http://luchaji.net/wordpress YATB (Yet Another Tech Blog) Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:35:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Investigating the ordering of static and instance constructor calls. Static constructors get called only once in the entire program's lifetime- the first time the class or any of its members gets referenced. Instance constructors are called per object instantiation. [sourcecode language="csharp"] public class Base { static Base() { ... http://luchaji.net/wordpress/?p=326 Food heaven Pricey housing Temperature not so bad http://luchaji.net/wordpress/?p=323 For accrued interest calculations, the calculator must be clear on the use of day count conventions. Accrued interest is calculated as follows: AI = P x IR x T where AI = accrued interest P = principal IR = interest rate, annualised T = fraction of the year The fraction of the year is calculated as follows: actual/360, Each ... http://luchaji.net/wordpress/?p=321 The 19 hour ride into Singapore from NYC was smooth. So smooth I didn't want to leave the plane cabin's double-width flat beds. It was also the first time I've ever gotten an airline's escort boarding the plane. We were the only passengers with a baby on the all ... http://luchaji.net/wordpress/?p=317 A picture is worth a thousand words. Here's a thousand words for now. In brief, Singapore is even more beautiful in person than in pictures. It's been an unbelievable ride. http://luchaji.net/wordpress/?p=310 The culture in Canary Wharf is a bit interesting. Everyone heads down to the local watering pub after hours- and that's where the real work gets done. The players exchange the local office gossip, make contact with other folks without having to go through the dreaded Office calendar ... http://luchaji.net/wordpress/?p=308 While trying to use perl to extract photo metadata information from my camera files, I ran into a very common problem. My perl script failed to find the Image::EXIF perl module. Well, no problem, I'd just hit up cpan for it. And sure enough, cpan is only ... http://luchaji.net/wordpress/?p=306 A lot of folks say Singapore is 'such a small country!' I find this comment incredulous. Why? According to my fact checking (see earlier post), Singapore's land mass is greater than that of metropolitan New York City. Yet in over two decades in NYC, I have ... http://luchaji.net/wordpress/?p=304 "There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." "Absorb what is useful. Reject what is useless. Add specifically what is your own. " “Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.” Bruce Lee http://luchaji.net/wordpress/?p=300 This is the best news for a Singapore ex-pat from the US ever. The US dollar has been falling relative to the Chinese renminbi in the currency markets for years. That has always been bad news for me- as I watch my spending power decline each time I ... http://luchaji.net/wordpress/?p=298