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Ray Ozzie's interview @ Knowledge@Wharton

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:57:00 GMT

Ray Ozzie's interview @ http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1698

Dynamics CRM Platform for Business Applications

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:51:00 GMT

Cool chat with Brad Wilson, General Manager for the Dynamics CRM team, Bill Patterson, Group Product Manager and Ben Riga, a colleague in Platform Evangelism focused exclusively on Dynamics.

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Session Name: ASP.NET 2.0: Protecting Configuration Settings

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:19:00 GMT

This Friday (24th June 2005), I'm presenting at Bangalore .NET Users Group about "ASP.NET 2.0: Protecting Configuration Settings". This presentation is a small out come from my forth coming book Professional ASP.NET 2.0 with couple of folks like Bill and Scott.

Wish me luck folks :)

Download: Comega programming technology

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:03:00 GMT

Microsoft Research has had 7,000 downloads of its Comega programming technology, which is intended to bridge the gap between relational, object, and XML data models.

Full article at: MSDN & InfoWorld

ASP.NET 1.1 XHTML Compliance

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 07:11:00 GMT

One of my customers had a question about ASP.NET 1.1 XHTML compliance. I started doing research and found out that ASP.NET 1.1 is not fully compliant with XHTML 1.0. People were using different techniques to fix this problem. Here is some useful URL’s.

Finally Scott Gu says ASP.NET 2.0 would be XHTML 1.1 compliant.

Help with "Microsoft Pregnancy and Child Care Program"

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:42:00 GMT

If you want to know more about installing and uninstalling "Microsoft Pregnancy and Child Care Program", pls. read the following MS support articles.

In India farmers tackle pests with colas

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:39:00 GMT

For farmers in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh it is cheaper than pesticides and gets the job done just as well. The product? Pepsi or Coca-Cola.

Kanguru Zipper HD 2.2GB - Very cool!

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 05:41:00 GMT

You can sum up the Kanguru Zipper HD 2.2GB USB drive in a word: slick. The silvery satin-finished shell houses a 2.2GB hard disk, measures a mere 2 by 2.4 by 0.6 inches (HWD), and weighs only 1.4 ounces. It's nearly as easy to carry as a flash-memory USB drive, but with more capacity and a lower price. The Zipper is also available with 1GB of storage for $50 less.

Only for Geeks - MP3Car

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:03:00 GMT

Check this out!

Microsoft Home smarter at age 10

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:36:00 GMT

High-definition TV from your PC for $199

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:44:00 GMT

If I had the money right now I think I’d like a huge flat-screen HDTV. Actually, make that two or three flat screen HDTVs: one for the living room, another for the bedroom and maybe one for the den. But who has that kind of money? Why not buy an ATI HDTV Wonder card to turn your desktop computer into an HDTV receiver for $199?

Cooooooooool: Visual Robot Development Kit

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:31:00 GMT

Microsoft has lifted the lid on new technology it is currently developing, including a graphical programming language that allows people to control robots with a smartphone.

We present a visual robot development kit (VRDK) that tremendously eases the development of robot control applications in .NET. Our approach follows the model-driven paradigm. Thus, applications are modelled using a high-level graphical language. Model transformers and a code generation backend generate an implementation for the target language and framework. Our development tools have been designed for use in education and research. Current MDA & UML tools are very complex. Thus, they are not suitable for teaching computer science basics in high schools and undergraduate courses. In contrast, VRDK allows students to get a robot control application up and running in a few minutes. VRDK can execute the model directly from the model editor. This allows for easy testing and rapid prototyping. Using model transformation and code generation, students can extend their application using Visual Studio.NET and their choice of .NET language.

Microsoft Calculator Plus

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:30:00 GMT

Calculator Plus offers conversions between different measurement units for area, temperature, volume and more. It also includes all the mathematical functions offered in Microsoft Calculator.

System Tray Too: Microsoft Time Zone

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 05:52:00 GMT

A system tray tool that displays multiple time zones at once.

Smart Tag Reading Washing Machine

SrinivasaSivakumar@India.com — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:17:00 GMT

A new washing machine developed by the Dai Nippon Printing Company can read special smart tags on clothing and instruct the user the best method with which to wash the clothes. Not only that, but the LG-built unit can keep track of how many times a particular item has been washed, what material it is made out of, and can even send an email or SMS when your load of laundry is complete.