Moving on to my new blog

I have now moved to a new space for my blogs. I have also exported all my posts into my new blog.

You can now access my blog on http://vikramkamath.wordpress.com

The RSS feed can be found here:

http://vikramkamath.wordpress.com/feed

http://feeds.feedburner.com/wordpress/VikramKamath

Diwali 2006

Its been ages since i blogged about anything. I say the same thing whenever I am away from blogspot for a long time. Anyway, I am back again.

We celebrated diwali, the festival of lights with a few friends in Basingstoke yesterday (21st October 2006). We celebrated the festival at my friend Neeraj's place starting with a small "pooja" and then bursting some good fireworks. There were rockets, sparklers and more. Here are some pictures of the small event. Enjoy!

Please leave a message

I just happened to check the hit list on this blog. There are many people all over the world who are searching for "vikram kamath" and ending up on this blog. Its a good thing. But I would like to know who you are, just in case i know you. So, I request you to leave a message or a comment on the blog so that possible old friends can get back in touch again.

Cheers and thanks.

Regular Expression for folder paths

I have been looking for a regular expression that allowed me to validate a folder path on a local machine or a shared directory path using UNC with server name or UNC with IP Address. I did find a regular expression on RegExLib.com. But it didn't seem to be solving my purpose. So I went about modifying it. I ended up creating different one. Many of you may have done this already. But this was a small exercise on my part to get to build a regular expression. So here it is.

Regular Expression: ^((([a-zA-Z]:)(\\{2}[a-zA-Z]+)(\\{2}\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}))(?=(\\(\w[\w ]*)))(\\\w[\w ]*)*)$

Matches: c:\folder one\folder2\folder 3 , \\remoteMachine\folder1, \\1.22.33.444\folder 1\folder2

Non Matches: c:\\folder one c:folder 1, c:\folder 1\\folder 2, \remoteMachine\folder 1, \\remoteMachine\\folder 1, \\remoteMachine\folder 1\\folder2, \\1.22.33.444\\folder 1, \\1.22.33.444\folder 1\\folder2


Hope this helps anyone who needs to use it.

Fiat gone, Nissan in!!

Got rid of the Fiat Brava last tuesday and bought this Nissan Primera Precision.

Jim's farewell party pictures

Here are some of the pictures from Jim's farewell party at Basingstoke last week. It was all a great time. Don't miss the XBOX and Jim picture.

All the very best Jim. All of us at Exony will miss you.

What is your Ego Rating?

Check your ego points at egoSurf.

Here are my points. Still a long way to go.

Koan is ranked number 8 on egoSurf. Great going Koan!!!!