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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 :-)