Technical News and tips from My learning

Aamir Khan !!!! Blogging !!! strange… I can never imagine that Aamir Khan will blog… Here you can find him blogging about Mangal Pandey. I’m not sure about, how true is this… but seems intresting…

Do you ever wonder how to handle your IT colleague? Here are the tips on ‘To get most of your IT Guy” This article looks decently good, and to some extent, I think that it really works out.

How many times we do think of uninstalling any software? If we require to format our system, do we unistall the software? I never thought that uninstallation of softwares is required if I’m formatting the hard disk drive. Think in this way, if a software like Photoshop which gets activation key from i-Net is not uninstalled, the next time you activate again, don’t you think that you are increasing your licence number by one? Where as you have formatted the system and the same is installed and used by one person only? So, finally, my advice to you all as to uninstall the sw before you format the hard disk drive…

How many of us knon about Jeeves? Many of us know Jeeves only as ‘askjeeves’, some where in Shakespeare’s novel I read about a character called, ‘Jeeves’, since then I’m confused. Whether the same is the root for now-a-days ‘Jeeves’ fictionous character? Incidentally, the answer is ‘YES’. Read here about the full story about ‘Jeeves’. Wikipedia has full explanation about the same and gives you full story line about this gentleman’s personal gentleman

The Data Sources in VS 2005 has got many a features, one among them is “Drag-Once Databinding”. This feature is all about draggin columns of their typed datasets directly to the form. Here is a cool article by Steve Lasker. A must read for every developer who works with ADO.NET

“Fuel from Plastic”, I’m really surprised. But infact it is a reality. Read here that Prof. Dr. Alka Umesh Zadgaonkar, has invented a process to produce fuel from the plasic waste. And the statistics are, a two wheeler which run for 44 KMs with a Ltr petrol has run for more 6 KMs (ie, 44 + 6 = 50 ) with the plastic fuel. Really amazing!!! Hope one day we will get outlets for plastic fuel. Bytheway, the statistics that show currently are, a ltr petrol costs us at the rate of Rs. 50.66/- but surprisingly, the plasic petrol will cost us only Rs. 30/- per ltr. How great it is?

That’s a great work, in other words a great effort to bring the MVPs to get to know and build a network, indeed it was awesome. Though it is my first appearence at such meet, it helped me to get to know many great professionals and got a chance to build a network with them. I recollect from Subhashini’s words, “this is one place to build the bridge between the other fellow MVPs”. I have a potpurri memories registered. Personalities like, Cally Ko, Venkat etc., created a long lasting image in my life, though they spent short time with me. I couldn’t really digest the fact that Celly is 40+ and still she is such a dynamic lady. In many occassions, she took the responsibility to kindle the community, not only that but by character too she is really down-to-earth. Infact, I hesitated a lot, to dance and mingle with many of you in the begin, but the way Cally Ko mingled with us and left me with no choice other than to go around with you all. Ravi Venkatesan, is one other gentle man I can ev...