The Last Lecture

I have been suggested by one my friend Kerri about this video and the book published on the same recently. This is about a person named Prof Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) from Carnegie Mellon University and his childhood dreams.

I have gone through this You tube video and really got encouraged and touched by his excellent speech.

I have got the lessons for my life.

1. Look/find something good from every person

2. There is always a way to make things better

English Phrases Came Across

I love readily newspaper and online news every day and it happens that I come across many good English phrases. The better way to remember them is to create a blog entry, so that I can share with other people too. Here I would like to share the same and keep updating it.

Explanations are taken from

2008-08-18

breathe down someone’s neck

to pay very close attention to what someone does in a way that annoys or worries them.

1. It’s awful having to work with a boss who’s breathing down your neck the whole time.

2. You love Visual Basic 6.0, but .NET is breathing down your neck.

spill the beans

to disclose/reveal the secret

The employees must not spill the beans about the company after leaving the organization.

pit against

to set in direct opposition or competition

1. a war that pitted brother against brother

2. In the game, the weaker was pitted again the stronger person

WideStudio IDE

Today it happened to be to find out about WideStudio IDE primarily developed in Japan.  It’s an open source GUI based application development environment providing support for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. It has been developed in C++. The following features really attract the cross platform developers.

• Multi platform application development. For example, if the application is developed in Windows, can also run in Linux
• Multi Encoding support for Unicode (UTF8), EUCJP and SJIS. It handles encoding independently of the encoding of the underlying platform.
• Freely available for personal and business use.  No need to publish the source
• Application development is possible for Desktop, large server and even for embedded devices
• Supports C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, OCaml
• Multi Widget Toolkit support

There are many good open source IDEs are available for applicatin development presently.  God bless open source.

WebKit – The Web Browser Engine

Today, I have been trying to work with CDT – C/C++ Development Tool plug-in in Eclipse. There was some problem of tool chain being not enabled in Eclipse. After going through so many web pages up-down and left-right, I didn’t find much help for the same, but yes I found this interesting Web Browser Engine called WebKit.

WebKit is an open source project and to my surprise, many browsers and mobile platforms have started using it. There were bigs names like Google Android, Nokia S60, Motorola MOTOMAGX, Apple iPhone and the list was going on. It seems that it has become de facto standard for browsing engine.

WebKit usage

Google Insight

Recently Google has introduced a new tool called Google Insight for Search Beta.

It is primarily aimed for Marketing people who are very much interested in regional and demographic impacts of a product. It helps them to take a proper decision which product can work for which kind of environment and what kind of people.