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Now I have a homepage also! http://a i d g t l.googlepages.com. Check it out!

Update:06/03/2006
For security and spamming reasons, I am removing URL of my homepage from here.

So far, 132 people have voted for the best geek novels written in English since 1932, in spite of Survey Monkey’s rubric saying free polls were limited to 100 responses. The top 20 is therefore as follows, with the numbers in brackets showing the number of votes.

1. The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip Dick 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer — William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune — Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot — Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation — Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic — Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs — Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen — Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas — Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle — Philip K Dick 34% (32)
17. American Gods — Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy — Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

You can find most of them at project gutenberg site. I think I have to go through all of these to be a complete geek.

Get detailed information about your Connection, Browser, OS, Scripting and Plugins, Screen Properties and more! clicking Project IP. I liked its cool looks!

10) Don’t use exceptions
9) Use unsigned integers for values that can only be positive
Design classes parallel to their physical counterparts
7) Make sure your team shares a common coding standard
6) Write lots of comments
5) Use accessors or properties rather than public fields
3) Be tolerant with input and strict with output
2) Code all the corner cases immediately, cause otherwise you’ll never go back and fix things
1) Design first, then code

Via Kristian’s Blog

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Check out the best online calendar http://30boxes.com

I’m really impressed!

Check out GNUnify from tomorrow(February, 4-5, 2006) at SYMBIOSIS INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER STUDIES & RESEARCH (SICSR), Pune.
My favourite blogger Premshree is coming there. He is giving talk on Web Services with Ruby. But I am going to miss that all tomorrow. I will definitely attend GNUnify on Feb 5.

Check out List of algorithms at Wikipedia! Very useful.