Ideas and Coffee at 3.47 AM

A call to all who love Microsoft

Nilotpal Das — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:58:36 GMT

I listen to podcasts. I have been listening to them for about 5 years or so now. Perhaps a little over. My first few were podcasts were HanselMinutes by Scott Hanselmann and DotnetRocks by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell . Throughout these 2 have been...(read more)

Episode 0: Shabby’s Nightmare

Nilotpal Das — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:53:54 GMT

There was a time when I used to hate reading. I still do. But not everything. And thankfully what I like reading, I made a career out of… More here…...(read more)

The Underscore Naming Convention for Private Variables in C#

Nilotpal Das — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:40:17 GMT

Many a time you must have come across the underscore naming convention while reading books or articles on any C# based Microsoft technology. Although as per the standard naming convention private variables should be camel case. But you still see they...(read more)

Outlook and live messenger stop working simultaneously

Nilotpal Das — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:12:34 GMT

Error Message: “There was an error synchronizing your folder hierarchy. Error: 80041004”. I don’t write such blog posts too much these days. I used to write these “type” of posts till a few months back. By these “type” I mean stuff that we go bump in...(read more)

Talking to Master Yoda… or Master Oogway…

Nilotpal Das — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:03:54 GMT

“Why do you always start off a project with a database design?”, Vivek asked. It was around 10.30 PM Monday. Vivek had come on Google chat, first time ever. His girlfriend, apparently, wanted him to talk to me. I don’t remember talking to Vivek on any...(read more)

Visual (pronounced as ‘versatile’) Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools

Nilotpal Das — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:02:21 GMT

“Only the naive use no tools. The enlightened one knows exactly which tool is to be used”. And behold…!!! the tools just got smarter, more intuitive with the Visual Studio 2010 productivity power tools . I am not going to… More here…...(read more)

Talking the old fashioned way

Nilotpal Das — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:58:00 GMT

The internet has given mankind something that could make him an equivalent to the Gods. The easily accessible knowledge repository that it is, is just the tip of the iceberg. There was some research somewhere that the mental development of apes and humans...(read more)

Knowledge truly is the ultimate power…

Nilotpal Das — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:55:35 GMT

They say that knowledge never goes a waste. Although sometimes you might feel a little “not so fruitful” about certain things that you might have done in the past or things that you are doing currently, but trust me, if you are willing to wait a while...(read more)

Security Essenitials and Defender

Nilotpal Das — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:23:19 GMT

Note: I am slowly moving my blog to http://www.dasboard.in/nilotpal/blogs/347 . Please check my blogs there and update your RSS feeds. Thanks. I bought a computer recently and I didn’t have an antivirus software. I was wondering what I would do about...(read more)

My new machine... Beginning of my command stations...

Nilotpal Das — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:30:00 GMT

Note: I have a new blog and I am posting more frequently there than I am here. http://dasboard.in/nilotpal/blogs/347 . I remember I had just started working for Microsoft. One day I was going out to help my good friend David. He happens to be working...(read more)

Wordpress is amazing… Blogger might be overrated…

Nilotpal Das — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:16:16 GMT

You are new to blogging… You are planning to start a blog… There is a very good chance that you might end up having a blog on blogger… Or you could have a blog on geekswithblogs or if you are doing something in .Net Technologies, the probability of which...(read more)

Persistence Ignorance… Why…?

Nilotpal Das — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:11:12 GMT

How do you plan your architecture when you are using entity framework? Do you write a data access layer? Or do you just go ahead and start writing queries on the object context. What happens if you want to use stored procedures? Why stored procedures...(read more)

Joomla… or should it be Zoomla…

Nilotpal Das — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:13:00 GMT

I have been thinking of owning a website of my own for a long time. First web space was expensive. Not universally, but at least for me. Always thought, is it worth it? How am I justify the annual cost no matter how little. And then of course my salary...(read more)

Disabled...

Nilotpal Das — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:15:00 GMT

Never thought I would feel so helpless without a machine. I do have a machine at work, but can’t do much there. It is a work machine after all. Got addicted to the Lenovo T60, the Iron Box (we used to affectionately call it) so much, suddenly I miss it...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Unit tests… Error loading .vsmdi: .vsmdi

Nilotpal Das — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:01:38 GMT

I got this error. I got no information on the internet as to how to get around it… 3 hours earlier: I wanted to create a sequence diagram from the code I have already written. Visual Studio 2010 comes with the sequence diagram feature. I decided heck...(read more)