July 2004 - Posts

SharpRepositoryLib

Published Fri, Jul 23 2004 7:27 | girishb

Brian has posted a blog : Source Code Repository Access with links to SCS library in C#. I think this will be useful.

Pluralsight aggregate feed

Published Thu, Jul 22 2004 6:53 | girishb

I just found out that there is a aggregated pluralsight feed. Here is the link . Subscribed!

A custom style for SauceReader

Published Thu, Jul 22 2004 6:20 | girishb

A simple CSS for use with Sauce Reader . Save it as a CSS file in a directory of the same name. place it in c:\program files\SauceReader\Styles directory. Thats it. /* Main page set up */ HTML { background-color: #777; padding: 6px; margin: 0; } BODY...

Brain dead days

Published Wed, Jul 21 2004 10:07 | girishb

I learnt this lesson today. :( Well, I tested some SQL code, made sure it covers all the edge conditions, added a multi-line comment I was fixing this for certain bugs found in product and threw it across. My comment was " Fixing blah/blah/* : errors...

Virtual constructors!

Published Wed, Jul 21 2004 10:04 | girishb

I was talking to my wife who has an interview today. She quizzed me about 1. Virtual Constructors 2. Virtual distructors 3. pure virtual distructors 4. Different multi-thread locking mechanisms. I think I had a pretty good handle on most of them except...

DOOM 3 hardware requirements

Published Wed, Jul 21 2004 7:19 | girishb

Minimum: A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500. 384 megabytes of memory. Two gigabytes of hard drive space. An nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card or better; or an ATI Technologies 8500 or better. Optmal: a 3GHz P4 or Athlon equivalent, 512MB...

Excel and genes

Published Tue, Jul 20 2004 17:23 | girishb

Autoformat of Excel has introduced Gene name errors according to this which I found via Scoble Link Machine . Now you can feel happy that the pain that you feel is shared by gene research scientists. At least that is the one thing common between them...

Privacy and corporate email

Published Tue, Jul 20 2004 16:08 | girishb

Did you know that nearly 1/2 the large companies have personnel to read outgoing emails ? According to Forrester Consulting, 44% of "large companies" actually employ personnel whose purpose is to read outgoing company mail to make sure that company secrets...

SauceReader 1.6 review

Published Tue, Jul 20 2004 15:34 | girishb

As you know, Sauce 1.6 is out . Here are my first impressions. Image upload seems to fail. I attempted both FTP and metablogAPI. I think MSMVPS.COM does not have metablog API enabled for uploading images. But, I know the FTP site works. So, I dont know...

Editors and you

Published Tue, Jul 20 2004 14:35 | girishb

According to Pragmatic Programmer, we are supposed to use one editor for everything. That way you will be a master one type of quirks vs. whole lotta quirks. As a windows developer, how many editors do we end up using every day? I use: W:Blogger or SauceReader...

Sauce Reader 1.6 is out

Published Tue, Jul 20 2004 14:15 | girishb

A new release of Sauce reader is out. The features include: Image uploading support in the weblog editor. Currently playing support in the weblog editor. Major improvements to weblog editor support and stability, particularly .Text and WordPress. Huge...

IIS 6 book

Published Tue, Jul 20 2004 11:14 | girishb

Peter Marshall has posted a pointer to an IIS 6 book for download. Need to check it out.

Indigo

Published Mon, Jul 19 2004 22:12 | girishb

Rich Turner has answered some interesting questions about Indigo here . And he shows how to build /design /architect services . After reading that particular blog about building services, I had an epipheny. Major part of building services is designing...

InfoPath as a blog editor?

Published Mon, Jul 19 2004 21:52 | girishb

Guogiang over @ Weblogs @ ASP.NET > has implemented a infopath Addin to edit blogs. Gotta say, Pretty cool. I need to download 135 MB worth SP1 Preview for Infopath to install this Addin though. I will monkey around with it and see what it does.

Microsoft buys Lindows

Published Mon, Jul 19 2004 17:22 | girishb

Well...the name at least. After more than two years of trademark litigation over the Lindows name, Microsoft has put an end to the suits by forking over US$20 million for the name and related Web domains.. Via arsTechnica . Michael must be so proud.

Some ASP.NET unit testing frameworks

Published Mon, Jul 19 2004 17:14 | girishb

http://www.ruxp.net/runit.asp http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net [ Found them here ]

Google and numbers.

Published Fri, Jul 16 2004 9:45 | girishb

It seems this was on Rt.101 in Silicon Valley . Google Blog told me about this. But, after that, I searched and found this which basically answers the first question for you. If you navigate around to this AT&T research site and plug the numbers, you...

RE: GAC, Gaahh

Published Fri, Jul 16 2004 5:35 | girishb

I had been having issues with GAC as I mentioned here. Turns out, there is another problem with gacutil (well, the absense of it in the runtime). Anyway, Victor for saucereader fame, posted this helpful pointer . Thanks, Victor, Waiting for Sauce to allow...

Buying a Mac

Published Thu, Jul 15 2004 22:22 | girishb

After reading this blog by Cyrus , I really want to get a Apple 12" notebook. Now, I need to come up with good story to tell my wife as to why we need 3 (4 if I buy Apple) laptops and 2 desktops..

.Math turns 1.0

Published Thu, Jul 15 2004 17:05 | girishb

Steve's baby .Math has turned 1.0. Found from his blog actually. Congrats, Steve!!!!