Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
This blog title is surely oxymoron-ish but hold your opinions before you read it completely! If you are a .NET developer and have 1. Tried building Java Apps for interop/proof of concept/fun/prototyping and the weird class paths have repeatedly failed you.2. Tried eclipse and netbeans and were scared of their bloat/complexity/usability!3. Given up on the…
As I was driving down to work this morning trying to catch up on .NET Rocks, I started listening to ASP.NET Scalability Panel Tech-Ed 2007 show. This is an excellent panel discussion; highly recommended to anyone who writes an ASP.NET web application. The panelists include Stephen Forte, Kent Alstad and Rob Howard who talked about…
Following are some of the interesting quotes from Dot Net Rock’s infamous Richard Campbell’s SQL Query optimization session at code camp; Excellent talk, informative and entertaining. And yes, he is officially the 5th person who laughed at the autobahn joke, that’s pre-explanation! Heisenberg uncertainty principle of SQL profiler “If you have measured it, you just…
“The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance. It is designed to help you quickly and consistently construct WCF and ASMX Web services that adhere to well known architecture and design patterns.” - Excerpt from MSDN, Web Services Software factory…
Just finished watching "The World's Fastest Indian" and loved the quote."It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust…
Dawn is Pakistan's Largest and most widely circulated English language newspaper. With excellent reporting and contents, this is one of my many reads as a self proclaimed news junkie. Oddly enough, for some reason they never published an RSS feed for the paper so I (and I'm sure other readers) had no way of reading…
A very cool tool, Gapminder is defined as "taking information that’s “dry as dust” and making it visible through animation. Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics!" http://tools.google.com/gapminder/ GapMinder - Google Tech Talk Google has a knack for statistics so they bought it. A list of what Google bought in the past…
Haiku goes Two interesting introsto web 2.0 and SOAthe youtube way. Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us What is Service Oriented Architecture SOA?
To the Visual Studio.NET 2003 integration with Perforce - The Catastrophic Failure
I don’t know about you folks but my memory is quite lousy. At the ripe age of 26, it’s not as good as its use to be and hence I usually end up looking things up like when trying to use Log4NET. My favorite destination is either the Apache website or Nauman’s article on Log4NET.…