Chronicles of a Web Developer
Chronicles of a Web Developer is Chandra Chivukula's observations on subjects related to web software development
The new MSN.com on Microsoft Azure
A few months ago we shipped the redesigned and modernized MSN.com. This has been the most ambitious...
Author: cchiv Date: 05/22/2015
Unblocking a downloaded file on Windows 8
Recently I had to download some windows 8 consumer preview drivers for my Samsung Series 7 Slate....
Author: cchiv Date: 05/06/2012
Mobile Web development/debugging with Fiddler2
Recently I ran into a colleague who was looking for a way to quickly dev-debug an issue that was...
Author: cchiv Date: 01/25/2012
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Author: cchiv Date: 01/25/2012
New MSN Homepage for Mobile Devices Released
I am extremely happy today to note the latest release from my team – a brand new design of...
Author: cchiv Date: 01/19/2012
Transparent png issues in Windows Phone 7 landscape mode
While developing a widget for a mobile webpage, I ran into a strange performance issue with...
Author: cchiv Date: 07/05/2011
ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, WebMatrix, Orchard, etc released
Big news from Developer Division yesterday. Scott Guthrie announced the release of slew of tools –...
Author: cchiv Date: 01/14/2011
Behold the new MSN Homepage
The new MSN US homepage is now released to the world with a new design, new features and tweaks to...
Author: cchiv Date: 03/10/2010
Preview the new avatar of MSN.com (MSN Homepage)
I am very happy to note that the preview of the newly redesigned and revamped MSN Homepage...
Author: cchiv Date: 11/03/2009
Project Tuva
Project Tuva is a new initiative from Microsoft Research that brings together excellent lectures...
Author: cchiv Date: 07/15/2009
Excellent video presentation on - Building High Performance Web Applications and Sites
Head over to the Mix’09 videos to see an excellent video presentation by John Hrvatin on Building...
Author: cchiv Date: 06/04/2009
Microsoft Web Platform Installer - If you are a developer and you want to save some time…
If you are web developer using Microsoft stack, then you would probably know about the awesome...
Author: cchiv Date: 03/31/2009
Intellisense in XSLT
If you are using Visual Studio 2008 for XSLT development you will no doubt be familiar with the...
Author: cchiv Date: 03/20/2009
Debugging and Profiling XSLTs
In my day job I get to work on a lot of XSLTs consuming a variety of xml data formats and if you do...
Author: cchiv Date: 03/20/2009
Tools and technologies
A question a few of my friends have asked me is - what does building the homepages mean, and do I...
Author: cchiv Date: 03/10/2009
First post
This is the first post to my blog and I’d like to start off with some introduction to what I do in...
Author: cchiv Date: 03/10/2009