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Greek Mythology meets Geek humor (and modern science)

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میبل اور میں is one of Patras Bokhari's celebrated essays from the book Patras Ke Mazameen (پطرس کے مضامین). Here is a small translation effort on the piece where line by line transformation from Urdu to English was kept in consideration. Of course the vastly different lexical rules of both the languages make it impossible for this metamorphosis to be both accurate and retain the original meaning

Monis Iqbalhttps://profiles.google.com/112558040604197483875noreply@blogger.com0Karachi, Pakistan24.893379 67.02806124.432475 66.39634699999999 25.354283 67.659775tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6324208938949222247.post-31856701393062022762010-09-09T08:40:00.001+05:002011-12-19T22:28:50.559+05:00

My take on the JDK 7 release date announcement http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/rethinking_jdk7 Enjoy and do post comments in case you like it. Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEv7VVuDfEU

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Term #NOSQL (Not Only SQL) props up frequently these days, sometimes rivalling the traditional SQL-based datastores and on a few occasions augmenting it.Both of these categories of datastores (databases) are no doubt quite different from each other, have different philosophies behind their implementation and most importantly, have different vendors. Why don't the conventional SQL-based vendors

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As you may already know about the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie, casting the Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) as the detective himself and Jude Law as Dr. Watson, I'm pretty much excited about this adaption of my favorite literary character and the man of scientific methods - Sherlock Holmes.The title of this blog also bear a reference of the residence of Mr. Holmes (221b Baker Street), a place I

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I have worked extensively with times. By time, I mean the software representation of time and the mapping of various concepts surrounding this tangible entity. Handling of Time Zone, Daylight Saving Time (DST) is a pretty important use case in most softwares. All programming languages have libraries specifically designed to manipulate time easily. However, the implementation of these APIs isn't

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It's been a long long time since my last post. During this quiet period on this blog, I've been through many things in life, both virtually and physically.Many a times I thought of writing something but didn't come up with something substantial to share, there are still many partial posts lying in my repository, don't know when they will be published.One reason for this tranquil phase is the fact

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"Google it!" is a more popular term than "Just do it!". The search engine giants have had more success stories than anyone could have thought.From Google search to Gmail, Youtube, Google code and what not, everyone loves Google, even guys at Microsoft. Their workplace, open culture, Phd employees, the whole network is cherished.They have become the godfather of technology, controlling things they

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Geeky comics that covers developer-hacker-project manager relationships and tussles, Open Source software, anti-Microsoft culture, Linux, Git etc.Comics are updated more than once, within a week. Some only discuss the recent trends or buzz in the software industry but on the whole there is an intriguing story line with adorable characters that keep you wanting for more.I recommend you geeks to go

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Template Method Algorithm aka TMA (GoF) has been my all time favorite among Design Patterns. You can find a very good explanation of TMA in 'Head First Design Patterns' as it sheds light on some aspects even missing in GoF. Here are some slides on TMA that I made few years back:Template Method PatternView more presentations from monisiqbal.Simply put, it streamlines the most trivial usage of

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The utmost crucial Java 7 release will no more be a responsibility of Sun as the new release will now be spearheaded by Oracle.I got acquainted by the word Oracle even before I knew it's literal meaning, much earlier than I came to know of Java or Sun. The reason being the billboards in my country advertising courses for Oracle and that was during my 9th grade, back then I knew nothing worthy

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"A world without String is Chaos" (remember this from Mouse Hunt?)My turn: "A language with befuddling support for String is annoying" :)Java is not a pure object-oriented language, mostly the impurity comes from the primitive type support. Although primitive types provide fast access and readability, however mixing them with their OOP counterparts is always frustrating. Same goes with C#.The

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Check out my brother's post story online: castle and the juiceMarvelous piece of work. I don't know why he was hiding it from me.

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Three years ago, yes i think it's been 3-4 years since dipping my fingers in the world of Functional Programming. Although XSLT is not a functional language but it strives to follow the FP guidelines and it is the weapon that I hold responsible for my First (FP) Blood.I started using XSLT in .net, producing result sets in XML and writing XSLs for the visually appealing transformations. First it

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Web 2.0 complemented with Social networking has been responsible for a plethora of web applications of unique nature in the near past. Various frameworks, technologies and protocols have emerged to support this trend. Even the server technologies are emerging to support the movement (e.g. by solving the scalability issue with cloud computing).Some applications are so dense in terms of user base

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Object oriented programming has given this industry numerous gifts and is continuing to prosper. It has been responsible for new methodologies, languages, frameworks etc. As for AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming) which is a different programming paradigm, never seen as a competitor/substitute to OOP but rather a complement to enhance SOC (Separation of Concerns) experience.Design patterns have

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A common interview question, although not yet asked from me (thankfully). Most people say, 'because it was IN at that time', 'my parents forced me to', 'I idealize my ....' and so on. My answer: Age Of Empires II It was the year 2000 when I got my hands on this wonderful game when I was studying in first year (XI). I was obsessed by the game, it's story line, game play, sound track,

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