YuviSense: Codin Kid

Naturally., by YuviPanda.

Class/English Teacher.

The time is 3.46 am.Everyone else back home are on their scheduled trip to Narnia.I am wide awake, my mind seems sharper than ever and I’m typing using only the light from the computer screen.I tried to get back to sleep, mind.I counted sheep. Didn’t work.No amount of staring at the ceiling worked either.I think I’ll read something academic.That should put me to sleep.

Coconut Chutney

There seems to be an entire eco-system of bloggers from my home city that I have somehow managed to miss all this time. Simple, non-techy folks who write darn well. There’s a whole community of ‘em here! And I never knew! So, discovering more of ‘em, and adding them to Google Reader…

Met ‘em via IndiBlogger. Coolness
Also read: http://varshamohan.blogspot.com/ This 12 year girl beats me in elegance of English used.

Tags: community, chennai, blogs

Found this on the spam that Akismet caught:

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Please, do not delete the given message. Money obtained from spam will go to the help hungry to children ugand

Funny, ain’t it?
From StatBot: Analysing Scoble’s Link Blog, 2008/02/01 at 9:24 PM

Having a surgery to remove a small muscular growth under my eye tomorrow morning. Wish me luck

The Flickr API is fulla bugs:

Note the dateupload element.

Flickr’s search API is not returning all results, and I’ve been getting empty photo tags on more than one ocassion. What gives?

You get a nice feeling when Rory writes about you.

You get a waaay nicer feeling when Rory writes to you.

I got that waaay nice feeling a few minutes ago. I finally got the excuse I had always wanted, and changed my blog theme to something that is not black. Come, have a look

Sexy Karthick, by YuviPanda.

This guy, is from a photogenic family.

Ghosts on Bikes, by YuviPanda.

Just a couple of bikes. I can still call this “Modern Art”

Unity is strength, by YuviPanda.

Don’t really think I’m good at naming stuff

Tamils have an awesome sense of humor

LSM: I feel Obama needs better posters. American graphic designers seem to lack the ability to deliver a punch.

PM: What do you have in mind?

LSM: This.

(source)

For those who don’t get it -> This is how an average Indian political poster looks like, with the BA and MA degrees though the politician pictured usually never passed out of primary school. And the top three pics are popular figures who support this politician

Together!, by YuviPanda.

All I know is that this was taken outside the Chemistry Lab. No idea who the participants were, but I do know “what” this was about

I have this hate-hate relationship with C# - I can’t go out and proclaim that I hate C#, ‘coz people mistake me for a Linux Zealot then. So, I usually list C# when people ask me what languages I know, but "never" use it out of choice. I always prefer VB, and with VB9, it’s got some kickass XML features that eat C#’s lunch, Dinner, and next day’s breakfast as well

One thing that does drive me crazy is people accusing VB of being "verbose", while C# is "clean". Here’s some code I’m writing:

            PID = dataReader["PID"].ToString() ;
            UID = dataReader["UID"].ToString() ;
            Title = dataReader["TITLE"].ToString() ;
            Description = dataReader["DESCRIPTION"].ToString() ;

            Views = int.Parse(dataReader["VIEWS"].ToString()) ;
            Favs = int.Parse(dataReader["FAVS"].ToString());
            Notes = int.Parse(dataReader["NOTES"].ToString());
            Comments = int.Parse(dataReader["COMMENTS"].ToString());

            SmallURL = dataReader["SMALLURL"].ToString() ;
            MediumURL = dataReader["MEDIUMURL"].ToString() ;
            LargeURL = dataReader["LARGEURL"].ToString() ;
            PhotoURL = dataReader["PHOTOURL"].ToString() ;

            TakenOn = new DateTime(int.Parse(dataReader["TAKENON"].ToString()));
            PostedOn = new DateTime(int.Parse(dataReader["POSTEDON"].ToString()));
            MadeExploreOn = new DateTime(int.Parse(dataReader["MADEEXPLOREON"].ToString()));

            CanDownload = bool.Parse(CanDownload.ToString());

This is C# 2.0, ‘coz I’m writing this to run on Mono, and I don’t want to depend on unsupported features, and their VB compiler ain’t exactly world class right now. If this mess is called "clean", then thank-you-very-much-I’ll-have-my-verbose-VB9-and-eat-your-lunch

Maybe some people prefer this. Maybe I’m doing something wrong here. I still prefer the VB (and Ruby (and Python)) approach of writing for people rather than for computers.