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		<title>The Fiftieth post</title>
		<link>http://nullpointers.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/the-fiftieth-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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This is my 50th post. In this post I would want to write about couple of projects done over the last 9 months that I am very proud of. My contribution to these has been into initial ideation, brainstorming and design discussions. When the team was in any sort of dilemma they involved me and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nullpointers.wordpress.com&blog=4418727&post=385&subd=nullpointers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Start of Year 2</title>
		<link>http://nullpointers.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/start-of-year-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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It is One year since I started this blog. It is time to look back and check what went well, what didn&#8217;t.
The purpose of this blog was to write about technical stuff as I encounter them in my day to day work. I wanted to write only about those things I have myself experienced first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nullpointers.wordpress.com&blog=4418727&post=378&subd=nullpointers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Meta syndrome</title>
		<link>http://nullpointers.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/the-meta-syndrome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intensity !</dc:creator>
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In the recent past, the blog post that hit me hard the most was this.
I was a victim of the meta syndrome.
It was nice to know that there is a whole bunch of us who get caught in the meta syndrome at some point.
Firstly, it is healthy to think about what we are doing. As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nullpointers.wordpress.com&blog=4418727&post=373&subd=nullpointers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Samba shares in Terminal</title>
		<link>http://nullpointers.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/samba-shares-terminal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intensity !</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nullpointers.wordpress.com/?p=369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I use Ubuntu for my daily work. Rest of my team members use Windows. So I end up using samba for all filesharing.
Many times, I need to do some stuff on the terminal window &#8230; like  grep or find-replace using sed or some log file analysis. I have a tough time mounting these shares [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nullpointers.wordpress.com&blog=4418727&post=369&subd=nullpointers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Right tools at the Wrong Hands</title>
		<link>http://nullpointers.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/right-tools-at-the-wrong-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intensity !</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[jdbc]]></category>
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In this post, I wish to share my cribs on how ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tools get abused by naive developers.
The impact is such that one tends to think something is perhaps not right with ORMs.
Object Relational Mapping tools (ORM) map the Object world on to the RDBMS world.
This is a huge productivity benefit. OO [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nullpointers.wordpress.com&blog=4418727&post=365&subd=nullpointers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A name by any spelling &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nullpointers.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/a-name-by-any-spelling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intensity !</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My non-tamil speaking friends often take a dig at me regarding typical tamil spellings of non-tamil words.
Tamil does not distinguish phonologically between voiced and unvoiced consonants;
phonetically, voice is assigned depending on a consonant&#8217;s position in a word.
Of all the 18 or so official languages in India, only tamil has this peculiarity of not being able [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nullpointers.wordpress.com&blog=4418727&post=361&subd=nullpointers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Troubleshooting a join</title>
		<link>http://nullpointers.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/troubleshooting-a-join/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 13:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intensity !</dc:creator>
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My colleague S barged into my cabin with an interesting problem in hand.  S was working on a data migration project for a huge Insurance firm. The migration consists export of data from a legacy system and importing it back into a new system. 
In the export process, the rows that qualify to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nullpointers.wordpress.com&blog=4418727&post=358&subd=nullpointers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Java the new COBOL?</title>
		<link>http://nullpointers.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/is-jave-the-new-cobol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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When I started my career in 1996, I was put into a COBOL training on Unisys A-series mainframes.
I was desparate to get out of mainframes because thats what my friends told me to do. Not to work on outdated, legacy stuff. I was lucky to get a break, moved on to more modern languages of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nullpointers.wordpress.com&blog=4418727&post=353&subd=nullpointers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Developer&#8217;s itch</title>
		<link>http://nullpointers.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/a-developers-itch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intensity !</dc:creator>
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My son can get quite cranky when it comes to having food. So we need to be adequately stocked with Animal stories or Mythological Stories or any random stories that he might ask for. Like for example, one day he demanded a &#8220;Train story&#8221;, and I had to cook up one !
To make my stories [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nullpointers.wordpress.com&blog=4418727&post=340&subd=nullpointers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>split kitty revisited</title>
		<link>http://nullpointers.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/split-kitty-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Intensity !</dc:creator>
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Sometime back I had posted this stuff. It was about partitioning a sequence into N more or less equal parts.
You can see my javascript solution here  and  python solution here.  Suggestions and criticisms most welcome.
Update : In the javascript version, instead of bothering to initialize the &#8220;min&#8221; variable with a BIG value, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nullpointers.wordpress.com&blog=4418727&post=304&subd=nullpointers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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