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Bhasker V Kode, aka Bosky believes that it is the question that drives the answer.
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Microsoft Communit Launch ,January 8th Chennai
Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:37 AM
Hello everyone , Firstly a Happy 2006 to one and all. Heres some rocking news for software enthusiasts to kick off the years activities . The Chennai .NET User Group welcomes you to the VS2005 Community Launch on January 08-2006 at the Tidel Auditorium (Tidel Park - Chennai ) and is also celebrating its 3rd Anniversary with this launch .The one day event ,being the first event for the year will be filled with technology and fun ;seminars from leading speakers talking on the key features in the new Visual Studio 2005 , SQL Server 2005 ,and Biztalk Server 2006 ,seminars , free software Goodies , and fun events . Registration at the venue starts at 9.30 am . Also register yourself for the event at http://groups.msn.com/chennainetusergroup/communitylaunchsignup1.msnw . For more information on the event ,also check out www.cnug.netFor copies of posters to ciculate in and around your campus / locality / peer groups please contact me . Do join us and Get ready to Rock! . Bhasker V K , Microsoft Student Partner, Marketing Manager - Chennai .NET Usergroup - Student Chapter
Pro blogging
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 5:32 PM
A word on Pro Bloggers
First
up a look at the penetration of the top most blogs , over view of the
blogrolling statistics and then the opportunity in blogging as a career!
Amused ,dont be ,the person who runs problogger.com now calims to earn in 6-figure 's and even introduced a course on blogging as a career.
August is over and my monthly Adsense figures were a new record - the daily average was $511.27 with the monthly total coming in at just a stones throw from $16,000 (USD). The
following picture is a screen capture (with my personal details blocked
out) of the monthly total. It actually ended up being 0.36 cents higher
than the total you see there (it all counts I guess).
source:Problogger.com
as for blogrolls, surprising to find a few even higher than slashdot !
- instapundit.com -- linked by 2270 users
- boingboing.net -- linked by 2175 users
- dooce.com -- linked by 1871 users
- slashdot.org -- linked by 1398 users
Blogstreet india stats show of the 2057 blogs registered
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You can catch my blogs at :
1. Confessions of a Ninja
http://www.confessionsOfaNinja.blogspot.com
2.Bosky says
http://www.bosky101.blogspot.com
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VS Evolution : too much ,too fast ?
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 6:44 PM
Interestingly , Microsoft has spent the past few years encouraging
Visual Basic 6 programmers to migrate to the new Visual Basic .Net
platform, which has had its share of complications. Microsoft’s plan to stop support has
been discussed for almost three years and the deadline already has been
extended once, said the press representative, who requested anonymity.
Visual Basic 6 has been supported longer than any other Microsoft
product, according to the representative. “Extended” support, which is
fee-based, will continue through 2008.
So I wonder if the next version,would add some refuge for the classical VB 6 developers.Especially with the Visual Studio Future and Live being talked bout.
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Visual Studio Future ?!
Microsoft
may have just shipped Visual Studio 2005, but the company is already
starting to discuss its future plans for the development suite. Service
Pack 1 is in the works for next summer, says Visual C# product manager
Scott Wiltamuth, and Orcas -- the next VS release -- is being hashed
out.
The first service pack for the older Visual Studio 2003 will also ship
in the first half of next year, with Wiltamuth estimating an April
release. Soma Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft's
Developer Division, echoed those timeframes, saying the company would
provide hotfixes in the interim.
"My current thinking is that we will target the first service pack for
Visual Studio 2005 around summer next year," Somasegar wrote on his Web
log. "As we get more mileage on the product usage in your production
environment and get your feedback, we will firm up our plans here."
But Visual Studio 2005, known by its code-name "Whidbey," still has
some work ahead despite officially launching this week at a special
event in San Francisco. International versions of the product are
currently being completed, and the Team Foundation Server component
won't be ready until the first quarter of 2006.
Acknowledging that Microsoft took too long getting Whidbey out the
door, Somasegar says his division will now embark on a 3-4 month-long
milestone known as "MQ" that will attempt to fix those development
problems.
"MQ is a milestone that is post-Whidbey and pre-Orcas that will focus
on quality," explained C# team member Eric Malno. "We have learned a
lot from the previous 3 versions of Visual Studio that were built
around the .NET Framework, the biggest lesson that we learned on this
most recent version was that we were not agile enough and we took too
long to ship."
Malno added, however, that "MQ is not about servicing Whidbey. The MQ
milestone is about changing processes and making improvements on these
processes. It is NOT about code churn, adding features, or fixing known
bugs in VS2005."
After MQ, Orcas will begin to swim. "Orcas is all about enabling
platform adoption for Windows Vista, for Office 12 and for WinFX," says
Somasegar. "You can use Whidbey today to build Vista applications, for
example. But Orcas will make it a whole lot easier for people to build
Vista applications through easy to use designers and the like."
In a growing trend at the once-secretive company, Microsoft will
boost transparency during the development of Orcas. The company will
share specific feature plans and request feedback from customers before
details are set into stone.
Somasegar also says his division will begin work on a number of
incubation experiments -- a concept that has become a veritable
requirement within MSN and Microsoft search rival Google.
"In light of the 'Live' announcements last week, we are starting to
think about what it means for us in the Developer world," he explained.
"There are two things that we need to think about -- the kind of tools
support that we need to provide for our 'Live' services platform and
what does 'Visual Studio Live' look like."
Resources
1. Microsoft Talks Up Visual Studio Future
2.A PETITION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNMANAGED VISUAL BASIC AND VISUAL BASIC FOR APPLICATIONS
3.Campaign to save Visual Basic 6 gathers support
4.Microsoft MVPs revolt
No matter what the result, it will turn out a a telling tale of
the three avtars ... Visual Basic ,Visual Studio Express and Visual
Basic Future. Thats not keeping in mind the compact and devices
versions !
KEep Clicking,
Bhasker
Building A Great DevelopmentTeam
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:38 AM
While pondering over my imagine cup
team and prospects, I found this interesting yet understated piece in
the transcripts of Boyd Multerer's video on Building a Great
Development Team
Channel9 Wiki: BuildingAGreatDevelopmentTeam: "BM: I have some ideas about how to go about building an effective development team.
When
you look at the releationship between developers on a team and also
between your development team and your test team there are certain
personalities that really stand out, and the thing to remember is that
people on the team are people and they have to communicate with each
other and they suffer all the normal problems that people have when
they are communicating.
So, when I think of building my team. It starts by reminding my of an old guitar player joke:
- What do you call a guy who hangs out with three musicians?
- The drummer.
So,
the guitar players are looking down on the drummer and they are
thinking 'this guy is not a real musician, we're musicians'. But if you
didn't have the drummer in the band you totally lose the beat and they
would be all over the place and it would be a mess. If the band was all
drummers, they would have a great beat but it wouldn't be very musical.
You
need to have all the elements, all the musicians, in the band in order
for it to be cohesive, have a good groove and make some really good
music and a development team is the same way. You need to have the guy
who is really good at double checking his work, really good at double
checking everyone elses work and really good at doing schedules. You
need to have the guy who is really good at 'Gee this is a really vague
and ambiguous problem, we don't have a clear answer and there are
competing interests in it' and he's able to listen to the various sides
of the story and he's able to come up with some good directional
answers. But maybe that's not the person who's going to spit and polish
the schedule and make sure you're going to deliver on time. You need to
have the person who goes really deep, the engineer who you give a
specific really hard problem to. You know they don't care about all the
other stuff tha" source
Threat to the my drag and drop days ?!
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:37 AM
I spent a good amount of the weekend "soul searching" and evaluating my
perception ,and those around me , of where i was heading with all the
seminars , hands on labs ,and other iniatives that came along with
being a "Microsoft Student Champ". Now i know most of you are going to
be wondering - "so what ?!" .As Sriram put it very well the other
day,compare majority of the regions MS student developer space with
their Linux counterparts and you cant stop to wonder what the very
purpose of these advocates are if :
(a) Dont have passion for technology
(b) Are in it for something good on their resume, CDs and t-shirts
It is also true that knowing how to create applications ,however new
the API or technology was still not peanuts.and whats the big deal in
just knowing how to do something without understanding the underlying
funda's .Now hold on here .If you think knowing how the data is
represented or the various layers of business logic or knowing the
syntax for comppiling on the command line is is 'geeky thoery' - then
you are so so wrong . Like i was .
Because like i found out later - any one with a encouraging learning curve would in a week or two be able to :
- connect to a DB and give security
- make ur app talk to a webservice
- xml feed or data representation for ur mobile devices
- windows forms !
arrghgh !!!! Please i repeat ,this is not anywhere close to
development.The only thing you will efectively do with a stint in these
is to probably have a fair edge at the sniper maps in Counterstrike or
so .
For all those
who thought .net was all there was going on ,and that developers cant
live without the wizards .Other notions that spring up are that ppl in
MS have no clue of what the hell is happening outside windows, cant
live without a pretty looking IDE , and are basically guys who found
this the easiest thing to do .
NO
....i repeat NO way. And i wish i could explain in details with each of
you who think otherwise.I'd probably try to elaborate on why i say so.
Take a look at some of the developer tools ,contrary to pupoular belief
that the work that happens in MS ,is done on VS.
( NOTE : Also check out the complete list of pre-release products included in the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Go-Live License )
For Office and Business solutions and products tht have interesting API 's spaning across :
In fact Sriram tells me that ,the good ol 'command line' makes a comeback for him at Hyderabad for his work But the topics that got me really all excited were :
Will take me some time to go through each of the above.So while im at
it , ive decided to go back in time and anayse how it all evolved.
Starting with the windows version history for DOS , tried finding the first API call ever ,but i cudnt find it :( . But i found this worth a look
A model of an API call
 What Are the Differences Between a 16-Bit Windows API and a 32-Bit Windows API?
* Case sensitivity.
* Unicode or ANSI options.
* Parameter data types.
Then found this dated to 1994,that talked bout Creating Useful Native Visual Basic and Microsoft Access Functions.For Getting started with System programming in Windows ,you can check out WHDC for :
System and Device Design - Designing for Windows compatibility and reliability from the beginning prevents much rework later.
Driver Development
- Microsoft provides the Windows Driver Development Kit (DDK) and a
collection of testing tools to help you build reliable, stable, and
secure drivers.
Logo Program Testing
- To supplement your company's quality assurance practices, the Windows
Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) testing programs and the Windows Hardware
Compatibility Tests (HCT) will help ensure that your hardware and
drivers qualify for the "Designed for Windows" logo.
Qualification Service
- Windows Quality Online Services provides the Web site i | | | | |