A legend and an enigma, Steve Jobs has finally resigned as the CEO of the multi-billion company. It is not the first time Jobs has been out of Apple Inc. but this time around it seems he is not going to return as the CEO to take Apple to new heights. Jobs who founded the tech giants has surprised for everyone for probably the last time with his resignation. It seems the Cancer he has [...]

Laziness is a virtue that every programmer needs to some degree. Efficiency is always a trademark of a good programmer. A programmer’s effort should be directed in a way to achieve maximum outcome in less time. I have seen many programmers opting for vim editor. Yet, most of the programmers are unaware about the plugins available for vim editor. These plugins drastically extend its capabilities whilst reducing the effort you need to put in. In [...]

Its been almost about  2 months since Google+ came around. In the rush to get in on the apparent next big thing on social networking, you might have registered for a Google plus account, helped it reach a 10 million mark in just two weeks and then completely forgot about it. If that is the case with you, log-in back to your Google plus account to see something special that the guys at Google plus [...]

Facebook has always been a highlight for one or the other reason. The latest, however seems to be a bit more concerned. The Hacker group “Anonymous“, who are making quite a sensation after their cyber attack on Pentagon, News corp and others, are now targeting the ever so popular, Facebook. According to village voice, the hacktivist group issued an full text of document issuing they would bring down Facebook on November 5th 2011. The group wants to [...]

We all know how bad code snippets look when they viewed in plain text without indentation and color highlighting. WordPress does have a built in ‘<code>’ tag but it is pretty useless. It indents the source codes but does not have any support for programming language recognition and syntax highlighting. Without colors and proper indentation, the code snippets will look very dull and unattractive for readers. To solve this, developers have built their own syntax [...]

    “Just as energy is the basis of life itself and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.” Hello Everyone, A year ago the world wide web got a bit more crowded with the advent of a small site called fortystones. Brain child of five very determined students from IIITA, Fortystones started out primarily as a blog  posting what we like to call stones(articles) [...]

The beauty of any code lies not only in finding the solution to a given problem but is in its simplicity, effectiveness, compactness and efficiency( memory ). Designing the code is harder than actually implementing it. Hence every programmer should keep a couple of basic things in mind while programming in C. Here we introduce you to such 10 ways of standardizing your C code. 1. Avoid unwarranted function calls Consider the following two functions: [...]