The BBC List

Lately Facebook has made it a point to ensure I get to see every quiz that any of my friends take... Besides logging into my facebook account to pry on my friends quizzing abilities...I have also found an interesting post bya lot of my friends...where inadvertently I too get tagged...
It goes by "The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?"

Ever the cat that I am...I tried to find if the source of the list mentioned there was really from BBC...I ended up finding 100's of blogs which were like mirror images of this post...some with a few minor alterations...but no BBC posting related to this...

I did find this interesting list though....referred to as The Big Read-Top 100(there are more...Top 20, Top 100 and Top 200)... Now assuming the list on FB was from BBC...I't would have been almost the same as this...(Can't imagine people at BBC making two different Book lists JUST FOR NOTHING...but then I've heard of stranger things that people and firms have done) ...well there are 57 in common...thats exactly 57 % ...(Mathematical Genius ;))

Anyways...I found the exercise interesting... besides marking the X'es I also decided to make a list of 50 movies ..of which I claim most people would watch only 15...watch out for that list on facebook.... ;)

Syncplicity

10 days using Syncplicity and I am happy to have found a Great Storage and Backup Tool. And that with the added benefit of Automatic Synchronization. Its smooth, and luckily haven't seen a bug or an issue yet. The Interface is nice and even on the mockery of a broadband that we have here, its still fast enough while loading; and as transfers happen effortlessly in the background, syncing the shared folder on their server with the PC is smooth And if that's not all, it provides for Version Control and Management with Backup :-)

The Others that I have used : Diino, Skydrive, Xdrive, Boxstr

Comparing them all, Syncplicity definitely has neater features than the rest: I am still waiting for a Beta Invite from Dropbox though : The Auto_Sync definitely being a distinguishing factor: Avoids the need for Multiple Software's for Data Storage, Remote PC Access and Version Management.

My configuration has been with a Desktop Client, a Laptop and the Syncplicity Server, and its been great so far. The present Beta allows Unlimited Storage for Free::: However I don't think this will be the case for long. Assuming they do launch a Freemium service, I think this may well be a service worth paying for ::: But then it also depends on how much they do price it at :-)

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The initial sourcecode for IronRuby released

Well Its finally here...IronRuby, an implementation of Ruby targetting the .NET framework, has its initial release. IronRuby is implemented on top of the DLR, the Dynamic Language Runtime which adds a set of key features to the CLR to make it dramatically better. It adds a shared dynamic type system, standard hosting model and support to make it easy to generate fast dynamic code.

The Source Code can be obtained here

Here is a bit of an explanation and a bit of help by John Lam who by the way is one of the chief components of the IronRuby team...

Am gonna have some more posts coming in tommorow about how the build goes...

// Nrip Nihalani