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Startup City Event: Get Connected with 100 Startups

Posted by: intelbot on: June 5, 2009

Hey All,


Just wanted to let you know about an exciting event siliconindia is organizing on June 6th (Saturday in Bangalore). There will be 100 most promising technology startups showcasing their products.

startupcity

Please be sure to visit the event website. http://www.siliconindia.com/startupcity_09/index.html

Roll up your Sleeves. Meet over 100 cool startups of your city. Learn new Technologies
Come. Meet the Startups that will become tomorrow’s industry leaders.

Watch live product demonstrations
Get a peek into cutting edge technologies
Lay hands on the best-of-breed solutions
Meet young, energetic, passionate geeks
Experience the culture of innovation in small companies
Visionary Keynotes
In-depth Panel Discussions

This is undoubtedly the biggest event for startups.

There are limited seats. You can register yourself for FREE at:http://www.siliconindia.com/startupcity_09/index.html

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Around the world in 80 Telescopes : Himalayan Chandra Telescope, Hanle, India

Posted by: intelbot on: May 30, 2009

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1337466

Tips & insights for programmers

Posted by: intelbot on: May 5, 2009

Here is the list of tips & insights compiled from StackOverFlow.


1. Never be afraid to say I don’t know.Manage expectations, learn to say “no”.But always give it a try before you say that.
2. Never stop learning.Accept your mistakes and take that just as a new learning opportunity
3. Ask for help sooner rather than later,know that you can’t do everything by yourself.Don’t take all the responsibility for a problem. Sometimes you can be furiously trying to solve a problem alone and carrying the problem on your back. Get other people involved, escalate, get other folks involved.
4. Learn to take backup
5. Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. So never assume something which you are not sure of.
6. Estimates are always off by at least 50% either way.
7. First make it work, then make it better.
8. Always negotiate deadlines/deliverables.
9. Don’t hesitate to do overtime IF the situation requires it
10.Underpromise and over deliver
11.Find the balance between being realistic and being positive.
12.Be confident in your skills
13.Listern patiently to others opinion. Especially when you talk to a client.
14.Share your skills – Help others and the community with the knowledge you’ve got.
15.Make sure you get proper recognition and appraisal for your good work.
16.Manage your time effectively
17.Don’t give people what they ask for, give them what they need.
18.No matter where you are on the pecking order of a team or project, you CAN make a difference.
19.It’s more important to manage people’s perception of the problem than it is to fix it.
20.Never trust the data. Validate your inputs.
21.”It works on my machine” doesn’t cut it. It HAS to work for them, too.
22.Show your code to other people – and listen to their comments.& Look at other peoples code and talk to them about it.
23.If you can’t figure out a problem then take a break and come back to it in 10 or 20 minutes – makes finding a solution so much easier.
24.Realize that specifications are going to change.
25.Never implement new features unless you have a written request ( mail is just fine )
26.Be prepared to reinvent yourself every five years.
27.Before you roll anything out TEST TEST TEST
28.Use Source Control
29.Communicate, communicate, communicate
30.You can never have enough clarification and detail with project requirements

Web Transition Chart

Posted by: intelbot on: May 5, 2009

Read about it at ReadWriteWeb

Microsoft’s Vine = Facebook + Twitter

Posted by: intelbot on: May 5, 2009

Today I came across a post by Brier Dudley, about latest social networking site called Vine by Microsoft. Still its under beta & if you want to be part of it, then sign up.

As per the post, Microsoft planning to provide Vine to Emergency Management Officials, which helps them to broadcast & receive information during a disaster or other major event.

See some of the screen shots of the site below.

Validating HTML Text Area for HTML tags using Javascript RegEx

Posted by: intelbot on: May 5, 2009

The below code might help you with validation of certain HTML tags entered in a TextArea. (Click image to enlarge).



Many-Core Shift & the Next Era of Computing

Posted by: intelbot on: May 5, 2009

I have been observing the developments in Processor Technologies, and now I am really excited with the Future of Computing with the shift from single core to many core processor technologies.

As you all know, Moore’s Law tells us that, the number of transistors on an integrated circuits doubles every two years.

Now the so-called “many core shift” is happening. It’s not a thing of the future and it will change our developers’ life.

What’s the many core shift?

This evolution has reached its physical limits (clock speed, power consumption, etc.).
Instead of building faster and more complex CPUs, the manufacturers started placing more CPUs, read cores, on a chip.

It started 2006 with Intel’s dual cores, today you won’t find a single core desktop machine anymore. High end consumer machines come with quad cores, and servers with 16 cores (delivered as 4 quad cores). Starting 2006 with 2 cores, five years from now we will have between 32 and 128 cores.

What does it mean?

Well, it probably means that today’s software runs a bit faster. Not much, certainly not the 32 times faster a 64 core machine is supposed to be compared to dual core. Why is that? Well, have a look at the following task manager of a 64 core machine:

Now look at your own desktop and count the open applications. Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer, Acrobat Reader, Firefox, Visual Studio? All the applications utilize 1 to two cores and Most of today’s applications simply are not capable of employing these cores appropriately. Consequence: In order to leverage these cores we have to change the way we write our software!

You may ask, do we actually need that kind of processing power? And if so, how do we use it?

For first question the answer is yes, it is needed for Games, Video Conversion, File Compression, Graphics etc.

And for second question we need to know that there is a concept called Multithreading.

And “Most developers have avoided multithreading altogether. And those who did do multithreading probably did it just for optimizations.” So, now is the time we need to have multithreading in the mainstream of application development.

And with that in mind Microsoft is developing Visual Studio 2010. And I believe it will open up new possibilities.

I am really excited to work on Visual Studio 2010 and want to utilize the multi-core.

Let me know what you think about all this.

Want to know how to pronounce certain words?

Posted by: intelbot on: May 5, 2009

I came across this wonderful site called Forvo where you can find the pronunciation of certain words and also you can add a word (your native language) and pronounce it.

Using Winnovative HTML to PDF Converter in C# to generate PDF File

Posted by: intelbot on: May 5, 2009

Steps:
1. Add wnvhtmlconvert.dll to Project Reference under Visual Studio


2. Import it into your code behind file “using Winnovative.WnvHtmlConvert;”

3. Add your PdfConverterKey into Web.Config

<add key=”PdfConverterKey” value=”your key here”/>

4. Write Below Code (Click to Expand)

And you are done.
Let me know if you have any questions

Converting Enum to List

Posted by: intelbot on: May 5, 2009

Method :

Usage :

I Support BJP Because

Posted by: intelbot on: May 5, 2009

India Advises the World at G20

Posted by: intelbot on: April 5, 2009

Actually I dont have access to the TV (Idiot Box) so, lately i came across this Video on You Tube.

I thought to post it here and write something about it.

During G20 Summit Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, advised the G20 Nations with 4 ways to tackle the Economic downturn.
1. IMF & Asian Development Banks resources needs to be enhanced immediatly.
2. Industrialized Countries need to take toxic assets out of Financial System.
[Toxic Assets an Example (from Yahoo Answers) : Let's say that Raj had a loan with ICICI Bank. The Loan is for Rs 200,000 for a house and Raj pays 6% interest. The house is collateral, meaning ICICI gets the house if Raj defaults. But this house was valued at Rs 275,000, so what is the worry?


So now ICICI Bank has "mortgage paper", which is an asset. They can sell the mortgage to anyone they wish. Raj will then be required to pay the purchaser, who will get the benefit of the 6% interest. It's an investment which may (or may not) make more money in the future. A good idea if ICICI needs money immediately.

But old Raj doesn't have the money to pay this mortgage. At the same time, the house value has greatly reduced to Rs 150,000. Raj still owes Rs 199,000.

If Raj defaults on this, ICICI Bank will only be able to recover a portion of their money back. The mortgage paper has now become illiquid (the house can't pay the mortgage). ICICI Bank is now unable to sell it. Why would somebody pay for an asset that guarantees you will lose money?

That mortgage has become a "toxic asset".]

3. Access of Funds needs to be restored to emerging economies like India.
4. Need to commit ourselves to keep protectionism away.

Pakistan diverts attention from Mumbai Attack Investigations

Posted by: intelbot on: April 5, 2009

I doubt on whatever things are happening in Pakistan.People may be getting this question,recent Activities in Pakistan a way to divert attention from Mumbai Attack Investigations? 

 

It looks to me that, they are just diverting the attention of the world from Mumbai Attacks. First they delayed it saying they want proof and once proof submitted they told they are not considerable for further investigations & they sent 30 questions to India & when India answered, then they played the political games in pakistan, and later settled the matter without Pak military taking over the Govt. Then attack on Sri Lankan Cricketers to show that Pakistan is also a target of Terrorism. And if you look at the recent developments, suddenly the attacks in pakistan have increased. All this things make me conclude that they just want people to forget the Mumbai Attacks.

 

And here in India, we have Parlimentaty Elections and till the next govt forms there will not be any actions from India. And almost, most of the people have forgotten the Mumbai Attack.

 

Only God can save the our Country.

Excellent article by Pratap Simha on Biased Media

Posted by: intelbot on: April 4, 2009

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Congressisation

Posted by: intelbot on: April 2, 2009

congressisation

Strenght & Weakness

Posted by: intelbot on: April 1, 2009

Recently i was thinking about my strengths and weaknesses, what i realized was, my weaknesses are mirrored reflections of my strengths.

Now i am trying to find out whether it is same with every body else or not.

Let me know about yours.

I Love My India

Posted by: intelbot on: April 1, 2009

How to: Check login name availability in ASP.NET MVC using jQuery Validation plug-in

Posted by: intelbot on: April 1, 2009

I need to write comments for the below code, bcoz of lack of time i am posting only abstract things,if you want to know something, write comment, i will reply.

HTML login control

< input type="text" name="txtUserName" id="txtUserName" class="textBoxes" />

jQuery Rule: Add the below rule into script tag in header & add reference to jquery-1.2.6.js,jquery.validate.js in Head Element

$(document).ready(function() {

$("#frmSelfRegister").validate({
rules: {
txtUserName:
{
required: true,
remote: { type: "post",
url: "Register/IsLoginAvailable" }
},
messages:{

txtUserName: { required: "User Name is Required.",
remote: jQuery.format("{0} is not available.")}
}
});
});

The above validation code executed when the focus changes from txtUserName to some other, it will call IsLoginAvailable method available in the RegisterController, as specified in the url.

Controller Code :

Below code is the one which checks for availability of a username & returns the status to above jQuery Method. The following methods return type is JsonResult because remote method of jQuery accepts the JsonResult object only.

[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]
public JsonResult IsLoginAvailable(FormCollection collection)
{
JsonResult result = new JsonResult();

try
{
ilogIn.Text = this.GetLoginByUsername(collection.Get("txtUserName").
ToString().Trim());

}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Helper.ErrLogger(ex.Message);
}

if (ilogIn.Text == collection.Get("txtUserName").ToString())
{
result.Data = false;
}
else
{
result.Data = true;

}
return result;
}

Interface Inheritance Naming Conflicts

Posted by: intelbot on: March 25, 2009

Suppose you have two interfaces, lets say Interface-IA, Interface-IB & in both you have declared Name as a property as follows.

public interface IA
{

string Name { get; set; }
String Adress { get; set; }

}

public interface IB
{

string Name { get; set; }

}

Now, you write an interface -IC which derives from above 2 Interfaces as below,

public interface IA
{

int Id { get; set; }

}

When you are try to do the following, you will get an error saying ‘Ambiguity between IA.Name and IB.Name’.

class Test
{

public void GetSomething()
{
IC objIc = new IC();
Textbox1.Text = objIc.Name();
}

}

It can be solved by upcasting as below.

class Test
{

public void GetSomething()
{
IC objIc = new IC();
Textbox1.Text = ((IA)objIc).Name();
}

}

23 March 1931

Posted by: intelbot on: March 23, 2009

Today would mark 78 years of the sacrifice three young men gave for the nation. Bhagat Singh- Raj Guru- Sukh Dev.

So today no one in news would talk about Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru the three young men who were hanged on this day near Ferozpur near the present India-Pakistan border. These men never cared about religion and fought for the freedom of the nation.

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Indians seem to have forgotten the sacrifice and keep remembering Gandhi. It is definitely an unfortunate thing that people who were not in congress and worked for India’s freedom never got the credit they deserve.Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru shall remain in my heart till I die. These are the people whom the young generation should have as idols. Their sacrifice, their patriotism & their principles, we should never forget them.

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  • intelbot: @Chris Thanks. I am happy to know that it helped.
  • Chris: Thanks for the info. I had the same error on my development pc - in the event viewer it showed that the specified file was mysqld-max.exe There was
  • Sachin: nice post.. i salute these martyrs.

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