Top 5 Questions of Stackoverflow of the month

What do you use to keep notes as a developer?

Great programming quotes

What is the single effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?

What’s Your Motto as a developer/programmer?

What development book made the most impact on you as a developer?

Firefox crashed opening msdn.microsoft/hi-in

It’s happening multiple times.Why FF is crashing when I try to login to http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/default.aspx. Is this because of the “hi-in” i.e Hindi langauge used in the site scaring fire the fox. Sent the failure error to FF.

I will try to look at it the reason later in free time.

Open Code: WTL inside Google Browser Chrome

I am interested to dig in the Chrome source code and would be interested to build it.
“Getting Started” is the ground zero place for this.

Hanselman takes the first bite of the code here.
Look at his other Chrome and IE8 blog too.

By the way something cool to try on in Chrome:
“about:network”, “about:dns”, “about:memory”, “about:stats“

I have a rumor to spread. Yahoo is coming with its own browser. And amazon with its solid web platform are also coming with its own browser and providing free cloud space to all. Hehe!!

Exotic Cars On ~proportional to~ Real Women Turn On

That means, scientific proof has first time ever produced any useful conclusion: Exotic Cars Turn Women On. That means Women on Top Car.

I read it in some blog that pointed to wired blog.
It’s here…http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/09/weve-got-some-b.html

I have not have my own car. Hello… anybody has any similar equation for motor-bike riders. My bike does make similar horny sound. Brummmm Brummmm….Turrrrrnnnn Ooonnnn….
Hehe!!

Swimming Lesson #week2

Note: I am a first time swimmer and the coach who is just there to save in emergency, may not be the proper guide to train. However I am just enjoying my progress with his lessons. I may discover the right way to swim by book/video/proper coach till then I will keep posting the times.

Well I maintained a frequency of 4 days in first week. This is by far a good start. I did practice most of the first two steps. It was a practice of holding breath, floating long, and kicking slowly without bending knees.
Another lesson that I got is here
Step#4: With step#3 kick atmost 10 times and then use hands to pull water back (just like a paddle in a raft)
Give a jerk and move forward. Kick atmost 10 times. Once in forward motion use hands as paddle to pull water back. This will move you faster than just kick.

I have been trying to reach a goal (other side of the pool) using step#4. I am almost done it but will not update this until I am done.
Meanwhile I am supposed to travel out of city next to next week and will miss the swimming.

Swimming lesson day-1

It was a good start of the weekend. A long desire to swim started with a good kick. It must be several attempt/pursuasion/need all kind of force to do this and for many years. First started with the unexpectedly easy enrollment with the swimming center. Started with a proper training with the walking coach (coach was walking above water. kidding).
Step#1: Breathing practice
Take deep breathe from the mouth and then breathe out from the nose inside the water. Practice it for few sets till you are capable of doing it 15-20 times in sequence.
Step#2: Basic floating practice
Take deep breathe from nose this time. Deep your head down in water and try to loosen your body so that it floats. Practice as much to float.
Step#3: Basic float and kick.
While following the step-2, kick your leg without bending knee. Well “without bending knee” was stressed. It worked. You will start moving forward. Practice and practice that’s what was the lesson.

This is going to continue the next day too. I enjoyed the learning and seeing myself covering a good length with swim made be to roar. I called the coach and thanked him, but he sounded like, “its ok, I know if I put a wood in the water it will float and it will move if there is current or if I guide so”. Haha.

Alright, still got to complete the remaining part of the book “Mythical man month”. I will keep updating the learning steps.

Home Loan primer

This site is a good place to know about the Home Loan and EMI terms & condition often talked by bank. I am fallen to look after the information as it looks stupid to talk to bank without knowing this basic terms. And when I know that, I feel just more smarter than the bank personal. Yep!!
http://loans.moneypore.com/primers/PTerm_Clusters.asp

This is just to refer this when I need to look for any loan info and not looking at bookmarks as its not that searchable with general terms.

What if I say this is WAR

@techmeme
Google is about to launch its Browser named Chrome

@GigaOm
GigaOm Interviews John Lilly, CEO Mozilla Corp.

@readwriteweb
Google to offer its own browser

@scoble
Google still has a sense of humor

@Mashable
The “GBrowser” Comes to Life

Chrome Screenshots
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-02-n72.html

I am reading…

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
- by Frederick P. Brooks.

Invited as private beta user of Stackoverflow

Yipeee!!
I got an email on August 18th from Jeff about this invitation. I am glad to have an email from him in my inbox. Hope to contribute to the stackoverflow.com to get in touch with him as much as possible. It will be fun.

“I am sending out emails to the first 100 people for the private Stack
Overflow beta; the email contains the password necessary to log in, as
well as a link to this post. I will continue to email 100 people per
day until all ~500 people on the private beta list have invites.”

I have been reading his blog for a long time by now and once voted for the name of his planned site which is now stackoverflow.