→ From Chidambaram to Cambridge: a life in science By vijay on April 8, 2010 — 1 min read In this charmingly narrated autobiographical essay written for the Nobel Foundation, 2009 Chemistry Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan recalls his Indian roots, the shaping role of his exceptional parents and teachers, the affective care he received from his grandmother and aunt, the twists and turns of his scientific career — and how he came to his lifelong... More
→ Why the iPhone Simulator is Awesome By vijay on April 8, 2010 — 1 min read The iPhone simulator’s method seems magically wonderful. Since the iPhone OS is MacOS, all the kernel APIs are the same. The natively-compiled frameworks, libraries, and display engine are built from the same source code, so you know they’re the same too. And your Mac’s CPU is a lot faster than the iPhone’s CPU, so the... More
→ Object Oriented CSS By vijay on April 6, 2010 — 1 min read Code re-use in CSS almost non-existent. File size in CSS just keeps getting bigger as we continue to modify it. CSS code is often too fragile. It can get ruined by the first person to touch it. via LukeW | An Event Apart: Object Oriented CSS. More
→ The trouble with Chinese By vijay on March 22, 2010 — 1 min read The trouble with the word Chinese is, it is an adjective as well as a noun, and it not only is both singular and plural, but it always sounds plural because of the “s”. A Chinaman is a man, beyond any doubt. A Chinese sounds somewhere between a tapestry and a couple of Chinamen. via... More
→ Movable Floors By vijay on March 20, 2010 — 1 min read Hydrofloors® vertically movable floors enable the client to exploit the surface area of a swimming pool by converting the associated terrace or indoor pool room for other uses e.g. recreation, social events, for dining and dancing. via Hydro Floors → More
