Les Aventures de Techiemaque…

And more…

Robert LongDan sat brooding over the naked body that lay spread eagled on the floor. His brows furrowed as he fixed his gaze on the nether regions of the body. His eyes glazed and he looked up at the glittering sky through the glass ceiling of the Loo’vre.

A poke in his ribs snapped him out of his reverie. He stood up at looked around at the painted urinals of Loo’vre. Considered by many as being a work of art unto themselves, the Loo’vre complex was highly protected with a multi layered security arrangement, the last line of defence being “The O”. Nobody knew where it was and what it was supposed to do but people feared it nonetheless and the thieves avoided the complex at night.

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Tags: da vince code, lifebuoy, loovre, spoof

And one more…

Scene – I

“So what is the least distance the fly must travel to reach from one vertex of the cube to the one exactly opposite to it ? Remember that the cube is hollow and the fly cannot fly !” – Bang ! It was like getting shot point-blank with a dum-dum bullet straight in the stomach where one has to endure endless pain without dying !!! What is the use of a fly that cannot fly, was the first question that came to my mind ! Do we still call it a fly ? In the meantime the guy taking my interview was still looking at me expectantly, as if I was the only hope the fly had to go from one vertex of the cube to another….
Pfffffffttt….. the lights went out….. in my head…. Somebody blew out the only candle that had been showing me the way all along….
I looked up at him and muttered something about the fly doing some amazing stunt and landing at the other vertex of the cube…. He wasn’t amused…. And I guess neither would have been the fly….

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Tags: c++, fly, Software, virtual function

Another one dug out from the depths of the old blog….

Err… The baton has been passed. The colors of space have faded into the sunset.

From the depths of Core Dumps the Error has risen… The slanting beam of highlight from the sole Breakpoint that was hanging beside a loop cast an eerie shadow on his face beneath the veil of darkness. The face that stared at him held fear, desperation and dejection. Soon the news will spread far and wide. He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named has risen, at last, out of the infinite loop.

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Tags: avada kedavda, breakpoint, core dump, cruciatus, debug, harry potter, muggle, watchpoint

Introduction

I recently shifted my blog from Dreamhost to Mosso. Dreamhost was constantly throwing up out of memory errors for my blog and there was no quick way to detect why other than disabling all my plugins and enabling them one by one. That is one route I did not want to take. I was on the lookout for a VPS and was on the verge of settling on Slicehost when Craig suggested I give Mosso a go as it provided a better value for me with their pay as you go bandwidth and secondly it was owned by the same company that owns Slicehost, Rackspace. I finally settled for a 256MB/10GB CloudServer from Mosso.

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Tags: eaccelerator, htaccess, iptables, lighttpd, mod_magnet, mod_rewrite, mosso, mysql, performance, php, slicehost, wordpress, wp-super-cache

This is a post I wrote 3 years back when I was trying my hand at creative writing… It was lost in cyberspace until recently when I chanced upon it… Hope you like it…

For the uninitiated, 15th of August is the Indian Independence Day…

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Tags: free, independence, india, short, stories

When Iron Maiden performed for the first time in India, on the 17th of March, 2007 at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore, Bruce Dickinson, in a response to the ergo familiar complaint of Indian fans, “We have waited for 17 years for you guys….”, replied that it won’t be 17 months before they come back.

And they were true to their words. Their Somewhere Back in Time World Tour stopped twice in India, kicking off the tour officially in Mumbai, BKC on the 1st of Feb, 2008 and now in 2009 on the 15th of Feb in Bangalore, Palace Grounds.

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Tags: concert, Events, Friends, iron maiden

t was early last year when Dipankar and I were approached by SAP Press to author a book on SAP MII 12.0.

From there, it has been a very enriching journey for both of us as we discovered that we had a lot more to learn, both about SAP MII as well as the art of writing a book.

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Tags: book, mii, sap, Software

… And especially when Craig is around with his camera…

Well, this happened at BarCon08 in Bangalore, the night before SAP TechED.  After a round of drinks and Dinner at the 13th Floor, I wanted to have ice-cream and thus dragged the gang, including Craig, to a famous ice-cream parlour (Corner House) on Residency Road, which was roughly round a Kilometer from the venue of BarCon, on foot.

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Tags: bpx, community, Events, Friends, humour general, sap, SCN, sdn, teched

Fellow SAP Mentor Jon Reed of JonERP.com who made it a point to be physically at SAP TechEd Vegas and virtually in Berlin and Bangalore, did a small virtual round table with SAP Mentors Dipankar Saha and Somnath Manna of IBM India and Abesh Bhattacharjee (yes… me  ).

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Tags: bangalore, interview, jonerp, sap, teched

Tour de Flex is like mana from heaven for newbie developers who want to know what Adobe Flex & AIR are capable of.  It is an application built with Adobe AIR which is basically a component browser which showcases the Flex components with over 200 examples, source code and links to the relevant documentation.

What’s more, is that it is also available as an Eclipse plugin which enables you to lookup these examples and source code directly from the Eclipse IDE. This is specifically useful if you are using Adobe FlexBuilder to create your Flex projects.

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Tags: adobe, air, download, flex, tour de flex