a cuppa appa http://appa.wordpress.com arun rajappa's weblog Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:36:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/0b565e1338b8f5f1619020ab0e34e950?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png a cuppa appa http://appa.wordpress.com Writing code http://appa.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/writing-code/ http://appa.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/writing-code/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:36:32 +0000 appa http://appa.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/writing-code/ ]]>

Wrote code today after a long time. I love writing code & it’s why I got into computers in the first place, but over the years I’ve become that horror – a manager who reminisces about his coding days!

Well anyway, I wrote a short program to solve one of the challenges from the “Programming Challenges” book. I’ll recommend this book if you are interested in pretty hard programming problems.

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Found this when cleaning my Inbox – http://professionalsuperhero.com/, really funny!

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I have 1,288 emails in my Inbox. Most of these have been read & either replied to or ignored. I’m going to get down to under a 100 emails in the next 2 hours. Here goes…

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I installed the Windows 7 RC build, Office 14 Tech Preview build & the VS 2010 Beta1 build on my work computer today. All of these were the 64 bit builds. The entire installation took about 2 hours and required 3 reboots (not bad!).

The machine is all set up and spiffy now – take the “Upgrade to Win7” off my to-do list now :)

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