Design Patterns

Many a times I have wondered about Design Patterns.  I thought it was a complex subject and it needs more stuff to understand them.  But eventually out of my experience I have understood that Design Patterns are something which we use them in our day-to-day activities.  All the above mean in particular with programming and that too in .NET.  Several years before I created a website which hosted all my funny and interesting emails.  I had used some design patterns in them.  On later stage I came to know that I have used MVC Pattern, Factory Pattern and Singleton Pattern in the website.

As of now almost everything in programming follows a design pattern which helps a lot when it comes to complex programming.  All the developers to some extent might be aware of the Object Oriented Programming.  But it would be the best if they are able understand the real life problems that they face with OOP.  Design Patterns come to rescue over solving some complex issues with ease.

For a long time Design Patterns are in the safe lockers of Architects.  Now an awareness was found among the developers to concentrate more on Design Patterns.  I was trying to google around an was able to see lots of information about design patterns.  I would like to list a few of them for your reference.

1. http://wiki.asp.net/page.aspx/276/design-patterns/
2. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms954629.aspx

Also you can find more than I have listed.   I hope this post might find you interesting to have a look into design patterns if you have not looked into it yet.

Themes in Gmail

It was awesome to see Gmail has now got themes. The dry look now has got more energetic. Also the themes are supposed to change as per the location to which the themes are set. It is one more wow from Gmail.

However there are some compatibility issues still left with some themes which was found when we activate some gmail addons like moving the chat list to the right and so on. I could also see a horizontal scroll in IE.

Have a look if you are lucky to get them on your email account. Try whether you have themes on your settings section. Have fun!

Posting blogs through email

Today as i was digging through Blogger I found an option of posting blogs through email.  The world has become too short.  The blogs could be published using mobile, email and what not ... sometime in the future kids would ask "Papa! What do you mean by Books?"

Sumptuous meal at Rajaram's

One of our sweet business user wanted to have some nice Indian food. Although it was raining we headed out to Rajaram's house which was And this is what the delight she has got after finishing the lunch. We had a sumptous meal. We could hardly get up and walk.

First we were greeted pleasanlty by Ms. Rajaram and after a small chat with each other we sat for lunch. To start we had some Tamarind Rice / Lemon Rice / Mango Rice (not too sure) and Tasty Medu Vada accompanied with two tasty pepper flavoured omlette.

Then finally Rasam and the finishing touch with a big banana which I didnt eat. Before we fall asleep we headed back to office and you know before I forget I wanted to send it across ... so is all the explanation above ...

Santhome Church

My wifey had the joy of taking this picture of Santhome Church when we were driving towards our way to purchase a new musical keyboard for me. This place is located at the southern end of Marina beach and the church derives its name from St. Thomas, an apostle of Christ who is believed to have come to Chennai sometime during 52 AD. He was believed to have been killed on St. Thomas Mount just outside the city in 78 AD and was interned in Santhome beach where a church was later built. Serveral years after, another church was built further inland and his mortal remains were transferred from the former to the later.

In 1606 the Church was re-built as a Cathedral and in 1896 it was made a Basilica. The beautiful tainted glass windows at the basilica portray the story of St. Thomas and the Central Hall has 14 wooden plaques depicting scenes of the last days of Christ. In the Cathedral is a 3 feet high statue of the Virgin Mary which is believed to have been brought from Portugal in 1543.

Trying the Windows Live Writer

Just had a quick chance to see how the windows live writer works.  When I publish and if it works perfectly then I am very much pleased by the work done by the Microsoft Guys on this regard.

Good initiative on creating this Live Writer by M$.  It is fairly simple to configure as well for the novice users.  The options also very straight forward and clear.  It has got options of adding Videos as well to MSN Soap Box and Youtube.  This is absolutely cool feature.

Like a regular XHTML editor, it works comfortably.   It was really a feel at home experience using Microsoft Word.  It also got a spell checker to check the blog which is infact super good.

Exotic Travel

I had a great time with my wife at Pollachi for past 4 days. I had a rapid visit to pollachi and neighboring areas like athu pollachi, aliayar dam, monkey falls, mazhamuzha dam.

The weather was splendid which infact made me feel to stay there itself. Both I and my wife got a nice welcome to pollachi by her hostelmate who took entire responsibility of our stay there. I will have my travelblog updated on the photos and videos.