2 years gap and hopefully back
Published Thu, Nov 20 2008 10:53 | girishb
So, life has a way of becoming interesting in chunks. I am sure the two subscribers to my RSS feed have probably left reading my blog a long while ago... :) Anyway, I have in the last couple of years, lost about 30lbs, worked with Java and J2EE and .NET...
I am back after a long while
Published Fri, Oct 13 2006 1:55 | girishb
I have been busy with vacation (went to India for a month with a stop over at London), came back, deemed an "architect", got immersed in architechy work. Anyway, I am having a blast with the new role with SharePoint, J2EE, portals et al. Its fun. So,...
Waterfall2006, the real next big thing
Published Fri, Feb 10 2006 10:32 | girishb
Here is a great way of implementing your next project. http://www.waterfall2006.com is conference at Niagara falls. Make sure that you pay attention to all course excerpts.
IE Tab for Firefox
Published Mon, Jan 9 2006 10:35 | girishb
If you are one of those people who likes Firefox and starts IE only to test a page or two, There is a really neat extension at http://ietab.mozdev.org/ . IETab creates an embedded IE browser window within Firefox. You can just Right-click and select ...
i-mate JASJAR
Published Wed, Dec 21 2005 5:25 | girishb
I got one of these when I went to PDC. Its one of those things that has basically removed all need for carrying zaurus , iPod and a Motorola phone in my pocket. I love it. I do have one issue with it though. It seems like it needs a soft-reset every few...
Microsoft "Award for customer excellence", I got one too
Published Wed, Dec 21 2005 5:18 | girishb
By getting Microsoft award for customer excellence , I am joining the illustrious crowd that includes Wallace McClure , Frans Bouma , Anand Narayanaswamy and Sam Gentile . When I saw the email initially, it looked too much like a phishing scheme. Then...
Updated voo2dotray
Published Fri, Dec 16 2005 7:56 | girishb
Voo2dotray has been updated by Robbie Coleman with many cleanups and enhancements. You can read more about it and download it here . Thank you Rob. Also, Shimon has posted his comments on this. It makes me proud to see that something I hacked together...
Martin Fowler on Agile
Published Thu, Dec 15 2005 8:01 | girishb
I found from Sam Gentile's blog about Martin Fowlers updated " The new methodology " article. Its an excellent read. It provides very good measures for going agile or not. If you are uncertain about agile, make sure you read " Should you go agile? " section...
Exceptions and ASP.NET 2.0
Published Wed, Dec 14 2005 13:35 | girishb
Scott, in his usual style, has a blog entry regarding unhandled exceptions in ASP.NET 2.0. The gist of it is that if you have secondary threads in your ASP.NET app and you let an exception leak through, you are going to kill the asp.net worker process...
Using CSBlogger to post
Published Tue, Dec 13 2005 14:34 | girishb
I ditched my attempts at using Zoundry for editing my msmvps.com posts. That and blogjet and other blog editors failed miserably for this. But, I found CSBlogger which works like a charm. Thank god! I cannot bear to edit stuff on web pages. I tend to...
Anyone coming to MS launch on 15th Dec at Boston?
Published Tue, Dec 13 2005 19:14 | girishb
I will be there. Look like it could be fun. I will be at the Pre-launch Architect's council Breakfast as well. Free food is always welcome.
Steve on TDD
Published Tue, Dec 13 2005 19:07 | girishb
Steve Eichert gets TDD. I know its not that hard to say you are doing TDD when you are basically doing upfront design and coming up with fancy UML diagrams and then developing the code with some tests around the code. I will not say that that is not TDD...
Thank you, Susan!
Published Tue, Dec 13 2005 15:33 | girishb
This is great. We are on Community server 1.0. Woohoo, looks good, smells great. I love it.
Snow
Published Fri, Dec 9 2005 13:12 | girishb
Yuck, We are getting pummelled by snow today. I like snow when I can stay home, light up the fireplace and watch the snow from inside. Not today. I am in office and feel like it will be an adventure going back home. Oh well!!
Scott is funny ...
Published Mon, Dec 5 2005 14:48 | girishb
Here is a nice little blog entry by Scott Allen about the kind of interaction he seems to have had during a code camp presentation. Now I know why I like him. :) BTW: It also has some interesting ASP.NET 2.0 links in that entry.
Anybody playing with Ruby or Rails?
Published Thu, Dec 1 2005 22:03 | girishb
I have been having a blast with Ruby and Rails framework. By far, this has been the cleanest experience I have had with languages and frameworks. I have started a blogger site for writing on ruby experiences . I have been mucking with Ruby in Emacs but...
TDD and MS continued
Published Thu, Dec 1 2005 18:46 | girishb
MS seems to have listened to the industry and pulled the paper about TDD from MSDN. I am impressed at the response. That is great!!!! Hopefully we will see better information next time around, may be get Martin Fowler or Michael Feathers to write that...
MS and its TDD fiasco
Published Wed, Nov 30 2005 9:29 | girishb
MS truly built a Titanic with its MS Visual Studio Team System and seems like here comes the iceberg . Here is an article by Scott Bellware which sums so eloquently and beautifully, the problems with the methodology that MS has proposed for their version...
Outlook macro to get tasks from Voo2do
Published Tue, Oct 25 2005 22:54 | girishb
Since I wrote the earlier one for populating the tasks from outlook to voo2do , its only fitting that a reverse is feasible through macros. So, here it is. This one basically retrieves the tasks that are out in voo2do and stuffs them as tasks in outlook...
Outlook macro to update Rememberthemilk or voo2do
Published Wed, Oct 19 2005 11:09 | girishb
If you are one of those guys who uses these todo list sites such as RTM , backpackit or Voo2do , like me.. you probably despise the fact that you need to start off with typing in the same things that are in the “tasks” list for outlook. If...
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