My current status is something like this:
3 Companies, 5 Department, 20 people involved (directly), and only one developer (me)
The above paragraph speaks for itself. Meanwhile I am trying to apply somewhere for my Ph.D.
Any Idea?
There are a bunch of case studies, selected by Nicholas Allen in his blog, about implementation of project using WCF technology. Check them out and get lots of ideas… [Here]
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As these days everyone is talking about this Google Wave thingy, I thought to start checking what it is really are. I got familiar with this platform firstly in one of Google IO 2009 videos where the team involved with this project introduced that. Well, nothing to hide and I should say that it created a Wow at that time but the same time I told myself isn’t it a little hard to work with?
Well it seems I was right at the moment. Robert Scoble called it overhyped and a too noisy product that brings un-productivity. He mentioned that it has the problems of IM and email together [Read here]. It is obvious from his review that he chooses twitter and friendfeed over Google Wave for mass real time communications. Also Louis Gray, wrote a great review about the service that is worth reading (you can see complexity there) [Read here].
Also Check Ray Ozzie comments about it and how he compares Live Mesh and Google Wave. He argues that [Read here]:
"if you have something that by its very nature...is very complex with many roles and the way you configure it...then you need open source to have many instances of it because no one will be able to do an independent implementation of it"
In my own view as a developer, Google Wave is going to be a good platform for me to develop real time applications but with one hiccup! I really don’t like the API they provide when I compare it to the Live Mesh API as a replacement option. I think we should wait for future updates.
Personally, If one day I have a chance to talk to someone in Microsoft, I prefer to have a chat with Ray Ozzie or Scott Gu but I cannot hide how impressed I am after reading part three of Techcrunch interview with Steve Ballmer.
Just interested in how beautifully he managed to describe competitive market of OS, Mobile, and of course browsers. The golden quotations are:
Chrome is a rounding error to date. Safari is a rounding error to date. But Firefox is not.
In the OS business, it’s generally advisable to get it right and stay right as opposed to have many of them.
Netbooks are just the first battleground.
You can read the interview here.
Today for the first time I configured the box to use GSA authentication for serving the secured data. Previously our customer used NTLM for authentication.
While I was configuring the section under Administration->LDAP setup I encountered a weird exception. It raised a “javax.naming.authenticationexception” with the error code of 49. After some Googling I finally found out that instead of a loooong Distinguished Name (DN) like
uid=username,ou=op1,dc=ld,dc=corp,dc=com
we should use it in a email address format as follow:
username@ld.corp.com
where ld.corp.com is the LDAP server address.
Enjoy.
Bing has just released a new service that is based on Silverlight called Visual Search. In this way, you can search based on predefined pictorial categories such as celebrities, politicians, animals, etc. Previously I saw a similar application in Google IO videos called Google Squared but as far as I feel Bing VS is more slicker.
Btw, the predefined categories will be expanded in near future.
Try it out and Enjoy.
Last week, I was ordered to develop some kind of reporting tool for our web front application. First of all we chose to use Microsoft Office Interop library “interop.word” for word output. The aim of this post is to inform you that please do not go after that because simply it sucks!
It takes me 3 days to create a two page document. After all something horrible happened! If your document (in my case number of rows of a table) is a little large, it takes a lot of time to be generated, and it passes the timeout of your ASP.net application and finally ended up by an timeout error.
If you want word output simply use some third party libraries. In my case, I chose to generate PDF output, and I shift to PDFSharp library. It is amazingly fast and easy to use. I developed the same report in 5 hours (including reviewing the library documentation). Try it once, you will be the fan ;)
btw, its completely free…
Today, I was headed to an interesting article about comparison of performance in ASP.net and PHP in both Linux and Windows environment. I think you will find it interesting.
You can check the results in his personal blog. The study seems to be unbiased although he is an MSFT guy…
P.S: I am an ASP.net developer, so I only see good points about ASP.net (unfortunately)
A suggestion from a friend… We propose Google to change the name of Google Search Appliance with Google Cheese… Hence the similarity of the box with a yellowish bar of cheese! :D
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After an unsuccessful try to clean up my mail-box, hopefully, I found a cool GSA, and perhaps the first one, TV ads. I think you guys and gals will like it.
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