All of us hear about MySpace. It has become the site with the highest traffic. It now runs on ASP.Net and SQL 2005. You can read the story about how the folks at MySpace handled their exponential growth(40 billion page views a month), the problems they encountered and how the site architecture evolved from a few thousand users to a millions of users. It is an awesome read.

1/31/2007 4:15:55 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Anti-Team and Again

Design + Guidelines + Class Libraries + Framework

What I Wish Developers Knew About SQL Server

1/25/2007 2:17:54 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

You always want(to do) something, no matter what. I have tried to list it , though not specifically in that order

•  Wii/Xbox: It has been too long on my list. I have been out of the gaming zone little more than I expected.

•  Sports: Should join a league and play some real sport. Soccer should be cool. 

•  Reading: CodeComplete2 + cpl other books. It is high time.

•  Mp3Players: I have bought 3 mp3 players so far and always have given it to someone. This time I am going to buy 1 and own it. It will be cool to use while I work out.

•  Desktop: I need a machine to do whatever I want, without worrying about wrecking it/ formatting it , specially when I hear about all the new cool features of Vista.

•  Car: My civic is solid, but a Ferrari would be cool. Don't mind settling for a Jaguar.

•  %#@^&*-)% am not telling what this is.

1/24/2007 3:02:37 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here is an awesome piece of fatherly advice from Chuck to all the programmers. Thru[Jeff Atwood]

1/24/2007 2:11:43 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

it has been an interesting journey so far. first, i had a very interesting person(thats gonna be a seperate story) sitting next to me all along 18 hour journey. It was probably one of the best journeys i've ever had. And i was dreading about the 6 hr layover here in mumbai. i opened my laptop to do some random things, and as usual in any airport got the wireless network found pop-up, i just thought of checking it out and opened my IE and WOW free wireless.. never seen this any where in the US.  also there are free cell phone charging outlets(various types) all around the airport . thats awesome too, u dont have to worry about carrying your charger everywhere...

12/26/2006 1:58:08 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

I am off to INDIA for the next three weeks. Would definitely post some pictures and experiences from there.

12/22/2006 11:07:46 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

There is an indian myth which says "you would never be happy by pursuing [objects] for happiness" It also add that "you are always pursuing same [objects] which comes in different forms - the real happiness is being peaceful with what you have". I am not a great believer in it. I always believed that is not for dreamers. But again but every now and then, you stop and

THINK ?

12/17/2006 11:35:39 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

This is why I love .Net.2.0. You can create a web application that can incorporate the FTP functionality. The base classes are

• FTPWebRequest
• FTPWebResponse

You can pretty much do almost all the functionalities that you normally do with a FTP client. Follow this link for an excellent artice explaining this

This article explains a windows application that something similar

12/13/2006 5:29:27 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Scott Mitchell on Computing the First/Last Day of Month in SQL

http://sqljunkies.com/Article/6676BEAE-1967-402D-9578-9A1C7FD826E5.scuk  [thru Scott Mitchell]

12/11/2006 4:21:31 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

i just own one laptop and that is my only toy to play with software. This sucks ;) i need another one to play with Vista, games etc, i atleast need to multiple monitors.

Video/mp3/fm  player. so now it is official that Zune sucks, now what :)

A cool CamCorder - i have multiple ones in my mind

PS3 -

Time - lots of time to read

Warm Weather in Wisconsin ? nah this is gonna put me in naughty list.

and am not telling the last one ;)

12/11/2006 4:16:30 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

We always encounter having to convert a string to an integer. Most of us just unconsciously type in the following

int myNewInteger = Int32.Parse(string)

The problem with this approach is what if the value of notInteger is null or something not an "integer". So there comes the problem of handling the exceptions etc etc

So here comes the Int32.TryParse() method from our .Net Framework 2.0. It converts the string to an integer(32 bit signed) and also a return value indicating if the operation succeeded. This is pretty cool.

Check out the performance profiling of all the three parser methods Convert, parse and tryParse

12/11/2006 3:15:37 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0]