http://blog.xkoder.com therez light! Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:45:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While testing my mail server, by sending a mail to my GMail account, I noticed something peculiar at GMail. I sent a mail using Thunderbird to my GMail account, then checked the mail on the GMail's web interface and found a rather amusing ad under the "sponsered links" section. Click ... http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/08/29/google-ads-under-testing/ Git is marvelous piece of tool every programmer must have. Git is a distributed version control system developed by Linus and others. Yes you guessed it, it is used heavily by the Linux (kernel) developers apart from many other projects. How will Git help you and what this post covers. Scope of ... http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/08/13/git-tutorial-starting-with-git-using-just-10-commands/ Javascript hides a lot of arsenal beneath its simplicity. In this post I've tried to explain normal javascript arrays and associative arrays starting with absolute basics and then presenting the advance concepts that are often overlooked but are simple to understand and are very handy. I'm not a Javascript guru ... http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/07/10/javascript-associative-arrays-demystified/ This is a post I've written at my Company blog. Here's a small excerpt and the link to the complete post. Git and Trac - A Love Story Git and Trac, both got married very recently (at our setup ), and the newlywed couple are quite a charm to work with. ... http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/06/26/git-and-trac-a-love-story/ Before I write anything about it, here's the link to the JPC project http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/index.html It's a nice feat these guys have achieved by creating an emulator for Intel x86 architecture in Java. I'm not sure how useful this project would be, but it's a cool peice of software :) . Hats off ... http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/06/26/x86-emulator-in-java-cool/ I bought a Linksys WiFi router last weekend. I had a little bit of trouble configuring it, although the problem was trivial, it took me some time to figure it out. I'm jotting down some notes here about what I did to resolve the problem. ( I've have some tips ... http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/06/04/setting-up-linksys-wifi-router-with-airtel-broadband/ For the past 3~4 days I've been experiencing problems with Yahoo! Mail. I've asked few of my friends and relatives and they all seem to be having the same problems. The problem is affecting both Yahoo Mail classic and the new ajaxian Yahoo mail. Symptoms observed 1) Yahoo! Mail rejects your ... http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/06/03/problems-with-yahoo-mail/ A popular Internet Television network named Revision3 was brought to knees by a cyber attack from a company named MediaDefender, offering services to prevent copyright infringement using P2P distribution method. You can read the complete story here: Revision3 CEO: Blackout caused by MediaDefender attack. The story seems to be straight out ... http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/05/30/cyber-wars-revision3-vs-mediadefender/ I do not know what to make out of the ruling by Supreme Court (SC) of India with respect to the quota for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in "IITs, IIMs and other Central educational institutions" the ruling adds that the SC "excluded the creamy layer from the benefit". Here is ... http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/04/10/dying-democracy/ As all C, C++ and Perl devotees, I too looked upon Python with apprehension. Python? What? I asked. The very idea of white-spaces being part of syntax gave me jitters and I convulsed with disgust. Why Python? Perl can do it. OOP? Perl has it ... errm .. ... http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/01/16/overcoming-the-fear-of-python/