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Be the Kiwi!

Possibly the best animation I've ever seen. "Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson " Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate." -Lord Byron 

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More Interesting Challenges in Spam and OCR

I’d never know who actually take their stock purchase advise from email messages which start with bunch of garbled text and inform you of insider information about price sky rocketing next week. Regardless of its financial significance or lack of it, this has increased the job for anti-spam tools since now it’s not about text…

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Waterfall 2006

I’m sure I’m the last one to hear about it, but if you are an agile or XP methodology fan or at least have some pet peeves about traditional act-of-congress methodologies, Waterfall 2006 is a must see conference website. With session titles like “Put Testing Where It Belongs--At the End”, “The Joy of Silence: Cube…

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DevConnections Wrap-ups Etcetera

Courtesy of Paul Mooney “Scott Guthrie gave an 8 AM talk on ASP.Net AJAX at DevConnections, in case you missed it I got it recorded.” Click here to see it. Dan Wahlin’s sessions were also recorded. Video: ASP.NET AJAX, XML and Web Services (with a little Virtual Earth) Video: Minimize Code with TableAdapters and Strongly-Typed…

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DevConnections Conference - Day 4

Post Conference Session - Mastering WCF in a Day “Plumbing is evil. Developers are inherently disadvantages by plumbing. ” -Juval Lowy Juval Löwy is the founder of IDesign and a seasoned software architect specializing in system architecture and large applications design. He is the author of Programming .NET Components and upcoming Programming WCF Services. As…

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DevConnections Conference - Day 3

Thursday was the last day of the conference, tiring but enlightening nevertheless. We however had one more day of Post Conf. session before we could head home. Following are the chronicles of the last day of the conference. Implement a Data Access Layer with the Visual Studio 2005 Dataset Designer Brian Noyes Brian Noyes is…

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DevConnections Conference – Day 2

One of the reason I like devConnections, or any other good tech conference for that matter, is inspiration. You see all these intelligent, motivated and driven folks around you working on a wide variety of interesting problems, trying to find the most efficient solutions, evaluating newest technology and being enthusiastic about it. This, I believe,…

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DevConnections Conference – Day 1

Tuesday was quite a busy day, sessions after sessions, too many things to learn and too little time. The day started with Scott Guthrie’s keynote session on ASP.NET AJAX which was basically a high level demo of what Scott later discussed in his other presentations. Following is the order in which I attended the sessions…

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