Author Archives: GauZ

My name is Gaurav Pandey. I graduated from Columbia University (Dept. of Computer Science) and have been working as a Software Developer on a variety of technologies in the beautiful city of New York :)

Life …as it is :)

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed:”Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease”? To this Arthur Ashe replied: The […]

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Removing Subversion Control over a file/folder

I use Tortoise Svn as Subversion tool on Windows platform and Subclipse on Linux platform. For some reason, I had to remove the subversion control over a file/folder. The solution: Right click on the file/folder and goto ‘Tortoise SVN>>Export ‘ Then export the file/folder to itself (choose the same file/folder as the export-to file/folder) If […]

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RSS in a MESS!!!

I would like to fetch my posts from WordPress into my Web Portal built using Flex 3.2, where i would like to display the posts in a RSS Feed Viewer. But I realized later that WordPress does not allow crossdomain.xml to be hosted from it’s server! There is no way for a Flex program to […]

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How can you tell when people are lying? ;)

Typical Characteristics: * Lesser eye contact or sometimes too much eye contact * Positioning items in front of them * Either too detail when explaining or always change topics * Lesser body movements * Liars tend to raise their voice just to frighten you * Can’t remember what they said * Creating stories or excuses […]

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So much more…

So many times you’ve been Helplessly by foolishly blame So many times you’ve had the wings But never tried to use them to fly Is this the way it’s going to be? Life for you in the end Is this the way it’s going to be? Just you and your tunes So many years you […]

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