About a fortnight ago, Google highlighted on its official blog how "two clever Translate trends caught our eye—perhaps one of them will inspire you to come up with a fun Translate trick of your own.". Folks around the world were making fun remixesFirst, some creative folks translated strings of consonants into German to create a new beatboxing tool. The phrase “pv zk bschk” didn’t initially make much sense to us, but a quick listen got us nodding our heads along to the beat.Now it seems there’s a similar trend in Taiwan: using the spoken output...
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Tatkal train ticket reservation is a ray of hope for millions of Indians who prefer to commute by trains over other forms of travel even if they have to pay extra because the original reserved ticket quota has run out. The IRCTC website is possibly the best known site in India as it helps travellers avoid the long queues at the train reservation centers. It is also probably the most hated site as getting the more premium Tatkal ticket is a harrowing experience.--- Update (13-Mar-2012): In an Economic Times interview, the Head of IRCTC, Rakesh...
Friday, 27 May 2011
Introduction to Visual Studio 2010 - Part 2 importantly covers IntelliTrace & Extensions. Some interesting facts about VS from the video course -You can debug a release build. Release folder can contain .pdb. PDB – Program Debug DatabaseDeploy Release version of build. Depending on the third party libraries you are using, their licensing terms may not allow you to deploy the Debug version.Build > Clean Solution throws away all...
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Recordings from TechEd, PDC, MIX events are all now archived on Channel9. These are great learning resources to keep abreast of all that's happening in the Microsoft Development world. Here are videos I have identified from Tech-Ed North America 2011 for weekend viewing over the coming weeks:Team Foundation Server for EveryoneThe Accidental Team Foundation Server AdminUnderstanding Your Systems with Architectural Discovery in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 for DevelopersPragmatic JavaScript,jQuery...
Saturday, 21 May 2011
Like last year, MVPs from all over India & a few from Sri Lanka & Australia converged in Hyderabad for the MVP Open Day event. I had a great time meeting & talking with some extremely smart & passionate MVPs & listening to presentations from visionaries & Product Team leaders at MS IDC.(click to view enlarged ima...
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Michael K. Campbell has shared some useful SQL Server goodies that are available online, in his article in DevProConnections. I picked the ones I liked -* Scripts - TechNet's Script Repository has a vast repository of scripts provided by Microsoft and by its users/customers that you can adapt for your own requirements.* Books - Red Gate Software which sells some great developer tools also publishes books. Some of them are available for free download in PDF format -SQL Server Stumpers Vol.5 Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer SQL Server...
Monday, 2 May 2011
Here is a summary of the 2h 38min duration Pluralsight SQL Azure course -* Advantages of SQL Azure -Highly availableManageableScalableFamiliar – similar to SQL Server 2005 & 2008, but differences/limitations existMaintained by MS IT* Some differences from standard SQL Server -Data migration – SSIS, BCP, Scripts, SQL Azure Migration Wizard, System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy; Restore not supportedTransactions – possible in same DB instance onlyCollation applies only to Column & Expression level; Server, Database excludedTables...
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