Posts made in January, 2010

iPad vs. blu-tack

Posted by Pourya Shahroudi on Jan 28, 2010 in Daily | 3 comments

Not sure why everybody is so crazy about iPad. So far I haven’t read anything special it. I guess some people are getting used to buying anything Steve Job builds.
Ipad

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Creating a quick sequence diagram online

Posted by Pourya Shahroudi on Jan 28, 2010 in Software Development | 0 comments

web based sequence diagram is a website you can use to easily create quick sequence diagrams. The input to the website is a text-area that you can use to enter the commands to create the sequence diagrams. There are also templates available that you could start with. The nice thing about it is that you can quickly learn how to use it. By just looking at the code of a few templates should be enough for you to start creating your sequence diagram. The output of the program is a .png file. I find this tool really useful for scenarios in which you need to create a quick diagram to demonstrate your idea.
Here is the sample input to the program:

USER->SERVER: validateUser(name,password)
activate SERVER
SERVER->userMapper:(name,password)
activate userMapper
userMapper->SERVER:result
deactivate userMapper
SERVER->USER:
deactivate SERVER
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Funny job ads

Posted by Pourya Shahroudi on Jan 27, 2010 in Funny | 0 comments

Here are some funny job adds recruiters are using to get peoples peoples attention.
Job ad
Job ad

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Crystal Galaxy 1.0b

Posted by Pourya Shahroudi on Jan 26, 2010 in Daily | 0 comments

Crystal Galaxy
“Crystal galaxy” a game powered by the “Effect Engine”, Joseph’s JavaScript/DHTML library that provides the framework for displaying and animating all the graphics, playing all the sounds & music, handling the keyboard & mouse, and sprite collision detection. One of the best games I have seen on the web. It runs smoothly. The team that designed the game has also provided their API to develpopers so that they can create their own game using the API.

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C Programming Summary of Operators and Precedence

Posted by Pourya Shahroudi on Jan 25, 2010 in Software Development | 0 comments

Following is the list of operators in C. The highest priority operators are listed first.

 Operator       Operation                       Evaluated.

  ()            parentheses                   left to right
  []            square brackets               left to right

  ++            increment                     right to left
  --            decrement                     right to left
(type)          cast operator                 right to left
  *             the contents of               right to left
  &             the address of                right to left
  -             unary minus                   right to left
  ~             one's complement              right to left
  !             logical NOT                   right to left

  *             multiply                      left to right
  /             divide                        left to right
  %             remainder (MOD)               left to right

  +             add                           left to right
  -             subtract                      left to right

  >>            shift right                   left to right
  <<            shift left                    left to right

  >             is greater than               left to right
  >=            greater than or equal to      left to right
  <=            less than or equal to         left to right
  <             less than                     left to right
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