Convention over Configuration

I have done this over the years without realizing it has a name!!

I had this philosophy that by default the application works on
developer machine just by getting the latest version of the code.

Only in deployment it needs configuration.

CoC just means that you don't have to configure if you follow the
default convention which the application is built for.

Nice to know this has a name!!

why not to use website project in vs2008/2005

In some cases, there is no choice, because of the huge number of files
in the web project, but one problem with the website project is the
amount of time taken to build it...

Too painful and long...

Improve wifi performance and get faster Internet speed on many devices

I have a wired linksys router at home for desktops and a separate
belkin wireless N router for all other devices.

If there are many wifi networks in the area, switch on protected mode
to improve performance and make it pass through so that the wifi
router only acts as a pass through and leaves routing and DNS
functions to the wired router.

Netgear does not have an easy way to do this, though belkin has. This
router works very well.

There are so many tech jobs out there... Where are the Americans?

They say that h1b holders take away American jobs. Take a look at the job sites and you see so many jobs all of which are exclusively for American citizens or green card holders.

They remain open for months. So, where are the American citizens whose jobs h1b guys have taken away?

Why are they not filling up these positions?

It is a lose - lose proposition. The truth is nobody is able to fill up these jobs....

RadGrid get_masterTableView() method returns null?

I faced the problem, the resolution is to put an empty function within
the OnCommand client side event declaration.

This is why I like Infragistics better - no weird suprises which are
not documented.

Got laid off today....

The recession finally caught up with me!!

Unfortunately, this means ads on the todayamerican website!!

VMWare Fusion is Beautiful...

I really appreciate the fact that it works very, very well.

Very, very fast. My XP VM is so fast, I cannot believe I am using a VM!

My mac just has a 2.0 GHz processor...

iPhone 3GS does make some difference

I was at the apple store today to upgrade my MacBook to 4GB RAM, I felt that better than to upgrade the HDD and install windows using bootcamp. It is too difficult to restart the machine just to use windows. With extra RAM and vmware fusion which works very well & fast, I can think about a HDD upgrade when I really run out of space...

The Mac works even more fluid with the extra RAM. Anyways, I digress...

I checked out the 3GS at the store and surprisingly found it did not even have any indication of being 3GS from looking anywhere in the shell.

Checked out the compass, nothing gr8

What I really liked though was the extreme fluidity of the entire software. Too smooth, too agile, too good.
Makes you really wonder whether you should get it.

The "pain" points using the iPhone are the slight lags everywhere which you think are inevitable. It is extremely nice to see a UI which is so fluid & fast. It does not seem slow at any area.

I did play video also which gave the same feeling. I really think we should wait for the next year. If it's gets faster than even this, it will be amazing. I have many email accounts. It will be great to get all the speed I can get.

The best windows OS

I have used almost all windows OS's from Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP Pro,
XP Pro x64, Win Vista & Win 7

My favorite OS is Win 95. I really liked it, every OS which came after
that was not as good untill XP Pro SP2, and now SP3.

Win Vista may seem OK if you use it for a long time, but after
installing Win 7 RC, I realized that Vista is the Beta OS, and not Win
7.

Summarizing, Win XP is the best OS which MS has ever made. It is sad
that they stopped working on it, when it clearly is a very stable OS
without flashy stuff which makes it crashy.

Try using office 2007 in vista or win 7, it sucks. It works best in
Win XP - surprising!!

I don't know how long it will take win 7 to be like win XP - as in
stable and usable and fast.

vmware fusion is better than parallels

I needed to install windows on my macbook for presentations & demos. I
have used parallels before and did not like it as it is slow and a bit
confusing. I used vmware fusion in my previous job, and so I decided
to install it on my macbook. I like it better because it is simple
without too many features, works well and is fast.

It is definitely more usable.

Is web objects like Howard Roark?

It is sad that it got overtaken by late comers like .net & asp even
thoughit was much ahead of time. It seems to have been among the very
first web development programs, killed first by pricing, and later got
too late. Unfortunately MS dominates the OS world, and they have got
too boring with time. Used to be a PC until I got tired of slow &
crashing machines.

The Gunnar Optics Computer Specs Work!!

I got one with my prescription, and I am using it right now. Definitely, there is some difference using this specs which I have not found with any other glasses. I am going to test this a lot in the coming days.