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The Favorite Devotee
Complete story can be read here.
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Lesson 8 - Cause of Karma
In Lesson 7 you learnt that unless the store house of Karma is burnt there is no escape from the cycle of birth and death. It was also mentioned that the sorrow that is yet to come should be avoided. Now it is time to understand the root cause of all Karmas.
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BinaryIntellect Code Generator (BETA) released
One of the things I like about software development is the ability to automate monotonous tasks. Few weeks back I needed a free code generator for generating typical insert, update, delete, select all and select by Id kind of stored procedures and classes. Believe it or not but there are developers who manually code these stored procedures and classes. There are many gode generation tools available today. Some are free and rest all are commercial. In the past I used one of the popular FREE tools. But it seems that the tool no longer exists as FREE. The company has removed its mention from their home page. Moreover my requirements was such that I could not have used the code AS IS. So there was no option but to write my own tool :-). As a result I wrote BinaryIntellect Code Generator. It is absolutely FREE to use Currently it is being released as BETA. Some features will be added in near future. If you can spare some time running it on some test database and give your feedback including bugs, error or features that will be great. I can include them in the final version.
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Saving Office 2007 documents as PDF
Finally Office 2007 allows you to save office documents as PDF files. During beta stages this support was supposed to be "native". However, the released version requires you to download an add-on for the same. The add-on is a FREE download but before downloading it checks if you have genuine version of the software. That means you must download it from the same maching on which you have Office 2007 installed. I know many small companies where internet connection is not available on each and every maching. Moreover, the resultant PDF files are not much attractive. Previously I used PDF Creator but for some reason it is crashing under Windows Vista.
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Balance of Mind
Once upon a time Gautam Buddha was travelling via a village. The villagers came to know about his arrival and rushed to greet him and seek his blessings. They decided to visit him and offer him some gifts. Gautam Buddha was sitting under a tree with some of his followers. The villagers crowded the place. They started offering fruits, rich cloth, gold coins, ornaments, previous stones and what not. One by one Gautam Buddha politely refused to accept any of these gifts. "I do not need any of these things" was his answer. The villagers tried to convince him to accept the gifts by saying that they respect him a lot and are offering the gifts from the deepest of their hearts. However, Gautam Buddha was firm on his decision.
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Installing Windows Vista
Ok. So finally Microsoft released mush awaited and delayed Windows Vista. One of my friend called me to check if I can help him out with installing Vista on his machine. I wholeheartedly accepted his offer because my own machine is not at all Vista compatible and rather than messing up with your own machine first it is always good to mess with someone else's :-)
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Asynchronous Web Services in ASP.NET 2.0
Here is anew addition to dotnetbips.com:
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Develop your own Blog
Few months back I wrote a three part article on building your own blog. The complete source code of the sample application is available on binaryintellect.net
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URL Mapping in ASP.NET 2.0
Just posted a new article.
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Creating Custom Cache Dependency
Just published my new article...
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Kerala logs Microsoft out
Recently there was a news that Kerala state government has decided to throw MS platforms out and adopt open source platforms. In my openion this is a very wrong move. It is true that schools have limited funding for software training but forcing the students to adopt a specific platform is not a good decision. A bit funny thought comes to my mind - the students will learn platforms that start with L and J during their school days. One fine day they will start earning and buy their own PC. That machine will have Windows 2025 installed and they will not know anything about it :-)
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Dynamic Cache Substitution using Substitution Control
Just added a new article on DotNetBips.com.
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Build Comment Web Pages option vanished
In VS.NET 2003 there used to be an option under Tools menu titled Build Comment Web Pages. I rarely used that feature in my projects but for some other reason I was looking for it. To my surprise it has vanished from there. I was pulling my hair for an hour and then gave up :-) Teemu Keiski pointed me to Sandcastle but then it is still in beta stage...
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Better software by better people
I believe in the thought stream that says "better software can be developed only by better people". I consider it in broader sense. Even with excellent tools such as Visual Studio bug free software is still a dream. One of the core reason for this is that software is built by us i.e. humans. We all make mistakes while developing a software. Then what makes a good developer? When there are thousands of developers having the same technology skillset why is that some are better coders than the others? As a trainer I came across variety of developers. Some good, some bad and some average. When I look them as an individual and try to figure out answers to these questions I realize that somewhere the personality of an individual plays a vital role. When I say personality I mean the over all person, his habits, traits, relationships, soft skills and so on.