Entries from November 2007 ↓

Ramit Sethi says that if you ask questions, you are smarter than the people who don’t. And I agree with him. We don’t ask for help. It’s either the ego or lack of awareness of a better option.

Ramit has done an excellent job of writing this up, with interesting examples and stories. Go ahead and read up why smart people ask questions, and more importantly why successful people ask for more help!

Do you use Eclipse for development? Or any IDE based on Eclipse? (FlexBuilder / IDEforLaszlo??)

Karan sent a nice post about tips on using Eclipse more effectively. Shortcuts and key combinations that would make it faster to write (and clean up) code!

Taking an excerpt:

I think of Quick Fix as a tool for writing code, not something that just corrects accidental errors. Instead of trying to type perfect code and using Quick Fix only when you make a mistake, try intentionally leaving out code, then using Quick Fix to add it in. For example, call a function that isn’t defined, passing in all the arguments you want to to take. Use Ctrl-1, Enter to create an empty version of the function with all the right parameter types. I also like Quick Fix for creating casts. I assign an expression to a variable without a cast, then use Quick Fix to add it in.

Instead of declaring a variable and then assiging the value of an expression to it, try just writing the expression, then use Quick Assist – Assign to Field (Ctrl-2 L) to generate the declaration. The variable name will be highlighted and the drop down gives you several reasonable alternatives to use for the variable name. Tab again to get to the type to choose an alternative. For example if you had new ArrayList() and used Assign to Field you might choose List from the list of type alternatives.

Looks interesting

Our own Kartik Mistry is on one of the foss.in/2007 promotional posters! Kartik has been contributing to FOSS for over 4 years now and is active contributor to Localization and Debian.

Congratulations Kartik, and keep contributing!

And there are many other friends in the posters: Gopal, Karunakar, Naba Kumar, Shreyas, Pradeepto, Tejas and Suparna. Good work guys! And good work Hari, on the wonderful posters!

Ok, I am flicking this straight from Kapil’s blog. But I loved it!

Observe this image and try to decipher what’s written.

Can’t? Now try pulling the corner of your eyes to make them look like those of a Chinese person. NOW YOU CAN SEE!

What’s the idea? Do Chinese see the world differently ?

The Android SDK is now available! And they are even giving out $10mn in prizes to developers who create some cool mobile applications with Android.

Google’s gPhone plans are shaping up! By the looks of it, Android looks good. I am yet to run my Hello World on it, but the packaging is nice, and the documentation is well done. I think it’s at least better than the iPhone

I am sure there are going to be hundreds of developers who have already jumped on this. I am thinking of what would be a nice application to build for it!!

But I would have loved C# or PHP to program, rather than Java!