Trivia : Why choose PNG over GIF in an app

Never bothered to think about this aspect until today, when the choice of the format made a ton of the difference to the output! Via C# Corner : First off, why use PNG instead of GIF? Probably the most important reason is that GIF supports a maximum of 256 colors. The second reason is Unisys has a lockdown on the rights to LZW compression which the GIF format can, and usually does use.

Quote for the day

Numbers do not lie, but they have the propensity to tell the truth with intent to deceive -- E. T. Bell

Short term memory

It has been 2 months since I have coded a single line of C# . Today I have to use it again for some reason and I seem to have forgotten everything about it. My short term memory is killing me !.. Every once in a while I face this problem. A month ago, I forgot ruby syntax. It took me almost a day to get back to speed. A few months ago, same thing happened with PostgreSQL syntax.

Shop Class as Soulcraft : Summary

It has been more than one and half months since I have read any book. Was involving in developing some stuff @work, so was completely immersed in it. Decided to read this book on a beautiful Saturday. Came across this book in an NY times article and was looking forward to read the book, as it was relating to an aspect which is close to my heart, hacking.Hacking in geek’s jargon is ripping apart software, packages, libraries, things and understanding stuff at level 0.