December 2005 - Posts

Foto Blogging Engine - F/Stop is RTM
29 December 05 02:41 AM | NagiBabu | 1 Comments   

Over the past several late nights, I've been working on a redistributable photo blogging engine - F/Stop . F/Stop is ASP.Net 2.0 C# based photo publisher with easy to use interface and painlessly manageable, upgradable runtime. The engine is completely Read More...

JDBC Drivers for Microsoft SQL Server 2005
27 December 05 09:42 PM | NagiBabu | 0 Comments   

In this short posting, I wanted to discuss two pieces of meat. One , the availability of the JDBC Drivers for SQL Server 2005 and how to get the bits, and Two , clear some of the confusion around the redist rights of the pre-release bits to your consumers. Read More...

Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism Division
27 December 05 08:42 PM | NagiBabu | 0 Comments   

The Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) Division at Microsoft is about taking the Microsoft Technology Adoption message to the Independant Software Vendors (ISVs), Developers and to "anybody-and-everybody-developer" community. Microsoft events such Read More...

Windows 2003 Server and hosting ASP.Net - "The page cannot be found" or "File or directory not found" Error
26 December 05 12:48 AM | NagiBabu | 0 Comments   

Problem: On a Windows 2003 Server hosting ASP.Net 2.0 (or 1.1), the ASP.Net pages don't work and fail with the "The page cannot be found" or "File or directory not found" Error. However, the .HTM pages work just fine. Introduction: Suppose you installed Read More...

Microsoft Internet Information Server 6.0, Windows 2003 and the HTTP Compression Feature
23 December 05 10:35 PM | NagiBabu | 1 Comments   

Microsoft Internet Information Server 6.0 packaged with Windows 2003 comes with HTTP Compression feature. When enabled on the server, this feature compresses web pages and the content within thereby allowing for faster transport and rendering of web pages Read More...

Nostalgic System Programming Books
20 December 05 08:50 PM | NagiBabu | 1 Comments   

My career in s/w development began way back in 1986 during my college days at Madras Christian College (MCC) while majoring in Zoology. My s/w programming started with Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ with ROM-BASIC - a home computer made popular by Dorling Kindersley. Read More...

Microsoft Office 2003 - Excel Subtotals issue - How-To-Fix
01 December 05 02:51 AM | NagiBabu | 1 Comments   

Problem When you create multilevel or nested data subtotals in Microsoft Excel 2002 or Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (with sp1), with subtotals set to appear in the rows that are above the data row, the sub totals appear in the incorrect order or stacked Read More...