Suchit Puri

Secret Santa in full swing in Thoughtworks office, the best time of the year ;-)

Long day at work , it’s always exciting before releases #16hrsday

Just started using AltoMail for my Gmail and its awesome , a clean way to manage your mail. AOL i think you have got it this time.

@vikramuk : Facebook asks what I’m thinking. Twitter asks what I’m doing. Foursquare asks where I am. The Internet has turned into a crazy girlfriend. Post from @vikramuk on Twitter (via Scope )

50 Best Songs of 2012 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2012-20121205

The last check-in of the day and the build is red , the story of our lives #temptinglastcheckin

Most of the times people write bad code to complete work faster and end up spending 5 times more effort fixing it #writecleancode I’m at ThoughtWorks Gurgaon (via Scope )

Going to meet Dwight Merriman - CEO, 10gen at the upcoming MongoDB meetup at ThoughtWorks Gurgaon - http://mongodbmeetupgurgaon.eventbrite.com #excited

Audio

Link: Google's opening slides in the trial v. Oracle

vanished : Rainbow Skiers

ministryofsound : Wow, this takes us back! The legendary Larry Levan - one of Ministry of Sound’s earliest club residents and a DJ who helped to shape the club’s music policy - DJing at Paradise Garage back in the day. They definitely don’t make ‘em like this anymore…

8bitfuture : 30% of all US Military aircraft are now unmanned. A Congressional Report has revealed that almost one third of military aircraft are drones - a huge change from a figure of 5% in 2005. The most prolific is the RQ-11 Raven, with 2200 on order and 1300 already in use. The Raven is similar in size to the RQ-7 Shadow pictured, and both are able to be launched by hand and operated by remote control as a surveillance tool, at a distance of around 6 miles and up to a 500 foot altitude.

The one-time pad (OTP) is a type of encryption which has been proven to be impossible to crack if used correctly. Each bit or character from the plaintext is encrypted by a modular addition with a bit or character from a secret random key (or  pad ) of the same length as the plaintext, resulting in a ciphertext. If the key is truly random, as large as or greater than the plaintext, never reused in whole or part, and kept secret, the ciphertext will be impossible to decrypt or break without knowing the key see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad for more details

A Nice Read about No Sql and Polyglot Persistence http://martinfowler.com/articles/nosql-intro.pdf Martin Fowler

exqlusiv-com : Avicii – Levels #006 (Manufactured Superstars Guest Mix) [30-01-2012]

rubthatnub : Via National Geographic

“ this is what 864GB of RAM looks like ” , from 37 signals http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3090-basecamp-nexts-caching-hardware

Today , while working i noticed that because of the cobertura plugin all our unit test in the application were running twice , once for the test phase and another one for the cobertura phase. After some searching i found that the cobertura plugin has to instrument the byte code of the classes and hence needs to run them all over again to achieve that. Isn’t that frustrating , this means that the build time of our app suddenly doubles because we are using cobertura. Its a known issue to the cobertura guys and is also raised as an issue with them http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCOBERTURA-83  since last 4 years , huh. The only solution we could find was not to run the cobertura tasks with the normal clean install , and run it when we pass some parameter to be true. The only downside of this refactoring was that now people will have to run the mvn clean install -Druncobertura=true before committing to check if their test covers everything or not .

Just downloaded the latest firefox release “Aurora” ,from  http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/ The browser looks really promising , at last they have “inspect element” built in now. so probably now you don’t need firebug ( though i could not find script inspected in there ) One on the cool feature they have introduced is the 3d page view . see the below 3d view of facebook page. ra

thanks to the rollout of google’s new privacy policy , now you have “ Presonal Results ” , i am sure you guys will be surprised to see how much google tracks your behavior. And the best part is there is no way you can opt out of this , the only way out is you stop using google . #dontBeEvilGoogle #privacyIntrusion

Link: SoundManager 2 makes it easier to play audio using JavaScript A very fascinating javascript library to stream sounds.This the core library used by sound cloud for their music streaming

Modulo , Integration , Probability is back , Thanks to ‘Network Security’

GOA !!