I admit it, I used to consider computing the Big-O of algorithms you write is ridiculously useless. “We have these powerful machines nowadays!” and boy was I wrong …. In http://leepoint.net/notes-java/algorithms/big-oh/bigoh.html and under Why Size Matters Does anyone really have that much data? It’s quite common. For example, it’s hard to find a digital camera [...]

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Oct

2008

Learn to use Source Control

Posted by Maan Published in Programming

Call it “source control”, call it “version control”, call it “revision control”, or call it “Big Mac with no cheese!”. What ever you call it, source control is an important concept of modern day software projects.“What is source control?” I hear you say. Well, allow me to point you to Mr. Eric Sink. He works [...]

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Aug

2008

Awesome line of the day

Posted by Maan Published in Personal Life

I was reading Penelope Trunk’s blog when this line in “How to be more interesting to other people” just struck my So look, interesting does not come from greatness. Interesting comes from conflict. Something about this line just rings to me. It seems so freaking true, and I cant tell why. She follows it with [...]

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Jul

2008

Regular Blogging …. apparently a must! But …

Posted by Maan Published in Personal Life

Following the advice of many people (notably Penelope Trunk , Steve Yegge), one (I) must maintain and update a personal blog in order to success in the work place/job market. In You should write blogs, Steve lists 4 reasons why many don’t blog. I mostly identify with: Reason #3: Nobody will read my blog. and [...]

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Feb

2008

My First RIA Application!!

Posted by Maan Published in Programming

Following the tutorial at http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Part+I.+Creating+a+Simple+RIA Flicker image search :) ! try it! You need flash 9 or higher, c’mon just download it. It’s so cool and sweet you’ll love it!!!one.

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Feb

2008

Learning Flex for Beginners

Posted by Maan Published in Programming

Following my last post, I kept trying to learn Flex when I can (interrupted by the arrival of my new Wacom, I reach over to draw whenever I want to program!). I kept trying to find learning resources for complete beginners (who can program at least, but didn’t do any RIA development of Action Script [...]

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Feb

2008

Flash is for designers, Flex is for programmers

Posted by Maan Published in Programming

I needed to learn flex for a project, what is Flex? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flexin short, flex is AJAX nerdy cousin, and both are used to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIA). The advantage of Flash is that it will look the same on all browser (pixel to pixel likeness), and it is a true write-once-run-everywhere. it can run [...]

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Jan

2008