Quirky quirks

We faced a problem in our product. The application rendered itself beautifully in all browsers on all OS but was breaking in IE6 on all OS. Firefox and MAC obeyed us. IE6 made me have sleepless nights as the release date was nearing. It he did it. It was Rick who found then what the problem was. It was because of a problem in IE6 - that makes it render it in different ways when stylesheets are used. We tried two three times and did not work still. It worked perfectly in all our local machines but not on the test environment. Great! Welcome to the world of s/w engr!

This problem has taken us three weeks already and everything from individual rendering of screens to hardcoding to standardizing the styles were already tried.

Rick was planning to add some comments and I was wondering - how can a comment solve a styling issue? Anyways, he is the styling expert and I had to be quiet ...I waited impatiently while Rick made the changes. I did a new build and I didnot even want to open my eyes to see if it was successful when I got a msg - Success! I couldn't believe my eyes...Finally addition of a comment before the DOCTYPE ... did it...

YAHOOOOOOOOOOOO.....I was very very happy that day.

Thanks Rick and full marks to you.

More info on quirks mode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode

SethuSamudhram Project

Rediff had an interesting article on the SethuSamudhram project and how they were planning to destroy the sand banks - that are believed to have been built by Ram and his army on his way to SriLanka to retrieve Sita.
Well, if this is indeed a bridge built by Ram, doesn't he know how to protect it? There are a lof of anguish from all communities against this plan to destroy the bridge.
People are angry that inspite of so many other routes being available, why is this route that leads through the bridge , also known as Adam's bridge or Ram's bridge , chosen for this project?
Some details, some facts and figures, some decision driving reasons - if shared with public will greatly help calm and also win the trust of people.
But is anyone listening?

Virginia Killings

The news was:A student at Virginia Tech university gunned down 33 people and then shot himself..."
This incident sent a chill down my spine!!
Shows how much can mockery and ridicule and hurt can harm someone!!! Just the same way that it created the bandit queen ! Isn't it a shame for the world to encourage such behavior ? isn't it a shame on each of us that we let such a thing happen? Isn't it a shame that one of us - one another human felt so hurt that he hurt so many others like him? Isn't it a shame for us to be writing and preaching abt such acts of pain while we shud atually be correcting these in the society?
I know not what the answer is to the questions above !
But yes, its an eye opener certainly and makes us pause for a minute!!!
May the almighty rest the departed souls and give strength to the family of the accused to bear his loss and his past.

Creativity

Tara Rum Pum is a new Indian Hindi movie just abt to be released...the music got released sometime last month and I was apalled to see the music already remixed and what an apt remix... and this is remixed with the song from Dhoom2 a major hit of last year, whose Aryan , I fell in love with...Not Hrithik teh actor - but Aryan!!! More abt aryan later..

chk out this video...

My First Blog

Just as I was browsing through the blogs and news a thought occured! Why not create my own blog!
Now thats its created, not so sure if I will ever sign back in ..but yes its here...
Will be good to see where I go from here!