BackToBasics
- Whats the difference b/w compiler and interpreter?
- What happens from the time of double click of an windows application till some output is got? We had gone as far as to see what is an OS loader, how processor executes instructions, where are instructions stored and all those stuff which should have been discussed at the college days.
- Defination of Object.
- Seing the anology of an object and me.
- Seing the anology of a class and human class.
- Class methods and Instance methods.
- Whats the difference b/w an *.exe and *.dll file
- About PE file format.
Another Foray into Functional Programming
VS2010 beta2 has come with F#. Not that I was not interested in Functional Programming before. I’ve had a go at Erlang nearly 6 months ago and must say that I loved it. But the prospect of Functional Programming with .NET CLR (or rather DLR) definitely gives F# a special place.
More over, the most familiar IDE of Visual Studio is simply wonderful. I must admit, I’ve not yet started doing my katas on F#, partly because the functional programming concepts need to be ingrained before moving ploughing ahead. So, watched a couple of interesting videos tonight.
Learning to Program the Ruby way
Well, it should not to be mentioned under this blogspace. Nevertheless, for the fun sake of it, I started to learn computer programming (now that it’s been nearly 8 years since I wrote my first proper computer program using C ). A friend of mine introduced me to a book he was having as a gift to his dad (who is starting to program). This book is titled ‘Learn to Program’ and it should be sufficient to say that it belongs to the ‘Pragmatic Series’ from the Pragmatic Programmers.
The book is amazingly interactive. I laughed and smiled while learning to program using this book. The author has done a commendable job in writing this book in such an lucid manner.
And what can I tell about Ruby? From One-Click Download and Installation upto using the SciTE editor, everything was simple and neat. Not a single problem. The language is also very very light in appearance and does a good job. I am loving it every day. Looks like after a long time, the need for learning a language for fun has really brought some fruit. Ruby is fun. No doubt! I don’t have current plans to use it for my projects. But, I may consider it to create website using the Ruby On Rails MVC Web Framework.
Back to formal education
Oh…it is a awesome feeling to go back to school to study.
I am now enjoying what I had been waiting for nearly 1 year. I am devoting my full time to books and that too on .NET books which makes me feel good.
But, it is not easy to go back to full time study after working in the industry. The contrast is in the case of university, we tend to be very consious about what we are learning. In the industry the learning process is overall and not in depth. So, learning during working is remembered more than the learning at university. I could realize this during my first week of my classes in The University of Hull where I am in the .NET MSc in Distributed Systems Development course. I came to know about this course through a blog post which i am not managing to trace back. And now, I am just doing the kind of stuff I’ve wanting to do in the past. Some cool low level compiler stuff upto using xml web services.
Training the non-techies on .NET!
“What should you start with and where to stop?”
These were just a couple of challenges I had to face this week at the training program organized at my workplace for the freshmen who joined our team a couple of weeks back.
The challenge becomes more interesting when the group consists of few computer science graduates and few non-computer science graduates.
My First Ever Talk for the Academia
I had never expected such an event to happen at Christ College. Always wanted to be part of this beautiful campus as a student. Great college with great people around.
Initially, did not know what to talk on. Had no idea about how much the academia is updated with .NET. So, decided to present a very basic talk. The intension was to instill the basics. Clarify all the jargons surrounding .NET technology. Also to give a clear picture on how the various components of .NET fit into the development infrastructure.
Height of .NETing! (1892 meters Above Mean Sea Level)
It was just 3 months since the escape to the jungles, the nature invited another visit to the peaks, valleys, jungles, water falls, wild. The timing was not very perfect as my presence would have really helped the team to go ahead with the product release smoothly. Despite the tight schedule, made myself way out of this noisy Bangalore to the bliss of the Western Ghats.
This trek was to the KudreMukh (The peak that looks like the Face of a Horse) in the Western Ghats of Karnataka.
The No-Linker concept in .NET
Yesterday night while returning to my home, dropped in to my friends startup company. It so happened that I had to talk about “Gettting started with C#”.
I thought it would be great to write the HelloWorld program and start disecting it. It so happened that, we went on to discuss on topics like:
The most important point of the talk was when I understood that .NET does not have the concept of a Linker .
There is no linker because there is no such thing like statements in C/C++.
I could not resist to go deep further into the Metadata Tables and related basic stuff. Realized as to why Jeff Richter has given priority to Metadata and Assemblies in his excellent book “Advanced .NET programming”.
I am out to see whats the scenario in Java Technology case. (Recently lots of comparison is happening b/w Java Technologies and .NET) The best link of all is http://www.dwheeler.com/java-imp.html
CLI and .NET
After a long delay, today got the chance to present the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) presentation to my colleagues.
A very short, 20 minutes presentation. The shortest presentation of mine till now.
The Microsoft Powerpoint Slides can be downloaded from here(zip-290KB)
Related sites of interest would be:
ECMA – www.ecma-international.org
ISO – www.iso.ch
ROTOR – www.sscli.net
MONO – www.go-mono.com
DotGNU – www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/
.NET – www.microsoft.com/net
2003 has been the most eventfull year for me (Stepped into .NET). Hoping to get more surprises and changes in the coming year.
Attended MSDN Yatra! Bangalore
Yesterday, attended the MSDN Yatra’s ‘ASP.NET Application Security’ session by MVP Srinivas Sampath.
Was a very well balanced session.
Started with the Theory of Planning an ASP.NET application for good security.
The different stages at which the security can be provided was explained with a neat diagram.
Usage of SSL was the highlight of the presentation.
Also usage of Stored Procedures instead of writing SQL in code was emphasized upon.
There were around 4 good demos.
One was how to configure IIS to enable SSL security.
The best was the Login Demo. It demonstrated a good template for authentication. Usage of Salt(Random Number), FormsAuthentication methods to store passwords safely in database.
It was followed by Authorization demo; identifying of User Roles etc.
I am going to implement these in my Application.
That’s it for now.