Check this out.

8/1/2006 2:30:31 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

 Here is a list of cool FireFox  add-ons/extensions for Web Professionals. I like the server switcher extension, which lets you jump back and forth betweek development server and production servers.

7/29/2006 7:26:54 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

http://www.dotnetkicks.com/ is a community based news site for .Net Technology. If you wanna experience something like digg but totally on .Net technologies, this is the place to be.

7/29/2006 7:19:47 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

Microsoft has made MSDN library freely available for downloads. MSDN library was previously available only for MSDN subscribers. MSDN library is a neat place to look for syntaxs' and definitions. Though the number of people referring to it has been greatly diminished by blogs, online groups etc. Neverthless this is step forward by Microsoft.

7/29/2006 7:15:14 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

Our man Scott Guthrie has come up(actually a long time back) with the list of articles on Security. Check it out.

7/14/2006 4:19:50 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

There are two new namespaces in .Net for handling/sending mails.

• System.Web.Mail 
• System.Net.Mail

You have to be using MailMessage and SmtpClient classes.

There are properties to set the mail server, pass user credentials for the SMTP server(thru NetworkCredential class).
You can also send email through SSL, send emails asynchronous, send emails with alternate views( text emails for email clients that block HTML email display), email with linked image resources

Please refer here for more information

7/14/2006 3:52:53 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

I find it very funny how people non-native(is that the word) english speakers(sometimes native speakers too) get involved in an agitated english conversation. There are many instances where I have laughed at myself for pronouncing things the way no one else in the world has ever did. I can see Chris nodding his head. I take no offense at this(hope no one else does) and what's life without being able to laugh at yourself eh?

I can still remember, how i cracked up the gal sitting next to me in the flight on my first trip to Wisconsin, when she asked me to pronoucne some cities of Wisconsin. By the way what's up with these names(and why cannot I type short statements)

I came across one such thing, Take a look at this telephone prank. Kinda reminds me about similar prank calls we did when I was a kid...

7/10/2006 5:43:27 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

Federer won his 4th consecutive Wimbledon. The so called "is the greatest ever" is finding tough these days from Nadal.  Men's tennis had been pretty lame for the last 2 years with no one posing any serious threat to Federer's dominance. Now, the Spaniard has arrived. The rivalry is pretty good for the game, something to look forward in the upcoming US open. By the way, what are the rest of the players doing?

News of the year would be Italy winning the World Cup[through penalty kicks]. Both teams were equally good and deserve to win. Zidane would have gone as a legend in the record books, if he had not have proved everyone that he does not deserve such a credit. I am not sure how he is gonna live rest of his life explaining why behaved like such an idiot. It is beyond regrettable.

With NBA season not until November, I think the curtains are down for this years sports.-for me.

7/10/2006 5:09:36 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

I came across this top 10 strangest gadgets from Japan. Japanese as ever are interesting people from the legends of Samurais', Zen(Though Zen originated in India), Kaizen etc.

It makes it more inteteresting when I have a handful of friends living there.

6/26/2006 2:32:23 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

WinFX becomes .Net 3.0. I am not sure if they are going to have all the LINQ features with this release.

The much hyped WinFS is DEAD?

6/26/2006 2:23:17 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

Bill Gates has announced that he is going to gradually relinquish his position in Microsoft and become the Chairman + Part time employee by 2008. I have always admired him. He was rich but never pompous. It is great to see a man keeping up his words and joining forces to create a better world.

I landed on How BillG does his review meetings. It is a pretty goood write up take a look at it.

6/25/2006 3:12:46 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0] 

Scott Guthrie just seems relentless on posting information on Atlas and everything that is happening on .Net platform. Here is the list of resources he has compiled for ATLAS. I am very excited about it. Going forward, i guess Microsoft just wants to get away with Ajax.Net.

6/22/2006 4:02:36 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)    Comments [0]