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Jun

04

2009

Startupcity 09 is here!

Get set geeks! Siliconindia is organizing Startupcity’09 on June 6th (Saturday in Bangalore). The most promising technology startups will be showcasing their products, so roll up your sleeves meet the Startups that will become tomorrow’s industry leaders.

So be sure to visit the event website. http://www.siliconindia.com/startupcity_09/index.html and register for free.

Some key startups from Bangalore:

24x7 Software Technologies, 3DSoc, aiSolve, a2Zapps.com, Adroi, Ashvatec, Bredge, Callipus, Craftmygift.com, CashNxt, Cogzidel, ComAvia, Crederity, Edupeet, Evanor, Evolus Solutions, Glopore IMS, GPans, Gridlogics, In4 Velocity, Infosoft Global, Insta Intelligence, Interchain Solutions, Joaffair, Kaizentric, Kacper Technologies, Kush IT Solutions, Latlong, LeadSimplified, LyteCube, MapmyIndia, MastMobile, mCheck, Mobien Technologies, MobileOne, Mobiquest, Mobisoc, myMobilePhone, Mymo Wireless, Neev Technologies, NetMagic, NetWeb Technologies, NextBit Computing, OngoBiz Solutions, Percept Origin, Rocketalk, Saankhya, SOA IT Solutions, Softscript, Sonorent, Sryas, Stylus, Taroby, ThinkWorks, TalentPool, Tratum, VayavyaLabs, VLife Technologies, Vidteq, WandFlower, Wealth India, Webbazzar (eMarket Web Technologies), Webvivah, Winnou, YoPLR, Yos Technologies

Apart from startups, the event also brings together several VCs and investors including:

Accel Partners, Artiman Ventures, Axon Ventures, Battery Ventures, Bluerun Ventures, Canaan Partners, DFJ, Epiphany Ventures, Greylock, Helion Ventures, IDG, Indian Angel Network, Inventus Capital, Jafco Asia Ventures, Lightspeed, Mercatus Capital, Mumbai Angels, NEA-Indo US Ventures, Nexus India Capital, Ojas Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Reliance Capital, Seeed Fund, Sequioa Capital, Singularity Ventures, UTI Ventures, Venture East, Walden International

So for all the startup lovin geeks out there, this is _the_ place to be this Saturday. See you there!

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Mar

20

2009

Main Page - How to be a Programmer (2008)

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Mar

19

2009

bluepillproject.org

The original Blue Pill proof of concept code has been written by Joanna Rutkowska, while working for COSEINC, and presented at the Black Hat Briefings 2006 in Las Vegas on August 3rd. Joanna Rutkowska then formed a small team of researchers inside COSEINC, Advanced Malware Labs, which was supposed to focus on further research into virtualization based malware. However after just a few months the priorities of work have been shifted, resulting in Blue Pill research activities being ceased.

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Mar

17

2009

Don’t fear the fsync! | Thoughts by Ted

A successful close does not guarantee that the data has been successfully saved to disk, as the kernel defers writes. It is not common for a file system to flush the buffers when the stream is closed. If you need to be sure that the data is physically stored use fsync(2).

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Mar

06

2009

Wolfram Blog : Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming!

The way humans normally communicate is through natural language. And when one’s dealing with the whole spectrum of knowledge, I think that’s the only realistic option for communicating with computers too. Of course, getting computers to deal with natural language has turned out to be incredibly difficult. And for example we’re still very far away from having computers systematically understand large volumes of natural language text on the web

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Feb

19

2009

assertTrue(this): Inheritance as Antipattern

Allen Holub tells of once attending a Java user group meeting where James Gosling was the featured speaker. According to Holub, during the Q&A session, someone asked Gosling: “If you could do Java over again, what would you change?” Gosling replied: “I’d leave out classes.”

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Feb

19

2009

Fabulous Adventures In Coding : References are not addresses

I review a fair number of C# books; in all of them of course the author attempts to explain the difference between reference types and value types. Unfortunately, most of them do so by saying something like “a variable of reference type stores the address of the object”. I always object to this. The last time this happened the author asked me for a more detailed explanation of why I always object, which I shall share with you now:

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Feb

19

2009

I know the answer (it's 42) : Back to basic: Series on dynamic memory management

So here is my attempt to write up a series on GC. I plan to cover the basic stuff and then move into details of .NET CF GC including performance, profiling. I plan to cover bits of desktop .NET GC as well (but for that Maoni’s blog is a better resource) The first two in this series is already published. I will keep this post updated to act as an index into the series.

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Feb

13

2009

Retro Programming

Programming for the 80’s Generation…

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Feb

05

2009

Why Software Suck

(1) Patterns and XP are wishy-washy, unscientific, unproven, and without any mathematical basis.

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