It has been a long time I posted anything here. Am not sure if this is a writers block or am not doing anything cool to post here. Anyways, I am sure I will be back, untill then ciao

3/4/2007 11:24:16 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [1] 

Deploying web applications can become a painful task if you have to check for a number of settings that you have to modify your code to make it work in production environment. There are chances that developers might miss something if there are a lot of deployment pushes. Features like debugging, tracing, error message display could be a big performance issue if they are turned "on"  the production environment.

ASP.NEt 2.0 has a solution for this...and that is by adding on key to your machine.config

<configuration>
   <system.web>
      <deployment retail="true"/>
   </system.web>
</configuration>

Also, you can block download of specific file(for example.xps) types by registering those file extensions to HttpForbiddenHandler

<add path="*.asmx" verb="*" type=
    "System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler" />

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2/15/2007 1:47:12 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Mail forward's are very annoying, but occassionaly you stumble upon something really good, so here you go

Interpreting Employment Ads

Having difficulty finding the right words to convey just what your project is like when placing those recruitment advertisements?  Here's a set of terms that may help!

Competitive Salary

We remain competitive by paying less than our competitors.

Join Our Fast Paced Company

We have no time to train you.

Casual Work Atmosphere

We don't pay enough to expect that you will dress up.

Must be Deadline Oriented

You will be six months behind schedule on your first day.

Duties will vary

Anyone in the office can boss you around.

Must have an Eye for Detail

We have no quality control.

Seeking Candidates with a Wide Variety of Experience

You are replacing three people who just quit in disgust.

Problem Solving Skills a Must

You are walking into a company in perpetual chaos. Your first task is to find out what is going on.

Self starter

You will get absolutely no support from management or your co-workers.

Pay based on experience

We'll hire the cheapest worker we can find.

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Software Development Cycle

1. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
2. Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.
3. Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren't really bugs.
4. Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn't work and discovers 15 new bugs.
5. Repeat three times steps 3 and 4.
6. Due to marketing pressure and an extremely premature product announcement based on overly-optimistic programming schedule, the product is released.
7. Users find 137 new bugs.
8. Original programmer, having cashed his royalty check, is nowhere to be found.
9. Newly-assembled programming team fixes almost all of the 137 bugs, but introduce 456 new ones.
10. Original programmer sends underpaid testing department a postcard from Hawaii. Entire testing department quits.
11. New Project Manager steps in with a new QA finds 783 new bugs.
12. New CEO is brought in by board of directors. He hires a programmer to redo program from scratch.
13. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free...

and finally,

It takes one woman nine months to have a baby. It cannot be done in one month by impregnating nine women.

2/9/2007 5:47:33 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

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]