After months of my waiting finally it’s here. Yesterday Apple announced new Macbook Pro notebook and I have never been happier. The new graphics offering by Nvidia is a screamer and I am really excited about it. Also, I really wanted DDR3 RAM support on the Pros and Apple didn’t disappoint. Now I plan to buy it as soon as possible. I will give a detailed review covering all the features once I am the proud owner of one.

Jason Bourne kicks ass and nothing suits the movies telling his story than this song, Extreme Ways by Moby. Here’s the music video for the song from the first installment of the trilogy, The Bourne Identity.

Get it from iTunes here.

Extreme ways are back again
Extreme places I didn’t know
I broke everything new again
Everything that I’d owned
I threw it out the windows, came along
Extreme ways I know move apart
The colors of my sea
Perfect color me

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Problem solving while programming, using object oriented design always starts with the questions like:

1. What Objects should be created to solve this problem?

For example, if we are making a project for arranging books in a library, then the objects that come to mind will be the books, the shelves we keep them in, inventory book, the catalog etc.

2. What are the properties of the object?

A property is something that defines the characteristics of the object. In our problem, a few properties are, the subject the book is based on, its author, the number of books a shelf can hold in, Read the rest of this entry »

This is one of my favorite song of all time, Open Your Eyes by Snow Patrol. I first heard it in the pilot episode of a NBC show “The Black Donnellys”. Pity that show was canceled mid season although it was really brilliant. Here’s the music video of the song.

Get this song from iTunes here.

All this feels strange and untrue
And I won’t waste a minute without you
My bones ache, my skin feels cold
And I’m getting so tired and so old

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While browsing through some old backups yesterday, I found an illustrated report titled ‘A Report on Three Classic Personal Computers‘ which I had submitted under my “Small Computer Systems: Organization and Architecture” subject.

If you are curious about the ancestors of the machine you are reading this post on, then this report really makes an interesting read. The content requirement for the report was as under:

The classic systems must have been made within the years 1972 to 1990 and be non-IBM-PC compatible (i.e. not running MS-DOS). The systems must also be predominantly consumer products, not systems that were intended for use as dedicated computers for the military or business or terminals that connected to mainframes.

Structure of the Report:

• Summary
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Main Body
• Conclusion
• References

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Microsoft today revealed details of Visual Studio 2010 (code-named “Rosario”) and .NET framework 4.0. This next generation ‘Integrated Development Environment’ focuses on the following five points as given in the Visual Studio 2010 webpage.

• Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management
• Enabling emerging trends
• Inspiring developer delight
• Riding the next generation platform wave
• Breakthrough Departmental Applications

In related news, Scott Guthrie yesterday announced on his blog that from now on  jQuery will be distributed with Visual Studio (including jQuery intellisense, snippets, examples, and documentation). This is a real exciting news since jQuery is a great lightweight library for Javascript, widely used by developers.

This one is Is It Any Wonder by Keane, an East Sussex UK, Alternative Rock playing band. I am embedding the video of Keane performing this song at Live Earth Concert. That event was ‘rocking’ by the way.

Get the song from iTunes here.

I
I always thought that I knew
I’d always have the right to
Be living in the kingdom of the good and true
and so on

but now I think how I was wrong
And you were laughing along
And now I look a fool for thinking you were on, my side

Is it any wonder I’m tired
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight
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I consider Ars Technica to be among the best technology related blog (and matter of fact, according to Technorati, it is). These guys do an excellent job covering a lot of news and topics mixing their own brand of hilarious humor in it. I first stumbled on this web site while searching for a review of iPod Nano. These guys had the best review available and not only that, they took the reviewing business so seriously that they actually ran the Nano over with a VW car to stress test it! That was some review. Ever since then, it’s been exactly three years now that Ars is my most regular source for all things technology.

Here is an excellent article explaining the basics of 64 bit computing by Ars: An Introduction to 64-bit Computing and x86-64.

I heard I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You by Colin Hay, first in the soundtrack of the movie Garden State, which I consider to be one of the best soundtrack albums ever compiled. All the songs from this soundtrack simply stir your soul. Get the song from iTunes here.

I drink good coffee every morning
Comes from a place that’s far away
And when I’m done I feel like talking
Without you here there is less to say
I don’t want you thinking I’m unhappy
What is closer to the truth
That if I lived till I was 102
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Apple Developer Connection has this must read article, which is for everyone who is beginning to work with Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X Leopard.