http://www.yash.info/blog Yash's adventures with life, business and technology Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:46:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/india/fundamental-problem-with-indian-it-industry http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/india/fundamental-problem-with-indian-it-industry#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:25:31 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=349 The biggest problem is that the people who write code at the root level just aren’t interested in programming. I run an IT services company so I know this by experience. People who come for interviews for the position of a programmer just aren’t interested in programming! That’s a big deal for me. A typical [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/india/fundamental-problem-with-indian-it-industry/feed 17 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/fun/know-latitudelongitude-of-any-address-in-the-world http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/fun/know-latitudelongitude-of-any-address-in-the-world#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:48:47 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=188 I have been using Google maps in quite a few projects off late. getting lat/long co-ordinates of addresses for test purpose has always been a tedious job, so I just put together a small application to find the Latitude, Longitude values of any address in the world using Google maps API. The Find Lat/Lon app [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/fun/know-latitudelongitude-of-any-address-in-the-world/feed 0 http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/programming/meaning-of-the-dim-keyword-in-basic http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/programming/meaning-of-the-dim-keyword-in-basic#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:12:42 +0000 Yash http://www.yash.info/blog/?p=129 Visual Basic is my favourite programming language. And sometimes I used to winder what does the Dim in a variable declaration stand for. I had read about it sometimes back but I did not remember much, today I Googled up a bit and found the meaning. Dim stands for Dimension. It was used for declaring [...]]]> http://www.yash.info/blog/index.php/programming/meaning-of-the-dim-keyword-in-basic/feed 0