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		<title>Compile Ruby Script To Exe (MS DOS or Windows)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I spent some time compiling a small ruby script of mine into an executable. Why? well, I don&#8217;t have concerns of hiding the code but this was a requirement of one of the users of my script. I started with a Google search on such compilers. RubyScript2Exe is what I used. After installing it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatilearned2day.wordpress.com&amp;blog=298782&amp;post=101&amp;subd=whatilearned2day&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is it possible that I call function with NULL object without segfaulting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh yes it is! While debugging my project at work I came across this interesting piece. Inspector (watch or expressions in visual studio) showed me the variable with which the function was being called was NULL (0&#215;0) i.e. considered invalid and still the function call went fine. This variable was initialized later. I thought this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatilearned2day.wordpress.com&amp;blog=298782&amp;post=95&amp;subd=whatilearned2day&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blank Page on install page of wordpress &amp; resetting the forgotten root password for MySQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress installation has been painless for me always but today it got me into trouble. Well, it was not wordpress it was mysql. Well, well not even mysql me myself. I forgot the root password. Whole story here - I was setting up wordpress. It showed me a blank page while accessing wp-admin/install.php page for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatilearned2day.wordpress.com&amp;blog=298782&amp;post=88&amp;subd=whatilearned2day&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flex: Storing custom user strings in controls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few days back while I was programming on Flex this cool problem came through. Problem was that I created buttons dynamically in the code based on some parameters passed to the function. These parameters would decide the label, id and color of the button. In addition to this there was an information called category which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatilearned2day.wordpress.com&amp;blog=298782&amp;post=82&amp;subd=whatilearned2day&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desktop Twitter &#8211; twitter out of the browser</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desktop Twitter is an Adobe AIR desktop application written in Flex (Actionscript) which I wrote up few days back. It is an attempt to bring the twitter experience out of the browser. Current version of the application that am giving out so it contains minimal features. A screenshot is shown at left. Twitter Rest APIs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatilearned2day.wordpress.com&amp;blog=298782&amp;post=75&amp;subd=whatilearned2day&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extracting full path while uploading a file to server in Flex</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>awmanoj</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whatilearned2day.wordpress.com/?p=69</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my free prototyping time I decided writing a simple uploader in AIR (what else?). I could create a working application in minutes using FileReference class and its method browse() (for opening a File Selection Dialog) and upload() method to upload the file. But something looked odd. I wished to show the user the filepath [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatilearned2day.wordpress.com&amp;blog=298782&amp;post=69&amp;subd=whatilearned2day&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A generic binary search implementation in C &#8211; thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wish you a very happy new year! This is an attempt to discuss a problem I&#8217;ve come across. Some common things that I would like to suggest people going for computer science interviews are - listen to the question with full concentration on every word; avoid wandering for the similar questions that your friend discussed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatilearned2day.wordpress.com&amp;blog=298782&amp;post=68&amp;subd=whatilearned2day&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Power of plain text, the power of being simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>awmanoj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we see the convergence of technologies through web, I think plain text is going to play a crucial role in delivering a standard cross platform solution for communication. It has already taken the center stage in form of XML. Debate on simplicity (or human side of technology) and performance will, I think, have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatilearned2day.wordpress.com&amp;blog=298782&amp;post=66&amp;subd=whatilearned2day&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orthogonality and its importance in software development</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>awmanoj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been lately reading The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt &#38; David Thomas. Been onto a chapter about decoupling requirement in the development of software, I thought of putting few lines on the weblog. Orthogonality is derived originally from Geometry where it is meant to illustrate two lines which meet at right angles and hence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatilearned2day.wordpress.com&amp;blog=298782&amp;post=65&amp;subd=whatilearned2day&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building Strings in Ruby</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>awmanoj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If efficiency is important to you, don&#8217;t build a new string when you can append items onto an existing string. Constructs like str &#60;&#60; &#8216;a&#8217; + &#8216;b&#8217; or  str &#60;&#60; &#8220;#{var1} #{var2}&#8221; create new strings that are immediately subsumed into the larger string. This is exactly the thing to avoid. Use str &#60;&#60; var1 &#60;&#60; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatilearned2day.wordpress.com&amp;blog=298782&amp;post=63&amp;subd=whatilearned2day&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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