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TechEd India
I've just received an e-mail from the Microsoft .NET Delhi User Group regarding the Tech Ed India 2004 registration offer. The registration fees is Rs. 6000 (=USD 130) per person, but as a special offer you only need to pay Rs. 4000 (=USD 85) if you participate in a group of 6 or more. You will also receive MS Press Books worth Rs. 1000 if you register on or before August 7th, 2004. TechEd India will be held in 4 Indian cities, and its scheduled in New Delhi for August 25th-27th 2004.
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MyXaml
Just came across this nice open source tool called MyXaml (dev blog), which offers declarative markup (XUL-like) capabilities to .NET 1.1 and 2.0, and ASP.NET applications. The website includes the product download (open source), documentation and articles on XAML.
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Redesigning Microsoft.com - with CSS, without tables
Redesigning Microsoft.com - with CSS, without tables. A 62% file size reduction anticipated! "If multiplied out by my measly 1 million page views estimate, that 25 KB savings comes to about 23.8 GB in bandwidth savings per day, or 8.5 terabytes per year." Go for it MS!
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SQL Jobs Auto-backup
A few days back, my friend Pankaj was enquiring about a particular case where he needed to automate the backup (in the form of SQL scripts) of all SQL Jobs (schedules) on a SQL Server (2000). DTS doesn’t support automatic scripting of SQL Jobs from what I could tell. I remembered doing something similar a few months back on a particular project but I didn’t have the T-SQL snippet for it, so I looked up a bit and found ... (complete article on my other blog).
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J2EE vs .NET Web Services
The whitepaper J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET - A comparison of building XML-based web services is now online at TSS. The conclusions seem quite interesting, which also talk about the arguments for, against and supporting both platforms.
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MSN Newsbot
Is the MSN Newsbot a Google News ripoff or an “innovative” competitor? I still like the simplicity and effectiveness of Google News. It does what it says - dynamically serve up-to-date news. Probably the only thing missing with Google News is a RSS/Atom feed.
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More Acquisitions
Google acquires Picasa (a digital imaging solutions) and Microsoft acquires Lookout (a e-mail search solution).
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Yahoo acquires Oddpost