Programming By Numbers

One of the challenges when traveling is being able to connect and charge all the different devices we take with us. These devices differ depending on the purpose of the trip (business or pleasure) but have the same challenges.When traveling for pleasure you may be staying with relatives, friends or at an AirBnB. What is available may be unknown. Many hotels cater for international travelers and have sockets that allow many different plugs to be used - The JW Marriott in Bangalore allows you to plug in any type of plug (all that I have seen!). One hotel in Sydney had USB charger ports available. The first challenge is being able to plug your charger in. When traveling for work I always carry two adapters that convert from the local plug standard to the plugs required for my devices and chargers. An alternative is to carry one adapter and a power board. The exception to the two adapters is when I am traveling to multiple countries which have different plugs! In those cases...

Have you ever attended a presentation and been confused as to what an acronym meant? Have you asked what it meant or did you wait in vain for someone else to ask first? Have you thought you knew what it meant only to realize after a minute or two that you didn't? The problem with not defining the acronyms that you use in a presentation or talk are that a particular acronym means different thing to different people. We all know, or think we know, what certain acronyms mean - SDK means Software Development Kit, JVM is Java Virtual Machine - and some acronyms are so well known that they can be relied upon to always mean the same thing. Does anyone use the acronym IBM to mean anything other than International Business Machines? However many acronyms are reused for different meanings. The other problem is that it can take a few seconds to remember or to work out what the acronym means. That is time you should have been paying more attention to the presenter. When presenting pleas...