Category: Generic

A Practical SOA Book with Actionable Architectural Guidance Beside Web 2.0 and AJAX, Service Oriented Architecture is most probably among the top ten tech buzz words of this year and can also be regarded as the term with most diverse array of definitions or the most misunderstood concept. Currently there are several books available in…

Interesting to see how IE 7.0 considers its own Microsoft virtual labs as phishing website. The runner up is ACM (Association of Computing Machines) portal which spits out the entire SQL statement exposing the data structure. Rob pointed this to me; amazon.com was down a while back for at least over half an hour. As…

My recent article on "Naive Bayesian Classification Using C# and ASP.NET" is published in ASP.NET Pro magazine. No, the picture on the cover is not me. 

S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, describes the decision to rename WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0.

"From where I sit, Ruby has the language thought leadership position and is the competitor I hope AndersH is losing the most sleep over nowadays" Don Box - Gosling on Ruby This month's DDJ issue shares the similar thought in its article "Ruby On Rails" subtitled  "It makes development fast, agile manageable" I'm not sure…

This Method will call any phone number in the US/Canada and read the TextToSay to that phone number using the voice of Diane (voiceid: 0). PhoneNumberToDial must be filled in (They can be in any format as long as there is 10 digits). Just called my cell and heard the bot saying the message along…

When started using Antlr this semester, I had to go through a learning curve to use C# as Antlr's generated language. Following is a step by step guide I came up with for anyone interested in using Antlr with C#/Visual Studio.NET. Happy Antlr'ing. Antlr_C_Sharp_code_generation_using_Visual_Studio.NET.pdf (102.82 KB)

Beside the slick look and tabbed browsing, two of the best features I like about IE 7 is its RSS feeds handling and website thumbnails.The clean and well organized RSS aggregator is much better from usability prospect than anything I've tried before. Import your OPML's and try it out for yourself. The website thumbnail view…

Thanks to my director, Andrea Kim, I've been able to upgrade from my old rickety Dell Latitude D800 to flashy mobile Latitude D610. With a 2Ghz/1.32 Bus, 2G Ram/80G HDD, it's a decent developer machine. The only down side was abandoning the wide screen so I made up by putting a 17 inch LCD next to…

With Firefox and Google personalized homepage as defaults, this morning I encountered a CAPTCHA challenge response upon opening the web browser. A page with CAPTCHA stated. "A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected.”It was so not Google-like that I had…