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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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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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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 10:42 AM

Small Basic

Today my father in law started teaching my 4 year old daughter how to write in Bengali which is her native language. Below is the screen shot of her attempt to write অ আ ই , the first character is written by her teacher and the rest by her. This got me
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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, September 11, 2008 4:22 PM

Designer for my path finding boards

I'm writing a small application (or rather a screen saver) that animates and demonstrates A* search algorithm . The idea is simple. On screen you see a start and end point and some random obstacles in between them. Then you see animation on how A* algorithm
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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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Friday, June 27, 2008 9:42 AM

Guy or a Girl

One interesting aspect of working in Internationally distributed team is that sometime it gets difficult to make common judgements. E.g. when we see a name we inherently figure out whether it's a male or female name and refer to that person as such in
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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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Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:42 AM

Which end of the egg do you crack. Putting it differently, what is your Endianess

Few people seem to know that the word Endianess comes from Gullivers travels. In Gulliver's travel where there were two types of people, the Lilliputs who cracked the small side of their soft boiled eggs and the Blefuscu who used the big side (Big-Endian).
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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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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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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:30 PM

Fun Windows Home Server site

Windows Home Server team has a nice light-hearted site up at http://www.stayathomeserver.com/ . All of it was funny, until I reached the page http://www.stayathomeserver.com/book.aspx . It says "daddy wants to give mommy a special gift.... So he buys
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Monday, December 03, 2007 10:42 AM

Choose your company name well

Sometime back Hutch phone in India got bought over by the international phone giant vodafone . They re-branded Hutch in India to Vodafone. Now when I call up home and the phone is busy I get a recorded message in Bengali which means "The Vodafone number
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