This guide is for keeping a consistency and code manageability in the open source projects developed by Google using C++.  As explained in the guide:

C++ is the main development language used by many of Google’s open-source projects. As every C++ programmer knows, the language has many powerful features, but this power brings with it complexity, which in turn can make code more bug-prone and harder to read and maintain.

The goal of this guide is to manage this complexity by describing in detail the dos and don’ts of writing C++ code. These rules exist to keep the code base manageable while still allowing coders to use C++ language features productively.

This guide also serves the purpose of making the beginners understand the language’s conventions. Read the full guide here.

MakeUseOf.com is a site which suggests some some cool applications and software that you can make use of. But currently, it has got it’s domain name taken control of by a bad guy! This is what you see upon visiting the site.

The hacker  has transferred the domain’s ownership from the site’s registrar GoDaddy to another registrar and now is demanding USD 2000 from the site’s admin as a ransom!

You can read the full details and updates here at http://makeuseof-temporary.blogspot.com/ which has been put up by the site’s authorities until things get back to normal.

Update: The site is back on. Visit it here.

Chandrayaan-1 took this photo of Earth from Earth orbit on October 29, 2008 at 12:30 PM IST. Near the center of the disk is the northwestern coast of Australia; the Sun glints off the Indian Ocean adjacent to that coast.

It’s breathtakingly beautiful!

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is a 2004 movie starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. This movie really touched me and I think that Winslet and Carrey deliver their best performances till date in it. The following review by Rotten Tomatoes best explains this movie:

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is an unconventional romance told in the abstract, inventive, and comedic storytelling style of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Like his scripts for ADAPTATION and BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, this plot works off of a relatively complex idea that is more easily explained through the language of film than through words. In its most basic description, Joel (Jim Carrey) is undergoing a medical procedure to erase the memory of his ex-girlfriend, Clementine (Kate Winslet). However, while he is unconscious and the procedure is underway, he takes a journey through his mind, reliving moments with Clementine for fear of losing her forever. Read the rest of this entry »

This video is really funny and it also sends a message. As the guys posting this video on YouTube describe it:

Its been eight long years since the boys said wassup to each other. Even with the effects of a down economy and imminent change in the White House, the boys are still able to come together and stay true to what really matters.

So True!

It’s been quite some time that I have been wishing to buy a MacBook Pro, and I eagerly waited for the October 14 refresh of Apple’s top of the line notebooks.  As expected, the refresh happened on the scheduled date and Mr. Jobs, this time (for a change) along with few of his colleagues wowed us all once again with his expert presentation skills, launching a whole new product redesign.

So if everything went right then what’s up with this freaking title?

Actually even though I think that the new MacBook Pros are designed really well, there is not one but two really big problems.

• Super glossy screen
• Button-less trackpad

I had a chance to handle the new MacBook Pro and seriously I couldn’t deal with glare at all. I wear glasses and that much glare really gave me a headache after a long time in front of the screen. I already use a HP dv2519 which is really glossy, but Read the rest of this entry »

This one is from CollegeHumor, a real funny video, as Batman faces his toughest adversary yet, real super powers.

From ARPANET to Web 2.0, the evolution of Internet has given communication, commerce and entertainment a whole new meaning. CNET has prepared a list of 50 most significant moments of Internet history which focuses on the events that mattered the most in this epic journey which started 40 years back. This one is a must read.

This song, Paralyzer by Finger Eleven was the iTunes best selling song in the Alternative genre for a lot of weeks. It has real catchy lyrics for a disco rock song and great vocals.

Here’s the video of the song.

Get it from iTunes here.

I hold on so nervously
To me and my drink
I wish it was cooling me
But so far, has not been good
It’s been shitty
And I feel awkward, as I should Read the rest of this entry »

Koders.com is a leading open source code search engine from Black Duck Software. It enables software developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects posted at hundreds of open source repositories.

These guys have a really cool plugin for Visual Studio IDE that lets the developer search for code directly within the IDE without the need of a browser. What’s even more exciting is that as a developer types in the terms, the plugin performs a SmartSearch in the background, identifies results based on the term, and displays them right in the IDE. To further learn about how the SmartSearch works, watch this demonstration video.

You can get the Koders plugin for Visual studio here.