A Bruce Wayne Approach.

"I'm starting to think of Reflection much the way I think about Regular Expressions. If you have to solve your Problem with Reflection, you may just end up with Problems, plural!" - Scott Hanselman I figured waiting to publish something unique/rare/useful would take too long. So here's the first post in 2 months of hiatus.

A lot is happening in my life… New job, new girl & a new car. I need time to settle down and make time to blog on a regular basis. This whole month has gone blank simply because I was a bit overwhelmed. And whatever time I did find at my disposal I have been spending it watching Justice League Unlimited ; God bless the internet & torrent for that ! I had a lot to write about, some of it has bitten dust as I didn't kept notes about what I was gonna say, some ain't relevant anymore...

April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day . I do not personally know of any individual who is Autistic , but I am well aware of the lifelong challenges it poses to those who have it and their families and the hardships caused by it. I wish those reading this post, spread the word and let parents know the fact that "if they feel something is wrong with their child, they should consult 2/3 doctors. And if they tell them that their kid is normal, but can't convince you that there is nothing wrong...

The TED conference organizers have graciously uploaded the video of the presentation made by Dr. Roy Gould, an astrophysicist from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, introducing WorldWideTelescope in partnership with Curtis Wong, principal researcher of Microsoft’s Next Media Research group and head of the project (you might remember him from the Media Browser video on Channel9 with the sexy transition effects and cool sorting and organization features). Besides the streaming Flash video there's...

I'm not a fan of bandwidth throttling even though my bandwidth is under 1mbps and I don't think any consumer would be happy if his/her bandwidth were being throttled. But the recent cable accident in Egypt would make a pretty strong case if an ISP in India were to throttle torrent traffic. If it gives businesses a little more breathing room why not do it? The ISPs can send emails to consumers informing them of the throttling being done and the reasons for it. It's not the end of the world...

Couple of years ago I did a blog post about using PostBackUrl with PHP . Although the code sample I used as illustration was a ASP.net page in it's simplest form, real world ASP.net pages aren't as simple as that. Almost any ASP.net web app that does a little more than just input some form data and flush it out would be doing so with the help of user controls and/or Master Pages. This complicates the HTML form entity names as it prefixes the user specified IDs with a number of _ (underscores...

If you're like me and sick of the plethora of Apps on your facebook profile, well seems the Facebook team has finally heard our cries , soon you will be able to move the unwanted, rarely used apps to your extended profile.

The beauty of PHPLiveX is its astute simplicity that makes it among the best AJAX libraries for PHP. The dev team has now shifted to focus to PHP5, so ver. 2.3 is the last version for PHP4. Although a bit late, it was realized that for the sae of brevity and maintaining clean & tidy code support for outputting the javascript to a file rather than inline was made. Only a minor version too late for developers working on PHP4 code. So although folks using PHPLiveX 2.4 and above get to enjoy a more...

If you haven't watched the trailer of THE DARK KNIGHT yet, I highly recommend you do! If you liked Christopher Nolan & Christian Bale's approach to Batman, it doesn't really take a genius to predict that you will like this summer 2008 release. The high definition trailer is available is available on the official website in QuickTime & Windows Media (as zipped files). Here's the direct link to the videos page.

The promises made in the long forgotten Yahoo! Messenger For Vista preview from January of this year are finally, seemingly materializing. Last night Yahoo! launched the public preview of the Yahoo! Messenger for Vista . And while many bloggers have been contemplating wether it was worth the wait, I say - "You Bet!". Yahoo! has done what the Windows Live Messenger 9 team should have done. That is; show how cool WPF really is! The fugly client of the Yahoo Messenger 8.x family was not only...

Many technology enthusiasts like to share the cool its and bits of the UI from the latest & greatest software that has become their new favorites, among each other. And yes, many a times they do cross the legal boundaries. So what do you do when you get a cease & desist notice? Well, if you're a tech-enthusiast and do not have affiliations with some factory-based piracy operations or much worse - a shoddy design team that's gonna rip off the very company (read Apple/Microsoft or your...

This year's biggest FPS game for the PC - CRYSIS™ ( Crytek / EA Games ) was released worldwide yesterday. Every FPS fan out there must get this game. I can see that the CRYSIS™ Nanosuit will gain the iconic stature shared by the HEV Hazard Suite adorned by Gordon Freeman . It's a shame though that I can't even buy the just-announced nVidia 8800GT priced at a sweet price of $250 I'll need to play it on my home desktop. The game contains - An Epic Single Player Campaign – Players are...

If you need to run the command prompt with elevated privileges on a regular basis if not as often as the standard command prompt. You probably would have have probably created a shortcut in the start menu programs folder or your desktop for easy access. But how do can you visually differentiate between a normal command prompt window from an elevated command prompt window. Of course, the title of elevated CMD.exe is prefixed by "Administrator: " followed by <Your Shortcut Name> e.g...

You gotta be kidding me! Amazon has been granted the patent for Search-Request URL . source: download-squad.com "You're not supposed to be able to patent anything that's obvious. That's a gross oversimplification of complex US patent law..." &#xA0; So it says on Download Squad's post about US Patent office's rejection to Amazon's One-Click patent. Is it not obvious that the box noted by No. 14 in the above diagram (part of the original patent) is nothing but...

Sometimes it becomes hard to find things that otherwise seem blatantly obvious. I was searching on Google to backup the search engines my Firefox and realized that this information isn't easily reachable. Of course hardcore Firefox users would tell you this even when they're half asleep, but me; I don't fall in that category. So here is what needs to be done. Get to the profile folder of Firefox, for typical installations it would be following on xp & Vista. xp » C:\Documents and...