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Technology at its best and worst, 2003 - 2004
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Worst Technology of 2003 - Paperless Voting
Best Technology of 2003 - The Camera Phone
10 Technologies to watch in 2004
Cant ask for a better comparision ...
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XP SP2 - Beta 1 for MSDN subscribers
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The long waited Windows XP SP2 is now available for all the MSDN Subscribers. Interesting that we are able to see the same after the announcement at PDC.
(Via bink.nu)
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Need for Languages ...
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Paul Graham posts about what each language was desinged to fix.
I think it give an interesting insight given on various lanuages ... Read them on ...
(via Sriram)
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Madurai .NET Student Chapter Inaugural Meet ...
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I was off to my home town and hence this looong gap. But there is a bigger update to the community work I am into.
Yes, indeed we had the first DotNet Student Chapter user group at my hometown this Saturday (20th Dec ’03). And I managed to address this first UG meeting at the Information technology department at TCE (Thyagaraja College of Engg.). A fantastic setup to have in any university. The IT department has this cool Lab completely air-conditioned, projector (I never expected a PPT presentation is possible at a Govt. univ), big white boards and markers and around 30~40 IBM Netvista systems with .NET framework and VS installed … Good setup indeed, I do see more potential for .NET projects from such universities now.
Let me talk to you about the meeting next. The meeting went like a gem. The session was two and half hours long (a surprise for me when I saw my watch at the end, we manage to do this every time J). And I suppose this session went as great as planned. But the plan was made just a couple of hours before the meeting. I had nothing in mind till the morning I landed. But the agenda I had in my mind was just taking its shape as the final moments came closer. I started with .NET basics and all the concepts and jargons that confused students. And there were a couple of interested students who came up with questions. Having said that, there weren’t many … L … Then I took them around the Microsoft Office 2003, SQL Server 2000 (something closer to my heart) and whole lot of future technologies, with a one slide intro to Longhorn and allied technologies (I managed a slide to pull out all the product names to be released by 2006). Oh boy, weren’t they delighted …
Catch the Students UG Chapter at: http://groups.msn.com/Maduraidotnet/
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Longhorn a longwait ?
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Catch a recent thread on informationweek, analysts say it is going to be a long wait till they see the RTM of Longhorn. And I personally feel this is just a speculation. MS has tried to get the delivery on time, and they are working towards it ... But I hold no comments on the expectations people have started building ...
Longhorn is big and it is going to hit the market bigtime ... There are so many people here out at India who donot get to see the Longhorn bits. They keep asking “Has MS revealed it too early”. Not so I suppose. We need to understand that this is the first ever time that a Alpha of OS been exposed to us this early in the product life cycle. This allows us to think ahead and build technologies and applications that are for the future and which are compatible to the promises that MS gives for Longhorn ... There are millions of app developers, device driver coders and so many ISV's that want to know this ... Thanks to MS for giving us a glimpse of the same.
Having said that lets not get into conclusions of the future of Longhorn or try to derive architectural decisions ... Lets take the technology as it comes and give constructive feedback back to the system so that we get to build an OS that aids to our needs and requirement ...
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Session at BDotNet ...
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This is something I wanted to write for a loooong time now. Yesterday we had a session on SQL Server by Srini and Gaurav to show the capabilities of calling a .NET component from SQL Server 2K ... Srini showed how we can create a CCW as a wrapper to the .NET component and then call the same. Whilst Gaurav showed how it can be done using an extended Stored procedure. Believe me, xp_'s were always a domain of C++ developers and after seeing the code I feel I shouldn't venture into the same ... :) ... I am better off in exploring the same with Whidbey and Yukon rather than write a whole host of loc ... Whew what a code block ...
I had tried to get this sometime back. The conceptwise this is very very simple ... And I was also exploring whidbey and yukon integration ... Ohhh boy ... its really cooool stuff. A right click deploy and the assembly is created on the db ... Can't ask for better developer friendly deployment example from MS ... It just rocks ... I love it ...
Having so much about the UG we all are a part of ... Just take a look at BDotNet UG (Our Bangalore User Group) ... Its a 2100 members UG and a livewire on the online fronts. We recieve approx. 250 mails per day ... That should sound great stat for many ... But having said that I request all reading this post to join us and support us in this venture ... I bet we will make it exciting for each and everyone joining us for sure ...