Efforts to blog

The last time I blogged was when i was in the middle of my final year project's implementation. Since then, things have been quite fast and here i am, working at TNT ICS Express. Its been 2 months and no two days are the same, coupled with excellent peers (which i am inspired to be like) and mates. Like someone said, If you learn from the best you can be the best.

I am working principally on technology like Spring (as part of TNT objective to replace some EJB services with Spring framework). TNT focuses on standards and code quality and practice. So for the time being, my main objectives are to abide by those standards and get used to code "cleanly", write my unit test and stuffs like that.

P.S My colleague pointed out to me that this blog requires an urgent update. Hope this is the first step. But I'll try to blog about all the new stuffs that I am learning.

Snowy weather

This was one of the fabulouos moment i have ever had. It was snowing today, the first time since i came here. So it was kinda exciting. I got up early as usual to attend lecture, but then apparently lecture was cancelled due to this bad weather (instead i found this exciting). So I visited a nearby park where a lot of people were just having fun (skiing, though the slope was not that much appropriate for skiing). As you might have guessed, its freezing cold here while my friend Mauritius are complaining about the VERY HOT weather:)..



Actually today, i slipped and fell down twice while walking on these snowy path. But lucky me, i was not injured.. I will sign off here itself and by the way, congratulation to Liverpool:). I wonder why everytime when Ballack mentions about revenge with the opponents, Chelsea eventually loses (the same happened when chelsea played manchester)

Microsoft Inspiration Tour

Today, I attended the Microsoft Inspiration Tour which was held at the university. Its aim was to expose the latest technology that Microsoft are currently working on. Among those discuss were Silverlight and XNA. I must say, i liked the silverlight stuff and i will definitely have a go at it. Silverlight are mainly used to create user-rich experience on the net. Below are some links to website that used Deepzoom(part of the silverlight)

DEEPZOOM
http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
http://www.laguna-coupe.com/
http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/yose_deepzoom/ClientBin/TestPage.html
http://www.kbb.com/kbb/PerfectCarFinder/PhotoEdition.aspx
http://robburke.net/images/deeplol.html

GAMES
http://linerider.com
http://www.popfly.com/users/Adam/Crayon%20Cannon

VIDEO
http://www.smoothhd.com/
http://kirill.uk.msn.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/trailers/jumper.html
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/trailers/vegas/default.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/default.aspx


The thing that really amazed me was that some of the website contain around 2000 pictures with each one of size 100Mb. YESSSSS, you've read it correctly, its 100MB. Now you must be wondering 2000x100mb(Thats pretty large to put on the website). Basically silverlight kinda create many panels for each images and it sends only what the user is looking at(hence reducing the resolution to a very lower value). And would you believe that all these was created in just 10-20 minutes!!!!

Well dont mix up things that i wrote in my previous post on Open Source but i really liked the silverlight technology.