July 2004 - Posts

Crazy days

Published 30 July 4 8:59 AM | girishb

Testing products is a pay now or a pay later game. If you don’t plan for it right, you will end up paying a lot more later. You can think of Test as a Credit card bill. You better take care of it. You can pay minimum for now. But, over the long run, you...

Firefox Developer extension

Published 29 July 4 12:58 PM | girishb

If you do anything with web and use Firefox , you better install the developer extension. Its part of the default install. That developer extension is insanely feature rich. You can do so many things, its mind-boggling. It can installed from here.

Type initializers and deadlocks

Published 29 July 4 10:35 AM | girishb

In this article by Scott ( rss ): Static Constructors Are Not Miracle Workers, He is trying to show that type initializers are not idiot proof. So,better beware. Nice article scott. Go read it to figure out why you need to be careful about such things...

Python for .NET part deux

Published 29 July 4 10:31 AM | girishb

If you read me blogs, you would remember, i was lamenting the fact that there were no Python implementations for .NET to be found . What do you know, the comments within that blogs are now pointing at not one but two, real, honest to god, .NET based Python...

Ten tools

Published 28 July 4 9:56 PM | girishb

I am sure you have seen thi on other blogs. I am just posting it here so that I dont have look for this every time I need to find a tool for someone. (I dont want to download it and keep them since all of them are not being used immediately and when I...

Complex passwords pointless?

Published 28 July 4 1:36 PM | girishb

Here is an article by Robert Hensing from MS talking about why you should not use passwords ( including complex ones such as yUkc~CH) and instead should be using pass-phrases. Read it here: http://weblogs.asp.net/robert_hensing/archive/2004/07/28/199610...

Impressiv savings in redesign of MS.com

Published 28 July 4 11:53 AM | girishb

Redesigning Microsoft.com - with CSS, without tables A 62% file size reduction anticipated! "If multiplied out by my measly 1 million page views estimate, that 25 KB savings comes to about 23.8 GB in bandwidth savings per day, or 8.5 terabytes per year...

Web privacy policies mean ziltch (legally)

Published 28 July 4 7:26 AM | girishb

According to this article on arsTechnica: http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/20040727-4040.html , you dont have any rights on the personal information you pass to a online vendor.Once you give it away, its gone. The vendor can do whatever he pleases. Your...

Unified Dimensional Model (UDM)

Published 28 July 4 7:9 AM | girishb

An interesting article has been published on MSDN : Introduction to the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) . This paper provides an introduction to the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM), including the basic end-user model, and a brief overview of the architecture...

Google explains Error 27

Published 28 July 4 7:3 AM | girishb

Urs Hoelzle (VP of operations at Google) explains the MyDoom havoc in this blog: Global Worming .

Cw

Published 28 July 4 7:0 AM | girishb

C w is a new language out of MS research. Compiler preview is available here . Documentation is available here . The point of having a new language: 1. control flow extension for asynchronous wide-area concurrency 2. data type extension for XML and table...

Office 2003 SP1 and the Infopath blog editor

Published 28 July 4 6:48 AM | girishb

If you remember, I had tried to use Infopath as blog editor (that I blogged about here ) unsuccessfully. I have VS.NET 2005 and that ruined some of the interop assemblies. Anyway, after installing the new Office 2003 SP1 out of MS (blogged here ), I am...

Webservice empire

Published 27 July 4 7:6 AM | girishb

Two blogs by Christian Weyer : 1. part I: http://weblogs.asp.net/cweyer/archive/2004/07/13/181930.aspx 2. part II: http://weblogs.asp.net/cweyer/archive/2004/07/26/197016.aspx Interesting.

C'mon baby, run linspire!?

Published 27 July 4 7:2 AM | girishb

Via Channel9 forums, I found this: Time to set MS on fire? which provided a link for http://images.linspire.com/RunLinspireSong/RunLinspire.swf Very good parody of "light my fire". Funny.

Firefox

Published 26 July 4 11:53 PM | girishb

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release from http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/006075.html . I ought to try this out sometime.

Kartoo

Published 26 July 4 4:39 PM | girishb

Check out this Kartoo site. This is a "search engine". But, from the looks of it, it seems a hollywood type created it. Really cool. It takes probably 20 clicks before getting anything interesting. :)

MSDN on Express Editions

Published 26 July 4 3:4 PM | girishb

Here is a decent article explaining the new "express editions" for visual studio 2005: EXPRESS EDITIONS: Get a Lean, Mean Dev Machine with the Express Editions of Visual Basic and SQL Server 2005

Design for Distribution

Published 24 July 4 12:4 AM | girishb

An excellent blog by Tim ewald here : I refuse to let the angle brackets fall where they may! . I love it. It does NOT matter what the current wire protocol/messaging technology is. You need to design close to the wire upwords. You cannot ignore it. DCOM...

Lookout

Published 23 July 4 7:31 AM | girishb

From Dan's Blog: Lookout available for free download! I have heard many good things about this tool. I will see.

Whidbey and transactions

Published 23 July 4 7:29 AM | girishb

Florin's Blog entry Transactions made easy: System.Transactions tells us that writing Transaction code in Whidbey would be a breeze. Good to know.I will try it out tonight.