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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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Friday, November 30, 2007 11:55 PM

Ravenous Bugblatter beast on Indian roads

From the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy . " The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is a creature that hails from the planet of Traal, and will eat anything. If you are to encounter one, the Guide tells you that it's impossible to slay, so you should
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:42 AM

How do you name your computer

Windows gives examples of "Kitchen Computer" or "Mary's Computer" for setting the name of a computer ( Computer Name tab in System Properties ). But I'm sure that most people don't name their computers that way and show off a bit of creativity in it.
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Friday, November 16, 2007 12:36 AM

Don't forget to lock your Computer

So Amit pointed me to this post on Coding Horror (I didn't get time to read any of the feeds for the last 2 days!!). It's about colleagues playing pranks with folks who leave their computer un-locked. I myself have done couple of these stupid but amazingly
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:45 PM

One of the most interesting machine which I've ever seen - II

Last year I had posted about a a drum playing machine I had seen. This time I got a full video of it in action. Looks and sounds awesome
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Monday, September 24, 2007 10:42 AM

Maintained by Microsoft

Saw this on the side of a road in my recent trip to Bangalore. Sorry for the quality though, I took it from a moving Bike and that too in very bad light.
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Monday, September 03, 2007 10:42 AM

Geek talk - Soul searching

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