Placement opportunities for freshers : http://www.shredskerala.org/

I am sure it is old news for many, but just for the record. If you are a fresher and looking for placement opportunities, you may want to use the http://www.shredskerala.org/ website to attend some interviews.

ANTLR for custom data formats and configuration definition

ANTLR can be used to define data formats instead of using XML  /JSON/YAML etc


What is ANTLR?
ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, interpreters, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing actions in a variety of target languages. ANTLR provides excellent support for tree construction, tree walking, translation, error recovery, and error reporting. There are currently about 5,000 ANTLR source downloads a month.

ANTLR has a sophisticated grammar development environment called ANTLRWorks, written by Jean Bovet.

rediff.com bloopers

Checkout the screenshot. Read the title of the first news item. I am not going to elaborate. Normally rediff has titles that people end up clicking and reading. Not sure if its one of their stunts!

Sugary foods leading to Obesity : Video

Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717]

     
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Print IDFC Infrastructure Bond Certificates

If we purchase IDFC Infrastructure Bonds via our Demat account, you will only get e-statements. It looks like you will not get a physical bond certificate. I purchased the initial bonds in Nov. 2010. I have not got it yet.

Here is how you can take a print our of the Bond certificate. Go to the karvy website and key in your IDFC Infrastructure Bond application number. You will get a PDF there. Download it and save for your reference.

http://karisma.karvy.com/investor/jsp/IDFC-APP.jsp
Got this info from HDFCSec Call Center.

There are also other tools in Karvy website to track IPO or Bond status. Go to this link to track IPO allotment status.

ctrl + shift + arrow key does not work in Firefox

After upgrading to Firefox 3.6.13, I got the latest Firebug too. But Firebug 1.6.0 overides some default shortcuts in the editor area.

Ctrl + shift + arrow key does not work in gmail or  zoho mail and other mail / content editors.

I just Googled around and found that its a bug with Firebug's and its slated to be fixed in Firebug 1.6.1 (beta here)

I got around it by removing the shortcut in Firebug as suggested here.

How to disable the Pointing stick or Touch pad mouse of DELL E6400

To disable DELL E6400 Pointing stick or Touch pad mouse open up "C:\"Program Files"\DellTPad\DellTPad.exe".

Go to the option "Device Select" > Disable what you do not want.

The pointing stick turns out to be a pain while typing text. Especially while typing "b" and other text around it. I ended up making too many errors while using this.