Happy New Year to Everybody, 2005 comes with loads of Holidays and tons of work.
!! ENJOY BOTH !!

May this new year gives you.....

Independence of Java
Power of UNIX
Popularity of Windows
Extensibility of J2EE
Luxury of .Net
Efficiency of C
Ease of VB
Robustness of Oracle
Vision of UML
Simplicity of HTML
Style of Mac
Dexterity of Photoshop
Enormity of 3D Max
Vastness of Internet
Compactness of JPG
Richness of BMP
Coverage as Yahoo
Reach of Google
Prudence of Froogle
Security of Norton & McAfee
Intelligence of Unreal
Realism of Max Payne
Speed of NFS
Fun of RoadRash
Intelligence of Chessmaster
 

And the goodness of all software
that comes for free
for Ctrl+C - Ctrl+V Professionals

more to come.....

Little busy with, recently started implementing Passport flexible co-branding. Just writing up a component for reading co-branding settings from .XML file and produce co-branding html for Passport website.

So, soon you can expect some code / if possible the component too. Would like to get some relevant feedback/ideas surrounding how easy it could be implementing Passport Co-branding for any site.

Calling all the grey cells;

Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor
without cracking it?

Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how
long would it take four men to build it?

Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand
and four apples and three oranges in the other hand,
what would you have?

Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?

Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?

Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it
will become?

Q. What looks like half apple?

Q. What can you never eat for breakfast?

Q. What happened when wheel was invented?

Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?

Answers for the above:
Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor
without cracking it?
A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC
Topper)

Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how
long would it take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23rd Rank
Opted for IFS)

Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand
and four apples and three oranges in the other hand,
what would you have?
A. Very large hands. (Good one) (UPSC 11th Rank Opted
for IPS)

Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find an
elephant with >one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)

Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs, He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)

Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it
will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS
Rank 2)

Q. What looks like half apple?
A. The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper)

Q. What can you never eat for breakfast?
A. Dinner.

Q. What happened when wheel was invented?
A. It caused a revolution.

Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A. Liquid. (UPSC 33Rank)

Really Smart Isn't it ??

Introduction:

There are basically two types of variables in Common Type System ?

1) Value Type - Get Stored on Stack Memory.
2) Reference Type - Get Stored on Managed Heap Memory

How this Works?
Value types get stored on stack and shared the same process memory, however the Reference Types get stored on Heap and their memory address value gets stored on the stack as value type.

Question: When an object (child Object) is instantiated inside an object (parent Object) where does it get stored?
Answer: The value of child object (Reference type) gets stored in another random memory area on the managed heap and its reference (memory address value) gets stored in the managed heap of the Parent Object as Value Type.

The value of child object (Value type) gets stored in the Parent object's memory area of the managed heap.

For Example:

Module Module1 'Main Entry
    Sub Main()
        Dim i As Integer = 50
        Dim objA As classA = New ClassA
        Dim j As Integer = 25
    End Sub
End Module

Public Class ClassA 'Parent Class
    Dim obj As New ClassB
    Dim MoreInfo As String = "sample" 
End Class 

Public Class ClassB 'Child Class
    Public name As String
    Public age As Integer 
End Class

As you can determine from the figure, that value of the ObjA gets stored in the Managed Heap and its memory address value gets stored on the Stack. But, in case of ObjB the value of the ObjB gets stored at another location in the Managed Heap and the memory address value of this location gets stored as a value type in ObjA Managed Heap.

First post in my new category "Saurabh's Believe It Or Not !!"

[Image courtesy Manalang via the amazing We Make Money Not Art]

Once upon a time, in the era 1950's.....

"Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a “home computer” could look like in year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use and only..." [truncated]

Hope u enjoy this....

Something for VB.NET guys and I am sure they will love it. Microsoft has released some 101 short movies for VB.NET Developers to help them enjoy VB.NET more...

Some posters:

[Pictures from http://msdn.microsoft.com]

Exciting enough !! Interested in knowing the URL:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies/default.aspx

Yesterday, my friend Anil told something about SPOT watches, whatever he said was quite interesting and exiciting. So, I thought of sharing my KB on the same.

What is SPOT?
SPOT turns for Smart Personal Object Technology. I am quite sure that couple of people must be aware of SPOT - again an Microsoft Initiative :)  for making daily use objects turned into smart devices, simply by embedding smarted software to it, i.e. Wrist Watch is one among them.

"Smart Personal Objects are everyday objects, such as clocks, pens, key-chains and billfolds, that are made smarter, more personalized and more useful through the use of special software. These everyday objects already exist in huge numbers, and, of course, all of them already have primary functions that people find valuable. So our goal is simply to improve on these core functions to make these new, smarter objects that are not just useful but indispensable." - Bill Mitchell, General Manager, Microsoft Personal Objects Group http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2002/nov02/11-17SPOT.asp

How this magic works?
SPOT enabled watches uses DirectBand - a service provider. Direct Band use radio waves to send information, the dataflow is one way. When information is sent (using radio waves),  is catched by the receiver listening at that frequency. Each Information type like news, weather info are sent at different frequencies. SPOT enabled devices receives the frequency and saves the info in the memory of the device. This info is then displayed to the screen and updated at regular intervals.

Exicited to see an SPOT Watch:

read more about these at http://www.windowsfordevices.com/articles/AT6914689493.html