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Finally Indian Rupee  ( ` ) got a symbol. On July 15th 2010, the winner of the contest was announced and the new symbol of Indian Rupee was shown to the world.  The symbol is derived from a combination the Devanagari letter ‘र’ and English letter ‘R’. The font can be downloaded here . Installation instructions Unzip the zip file to C:\temp folder. Open Control Panel -> Fonts Select File->Install New Font...  In the new window, under Folders, select c:\temp The font will be listed in the 'List of fonts:' box. Click the font name and click 'OK', the font will be installed in your machine. Using the font In MS Word (or other word processing or similar applications), select the font 'Rupee Foradian' in the font list. To type the character, use the '~' key (top left key above 'Tab').

I was trying with encryption and decryption in ColdFusion for a demo iPhone app using SOAP. Well, the problem was with the ColdFusion end. I tried with default (CFMX_COMPAT) algorithm. I was getting an error "The input and output encodings are not same" while decrypting. After trying to fix this for some time, I googled and found that it was the problem with ColdFusion 8 (bug ID : 75676) and need to apply the hotfix (Cumulative Hot Fix 3 for ColdFusion 8.0.1). I applied it to the server and the error was resolved. Hot fix can be obtained from here.   Cumulative Hot Fix 3 for ColdFusion 8.0.1

I saw this vehicle on the way home, near Kollam. See the 'VALVO' written neatly on the back of this mini bus. They even have a Merc logo on the rear window.

*** This is the content of a mail forwarded to me. I found it interesting and like to know more. Please let me know if you know other links or related materials. *** Gayatri mantra has been bestowed the greatest importance in Vedic dharma. This mantra has also been termed as Savitri and Ved-Mata, the mother of the Vedas. Om bhur bhuvah swah Tat savitur varenyam Bhargo devasya dheemahi Dhiyo yo nah prachodayat

I just thought of sharing my friend's experience with managing large numbers using ColdFusion. They got an assignment that will manipulate numbers and things seem good at first. When the numbers started getting larger(20 digits), we had a problem. In CF, the limit of Integer is -2,147,483,648 and 2,147,483,647 (32-bit signed integers) and the calculations started giving unexpected results. After quite a bit of Googling and posting in forums, they got the solution from a user in the Adobe forums. It is to use the Java Math object and convert the number to BigInteger. Here is the code:

I got the opportunity to attend the Adobe Flex launch event at Kochi, thanks to @Juwalbose , @Jerrydon and others. They made it happen. After the first meeting of GOD s a few months ago which I was not able to attend, they should have worked really hard to organize this event. I was really happy to see my ex-colleagues and of course, my friends at GODs and twitter. This was the first time I met them in person. I got new friends too from this event. It was nice meeting them. I reached a bit early for the event and got some time to chat with others. @Harish Sivaramakrishnan did the first presentation about Flex . Even though he reached a bit late due to a delay of his flight, the wait was worth. I was amazed to see the new capabilities of Flex builder . The developer does not even have to touch the code to achieve something, and that too like creating a full fledged video player !. Awesome. I had moved away from Flex development around 1 year ago, but seeing his presentation I...

I had earlier used the Mac in office for a few times for testing. That was for a very short time. For the last one week I had been using solely a Mac after moving to iPhone development. The one I had is a mac mini with Intel processor. Having seen those bulky Windows PCs I always wondered how Apple managed to pack all the stuff like DVD drive, USB, blue tooth, firewire, wi-fi etc in such a small cute box. It is irrestible to explore the facilities in a mac. The display, animation, performance... everything is awesome. I liked the way the user interface and the applications are managed. The speed each application is launching is something that can be dreamed of in Windows PCs. The Spotlight facility to search is the one MS has copied to its Windows 7. There is elegance in a mac.