tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34729442009-02-21T06:39:21.770+05:30A blog on what is happening in the .NET world in India.Anandnoreply@blogger.comBlogger273125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1061383875131749342003-08-20T18:21:00.000+05:302003-08-20T18:21:15.206+05:30

I have moved over fulltime to Typepad now and so will not be posting regularly here. So this is just going to be an archieve for my older posts and maybe a post now and then.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060854408758984082003-08-14T15:16:00.000+05:302003-08-14T15:21:25.660+05:30

I have been having some problem posting in Blogger. So I kind of post most of the stuff in my Typepad blog now. I think over time I would move over to that blog as I find it more and more difficult to keep two sets of blogs up to date.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060854247704925922003-08-14T15:14:00.000+05:302003-08-14T15:18:44.613+05:30

My interview about User groups in India and specifically CNUG has appeared in todays FE. Check it out at Usergroups Can Help Members Become More Productive

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060580919429282002003-08-11T11:18:00.000+05:302003-08-11T11:18:39.460+05:30

Scott Mitchel has started a new website which lists free ASP.NET components. There are also reviews and screenshots.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060579718515471732003-08-11T10:58:00.000+05:302003-08-11T10:58:38.636+05:30

Adam pointed to this SF project in his post. This is a remoting channel that allows you to access CORBA objects from your .NET Apps. I think this is cool and really ups the interop value of .NET. Now you can access those CORBA objects without learning anything new. The site says any IIOP object, I suppose it is not really restricted to CORBA alone. This is still in intial stages and so you may

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060432651701919032003-08-09T18:07:00.000+05:302003-08-09T18:07:31.716+05:30

From Raymond's blog: Why is a registry file called a "hive"? Because one of the original developers of Windows NT hated bees. So the developer who was responsible for the registry snuck in as many bee references as he could. A registry file is called a "hive", and registry data are stored in "cells", which is what honeycombs are made of.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060342399255055242003-08-08T17:03:00.000+05:302003-08-08T17:03:19.253+05:30

MS India has just announced some information on TechEd India 2003. They seem to have got this idea that three days together is too much time for people to take off and so have split the whole event into three months(1 day/month). This is, in my opinion, a very bad way of doing things. First of all, the idea of spreading it over three months means, people will lose the thread. There are usually

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060258793546452542003-08-07T17:49:00.000+05:302003-08-07T17:49:53.553+05:30

I have now become a full fledged Typepad user. The price is quite high by Indian standards, but with their special offer for beta testers I decided to go with it... Not to mention, I have kinda got hooked to this thing now....:-)

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060251039638481732003-08-07T15:40:00.000+05:302003-08-07T15:40:39.643+05:30

Howl is an implementation of the ZeroConf standard for networking for Windows and *nix. It is open source and also contains an SDK to integrage ZeroConf support into Windows apps(Currently is a C library. Anyone interested in writing a Managed SDK??). ZeroConf aims are plug-and-play networking, where you just connect two computers and they automatically are able to communicate without the need

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060244546427526082003-08-07T13:52:00.000+05:302003-08-07T13:52:26.413+05:30

Well so many blogs on the PDC and with Scoble singing its praises... They even have a I will be at PDC logo to put on the blogs. I won't be there, though I would love to. It is just not viable to fly in for a event from India, unless you are being sponsored...:-) So I become a proud member of the won't be there band..

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060167388460399192003-08-06T16:26:00.000+05:302003-08-06T16:26:28.306+05:30

Well this is nothing to do with the Adam of Adam & Eve fame, but rather Active Directory Application Mode...:-) If you use Active Directory, then you may find this useful..

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060156677294875202003-08-06T13:27:00.000+05:302003-08-06T13:27:57.113+05:30

Another one of those Google anomalies.... This blog is the #1 hit for the search "why .net is bad"... Well maybe Sun will now offer me a job, for doing something they have not yet been succesful in doing...:-) (This post most probably is going to change the ratings)

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060156159130663982003-08-06T13:19:00.000+05:302003-08-06T13:19:19.050+05:30

This seems interesting. Should be a good idea at those event stalls where geeks go to look at the latest technologies. But will it be successful. Only if it is ok for day to day use. And that only time will tell. Thanks to Scoble for the link.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060154746388908272003-08-06T12:55:00.000+05:302003-08-06T12:55:46.426+05:30

From Early and Adopter: " ~" Searches You may want to search not only for a particular keyword, but also for its synonyms. Indicate a search for both by placing the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of the keyword. Pretty cool.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060080834045405072003-08-05T16:23:00.000+05:302003-08-05T16:23:54.130+05:30

I was just reading Chris Maunder's article on the VSLive session on Whidbey. The one of the things there really reminded me of somethings we had been talking in an NDA event. I was real happy when I saw that the My stuff has really got into the Whidbey release of VB.NET. This is something that I really thought will add higher productivity to VB.NET. You put all the related stuff in one easily

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060080171026245462003-08-05T16:12:00.000+05:302003-08-05T16:12:51.090+05:30

Well Google has changed back to normal...:-) Now google.co.in has the english interface and has links to pages with the other five major indian languages that google supports. I have seen this issue being reported in a lot of India blogs and also seem some say they mails people in google. There was a real uproar in the Indian blogosphere. I suppose enough dust was raised for the people in

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060071818706677082003-08-05T13:53:00.000+05:302003-08-05T13:53:38.760+05:30

I was just reading this post from Martin Fowler on the common complaint that Patterns are not new. Fowler says Not just is this true, but it's the whole point of patterns. Patterns are there to capture knowledge from the field, not to present original ideas. As a result it's inevitable that patterns books aren't going to add stunning new ideas to those who have been working in a field for a

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060068950443726742003-08-05T13:05:00.000+05:302003-08-05T13:05:50.493+05:30

Raymond warns all those tweakers against changing the Windows Boot Logo: DO NOT DO THIS ON A PRODUCTION MACHINE OR YOU WILL REGRET IT. If you hack the bitmap everything will seem fine until six months down the road when you decide to install the latest service pack. The service pack installer will not upgrade your ntoskrnl because it looks at the file and says "Hm, this isn't the standard

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1060061817211519902003-08-05T11:06:00.000+05:302003-08-05T11:06:57.270+05:30

Paul V points to Chris Sells' post on an article that talks about people who are incompetent. The main point the article stresses is that incompetent people are unaware of the fact that they are incompetent and so are unable to improve their skills.

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059991905141559932003-08-04T15:41:00.000+05:302003-08-04T15:41:45.223+05:30

Joel has written a wonderful foreword for the book titled In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters. Seems like a good read, but it usually takes a few months before books land up in India. So I have to wait...:-(

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059984382382707342003-08-04T13:36:00.000+05:302003-08-04T13:36:22.440+05:30

Well, here is PaulV with his version

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059982496744631352003-08-04T13:04:00.000+05:302003-08-04T13:04:56.713+05:30

From Thinking About Computing In 1960, a researcher interviewed 1500 business-school students and classified them in two categories: those who were in it for the money – 1245 of them – and those who were going to use the degree to do something they cared deeply about – the other 255 people. Twenty years later, the researcher checked on the graduates and found that 101 of them were millionaires

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059976690549787852003-08-04T11:28:00.000+05:302003-08-04T12:39:27.746+05:30

Erik Porter has a post on why he speaks at user groups. Some interesting thougt. I did post a comment there, then thought I could blog about it too. 1. It makes me read up stuff I usually skip due to laziness. So it forces me to keep up to date. (Another thing that does this is keeping this blog alive...:-)) 2. When you discuss a topic with people, you start looking at different perspectives of

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059838112410589902003-08-02T20:58:00.000+05:302003-08-02T20:59:36.260+05:30

The people in Google seems to have a confused idea of India. They did something which they think is a wonderful thing. When you visit Google from India, it redirects you to the Hindi version of Google... Hello there, not everybody in India speaks Hindi. We have 18+ official languages in India... Thankfully someone there have got some sense and google is back to English now...

Anandnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3472944.post-1059635426161916222003-07-31T12:40:00.000+05:302003-07-31T12:40:26.216+05:30

Robert A. Wlodarczyk points to the new TMC benchmarks of .NET vs. Java. The first benchmark showed that .NET was 2-3x faster that Java and this resulted in a lot of critisisms form the Java camp. TMC has now redone the whole thing with the involvement of the Java community etc. The report is avbl at the TMC Site. This time Java has performed better and in some cases the performances are almost

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