For quiet sometime, you'll not see any post from me (ohh.. you didn't see even in past ) as I'll be in transit next week..( On my move to Dallas..).

I'll reach there on Saturday 2nd Oct. I'll be on-line once I settle there with some good speed DSL connection.....

Cheers till then!!!!

Open Source .Net IDE #develop (SharpDevelop) has got even better.  Written entirely in standards-based C#, 

the #develop version, released September 10, sets a "solid foundation for the growth" of Open Source tools for .NET development projects,

Developers at #develop, have added project-level import for VS.NET and other features to their 1.0 version of their #develop (SharpDevelop) Open Source IDE for C#, VB.NET, Managed C++ and ILAsm projects built to run on Microsoft's .NET platform.

The focus of the Open Source #develop IDE project is "on making #develop portable to other CLRs and platforms" to allow #develop to run with native look and feel on Microsoft .NET / Windows, as well as Mono on Windows and Mono on Linux. Aside from standard code creation and debugging facilities, #develop also brings a full environment to the project, including Windows Forms, testing, auto-insertion capabilities for code and tweaks and even an XML preview feature.... read more...

An IDE can be downloaded here

 I came back from Calcutta yesterday evening.  Finally after all the troubles, we got the visa stamped at US Consulate. Visit was overall a nice experience barring some bad experiences with taxis drivers there. One of them took us 2 round circles over the area for US consulate which was just 5 minutes walk 

Stay in hotel Kenilworth was nice & comfortable however hoping Jet flight back to Bangalore via Hyderabad was too tiring. We also had an experience in Metro Train there on recommendation of Sujay, which was a good ride indeed (probably because of less crowd on Sunday evening )

Unexpectedly, at the consulate only few formalities were done on the name of interview. Nothing much the lady interviewer asked before taking the fingerprints and granting L1 / L2 Visa to me and Ritika. Looks like they are experts in judging the genuineness of a person ( a couple and a guy were rejected visas immediately before us).  We were really relieved when the lady said “You are all set...”.

Overall my experience in Calcutta was against most of those people who say that it is a dirty and congested city. I think it has improved a lot.

Cheers!!

I'll be offline for next few days as I'm visiting Calcutta (or Kolkata for those who like) for my US Visa Stamping appointment with the US Consulate.

I'll be back online on Wednesday (15th September) if everything goes as planned.

Enjoy!!!

Read out about this  exciting product recently launched in the market....it comes with Visual Studio .NET 2003 integration support.It lets you visually design forms and generate XAML user interface code with Visual Studio.

Look at an impressive screen shot taken form website created using XAMLON.

                           

Features and tools include:

• Visual Studio .NET 2003 integration
• Declarative 3-D support
• Extensive new sample applications
• AiSVG (Adobe Illustrator SVG) to XAML converter
• XamlPad, a simple editor for XAML with real-time preview

Brief:

The Xamlon engine enables developers to use XAML to rapidly build and deploy applications for current versions of Windows with the confidence that their applications will easily port to future Windows releases. A key new feature of Xamlon v0.9 is the integration of Visual Studio.NET 2003, which allows developers to harness the power of Visual Studio to design rich application interfaces and automatically generate the XAML code for those interfaces. In addition to Visual Studio integration, other new features of Xamlon v0.9 include basic 3-D support, new samples and an Adobe Illustrator SVG to XAML converter.  Read More

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Download it here

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(Via  EconomicTimes.com)

Search engine giant Google is hiring in India!! The leading search engine is looking to hire talented software engineers, top programmers and visionary computer scientists. And if you are still wondering if you are the person they are looking for?

Visit  here to get a feel of what Google is looking for.....

The Windows IRC client IceChat is going the open source route.

IceChat , the popular IRC Client, is undergoing a complete Re-write, in C# (.Net). Version 6 will now be Open Source, with code made available at SourceForge.Net. It is currently in the Alpha stage, but making great progress" IceChat coder snerf told IRCJunkie.

A first "full beta" will not be released untill the beginning of 2005 the website reports.

You can find the SourceForge project page here.

I don't know exactly in deep about the topic and the co-relation with e-commerce but news seems to be very exciting...

“Mathematicians are close to solving a 150 year-old theory - and the solution could add up to problems for internet commerce. The Riemann hypothesis, formulated by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann in 1859, would explain the apparently random pattern of prime numbers.”

Read More...

Scott Mitchell has written a good series of articles on data structures in .NET.

This six-part series examines a variety of data structures, some of which are included in the .NET Framework Base Class Library and some of which are custom written. Please find it below..

Part 1. - An Extensive Examination of Data Structures
Part 2. - The Queue, Stack, and Hashtable
Part 3. - Binary Trees and BSTs
Part 4. - Building a Better Binary Search Tree
Part 5. - From Trees to Graphs
Part 6. - Efficiently Representing Sets

Details about the author can be found here...

Enjoy!!!

Welcome to my first ever weblog!!!  Hope you enjoy your visit...

I'll be posting content on this blog almost (well , not of course daily ) every week, depending on the availability of time as well as content, which will be technical / non-technical in nature.

I wish you don't  hate to love or love to hate this blog......

Just enjoy it...

Cheers!!!