French Open is underway - expecting another Nadal Vs Federer showdown.
NBA Finals are On. Miami Vs Dallas, should be an interesting finals. I cant wait to see Wade come out of the shadows
of "The King" and Kobe and become "Da Man". Also, awaiting FIFA(the real football) worldcup to begin.

Office 2007 UI rocks.(period). I guess there might take a little time for adjustment to everyone to get used to it. but i think it would be worth it.

Web Parts, Atlas , AJAX, SQL 2005 Integration services all are cool, but need a alot of time to get to know. I am not sure which is gonna stand the test of time.

As with everything in life, it just looks stunning from a distance but the questions is do you want to get closer or pretend you dont care?

6/6/2006 3:55:43 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

Couple of the issues i had faced recently

DataKeys sent automatically to storedprocedure

if you are using SQL Datasource in any of your data bindings, and if you are trying to do any db operations- the datakey field is automatically sent to the stored procedure you are using to do the db operations. this means, whether you want or not the  (first) parameter in your stored procedure should be your datakey.

This is pretty cool if you already knew this or pretty awful if you had to try to figure it out for atleast an hour.

SQLDatasource Controlparameter and the table Null Value problem

if you are basing your query on a user entry in a textbox, you might sometimes want to display all the records if there is no entry in the textbox.(if there is no validation). This simple things did give me and probably many more developers a tough time. What complicates the issue is there is an option to set the default value to be null, which does not seem to take care of the problem. Hannes Preishuber offers a neat solution.(thru Doug Reilly)

Also i found/experienced/heard about this weird sql2005 bug. SQL2005 server cannot be started/connected through remote desktop in a windows xp machine

6/6/2006 3:32:33 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

after a brief hiatus, am back.

have been spreading my attention on a lot of "objects". the trick is to choose which is possible to attain, and pursue it.

Design Patterns, Clientcallbackscripts, AJAX.NET, ATLAS and etc. are some of the things that i am trying to get to know lately.

i will blog in detail about them shortly. in between these days, i have enjoyed seeing Nash become the MVP again, as expected Nadal beats Federer(again in Clay).

In the mean time, am awaiting  for the real football to begin.

5/15/2006 3:45:56 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

BBC was always one of my favorite channels. It does not sensationalize news, its news coverage is the best. From the Americas to Africas, it covers news from every corner of the world. Its sports coverage is the best. Its coverage of the First Iraq war, Milosevic's trial, Bush-Gore Elections were showpieces of journalism. Though there is CNN, FOX & MSNBC, they do not come anywhere near BBC. BBC's web site is one among the best online for news and etc. etc. Check out their article on the rivalry between great Scientists of our times.

4/27/2006 5:05:39 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

French Gov. is investing directly in companies that rival Google, Yahoo etc. The reason being to put France on the global map of technology. Investing heavily would probably work on manufacturing sector, not sure how this would work on IT, where "brains" are the most important asset. Neverthless, the energy projects they are planning to do research seems to be interesting/necessary.

In an unrelated note, Nadal beats Federer again clay. This is turning to be an interesting rivalry. With Roddick puzzle being solved by pretty much anyone, this is something to look for against Federer.

Also, first round of NBA playoffs have begun. The bucks don't have a chance standing against the (l)eastern conference champs-Pistons. I hope Bogut has a break out season next year. I am guessing Nash to be the MVP. With Amare out, he is doing a tremendous job of holding the team together, not to mention the winning percentage. Personally, am a big fan of him. He has made the games more enjoyable to watch, breaking all stereotypes. Some football bit - Favre is gonna wear Packer jersey for one more season.

4/27/2006 4:03:45 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

I attended the Deeper in .NET 2006   organized by the Wisconsin.Net User's Group. I have attended similar tech events before, but this one was different. It was different from many aspects. First, I have never attended tech events where the presenters are so populars one as this one had. Second, I would always be bored(should say restless) out of mind by listening to the same speaker for more than 3 hours. Third and the best, this had Scott Hanselman. I have been a huge fan of him, and he has immensely helped me during my initial days of .Net development(years back). Back then, he was not as popular as he is now. His presentation was awesome, I was surprised to know that he is gonnna talk about DasBlog, instead of his popular tool list. One of the best part of this whole event was that opportunity to talk with him one on one for about 15 minutes. Without going too far, I can say I was inspired by him. Thanks to Chris, for taking me there. Chris was thrilled to know that Scott H was aware of his URL Mapping(with RegX on 2.00) . As a whole, it was an awesome opportunity to feel the pulse of whole .Net community. I would recommend everyone to attend if they can.

4/26/2006 4:55:38 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

What am I going to blog about:
Any cool tech stuff .
Web Realted Technologies, would mostly be DotNet Technologies.
Some sports, etc..

Disclaimer:
The content/comments of this blog are my personal opinions, and do NOT represent my employer in any way.

and do not mind my typos, grammatical mistakes

4/26/2006 4:35:39 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0]