December 2007 - Posts

When in Mumbai

I have been traveling like mad and at every location I go I see a lot of things and it inspires me in various ways. So this is something I saw when I was on the road when in Mumbai.

CARS + BAR = BARS 

This means a lot and a very interesting signboard ... This is very socially concious message and as statistics on the signboard said more than 1200+ were revoked of their licenses because of drinking and driving. I thought till date Bangalore was the pub city but the statistics speaks a different story :). But I havent seen such statistics in Bangalore or in other cities though.

Posted 12-27-2007 by vinodkumar | no comments
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VSTS 2008 Powertools
The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server 2008 experience. Download it here.
Posted 12-27-2007 by vinodkumar | no comments
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Robotics Blog ...
Though I have not tried my hands on the Robotics Studio, but have seen demo's of it. Very interesting and today I landed into this blog space by the Robotics team. Read their posts here ....
Posted 12-22-2007 by vinodkumar | no comments
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VS 2008 Whitepaper
Catch this whitepaper on the benifits of VS 2008. Read it here.
Posted 12-21-2007 by vinodkumar | no comments
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SQL Server 2008 - Expanding Business Intelligence Capabilities
Catch the Level 100 webcast here.
Posted 12-15-2007 by vinodkumar | no comments
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IIS 7.0 Helath Model

There are far too many modules to handle and tons of error messages to work with IIS from IIS subsystem, WAS, Worker process, web publishing service, FTP Service, App Pool, Hosted Web Core etc. Catch the details on each from TechNet.

Posted 12-14-2007 by vinodkumar | no comments
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New Best Practices Article
The Impact of Changing Collations and of Changing Data Types from Non-Unicode to Unicode all these can be got from this wonderful article here.
Entity Designer CTP2
The Dec 2007 CTP does work with VS 2008. Download the same here.
Posted 12-11-2007 by vinodkumar | no comments
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ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 Release
The  ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 release enables users to visually design models and mappings using Visual Studio 2008 RTM and the .NET Framework 3.5 RTM. This release also incorporates fixes to bugs, performance improvements and includes many features requested by customers. Download it here.
Posted 12-11-2007 by vinodkumar | no comments
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Community for SQL Server Professionals !!!

This community provides a central hub for SQL Server professionals where they can interact with their peers and access SQL Server related technical information that can help empower their SQL Server knowledge. The community website is currently in beta phase and introduces many programs that helps SQL Server professionals/users learn and share their skills with the wider SQL Server community. There is a whole bunch of resources for grab ... And it is quite different and has sections for tips and tricks, Automation scripts, Events, Labs, KB Articles and ofcourse Forums :) ...

Interested, just joing SQLCommunity Site.

Securing AS

I have been talking about BI stack topics at multiple locations and I have had requests on security with Analyssis services specifically. Here is a wonderful whitepaper over the same.

Posted 12-06-2007 by vinodkumar | no comments
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.NET Framework - Parallel Computing !!!

Parallel Extensions is a managed library that provides several new ways to express parallelism:

  • Declarative data parallelism - Parallel Language Integrated Query (or PLINQ) is an implementation of LINQ-to-Objects that executes queries in parallel, scaling to utilize the available cores and processors of the machine. Queries are declarative, so you express what you want to accomplish, rather than how you want to accomplish it.
  • Imperative data parallelism – Parallel Extensions also contains mechanisms to express common imperative data-oriented operations such as parallel.for and parallel.foreach loops, automatically dividing the work in the loop to run on parallel hardware.
  • Imperative task parallelism - Rather than using data to drive parallelism, you can expose parallelism via expressions and statements that take the form of lightweight tasks. 
  • Light-weight task runtime - There is also a task runtime that effectively maps and load balances the expressed concurrency to the available concurrency resources on the execution platform while also providing capabilities such as cancellation and waiting.

Download the CTP here

Posted 12-05-2007 by vinodkumar | no comments
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