http://krishnamurthy.net.in/blog Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:14:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was at the National Book Festival yesterday in Washington DC where several authors including Rick Riordan, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and the like did book signings and talked to their fans. The event by itself was sort of poorly managed because the management probably did not expect a crowd ... http://krishnamurthy.net.in/blog/2009/09/27/rick-riordan-at-the-national-book-festival/ As a web developer, I have used ASPNETDB several times to manage the membership and role information for my applications. It has been a while since I have done software development in ASP.NET. So when I try things now, I realize there are several small things that I knew at ... http://krishnamurthy.net.in/blog/2009/06/30/using-multiple-applications-with-aspnetdb/ This is a short post from the Greater Rochester International Airport as I wait for my flight. No other service at an airport makes me happier than free internet. The first time I saw this was when my flight to Memphis was delayed by a couple of hours and I ... http://krishnamurthy.net.in/blog/2009/06/06/free-internet/ Several weeks ago, I found myself thinking, how I could shuffle a list/array given to me in a random order. This is a typically commonplace thing to do in several applications: online card games, your favourite music player etc. The interesting thing about this problem is how some naive approaches, even ... http://krishnamurthy.net.in/blog/2009/03/16/shuffle-shuffle/ This novel, published in the year 2008 won the Man Booker Prize in the same year. I bought the book out of instinct, although I haven't had a very pleasant experience with a couple of other books that have won the same prize. Many people said that the books that ... http://krishnamurthy.net.in/blog/2009/01/17/the-white-tiger-aravind-adiga/ This is Jhumpa Lahiri's third piece of work (after Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake). Sticking to her theme, this is also a set of short stories, based on the lives of expatriate Bengali parents and their american-raised children. I used to really want happy endings from books and stories ... http://krishnamurthy.net.in/blog/2009/01/15/unaccustomed-earth-jhumpa-lahiri/ I recently finished reading One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest: by Ken Kesey. This novel has been included in TIME Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The novel is based in the mental ward in a psychiatric hospital in Oregon. It is an allegory on the psychopathic obsession ... http://krishnamurthy.net.in/blog/2009/01/12/one-flew-east-one-flew-west/ I started reading this book by Ken Follet over 5 months ago. When I just had a couple of dozen pages left to finish the book, I went away to the US and for some reason I did not carry the book with me. Now that I am back in ... http://krishnamurthy.net.in/blog/2009/01/03/pillars-of-the-earth/ I have always derived pleasure writing programs that solve real world problems. This is one such problem that I was able to solve. With the holiday season on, you might want to send greetings to your numerous business contacts. If you have several contacts that you want to send personalized ... http://krishnamurthy.net.in/blog/2008/12/24/sending-bulk-emails-using-outlook-and-c/ So, I vented my anger by writing a blog-post about the latest terror attacks. Apparently the NSG has flushed out the scum from the Taj hotel. Things are going back to normal. I have not watched the news since the evening of the ill fated day (EST). One of the ... http://krishnamurthy.net.in/blog/2008/11/29/what-now/