Author Archives: Justin Joseph

Text editor with syntax highlighting in C#

All of us have used the famous text editor, the plain vanilla ….. < more intro > <get features from the scintilla net website > You can use this component to highlight lines and also parts of sentences   Now comes ScintillaNET. Very powerful editor component Download the files from here, Go to   http://scintillanet.codeplex.com… Read More »

Building a RAID System at Home

Getting the right system – Hardware specs What I am looking for ?   Support for atleast 2 6.0 Gbps SATA drives Atleast 4 3.0 GB/s SATA connectors Support for atleast 8 GB RAM at 1666 USB 3.0 support HDMI or DVI Connector 1 GBps or 10 GBps ethernet connection Support to add addtional 1… Read More »

Meeting my bro- Navigating through hyderabad

First thing I had to decide the station I need to get down at. Hyderabad had two railway stations. 1. Hyderbad Deccan –  KACHEGUDA ( railway station name KCG) and 2. Secunderabad Now the question arose, how will I reach my brother’s place ? The place where is stays is nearly 28 kilometers from kacheguda and  29 kilometers… Read More »

Getting a window seat – Flight booking

Although I make a regular practice to check in at least 2 hours before the flight take off time, I was surprised to find that there were hardly any window seats available. This happened while I was travelling between Kochi and Bangalore, last Sunday ( 19 the Oct, 2014) I was a cent percent sure… Read More »

Religion for music

  The guitar riffs ( at 6:30 ) in the song ‘Bhaja Govindam by Krishna’s Temple Rock’, made me think about this. How about a religion for music ? In that case, I would be the evangelist for this religion. With all the God given instruments – keyboard, midi, guitar and bass, I am sure,… Read More »

Anybody walking – Smooth criminal

For the last 25 years, I thought that the lyrics of the song ‘Smooth Criminal’ was Anybody walking!. One of the first songs I heard in a Philips Walk man that my brother had, in stereo, which totally changed my perception of music In reality the words in the lyrics were Annie, are you OK? So,… Read More »

.net decompiler – dotPeek

As per Krishna’s suggestion, wanted to have a look at some dlls and found this amazing tool ‘dotPeek’ ( https://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/) Got the dlls converted to source file. Job done. In the following days, I will explore the software a little bit more And from the website, What’s Cool about dotPeek? Decompiling .NET 1.0-4.5 assemblies to C#… Read More »

Photo walk with Anand and Suhas

An amazing photo walk with Suhas and Anand. Although we had not planned, found that there was a flower show based on the hampi theme going on. Loved it. Learned a lot about photography and the great power of 18 – 55, especially as a great travel lens. Abitlity to go from wide angle to… Read More »

Weekend before flight to Trichur

Hand-picking of photos completed Installed joomla in the url homepage.justin-joseph.org Confirmed with Anand about tomorrow’s photo shoot Planning to buy Piano – YAMAHA PSR-E243 . Called uncle and checked out the prices too After a long time, played the song Pyar Hua song on my MIDI controller and recorded in fruity loops. Sang along with that… Read More »

Worthlessness of valuable things

credits Imagine putting a diamond-studded platinum necklace around a baby’s neck, who is around 8 months of age. It may play with that for a while and then lose interest very soon. Try giving that baby attention and love and see what happens. Is it that the baby realizes the transient nature of material things that… Read More »