Google Calendar

So far it seems very promising :)

Edit: Now if there was only a way to sync it with my phone ....

Oldest Account

Just going through a list of accounts at places that I have ... my oldest one is my first email address that I created at hotmail.com .... I created that account 9 years ago !!!! I still use it but mainly as a junk mail collector

Whats your oldest account and do you still use it ?

OS

"In this a blow at the hardware level a realist"

I beat you to it abhi lol

Day Light Savings is such a pain

Finally

Finally I completed the challenges on slyfx.com ..... today after Tom posted something about Java, i decided to have one more go at the final challenge, 20 minutes later I was done .... now hopefully the people on that site come back and write the new levels.

Eclipse + PHP

If anyone is using Eclipse with the PHPeclipse plugin and you want to disable the at times frustating auto completing of quotes follow these steps:-

Windows -> Preferences -> PHPeclipse -> PHP, then select the Typing tab and uncheck the two options to enable closing of quotes

CodeIgniter

This PHP framework is probably one of the easiest frameworks to get your head around. It was released a couple of days ago and it has been real impressive. Though relatively new it has a lot of the standard features while offering new stuff like Image Manipulation, Email Class, Encryption, Benchmarking etc. The best part about it is the low learning curve. As part of an experiment I recoded the entire CougarCS library with it and it was quite a pleasant experience.

Replacing the library with this code is another issue, but it was done real quick

Have a go at it here ==> CodeIgniter

How people find this site

Here are some interesting keywords that people use while searching and then stumble on my blog:-

will kashif and i get into a big fight today? (Google) ==> this one had me laughing, is it you shey ?? lol j/k

"Kashif Deniro" (Google)

DirectShow Syllabus (AltaVista) ==> people still use AV ???

Googlefasting

Chris Pirillo has been trying googlefasting, which is quite interesting since I have thought about and even tried in the past( and failed !!! ). My search engine of choice was Yahoo! ( no surprise there ) but it just didnt cut it. A feeling you always get is that maybe your missing out on something from the search results and then you end up going to google

Conclusion: You can stay away from their services like mail, maps, but when it comes to search it is very difficult to replace Google. Maybe if Yahoo improves on its mindset feature switching could be a little more easier.

CougarCS Career Fair

All the hard work paid off. It was a complete success !!!!

Shey where are the pics ??

was it just me or the superbowl ads this year were just terrible ?

Interesting Article

Claims college students are not ready for life

Twenty percent of U.S. college students graduating from 4-year colleges don't have the skills to handle tasks like estimating whether their car has enough gas, or calculating the total cost of ordering office supplies, a new study has found.

No School Friday

Nothing like that feeling, for the rest have a nice day at school :)

More MSN 8.0 Invites

Its invites time again, I have 6 to spare, first five comments get them

I came back from Florida yesterday, here is one of many pics I took there :)

Well im off to Florida today, should be back by Tuesday !!! And to everyone a Happy New Year

MSN Messenger 8.0 Invites

I have 4 of them, if any one wants them leave a comment

Update: All gone, as soon as I get more Ill post em here.

So fresh, so clean clean

I just reformatted that machine removing all the junk that I have had to install for these classes :)

I have also switched from AVG to Avast because after some research I found that Avast has better detection rates and its real time scanning is quite powerful

btw long what did shon do ?

Its Over !!!

Finally this wacky semester is done with ..... wow, seemed like forever. Definitely some fun and weird times this semester like:

Hurricane Rita screwing up thing like nobody imagined.
15 ppl in one elevator going for the arch exam
the rent a coder cheating scandal
more than 12 hours worth of coding for the multimedia mid term !!
The architecture debacle ..... ( everyone who was in the class knows what Im talking about )

Anyone have other stories worth mentioning ?

8 more days before the end of the semester ... cant wait !!!!