This Week I Learned:Twitter is in the process of testing a new feature that lets you discover tweets from people within a certain distance of your location. Students participating in the Mono Project in the 2013 Google Summer of Code can get paid $5,000. Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET. Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source software projects.A...
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Twitter DM'ed me a "Happy 5th TwBirthday" along with this online greeting: How time runs!In these 5 years, Twitter helped me -...find insightful information in my areas of interest...reach out to people whose email addresses I don't know ...complain against or compliment service providers who have a Twitter presence...saved time by giving me the gist of whatever is making news...publicize my blog posts ...learn about brevity and still be...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
While copying a basic ASP.NET MVC 4 project sample from a different machine, I noticed that the project created using the Internet Application template was a whooping 27MB in size.The Packages folder takes up 27.4MB while the DLLs (47 of them compared to 29 in the MVC 3 project template) in the Bin folder were 5MB in size.The default ASP.NET MVC 4 Solution created with Basic Template was 24MB (Packages folder - 18MB, Bin folder - 4.34MB)Is there really a chance that anyone uses all of the DLLs?I looked up what some of the non-Microsoft DLLs among...
Sunday, 21 April 2013
This Week I Learned:New Azure VM Image Templates include SQL Server, BizTalk Server, and SharePoint Server (2013?) images. This can be handy when you don't have time to build the environment to try one of those server technologiesIt is possible to run a ASP.NET web page on a Raspberry PiCode School has a nice set of video tutorials on learning about Chrome DevTools. The videos are downloadable for offline viewing.If you want to show someone how your...
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Saturday, 13 April 2013
This Week I Learned:Microsoft offers a minimum of 10 years of support for Business and Developer products. Microsoft is getting ready to pull the life support on Windows XP. Mixed Active Content is now blocked by default in Firefox 23. It has been happening already in Chrome. With Click-to-Run, you can start using Office before the whole suite or product has been downloaded. While you are using your application, the rest of Office is being downloaded quietly in the background. Click-to-Run uses Microsoft virtualization and streaming...
Friday, 12 April 2013
Here is a GitHub Gist snippet that shows how to get local time for a location based on its latitude and longitude using World Weather Online's Time Zone API & jQuery -
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Thursday, 11 April 2013
The Recommended Product Links Amazon widget can be adapted to display book titles in Amazon ads dynamically based on context or custom keywords.Here is a GitHub Gist snippet that illustrates this -
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Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Our latest app, World Citizen News gets you:the Twitter buzzweather forecast, local time & map for popular cities around the worldimages of selected location from flickrnews based on the trending Twitter topicsIt makes use of the following APIs:Twitter TrendsflickrWorld Weather Online for the local timeMapQuest Yahoo Weather via YQLGoogle NewsWhether you're a world citizen or a geography buff, try the World Citizen News mash-up to see what's...
Saturday, 6 April 2013
The bookmarking sites Delicious and Google Bookmarks haven't been working well for me. So on the lines of the TodayILearned section of Reddit, I plan to jot down interesting things I've learnt from the internet each week under the TWIL (ThisWeekILearned) label.Snipping tool isn't available in Windows Server 2012 & Windows Server 2008.Everything is a proprietary freeware Windows desktop search engine that can rapidly find files and folders by name on an NTFS volume. (found via SuperUser)The Mouse Keys feature that lets you control...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
A list of websites that use crowd-sourced information to compare salaries offered by Indian companies -PayScaleGlassdoorSalaryKhojJobinessZubyAlso see:Comparison of Payment GatewaysAids for comparative analysis of software tools/productsIndian comparison shopping sitesComparison of URL Shortener servi...
Having spent a few months with VS 2012, I like Visual Studio 2012 more than Visual Studio 2010 as it feels faster. Although I don't mind the menu titles in upper-case, there are quite a few features that annoy me -Track Active Item in Solution Explorer - I don't understand why this option has to be unchecked while almost all the rest in the group are checked.Word Wrap - why can't this be activated by default?Solution Explorer - When I open a...
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