Objectivitis. The one disease that almost all developers have these days. And it’s very dangerous , as an expensive health check up will not tell you about it.

If every time that you start developing a new application , you create a file “capplication.h” or “capplication.cpp” :

class CApplication { // . // . // . }

Objectivitis! The fatal disease of making everything an object / class. 

Please , you do not need a CApplication class (unless* you need to manage threads … or you’re making a game… or something similar). Oh wait … you do need a CApplication class … and a CITheDeveloper class … and … CGod . CGod creates an instance of CITheDeveloper , which creates CApplication. But wait. What created  CGod ? Why , CUnknown , of course! 

Creating too many classes leads to nothing else but confusion in your code. Additionally , it leads to a lot of wasted time. So please , stop coding CString** and do something more useful and productive.

*in which case , it should be named CApplicationManager , because the class is not your application , but a manager for it.

**usually a wrapper for the STL string functions. With some <string.h> thrown in. Oh , and which CString is complete without a custom CString.SuperReplace() ?

Arrgh… Little bits o’ homework pile up to a lot… why doesn’t someone tell teachers that.

(yeah , this is a lame excuse for not posting for so many days)

Due to an unfortunate turn of events , the Indian govenrnment recently “stopped” the OLPC (read One Laptop Per Child project) in India. Moreover , most indian schools use Windows , and other propertary software , which is 1) expensive 2) difficult to use. There’s only one reason that most people do not use linux (<name a distro>) — because , they think that a pc w/o windows is “broken”. If  ”people” are introduced to linux at the school level , they can get accustomed to it and learn about the advantages of OSS. An added advantage is that most OSS is “free as in free beer” , so the government run public schools can save a lot on licenses (not that they use … um… licensed copies?). OSS can be easily modified to the needs and requirements of the students. All this adds up to a lot. This is a very sorry state of affairs — OSS adoption in countries like Bangladesh is much higher than India.

I’ve been busy making this…

http://f.imagehost.org/download/0880/MyFirstHTML

btw. Before you see it , pick up pn2 @ www.pnotepad.org

About a month ago , I heard about Google Chrome. Now I’m not the kind of guy who tries out beta software , so it was reasonably timed. So I snapped up FFx and navigated to www.google.com/chrome . Having read “the comic” , like any other self respecting google fanboy , was pretty excited about it. You download the ~1mb file , only to find out that its the installer only ; the actual thing is downloaded on the spot. A fix to download the entire thing is available @ www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=3350748c7f52c7e1&hl=en More >

We’ve all heard of “Failure is a stepping stone to success”. But for once , do we even think about what “success” actually means ? I have a strong belief “Too much success is a stepping stone to failiure.”

You guys out there in the States and the Kingdom really don’t have to study too hard (don’t take it to heart though , I might be wrong) , whereas almost every indian student dreams of MIT and Microsoft after that. Good — you spend five very enjoyable years of your life locked away in a little room with your books, and then you get to study and work abroad. That’s great. However , at the end of the day , what difference have you made? What makes you different than the millions and millions of people in the world. At the end of the day , haven’t you effectively failed to make a difference? Isn’t that true failure?

It’s a very sad thing that most Indian parents (and students) regard being a doctor or an engineer as the only feasable career options. People complain about the state of Indian *politics and yet few of them actually care to join politics. We are in urjent need of a new generation of youngsters who can aid in the salvation of India , but till then , Jai Hind!

*politics comprises of two words – poli , greek for many and tics , which are blood sucking insects…