SOA in the Real World – Microsoft's eBook for free; alternatively go and buy my book. Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. Microsoft SkyDrive now open to public beta, giving 500 mb of space; but not sure why you would use that when Mozy gives you unlimited online … Continue reading Interesting Find #5
Fastest residential uplink in the world – 40 GB/sec! Updated programmer stereotypes – updated for "today's" world. Hotmap shows where people have looked at when using Virtual Earth. Advanced Vista Codec Package (note: I have not used these yet) Vista's (little known) recovery strategies. My Picture 3D allows you to see your pictures in a 3D … Continue reading Interesting Find #4
Office Live Basics – get it for free. Google Talk Emoticons Speaking of google, they now have hot trends Jing, what is it and how do I use it? Estetiikka – Free web gallery using PHP (v5) and MySQL. Interested in making Ubuntu look just like OS X? Zen Computing – some guys are raving … Continue reading Interesting Find #3
Continuing the interesting find series, here are the next set of finds. Grasshopper 2.0 – is a free VS.NET plugin that allows you to code in .NET 2.0, build for Java and run on Linux, without rewriting any code! Sweet! IKVM.NET – is a implementation of Java for both Mono and .NET and includes a … Continue reading Interesting Find #2
I keep stumbling along many interesting finds online (well interesting to me) which I keep storing in OneNote and finally decided to start posting them here under the .link category. These mostly would be for me when I want to get them to a later stage. Without further adieu, here is the first of many … Continue reading Interesting Find #1
Been a while since I posted on this series. But starting it again. Here are the latest few interesting finds I have stumbled across. Of course these are in no particular order. UTF 8 Everywhere – Argues the cause on why UTF-16 and Unicode is a default poor choice except for specialized libraries, which deal … Continue reading Intreresting Find #23
I have been playing with a #selfdriving car for a while, and that is super exciting. From a #AI and #ML perspective it is small scale, but allows one to exploit all aspects of the tech stack and also appreciate the limitations of not only the software, but also the hardware. With this You run … Continue reading Getting DonkeyCar working on a Mac
I am writing this on a Microsoft Surface Book, running Ubuntu natively, and there isn’t any Windows option – I blew away, the Windows partition, and there isn’t any other OS on it. Why, some of you might think? Well, why not. 🙂 For me the motive is two fold: one am a geek and … Continue reading Ubuntu on Surface Book
What is it? What’s the next big thing in computing? Not the #AI or #blockchain’s of the world, that is starting to happen today (albeit a little early)? Quantum computing is one of those next big things, that is on the horizon (probably in the ~5 years range). Why do I care? Why do I … Continue reading Quantum Computing – Beyond bits – a primer
I have talked to a few folks recently, and they still don’t believe bash on Windows (RS1) is ‘real’ and think it some kind of a VM. No it is not. It is the ‘real’ user mode running on Windows. It is not Cygwin, and it is not a VM. It is essentially all of … Continue reading bash on Windows is real–not a VM
I have been thinking of doing some code ‘smelliness’ test, and am keen to automate code reviews (as much as possible). I am interested to know what tools have you guys used? I want to use the tools to find the low hanging fruits and know off the 80% of things and then we manually … Continue reading Automated Code Reviews with Visual Studio?
Our current camera (Canon IXUS 860 IS) is on the last dying leg – the camera itself works OK, but the screen is going to give up any day now – there are big holes where the pixels are dead (looks like a black hole). We love this model and want something along the same … Continue reading Suggestions for a new Camera?
I encountered this interesting issue and thanks to Colin we were able to resolve it. There will be situations you will encounter when adding additional optional attributes to a Flat File (FF) schema in BizTalk will cause problems. To get around this you basically will need to set the following properties to relax the parsing … Continue reading BizTalk Flat File schema optional attribute issue
You might have heard of the new "Cloud" service from Microsoft called Live Mesh. You can get more details on the team's blog and a few videos. While I have the Mesh bits installed for a few weeks I only recently started using it and was very handy when I wanted to get to some … Continue reading Live Mesh – Tech Preview
What? Is that even English? I'll get to answering it in a second. Not sure how many of you know, but for a very long time I have been wanting to do a Masters and also dabble in the world of Academia Research. I have done some commercial research in the past which I thoroughly enjoyed but never done any … Continue reading Dominus Illuminatio Mea
I am finding all kinds of interesting bits and bobs now that the primary OS I am running is x64 bit. For example did you know that Flash Player does not have a x64 bit implementation? Believe me, less Ads for me to see on pages and you don’t see me shedding any tears! Here … Continue reading Flash player and 64 Bit
Thanks to my colleague Rick Pollak for pointing this out. Seems like Google has released Writely.com which is their answer to Word. Registration is open, and you can sign up. I used my Google account and got a confirmation email – however I was able to use the site before I confirmed. My first experience … Continue reading Writely.com – Google's answer to Word
If you use a RSS feed then you might not have seen this, but if you browse to the blog you would see that I upgraded to Community Server 2.0. I was running a modified version of .Text 95 and the upgrade to CS was a bit painful, mostly due to the fact that I … Continue reading Upgrade to Community Server 2.0
