Why I Bought A New ‘Old MacBook’ Pro

It’s been quite some time that I have been wishing to buy a MacBook Pro, and I eagerly waited for the October 14 refresh of Apple’s top of the line notebooks. As expected, the refresh happened on the scheduled date and Mr. Jobs, this time (for a change) along with few of his colleagues wowed us all once again with his expert presentation skills, launching a whole new product redesign.

So if everything went right then what’s up with this freaking title?

Actually even though I think that the new MacBook Pros are designed really well, there is not one but two really big problems.

* Super glossy screen
* Button-less trackpad

I had a chance to handle the new MacBook Pro and seriously I couldn’t deal with glare at all. I wear glasses and that much glare really gave me a headache after a long time in front of the screen. I already use a HP dv2519 which is really glossy, but... Read More >

Object Oriented Design In Programming

Problem solving while programming, using object oriented design always starts with the questions like:

1. What Objects should be created to solve this problem?

For example, if we are making a project for arranging books in a library, then the objects that come to mind will be the books, the shelves we keep them in, inventory book, the catalog etc.

2. What are the properties of the object?

A property is something that defines the characteristics of the object. In our problem, a few properties are, the subject the book is based on, its author, the number of books a shelf can hold in,

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A Report on Three Classic Personal Computers

While browsing through some old backups yesterday, I found an illustrated report titled ‘A Report on Three Classic Personal Computers‘ which I had submitted under my “Small Computer Systems: Organization and Architecture” subject.

If you are curious about the ancestors of the machine you are reading this post on, then this report really makes an interesting read. The content requirement for the report was as under:

The classic systems must have been made within the years 1972 to 1990 and be non-IBM-PC compatible (i.e. not running MS-DOS). The systems must also be predominantly consumer products, not systems that were intended for use as dedicated computers for the military or business or terminals that connected to mainframes.

Structure of the Report:

* Summary
* Table of Contents
* Introduction
* Main Body
* Conclusion
* References

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I Am Buying A Macbook Pro

For all my software development days ahead, I want them to be well spent on a Macbook Pro. The main reason for me deciding to take the plunge to the Mac world is because of the following reasons:

* Dual booting with Windows either on Boot Camp or working simultaneously on both using Parallels (The joy of getting the best of both worlds).
* Rock solid UNIX platform.

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I Survived The Large Hadron Collider

Every time scientists come up with some brilliant and pioneering concept, some stupid ignorants (read TRP seeking News Channels) come up with their own version of the story on how this is going to affect the world in all the wrong ways.

This time it is the LHC and the myths regarding the doomsday scenarios like black holes, killer strangelets, magnetic monopoles, and vacuum bubbles and how this is going to destroy Earth. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons with very high kinetic energy. Its is built to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. It is theorized that

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Lyrics Of The Week - In The Beginning

Since music is like a second food for me, I have decided to post each week, my favorite lyrics from a song. So here is the first one from many to come.

This one is like my recent anthem. Here I am just posting my favorite part of the entire song.

From the song - In The Beginning by K’Naan. Get It here from iTunes

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Google Launches Google Chrome Browser

Google yesterday launched Google Chrome browser which is based on an open source project named ‘Chromium’. It is currently in beta version, uses ‘webkit’, the same engine that runs Apple’s Safari browser, and is available for Windows XP/Vista only. Google says it is working on a Mac and Linux version as well.

To explain the features and motivations for the browser, Google sent a comic to developers around the world and also made the comic available in Google books. Going through the comic one can easily understand the vision behind Chrome and the features it brings in. I highly reccomend reading it and learn how Google envisions its browser to be a whole new operating platform.

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How To Redirect Your-Domain.com to www.Your-Domain.com

In the context of the directories at the server, http://your-domain.com is the root folder. The www part in http://www.your-domain.com is a subdirectory or a subdomain which usually redirects to the root folder. The “www” prefix has no meaning in the way the main Web site is shown. The “www” prefix is simply one choice for a Web site’s host name. It is mostly used because a host name for the web-server is often ‘www’.

If you are using an Apache server to host your site, then the best way to redirect visitors from http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com is by using a .htaccess file.

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Blog's Design Change

Today I changed my blog's design. Am very happy and satisfied with the new theme and design. :-)

Applications That Power Me And My Compuuter

Here is a list of all the applications that I use for technical as well as general purposes. When it comes to ‘getting the job done’, these applications are of great value.

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All Time Favorite Songs List

Hello Everyone

I love listening to music for all moods, I just make sure it fits my mood for the time.

My iPod currently has 8000 songs, and 25 custom playlists. According to iTunes’ stats, my most favorite track has been played 60 times (and increasing). The range of music I listen to, is as diverse as the number of ‘blue screen of death’ errors in Windows!

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An Introduction And Overview Of LINQ

Hi everyone

With the release of .NET framework 3.5, Microsoft introduced lots of new features. One of the very important feature introduced is LINQ, which stands for Language Structured Integrated Query. I have been studying LINQ since the last 2 months and I find it an excellent approach to data management. In this post, I will give a brief overview about it.

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My Blog

Hi Everyone

This blog is my linkback to my own hosted blog at Pushkar Arora. You can view all my posts there. Below is a screenshot of what my blog looks like.



Hope to see you at PushkarArora.com.