Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
While reading David West’s Object Thinking, I came across some valuable quotes elaborating on “People’s Issue” from Robert Glass’s “Facts and Fallacies of software Engineering”. The most important factor in software work is not the tools and the techniques used by the programmers, but the quality of the programmers themselves. The best programmers are…
This post is definitely going under the narcissism category. Normally when people enter AdnanoTopia (it's in reference to Dilbertopia, Dilbert's cube), their first question is usually, "why on earth do you need three monitors"? I casually reply that It's because I'm so cool. They'd insist on knowing it "No Seriously?, why? Ok fine, I'll disclose…
I recently came across some real amusing/humorous/sad (depending on your context) answers from a candidate; please don't try these in your interview as it's quite difficult for interviewer to bite the tongue and try not to laugh.What is the difference between HTTP GET, POST and SOAP protocols?Answer:When you visit a web page, it's GET. When you click the…
My BIL Ken Nign once said that everything which makes you smart is usually pretty expensive; it was in context of prices of documentaries, history channel tapes, Mythbuster DVD's and such. However, with Google video, things are getting better. A friend recently recommended this documentary which I found to be very interesting and thought provoking. The Power of…
From Mix's site "A 72-hour conversation, the Pitch. As the web enters its second decade, the old barriers are blurring or breaking down completely. Media is transforming technology and technology is transforming media. Web “designers” are starting to write a little code, while Web “developers” are learning to twiddle pixels. AJAX is redefining the boundaries…
I usually try to mimic the ideology of "If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space" while our architects are mostly like "If there is no SP1 yet, no way it's going to production" so you can see the difference of opinion here. Recently in order to follow the cutting edge…
One of Neal Hardesty's Friend (NHF) gave a raving review about Hamachi when we were attending San Diego .NET developers group summit so I decided to try it out. NHF (sorry, I can't seem to remember your name, so you are NHF from now on) is using it for gaming but I found Hamachi to…
Microsoft Anti Spyware beta is a cool product; however, as usual I found something to complain about. This is about a key-value change issue I encountered last night. To reproduce, do the following steps. Tools ->Advanced tools ->SystemExplorers->IESettings Select the start page and click on “Change URL/Page” Type a new URL and press OK …
“Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!” –John Ciardi After being free from exams, I started catching up on my readings and was browsing through November’s Forbes when I saw Allison Fass’s article on game theory in marketing section. This article discusses the…
Via Scott Guthrie's blog "Microsoft Learning Online Course Available on ASP.NET 2.0 Brad from the Microsoft Learning team just pointed me at a cool offer. Basically it allows you to take a 3-hour ASP.NET 2.0 Training course for free if you register for it before January 4th (note: you then have up to 90 days after you…