DevTalks

Life changes dramatically after you have a kid. So is happening with me. I tend to spend more and more time with family than look at anything else.

Some of you may be aware of the tough times that we went through when Taatya was born. All of that is still fresh in our memories and we pray that no parents in the world have to go through something like that.

The good news is, that Taatya is progressing very well ever since (“touch black” my wife would say)!

Here are a couple of videos of Taatya-

Someone asked me if it was possible to find out all the types that a given .net type references. Something similar to Assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies() which returns all assemblies that this assembly uses in turn.

Surprisingly, I did not find anything pre-existing (or maybe I didn't dig deep enough!).

So, I wrote some code to do this using the reflection API.

You can download it from here.

There is no documentation in the code. Will post the details here sometime later.

PS:

1.       Note that this is just some random code that I wrote in less than an hour with almost zero testing. If this is what you are looking for, I would recommend you do some serious sanity testing before using it.

2.       The code may not satisfy all the scenarios. You may need to add more descriptor methods for additional member types.

Well, found this video somewhere while surfing the internet. Apparently, the lady is used to a type-writer and is using a computer for the first time.

Must watch!

You may remember my last year’s April fool post. Well, that was just one of my crazy April Fool ideas. I have a huge list of them actually.

On this April fool day, however, I am not going to use any of them. Instead, I am going to give them away, so that you can use these ideas to fool others.

Here is the April Fool Ideas document.

PS: You don’t have to be a blogger to use these ideas. Some of them are very trivial and you can easily implement them at home/college/office.

Yesterday, Microsoft and NASA announced a technology agreement under which NASA will make available its huge amount of content comprising of high resolution images and data through Microsoft’s technology. The content will eventually be available for end user’s to explore through Microsoft Research’s  World Wide Telescope.

One more step towards making the universe accessible to the common man!!!

BTW, WWT is fantastic even with it’s current databank. Feel free to explore the universe in high definition!

When I watched a video coverage of a speech delivered by then Senator Barack Obama, I was totally flattered. I was convinced that this is the man who will change the world. His promising and soothing appearance almost made all problems fade away from the mind. It really looked like he had a vision.

But soon after he became the president of the United State, things started going from bad to worse. With the economic recession deepening further and economies across the world trying to dodge total collapse, Obama has some really tough challenges ahead.

He sure talks good. And for a moment, it seems everything is going to be alright. But over a period of time, I have started becoming sceptical. I am now beginning to doubt if with all these challenges thrown at him, Barack Obama can really bring the change he promised – to America and to the world.

I am of course not the only one thinking in this direction. But what made me blog this today is this article in the Times of India-  Obama's star begins to fade - US - World - The Times of India.

It’s a little lengthy, but worth a look.

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad that began its operations last year has been ranked 5th amongst airports across the world.

The airport indeed is very nicely constructed with future in mind… India sure is shining! Umm… at least urban India.

Here is the link to the main article-

RGIA, Hyderabad among top ten airports in world!

My IE homepage is set to Windows Live. And today, I was happily surprised to see the colours of India being used as background image of the default search page.

It’s not something new actually. The search page has been using different images to deliver information (and interesting search points) about different cultures/topics.

With that, Happy Holi to everyone!!!