After years of procastination, I've decided to start learning C++.
I'm looking for all the help I can get on this one, picked up Bruce Eckel's thinking in C++.
Infact I realized that probably this is what I should do pick a new language a year and understand the mechanics of the same.
I wonder if there is a list of all the possible programming languages out there.
Infact started making a list of some of the best technology books available covering different topics too... still building it will post it down the line. I'm looking for contributions to the list, only if you think the books is nothing but the best on a particular topic would I think of including it in the list.
(Incidentally realized Bruce Eckel also has a book called thinking in C# amazingly it's not available on Amazon but on some other online siteshttp://www.bluestonelab.com
And the ebook version costs about 1$. Interestingly it's in the same format as the thinking in C++ book. )
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
BBC NEWS | Americas | US father names son 'Version 2.0'
BBC NEWS | Americas | US father names son 'Version 2.0'
I was zapped when I read this, now is this whacko or what ?
It just makes me smile. I wonder if someday cloning and all that mumbo jumbo will enable a person to clone everthing about himself and create a better version... hmm now I would like a little less flab in my next version and yeah make him a little less lazy :-)
I was zapped when I read this, now is this whacko or what ?
It just makes me smile. I wonder if someday cloning and all that mumbo jumbo will enable a person to clone everthing about himself and create a better version... hmm now I would like a little less flab in my next version and yeah make him a little less lazy :-)
Thursday, January 29, 2004
.Net Bytes 1 - ASP.Net Session.Abandon
Every other day one comes across interesting tit-bits of .Net which one can so easily forget or ignore and which one shouldn't.
I think .Net Bytes is what I would call them. So here goes...
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ASP.Net Session.Abandon
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When the Abandon method is called, the current Session object is queued for deletion but is not actually deleted until all of the script commands on the current page have been processed. This means that you can access variables stored in the Session object on the same page as the call to the Abandon method but not in any subsequent Web pages.
It is interesting how the session.Abandon command works, this often leaves many a programmer wondering why session variables on the page are accessible even though a call has been made to abandon the session.
Well I think now you get the picture... if you've got any .Net Bytes (bites ;-) to share let me know. You can email me at sanjayATwirelessstrategist.com (hmm you're wondering why I didn't put this as @ right, to avoid the spammers ;-)
I think .Net Bytes is what I would call them. So here goes...
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ASP.Net Session.Abandon
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When the Abandon method is called, the current Session object is queued for deletion but is not actually deleted until all of the script commands on the current page have been processed. This means that you can access variables stored in the Session object on the same page as the call to the Abandon method but not in any subsequent Web pages.
It is interesting how the session.Abandon command works, this often leaves many a programmer wondering why session variables on the page are accessible even though a call has been made to abandon the session.
Well I think now you get the picture... if you've got any .Net Bytes (bites ;-) to share let me know. You can email me at sanjayATwirelessstrategist.com (hmm you're wondering why I didn't put this as @ right, to avoid the spammers ;-)
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Wow now I’ve also set up an RSS feed(oops ATOM feed, duly corrected by Guruji
http://sanjayshetty.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Open Source .Net
I was chatting with Piyush, an old colleague of mine who's kicked off two open source project initiatives on .Net infact using the new Whidbey tools.
It's good to see the no. of open source projects kick up. One of his projects is a
Site Portal (Phase Alpha)
A ready to go site builder which you can use to build a site of more than 100 pages with minimum effort
Infact the alpha build is online with source code (http://groups.msn.com/manasvin/projects.msnw)
Another interesting project which actually kicked me quite a bit is
Forum Alerts (Phase Initiation)
An MSN messenger alert system for users who subscribe to forums & newsgroups.
This is extremely cool as a whole lot of us technology biffs subscribe to various forums. The interesting part is that this idea is going to be built using MSN Alerts SDK. He's currently looking for more people who might want to participate. I think I might contribute to this one. Definitely an interesting idea to pursue :-)
It's good to see the no. of open source projects kick up. One of his projects is a
Site Portal (Phase Alpha)
A ready to go site builder which you can use to build a site of more than 100 pages with minimum effort
Infact the alpha build is online with source code (http://groups.msn.com/manasvin/projects.msnw)
Another interesting project which actually kicked me quite a bit is
Forum Alerts (Phase Initiation)
An MSN messenger alert system for users who subscribe to forums & newsgroups.
This is extremely cool as a whole lot of us technology biffs subscribe to various forums. The interesting part is that this idea is going to be built using MSN Alerts SDK. He's currently looking for more people who might want to participate. I think I might contribute to this one. Definitely an interesting idea to pursue :-)
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Articles I've written
I recently wrote a couple of articles for DevX and .Net Developer Journal
thought I'd provide the links out here to them:
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/17746 - Super Charge your forms based apps with Advanced Data Binding
http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/17968 - Develop for the SmartPhone using Techniques you already know
https://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/article.cfm?id=454 - Windows Form controls Tips and Tricks
thought I'd provide the links out here to them:
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/17746 - Super Charge your forms based apps with Advanced Data Binding
http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/17968 - Develop for the SmartPhone using Techniques you already know
https://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/article.cfm?id=454 - Windows Form controls Tips and Tricks
Smart Client
Buzzword or new application development paradigm?
Simplicity is what I believe will drive smart client development adoption.
Smart Clients have very simple rules:
1. Local Processing
2. Communication via Web Services with the backend
3. Online or offline the application should work
4. Client should auto update
The simplicity of the above rules implemented in any application which you develop can have dramatic effects on your client ensuring client delight.
But are there tools which support this paradigm as yet... my bet is that within the next 2 years one is going to see a whole lot of tool support within the Microsoft tool set. Till that becomes reality I'm sure just application of these simple rules will change how software is developed across the globe.
Simplicity is what I believe will drive smart client development adoption.
Smart Clients have very simple rules:
1. Local Processing
2. Communication via Web Services with the backend
3. Online or offline the application should work
4. Client should auto update
The simplicity of the above rules implemented in any application which you develop can have dramatic effects on your client ensuring client delight.
But are there tools which support this paradigm as yet... my bet is that within the next 2 years one is going to see a whole lot of tool support within the Microsoft tool set. Till that becomes reality I'm sure just application of these simple rules will change how software is developed across the globe.
Wednesday, December 24, 2003
DevCon 03 Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram) The land of the Gods
DevCon 03 Trivandrum (Thiruvanthanam) The land of the Gods
I just didn’t realize the amount of time it would take me to get to Trivandrum. Each of the domestic carriers have just one flight per day and none were available all flights were full. But I had to get there, this was the first time in INDIA that a user group has organized a one day conference, rather than a Microsoft organizing a developer conference.
I had a long drawn route… it began at 5:15 in the morning, with my alarm waking me up. I caught an Indian Airline flight down to Chennai, Chennai I had to change to an international flight which would take me to Trivandrum. The flight attendant mentioned something about a place called Trichi, my sleep muddled brain didn’t quite register. I woke with the flight landing. This same flight was finally going to Sharjah. I promptly picked my bags, and got off the flight… the name written against the tarmac was Tirchipalli ( don’t know whether I got that right)… however I thought maybe Trivandrum is locally called such. I promptly walked out of the airport and a guy in the distance started screaming out… I turned it was an Indian Airline official running upto me. Now what did he want… sleep depravation was taking it’s toll on me, making me irritable. He walked up and asked in broken English… you want to go Trivandrum right… yes I answered… well this is Trichi. The flight stops here and Trivandrum is the next stop… oh! that was all I could utter.
I promptly proceeded to get back onto the flight, after passing thru security checks again… lucky me
Soon we were up in the air and on our way to Trivandrum, I was kind of red inside… what a screw up… but well I got out of waiting in the plane for an hour, atleast my legs had a little exercise
Trivandrum… Truly the land of the Gods… Trees coconut trees all over a few houses interspersed in the middle. So green so clean so refreshing, I loved the sight from the plane just before landing.
The airport was a surprise… suddenly it felt like being in America. There were more white skinned people than Indians. Tourists coming in to enjoy the sun and warmth of Gods own country. They were all queued up at customs while the few of us Indians walked out of the airport.
There were representatives from US Software the sponsors of the event waiting to pick me up. Venkat another Microsoft Regional Director like myself, got into the waiting car to be speeded up to our hotel.
We passed thru the lazy Sunday afternoon across the streets of Trivandrum… I loved this place, people obviously enjoying their afternoon siesta the sun shining down all over this coconut tree city. Beautiful is what I felt.
This was the most relaxed conference I have attended. The organizers had arranged a dinner for us that night at a nearby hotel.
I must say these are the most pleasant hosts, the top management of US software were present we had a rooftop dinner, watching the stars and enjoying the local food.
The next day morning was the conference…
We had a 100+ attendees we started off with a session by Deepak Gulati the local Microsoft community specialist, did a session on localization, followed by a session on Microsoft’s Java implementation. I was next with a session on the SmartPhone, followed by Praveen another Microsoft Regional Director, and then a session on the new features in ASP.Net 2.0 (Whidbey) by Venkat another RD. We also had a session by Nishant an MVP and the user group leader on new features in VC++ in the Whidbey time frame. Deepak gave a last brief overview of Longhorn to complete the day.
We then had a general chat with the audience regarding volunteering for the user group meeting, we had a surprise 15 volunteers in all who said they would help out. I guess that was the largest volunteer turnout I’ve seen in one session.
There were 2 things which left a lasting impression on me 1. the hospitability of the local people and 2 the beauty of this land of the Gods. This is one place I’m surely coming back…
I just didn’t realize the amount of time it would take me to get to Trivandrum. Each of the domestic carriers have just one flight per day and none were available all flights were full. But I had to get there, this was the first time in INDIA that a user group has organized a one day conference, rather than a Microsoft organizing a developer conference.
I had a long drawn route… it began at 5:15 in the morning, with my alarm waking me up. I caught an Indian Airline flight down to Chennai, Chennai I had to change to an international flight which would take me to Trivandrum. The flight attendant mentioned something about a place called Trichi, my sleep muddled brain didn’t quite register. I woke with the flight landing. This same flight was finally going to Sharjah. I promptly picked my bags, and got off the flight… the name written against the tarmac was Tirchipalli ( don’t know whether I got that right)… however I thought maybe Trivandrum is locally called such. I promptly walked out of the airport and a guy in the distance started screaming out… I turned it was an Indian Airline official running upto me. Now what did he want… sleep depravation was taking it’s toll on me, making me irritable. He walked up and asked in broken English… you want to go Trivandrum right… yes I answered… well this is Trichi. The flight stops here and Trivandrum is the next stop… oh! that was all I could utter.
I promptly proceeded to get back onto the flight, after passing thru security checks again… lucky me
Soon we were up in the air and on our way to Trivandrum, I was kind of red inside… what a screw up… but well I got out of waiting in the plane for an hour, atleast my legs had a little exercise
Trivandrum… Truly the land of the Gods… Trees coconut trees all over a few houses interspersed in the middle. So green so clean so refreshing, I loved the sight from the plane just before landing.
The airport was a surprise… suddenly it felt like being in America. There were more white skinned people than Indians. Tourists coming in to enjoy the sun and warmth of Gods own country. They were all queued up at customs while the few of us Indians walked out of the airport.
There were representatives from US Software the sponsors of the event waiting to pick me up. Venkat another Microsoft Regional Director like myself, got into the waiting car to be speeded up to our hotel.
We passed thru the lazy Sunday afternoon across the streets of Trivandrum… I loved this place, people obviously enjoying their afternoon siesta the sun shining down all over this coconut tree city. Beautiful is what I felt.
This was the most relaxed conference I have attended. The organizers had arranged a dinner for us that night at a nearby hotel.
I must say these are the most pleasant hosts, the top management of US software were present we had a rooftop dinner, watching the stars and enjoying the local food.
The next day morning was the conference…
We had a 100+ attendees we started off with a session by Deepak Gulati the local Microsoft community specialist, did a session on localization, followed by a session on Microsoft’s Java implementation. I was next with a session on the SmartPhone, followed by Praveen another Microsoft Regional Director, and then a session on the new features in ASP.Net 2.0 (Whidbey) by Venkat another RD. We also had a session by Nishant an MVP and the user group leader on new features in VC++ in the Whidbey time frame. Deepak gave a last brief overview of Longhorn to complete the day.
We then had a general chat with the audience regarding volunteering for the user group meeting, we had a surprise 15 volunteers in all who said they would help out. I guess that was the largest volunteer turnout I’ve seen in one session.
There were 2 things which left a lasting impression on me 1. the hospitability of the local people and 2 the beauty of this land of the Gods. This is one place I’m surely coming back…
Monday, December 15, 2003
Pune User Group
It was great fun driving down to Pune for the launch of the Pune User Group meeting.
The first time we were having a physical meeting besides just meeting online.
It took me only 2 hours to get to Pune from Mumbai and then strangely a good 45 minutes just navigating the Pune city traffic :-(
Well there were a bunch of 25 Puneites waiting to get the session kicked off...
I dived right into a session on the SmartPhone 2003, it's kind of my favorite device as of now.
Really cool features...
I showcased the key features of the phone and then started off with discussing how one can develop using VS.Net for the SmartPhone 2003. Calling a web service, creating menu's, using ActiveSynch, then setting up Remote Display to project the phone's screen onto my projection system...
The audience was excited I could feel it revebrating through the room...
New technology thats what keeps us on a high...
You could read my online article on the SmartPhone at Devx http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/17968
SMARTPHONE Rocks!!!
The first time we were having a physical meeting besides just meeting online.
It took me only 2 hours to get to Pune from Mumbai and then strangely a good 45 minutes just navigating the Pune city traffic :-(
Well there were a bunch of 25 Puneites waiting to get the session kicked off...
I dived right into a session on the SmartPhone 2003, it's kind of my favorite device as of now.
Really cool features...
I showcased the key features of the phone and then started off with discussing how one can develop using VS.Net for the SmartPhone 2003. Calling a web service, creating menu's, using ActiveSynch, then setting up Remote Display to project the phone's screen onto my projection system...
The audience was excited I could feel it revebrating through the room...
New technology thats what keeps us on a high...
You could read my online article on the SmartPhone at Devx http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/17968
SMARTPHONE Rocks!!!
TechEd Blues...
The last TechEd event was in Mumbai...
Kind of felt nostalgic about it...
But look forward to many more such days.
As usual it was great fun... Raj, Sanjay Vyas the rest of the guys...
The evening ended with a party basically to felicitate the speakers and the rest of the crew who had made it a great event...
Kind of felt nostalgic about it...
But look forward to many more such days.
As usual it was great fun... Raj, Sanjay Vyas the rest of the guys...
The evening ended with a party basically to felicitate the speakers and the rest of the crew who had made it a great event...
Saturday, October 11, 2003
TechEd 2003 Mumbai, Day1
Day 1 Part 1
Tring Tring........
Cell Phone ringing cause me to wake up, It was Raj, urging me to get up and get out of bed, he was on his way to the event.
A quick wash, change of clothes, and I was driving down the highway to the venue.
The first session I had was on Office 2003 for developers.
I reached while the keynote was beginning, LongHorn the video was cool.
Touchbased with Raj and off we were to the Speakers Loung. We re-discussed our presentation. A good half hour later, we had to rush to our session. I started off and Raj chipped in. I did the demo's and let him do most of the talking. I was tired. Needed more sleep ( aah! my bed, couldn't stop thinking about it).
We had a small audience. I guess developers haven't realised the new Office System, is a whole new world for developers. I'm sure the audience sizes would increase as people realised the potential. I certainly am amazed at what developers can do with the new Office System. Its a gold mine in terms of potential. I'll probably explore some of it's features on my blog.
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Day 1 Mumbai Session 2 on Windows Form Controls: Tips and Tricks
The second session which I did was a repeat of what I had done at Bangalore. But in Bangalore I had my friend Raj helping me out, here I had to do this session all alone.
The difficult part was time. It was virtually impossible to do all the demos, they just wouldn't finish 8 demos in all.
After my first session, ran straight to the Speaker's Lounge.
My buddies Raj and Sriram from Microsoft were there, doing what he he preparing for their sessions :-)
I think we're the same kind, last minute runners :-)
Well I began setting up the demo's one after the other oop's my last demo wasn't functioning, this was on using the PropertyGrid control in your windows forms applications.
15 minutes later got it all setup, just in time to run for the session.
Raj and Sriram finished wrapping up their preparation at the same time.
I ran down towards my session hall, had to locate the room :-)
It was in the main session hall in the developer tools track. Got on stage and off I was.
The audience no. was kind of low, so wasn't too happy. But we soon started off with a number of laughs.
I just didn't realise how time flies, I was off to begin my second last demo, when one of the helpers but up a banner of 5 minutes remaining to indicate the end of the session time.
Wrapped up the demos, the audience clapped and I got of stage. Finishing all the demos in time. I really wonder how I did that. I don't think I could do it again :-)
Well that wrapped up day 1 across all 3 cities. Day 2 is happening around the 3 cities in October. But I had to rush off, had to catch some sleep, tomorrow was going to help colleagues from INETA who would be doing 2 sessions, one presentation and a hands on lab on C# for students. More later...
Tring Tring........
Cell Phone ringing cause me to wake up, It was Raj, urging me to get up and get out of bed, he was on his way to the event.
A quick wash, change of clothes, and I was driving down the highway to the venue.
The first session I had was on Office 2003 for developers.
I reached while the keynote was beginning, LongHorn the video was cool.
Touchbased with Raj and off we were to the Speakers Loung. We re-discussed our presentation. A good half hour later, we had to rush to our session. I started off and Raj chipped in. I did the demo's and let him do most of the talking. I was tired. Needed more sleep ( aah! my bed, couldn't stop thinking about it).
We had a small audience. I guess developers haven't realised the new Office System, is a whole new world for developers. I'm sure the audience sizes would increase as people realised the potential. I certainly am amazed at what developers can do with the new Office System. Its a gold mine in terms of potential. I'll probably explore some of it's features on my blog.
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Day 1 Mumbai Session 2 on Windows Form Controls: Tips and Tricks
The second session which I did was a repeat of what I had done at Bangalore. But in Bangalore I had my friend Raj helping me out, here I had to do this session all alone.
The difficult part was time. It was virtually impossible to do all the demos, they just wouldn't finish 8 demos in all.
After my first session, ran straight to the Speaker's Lounge.
My buddies Raj and Sriram from Microsoft were there, doing what he he preparing for their sessions :-)
I think we're the same kind, last minute runners :-)
Well I began setting up the demo's one after the other oop's my last demo wasn't functioning, this was on using the PropertyGrid control in your windows forms applications.
15 minutes later got it all setup, just in time to run for the session.
Raj and Sriram finished wrapping up their preparation at the same time.
I ran down towards my session hall, had to locate the room :-)
It was in the main session hall in the developer tools track. Got on stage and off I was.
The audience no. was kind of low, so wasn't too happy. But we soon started off with a number of laughs.
I just didn't realise how time flies, I was off to begin my second last demo, when one of the helpers but up a banner of 5 minutes remaining to indicate the end of the session time.
Wrapped up the demos, the audience clapped and I got of stage. Finishing all the demos in time. I really wonder how I did that. I don't think I could do it again :-)
Well that wrapped up day 1 across all 3 cities. Day 2 is happening around the 3 cities in October. But I had to rush off, had to catch some sleep, tomorrow was going to help colleagues from INETA who would be doing 2 sessions, one presentation and a hands on lab on C# for students. More later...
Saturday, October 04, 2003
TechED 2003 Mumbai, before Day1 - behind the scenes...
I had two sessions for the TechEd in Mumbai, two intense ones I must add.
The first was on Office 2003 for developers. This was tough. Why? Well I had to demonstrate all the new things for developers in Office and at the same time not show enough, basically build the excitement and lead them onto other sessions which were in-depth.
Raj my buddy from Microsoft was there as usual to help. We had a lot of issues I had Beta 2 Technical Refresh on my system, Raj had the RTM on his machine, and the dev tools on msdn worked with Beta 2 only. Not everything worked on my system. Raj pitched in, we ganged up at my home a day before the event and went cracking at the system. Some of the new features for developers are so cool in the new Office system, yeah office system is what it is now. It rocks. I'm just waiting to get the final bits in my hand... maybe I'll write an article about it. We finished working on some new code finally at 12:30 A.M. in the morning. Raj also had to back up for another TechEd Speaker Sanjay Vyas, who's on my links, sadly Sanjay could not make it to TechEd due to some urgent family needs. Raj worked on his demos, InfoPath was his session in addition to another session on Building Office Solutions with Visual Studio.Net.
12:30 in the morning, I went off to drop him at a friends place where he was staying. We both crashed out promising to wake each other up in the morning...
I almost forgot about my second session, but luckily it was a repeat session of the Windows Form Controls: Tips & Tricks Session which I had done in Bangalore...
More on what happened at Day 1 in Mumbai later...
The first was on Office 2003 for developers. This was tough. Why? Well I had to demonstrate all the new things for developers in Office and at the same time not show enough, basically build the excitement and lead them onto other sessions which were in-depth.
Raj my buddy from Microsoft was there as usual to help. We had a lot of issues I had Beta 2 Technical Refresh on my system, Raj had the RTM on his machine, and the dev tools on msdn worked with Beta 2 only. Not everything worked on my system. Raj pitched in, we ganged up at my home a day before the event and went cracking at the system. Some of the new features for developers are so cool in the new Office system, yeah office system is what it is now. It rocks. I'm just waiting to get the final bits in my hand... maybe I'll write an article about it. We finished working on some new code finally at 12:30 A.M. in the morning. Raj also had to back up for another TechEd Speaker Sanjay Vyas, who's on my links, sadly Sanjay could not make it to TechEd due to some urgent family needs. Raj worked on his demos, InfoPath was his session in addition to another session on Building Office Solutions with Visual Studio.Net.
12:30 in the morning, I went off to drop him at a friends place where he was staying. We both crashed out promising to wake each other up in the morning...
I almost forgot about my second session, but luckily it was a repeat session of the Windows Form Controls: Tips & Tricks Session which I had done in Bangalore...
More on what happened at Day 1 in Mumbai later...
TechEd 2003 Academia, 30th Sept 2003
TechEd 2003 Academia was quite different this time. Instead of just having Microsoft give lectures, there were students who presented to students also.
3 Students from Mumbai, Tejas, Abhishek and Yash, were the second runner up in the international competition for students. They had built a neat .Net application, which was showcased.
There were close to about 800 students and faculty who attended the event.
I introduced INETA and encouraged students to form student communities/user groups to encourage learning amongst themselves. They are the future they better realise it now :-)
TechEd Day 1 in Mumbai was the next day... so I had to rush of to prepare for the same.
More on that later.
3 Students from Mumbai, Tejas, Abhishek and Yash, were the second runner up in the international competition for students. They had built a neat .Net application, which was showcased.
There were close to about 800 students and faculty who attended the event.
I introduced INETA and encouraged students to form student communities/user groups to encourage learning amongst themselves. They are the future they better realise it now :-)
TechEd Day 1 in Mumbai was the next day... so I had to rush of to prepare for the same.
More on that later.
Friday, September 19, 2003
Behind the scenes Windows Forms Control session @ TechEd 2003, Bangalore India
Was I exhausted!!! I was to conduct the Windows Forms controls: Tips and Tricks Session along with a friend from Microsoft, Raj Chaudhuri. I didn't realise how dead beat he was, we planned to meet a day before the event to decide what all we would cover in the session....
2:00 A.M.(the morning, early morning of TechED Bangalore) I realised he's not coming... I started preparing the demos, creating startup directories etc. finally...
4:00 A.M. was thru with the demos' I had 8 demos in this session. Pretty intense.
9:00 A.M. I wake up with a phone call from the reception at the hotel. Glad they called... rushed to the venue, my session was around 3:00 P.M. which kind of gave me a breather.
1:00 P.M.
In the lunch break, finally caught up with Raj in the speaker lounge. We ran thru the demos decided what to talk about, what not to. Tried including one more demo about a custom datagrid column which could be set to a dropdown via the designer. Unfortunately time was the enemy.
1:30 P.M.
I heard someone else from Microsoft was going to do my session due to some mix-up... 3 frantic phone calls and then speaking to Tarun Anand, the chief co-ordinator organiser from Microsoft, confirmed that I was speaking ... ahhhh...
3:00 P.M.
We rushed to our session, oops my laptop would just not project... hastily started off with Raj's display on the projection screen while I tried various settings. Finally after about 3 minutes got mine started off. We had a number of laughs in the session. I throughly enjoyed it...
4:30 P.M.
15 minutes left.... thats what the young man with the huge board signalled... We still had 2 demos to go... we did them as fast as we could. We overshot our time by about 10 minutes but just had to show all the demos.
4:50 or was it 4:55 P.M.
Finally the session ended, a very happy and ethusiastic crowd surged forward with questions... but we just had 5 minutes to run across to the other seminar hall to begin our next session on ADOc to ADO.Net... more on that later.
2:00 A.M.(the morning, early morning of TechED Bangalore) I realised he's not coming... I started preparing the demos, creating startup directories etc. finally...
4:00 A.M. was thru with the demos' I had 8 demos in this session. Pretty intense.
9:00 A.M. I wake up with a phone call from the reception at the hotel. Glad they called... rushed to the venue, my session was around 3:00 P.M. which kind of gave me a breather.
1:00 P.M.
In the lunch break, finally caught up with Raj in the speaker lounge. We ran thru the demos decided what to talk about, what not to. Tried including one more demo about a custom datagrid column which could be set to a dropdown via the designer. Unfortunately time was the enemy.
1:30 P.M.
I heard someone else from Microsoft was going to do my session due to some mix-up... 3 frantic phone calls and then speaking to Tarun Anand, the chief co-ordinator organiser from Microsoft, confirmed that I was speaking ... ahhhh...
3:00 P.M.
We rushed to our session, oops my laptop would just not project... hastily started off with Raj's display on the projection screen while I tried various settings. Finally after about 3 minutes got mine started off. We had a number of laughs in the session. I throughly enjoyed it...
4:30 P.M.
15 minutes left.... thats what the young man with the huge board signalled... We still had 2 demos to go... we did them as fast as we could. We overshot our time by about 10 minutes but just had to show all the demos.
4:50 or was it 4:55 P.M.
Finally the session ended, a very happy and ethusiastic crowd surged forward with questions... but we just had 5 minutes to run across to the other seminar hall to begin our next session on ADOc to ADO.Net... more on that later.
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
TechED India 2003 Bangalore
TechEd 2003 kicked off in Bangalore yesterday. Its a unique format being tried out for the first time in any country.
TechEd is split into 3 days over a period of 3 months in 3 cities, Bangalore, Mumbai and Chennai. Each city would have over the next three months have one day of TechEd. The objective being that after one full day of 5 tracks, each person can interact with the speakers via chats web casts etc. till the next month when the one day TechEd is held again.
This is an interesting twist, giving people enough time to actually gain from the knowledge try it out, get questions answered both at the venue and online and then come back for two more rounds.
I spoke on two sessions Windows Forms controls: Tips and tricks and then on Morphing from ADOc to ADO.Net. Next post will detail out more, right now exhausted :-)
TechEd is split into 3 days over a period of 3 months in 3 cities, Bangalore, Mumbai and Chennai. Each city would have over the next three months have one day of TechEd. The objective being that after one full day of 5 tracks, each person can interact with the speakers via chats web casts etc. till the next month when the one day TechEd is held again.
This is an interesting twist, giving people enough time to actually gain from the knowledge try it out, get questions answered both at the venue and online and then come back for two more rounds.
I spoke on two sessions Windows Forms controls: Tips and tricks and then on Morphing from ADOc to ADO.Net. Next post will detail out more, right now exhausted :-)
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Bomb blasts in Mumbai
I know this is meant to be a technology blog, but can't help but think of the crazy nature of terrorists across the world. Today Mumbai, my home city was the target of bomb attacks by terrorists. I wonder what will make it stop, if it ever will. What's to be gained by attacking innocent citizens. Who's to gain?
Monday, August 18, 2003
TabletPC
Well it's strange, I've been sick for the past few days and popping up Tablets and up comes my friend from Microsoft Raj Chaudhri requesting I work on a session based on the Tablet PC :-)
Strange and funny I find it. Well he ran me thru some of the important things he wanted to get covered and it was a healthy introduction for me to the world of tablets. We explored the Tablet PC SDK. The transition to it was pretty easy. I'm getting my hands dirty with it, will post more on it as I play around with it further.
Strange and funny I find it. Well he ran me thru some of the important things he wanted to get covered and it was a healthy introduction for me to the world of tablets. We explored the Tablet PC SDK. The transition to it was pretty easy. I'm getting my hands dirty with it, will post more on it as I play around with it further.
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
More on Word
One more thing which my friend(Dr. Nitin Paranjpe) taught me was to pay attention to what I type in word.
Whenever you type anything in word. Click anywhere in the text don't select anything then choose the "Tools" menu and in it "Spelling and Grammar". A dialog box called Readability Statistics pops up. In it check the readability section. The reading ease number indicates how easy it is to read this document and the grade level tells you how high a person in terms of grade is easily able to read this document. The higher the reading ease figure(highest is 100) and lower the grade level, the more readable is your document. Now is this a wow feature or what ? I was quite amazed at the little nuggets the word developers have put into word. Btw these features are supposedly there in MS Word since Word 97. It's just most of us don't event know about it. Sad but true.
One more thing which my friend(Dr. Nitin Paranjpe) taught me was to pay attention to what I type in word.
Whenever you type anything in word. Click anywhere in the text don't select anything then choose the "Tools" menu and in it "Spelling and Grammar". A dialog box called Readability Statistics pops up. In it check the readability section. The reading ease number indicates how easy it is to read this document and the grade level tells you how high a person in terms of grade is easily able to read this document. The higher the reading ease figure(highest is 100) and lower the grade level, the more readable is your document. Now is this a wow feature or what ? I was quite amazed at the little nuggets the word developers have put into word. Btw these features are supposedly there in MS Word since Word 97. It's just most of us don't event know about it. Sad but true.
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