Tag Archives: geek

Blank Screen after Hibernate/Sleep?

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Manoj

Have a problem of your laptop or PC staying blank after waking up from hibernation or the sleep mode? Here is how to fix it.

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Magic of Object Oriented Languages

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Manoj

Another excerpt from my next column in the Wilmott magazine to appear in May 2009, this post takes a high level look at object oriented languages and introduces the concept of functional programming. The next two posts in this series may get a bit technical. Continue reading →

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Paradigms All the Way

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Manoj

The power of paradigms in computing, and how it aids in the seemingly endless march of the Moore’s Law. An excerpt from my next column in the Wilmott magazine to appear in May 2009. Continue reading →

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Zeros and Ones

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Manoj

Ever marvel at the ability of computers to obey your wishes, while completely screwing up what you really wanted to do? Here is an insight into this computer mind, from a quantitative finance professional’s point of view. From my next column to appear in the Wilmott Magazine. This post is the first of a short series of posts on this subject. Continue reading →

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How to save a string to a local file in PHP?

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Manoj

This post is for those of you who write plugins for WordPress. If you are not geeky enough to do that, you can safely ignore this post. Other PHP web programmers find it useful as well, if you have trouble saving a string to a file on your client’s computer without creating intermediate files at your server. Continue reading →

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Geeks

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Manoj

I have been doing a bit of geeky stuff lately — writing Wordpress plugins. That made me think… We all started off as geeks, didn’t we? What’s the use denying it? Remember how the teachers loved us, and the sexy cheerleaders, well, didn’t? During our moments of panic, we go back to our geeky roots. At least, I do. Continue reading →

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Meeting Bingo Game

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Manoj

This one is a hilarious piece I found on the Web. If you really like it, you have to wonder — am I still doing too much techie stuff and too little management? Continue reading →

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