Useful Guitar chords

Small incident on the way to Jiri, December 2010

Now that I've recovered from the incident, wanted to share the experience.

The Jump

Happy in the air...

Oh crap, the Gravity! 9.8 m/s² , Damn you Newton!

The Result, :-)

Silverlight, PivotViewer Control

PivotViewer

The Silverlight PivotViewer makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data on the web in ways that are powerful, informative, and valuable. PivotViewer lets us present thousands of things at once and visualize them in a way that exposes value from the group. PivotViewer experiences range in complexity to build. All involve the creation of a collection. PivotViewer is now available for you to begin building and embedding your collections directly onto your webpage.

More on:

http://www.silverlight.net/learn/pivotviewer/

The Coolest Microsoft Tool You May Never See

Written by Rob Salkowitz

Pivot, which was positioned as a reinvention of the Web browser when it debuted in 2009, is now PivotViewer, a Silverlight app that enables end users to instantly build custom visualizations of dynamic datasets. By organizing the data visually, it lets you discover relationships at a glance that would ordinarily take hours of number-crunching. You can also slice, dice, zoom, and scatter the data, even as it's updating from a remote Website or server.

More on:

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=697&doc_id=201782&f_src=internetevolution_gnews

Examples:

Metia’s World Cup Silverlight Pivot

http://pivot.metia.com/worldcup/

Texas Hold'em

-You gotta hold'em untill you know its time to fold'em.

I wanted to share the game rules for one of the interesting poker game I've
played, Texas Hold'em.

Target of the game is to match best 5 cards from 2 in hand and open 5 community
cards.



Steps and Rules

Manage the Chips, and Chips buy-ins.


Every time, 1st and 2nd player next to dealer's left puts a small blind and big
blind respectively. Dealing is done clock wise, left to right.

Dealer, in 1st round

Each player gets 2 cards face down at the first round.



* Player Options:
Match, match the highest bet
Raise, match the highest bet and raise even more
Check, check to see other's bet provided no raise is made
Fold, fold without betting
All-In, bet all the chips

Dealer, in 2nd round
Burn, i.e, burn 1 card face down,
Flop, open 3 cards face up
Player Options *

Dealer, in 2nd round
Burn, i.e, burn 1 card face down,
Turn, i.e. open 1 cards face up
Player Options *



Dealer, in 3rd round
Burn, i.e, burn 1 card face down
River, open 1 cards face up
Player Options *



Showdown,
Reveal the Cards, winner gets the all the chips in the pocket.

Win sheet:

Note:
Burn: it is done to avoid cheats.

HTML5

HTML5 is the next major revision of the HTML standard, currently under development.
Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight.

-Wiki

Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web, the desktop, and the Windows Phone.

-MSDN

Controversy:

Silverlight, DOA

Microsoft's head of servers and tools division, Bob Muglia’s statement that Microsoft has shifted strategy towards Silverlight and they are emphasizing on HTML5 as only true cross platform solution.

This made the developer around the world very disappointed feeling they have wasted their time and money on the Silverlight as next generation web platform solution.

IOS 4.2...

IOS 4.2 update for iDevices was supposed to be released last friday but was reportedly delayed due to the last minute wifi glitch found in the update. Apple is testing the update vigorously and releasing the update in a week or so, before Thankgiving from what I heard.


Apple releases beta version to the developers to have them update their software on the new version, after numbers of developer beta release, if the update is nearly ready Apple releases the Gold Master version which is almost ready product. This time they released GM version for second time.



Waiting eagerly for update features like

* Folders: I have like 15 pages of apps in the iPad, very difficult to find the right app, With folders I can organize the apps under right type

* AirPrint: Printing feature over the wifi which I'll love to try.

* Multitasking: for quick switching of the apps

* ..... and many more



Update....
22 November 2010

iOS 4.2 is here, Finally!!

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