Hamza Khalid

Stay Agile, Expect Change

August 2007 - Posts

Need For Speed Pro Street

" Need for Speed Pro Speed Exclusive Smoke Trailer " has been released by the NFS Team. Trailer revealed some exciting graphics and ground-breaking game play. You can watch it here

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Posted: Aug 09 2007, 01:01 PM by hamza khalid | with no comments
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101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed
This is a hilarious post "101 ways to know your software project is doomed". If your have been involved in software development at an IT firm then there are good chances that you might have experienced some of these items. I specially liked the following ones.

  • All performance issues are resolved by getting larger machines.
  • The phrase ‘It works on my machine’ is heard more than once a day.
  • Every bug is prioritized as ‘Critical’.
  • Your team believes ORM is a ‘fad’.
  • Your favorite software pattern is God Object.
  • Your white boards are mostly white (VersionOne).


 

 

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Posted: Aug 09 2007, 12:18 PM by hamza khalid | with no comments
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The Geek Code

The Geek Code is a series of letters and symbols used by self-described "geeks" to inform fellow geeks about their personality, appearance, interests, and opinions. The idea is that everything that makes a geek individual and different from all the other geeks in the world can be written down (encoded) in this very compact format. Then other geeks can read the geek code and work back from that to discover what the writer looks like, what interests s/he has, and so forth. This is deemed to be efficient in some sufficiently geeky manner.

The Geek Code was invented by Robert Hayden in 1993 and is defined at geekcode.com. I have used Chris Gushue's Geek Code Generator to generate my geek code you can download it here .

Here is my Geek Code whats yours !!


-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
GIT d+ s:-- a-- C+++ UL P-- L--- E-- W+++ N++ o+ K- w++++
O--- M-- V PS- PE+++ Y-- PGP- t--- 5 X+++ R tv+ b- DI-- D+
G++ e++ h++ !r !y+
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

 

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Posted: Aug 09 2007, 11:49 AM by hamza khalid | with no comments
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SINGLE LINE OF HTML CRASHES IE:

A Japanese blogger identified a problem in IE which causes the browser to crash. I tried it on iE7 beta 3 & IE6 and it crashed both of them. Here is the link along with the script that causes IE to crash. The second link looks like it was part of a campaign to promote Firefox.

 

Link 1:   http://hamachiya.com/junk/ie_crash.html

script :   " <style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></table> "

 

Link 2:   http://www.crashie.com/

script :   " <script>for(x in document.write){document.write(x);}</script> "

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Posted: Aug 08 2007, 07:14 PM by hamza khalid | with no comments
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