PDC 2008 - Key Note by Ray Ozzie

PDC 2008 - KeyNote presentation on Windows Azure by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Chief Software Architect, and his Team.

PDC 2008 - Framework Design Guidelines

Framework Design Guidelines, a Presentation from PDC 2008.

US Economy Crash - Credit Crisis

The following 2 slideshows shows the clear picture of the US Credit Crisis. Worth seeing..

Creditcrisis 30slides Final

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The Credit Crisis - the US economy horror picture show

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Yahoo! Query Language

Jonathan Trevor giving a presentation on Y!QL

SNAP Summit - Yahoo! Launch Announcement

Yahoo!'s "Open Strategy" (Y!OS) provides developers, publishers and advertisers with unprecedented access to Yahoo!'s global audience and traffic. Cody Simms, will introduce you to Y!OS and the next generation of tools that help developers engage with Yahoo!'s massive audience like never before.

PDC 2008 - .NET 4.0 Poster

Brad Abrams have posted the .NET 4.0 Poster released in PDC 2008. The PDF can be downloaded here.

Yahoo! Open Strategy

A Presentation by Neal Sample & Cody Simms on Yahoo! Open Strategy.

Y! Application Platform

A Presentation by Xavier Legros on the Y! Application Platform:

Microsoft Codename

What is Microsoft Codename?

Microsoft codenames are the codenames given by Microsoft to products it has in development, before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions prior to the official release. Microsoft usually does not announce a final name until shortly before the product is publicly available.

List of Microsoft Codenames from Wiki

The latest Codenames are Oslo, Dublin.

MS SQL 2005 Best Practices Analyzer(BPA)

The tool Microsoft SQL 2005 Best Practices Analyzer(BPA), is used to scan and analyze the given SQL 2005 Service and give a complete report about the Issues/Suggestions based upon the Best Practices. The SQL 2005 Services including Database Services, Analysis Services and Integration Services can be analyzed using this tool. This is really a useful tool for SQL 2005 DBAs and Database Developers.

This tool can be downloaded here

SSIS Tip - result binding by name is not supported for this connection type

In SSIS when I tried to bind the ADO.NET Result Set to a User Variable by the 'RecordSet Column Name', I got the error 'result binding by name is not supported for this connection type'. The I found that the 'Result Set - Result Name' should be changed to Index of the Column in the Result Set like 0, 1.

Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

Microsoft has Pre-released the version of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP). It can be downloaded here

Ignite

Ignite is a community event sponsored by O'Reilly in the major cities across the Planet. It is 5 minutes speech of an individual on a Stage with 20 slides being rotated automatically in 15 seconds.

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.

Ignite was started in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis. Since then 100s of 5 minute talks have been given across the world. There are thriving Ignite communities in Seattle, Portland, Paris, and NYC.

This community site is sponsored by O'Reilly.

sIFR - Scalable Inman Flash Replacement

sIFR - Scalable Inman Flash Replacement is the Technology that allows to replace text elements on screen with Flash equivalents. It allows the screen elements to be styled in whatever font the designer chooses, without the user having it installed on their machine.

Know more here

Examples are here

DUX - Designing User eXperience

DUX - Designing User eXperience

Are You An User Experience Designer

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XML Encoding for Special Characters

 In MS SQL 2005, While parsing a XML document i got an error message 'illegal xml character'. Then i found that one of my XML data was containing a special character - ä within it. And i found that in this scenario, the XML Encoding tag in the header should be changed to "iso-8859-1" from the default "utf-8" (i.e)

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>'
 should be changed to
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

MS SQL - Query to Get Columns Definition

To get the Column Definitions of a Given table in MS SQL, use this query:

SELECT so.name ,
sc.name ,
st.name ,
sc.length ,
CASE
WHEN sc.status = 0x80
THEN 'Y'
ELSE 'N'
END AS IsIdent ,
ColOrder
FROM sysobjects so
INNER JOIN syscolumns sc
ON so.id= sc.id
INNER JOIN systypes st
ON sc.xtype = st.xusertype
WHERE so.Name = 'YourTableName'
ORDER BY ColOrder

I used this for generating a Bulk Insert statement for a XML Rowset in C#.

US Voter Location Info

Want to know Where to Vote for this Presidential Election? Click Here. Google has released a special Voting Location Info Page.

Zephyr - Test Management System

Zephyr is a new Web 2.0 Test Management System. It has many innovative features like Testing Desktops, Department/Project Dashboards, Defect Desktop, Metrics, Collaboration, Test Case Repository and so on. The UI is very slick and cool. I did a test drive of the Department Dashboard and Defect Desktop and I was amazed with the UI and the Design of the Form. No wonder it is created by a bunch of QA Engineers and Developers. It is free for 3 Users for 12 months period.

Know more here

Take a Test Drive Here.


Good Luck Zephyr!!!

Best Practices for Form Design

'Best Practices for Form Design' - a Slide show by Luke Wroblewski.

Best Practices for Form Design

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