Is the message when you wear your earphones of your zune/ipod/iphone. Its kinda isolates you from the outer world because you are busy. As our culture get modernized we are losing human integration between us. I went to grocery store the other day and...

Last week I needed to implement a little complex data structure for our last project. I needed to keep keys in a hashtable like structure for fast access but I also needed a queue structure to remove LRU item since the size in the memory is limited. For...

It is always a good time to write a blog if your source code access permission expires and you wait for someone to approve your request. Since I couldn’t find a good example how to do this and spend some time this thing deserves its blog post. What I...

I am sure you heard about this interview question “a king wants to send a locked box to another king but he must use a pirate as a carrier, how can he make sure the pirate cannot open the box without breaking it". The correct solution is to use a public...

A- I want to be a dev lead or at least I want to try out leadership B- good for you. A- the only problem is I don’t have enough experience to start with B- maybe you should ask your lead for a project you can act as lead. A- I already asked...

Using Cryptographic Service providers is the way to implement PKI on PCs and we are using it for our project. Lately I needed to remove some ACLs for an upgrade scenario. I searched the msdn for related info but couldn’t find a direct API to change ACLs...

Since I have time during my vacation, I wanted to spend some fun time with my laptop solving Mathematical/computer programming problems. I found Project Euler website while checking del.icio.us popular bookmarks about algorithms . The first problem I...

I recently worked on an issue to enable ds mapper usage for our web service to enable x509 authentication. Here is a sample c# code to make this binding change for IIS7 using .NET 3.0. ServerManager srvMgr = new ServerManager(); Site DefaultSite =...

A few days ago I was working on a bug, I prepared the fix tested it then I found a nicer way of doing something and changed the fix again then tested it but I realized I forgot a “not” (! In c#) which spoil the code terribly. One character. So as an engineer...

I was recently assigned a bug where our product was not working with named instances of SQL server. The problem was my app can connect to default instance of a SQL server but when I tried to connect to a named instance I got generic could not connect...