not around my machine. Also, I can surf slashdot while waiting in a queue at Fry's or KrispyKreme (they won't give you a donut with…
While back Lorry and I had a discussion about pH balance of tap water vs. bottled water. She thought that our fishes are having gill flukes due to acidity of water. Also, I shouldn't drink tap water since it has high concentration of ammonia and just general 'poop' in it. I doubted these allegations and we…
Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code name "Indigo") Road Show was an interesting event for developers; a good combination of little marketing and more drilled in code for windows communication foundation. In the Orange Coast College Costa Mesa, this event was presented by Ami Vora and Piyam Shodjai. In connection to Don Box's Tour of Indigo Team it was…
On Thursday the 18th, I and Rob went to Rule the Web with ASP.NET 2.0, the MSDN event in Burbank. It was a 200 level event with Bernard Wong who is an excellent speaker. However I've just had enough of same presentation/contents over and over at several MSDN Events/Conferences and therefore I slept part of the…
It has been a while since Internet Explorer 7: Now in beta testing for developers . Finally this morning, Rob Walling sent me this (How to run IE7 on the same machine as IE6) and I got to run it locally. voila!
Antony showed me this code snippet couple of days ago. If you want to copy a directory to another location as datetime being filename the traditional batch way, following is the go to script. @echo offrem Extract date time to filename-compatible format for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%i, in ('echo %date%') do set filedate=%%l-%%k-%%jfor /f…