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Sunday, August 30, 2009 10:42 AM

I am the Empire

5 years back exactly on this very day I walked into Cyber Towers office of Microsoft India for the first time. If someone asked me at that time how long I plan to work for Microsoft, my answer would’ve been couple of years max. I was still a bit suspicious
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Monday, April 20, 2009 10:42 AM

What post are you known for?

I was just listening to Scot Hanselman’s podcast where he interviews Joel. They talk about how most bloggers get known for one post. E.g. Joel is known for “ The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:42 AM

Technical Presentation Tip

I’m no Scot Hanselman , but even then I guess I can share at least one tip for delivering technical presentation that has worked very well for me. At the very beginning of your presentation always have a slide clearly calling out what the attendees will
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Friday, February 13, 2009 9:42 AM

Scott Guthrie’s visit to Microsoft India

I rarely blog about a photo but this is an exception. Scott Guthrie our Corporate Vice President for .NET Developer Platform was here in Hyderabad on a visit to Microsoft India. I had a chance to attend a bunch of product reviews and  meetings with
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Monday, December 15, 2008 12:46 PM

When the spell checkers attack

Today Boing Boing had a post about the Cupertino effect in which spell-checkers erroneously change valid words. I had worked on Adobe Acrobat and Adobe FrameMaker 's spell checking feature and do happen to appreciate the headache with getting them right.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:42 AM

Taking my job more seriously

I generally take my work very seriously. However, the following from SICP was still my favorite quote " I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:42 AM

Obsession with desktop continues

This is my new office setup. I have been pushing around a lot of code lately and felt I needed more real-estate to effectively do what I'm doing. So I hooked up another monitor. All  3 are standard HP LP1965 19" monitors. However, since none
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Monday, May 26, 2008 9:42 AM

Cell phone assault

Last two weeks my cell phone got assaulted thrice. First it was someone sending me a virus over bluetooth (a sis file actually). This happened when I was taking a photograph of my daughter with the cell phone camera in a restaurant (Aromas of China, City
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:42 AM

My workstation layout

Our team just moved to a new building in Microsoft India campus. A lot of people were going around checking out other people's office. I got asked couple of times about my workstation layout and thought I'll do a quick post on that. Like most people in
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:42 AM

Struggling with email overload

It literally rains email at Microsoft (if you've been to Seattle/Redmond you know why :) ) I've always struggled to keep up with the email in Microsoft. When I joined I was stunned with the downpour. The number of email I got on the first day was more
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Monday, May 05, 2008 9:42 AM

Moving blogs to http://geekgyan.blogspot.com/

  It's been a drag maintaining two blogs for some time now. So going forward I'll shift to posting only on my personal blog. I'll be cross posting for some more time and then stop this blog. The new address is: http://geekgyan.blogspot.com/ Point
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Friday, April 11, 2008 2:55 PM

Multi-threaded developer

Once upon a time a kick-ass developer I knew told me that a good developer needs to be multi-threaded and run the following threads The main worker thread : This is the one used to code up 3-tier applications for your employer. This pays for the rent
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:42 AM

Time for a change

I've been working for some time in Visual Studio Team System (first on the TFS server and then on the testing infrastructure). I was looking for a change and then I happened to talk with the GPM of the .NET COMPACT FRAMEWORK team. The following explains
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:28 PM

International Mother Language Day is back and being celebrated with a lunar eclipse

For starters it doesn't include C++ or C#, even though your mom codes in it :) ... A lot of people speaking English natively forget the importance of mother language due to its predominance. They take their language for granted. However, each year a bunch
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:29 PM

Linked on the msdn forum for all the wrong reasons

Someone saw a message in their Team Foundation Server history which was " Edited by God " and asked how is this possible on the msdn forum . Someone actual read my blog (or some other's but I tend to believe mine 'cause I'm linked in that page) which
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