Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Seth Godin blogged couple of days ago titled "Failure, success and neither" It was so well said that I am compelled to quote it hear with all due credits. The math is magical: you can pile up lots of failures and still keep rolling, but you only need one juicy success to build a career.…
Hello World. I am migrating my blog over; stay tuned and I apologize for the inconvenience. [Update] The blog migration has completed. Thanks to the wordpress import module by Rob Walling, Aaron Lerch and Kavinda Munasinghe and the dasblog spam/trackback scrubbing tool by Richard Hundhausen. For the BlogML to WordPress import module. you would need to…
Update: This meeting was canceled due to weather conditions in Monrovia. This is now rescheduled to Wed 17th Feb. Tomorrow Jan 20th, our user group will be hosting an evening with Jon Flanders who will be speaking about Windows Server AppFabric and Velocity Project. He is an amazing speaker and a developer extraordinaire so if…
During my recent Borders’s-browsing, I came across Richard Monson-Haefel’s book, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know with the tag line, “Collective Wisdom from the Experts”. The book is interesting and even though it falls short in providing details, gives a good overview of architectural principles. Mind you, this is not a book with case…
Helpful links in getting MVC to work on IIS 5.0 Using ASP.NET MVC on IIS 5 http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/dorony/archive/2007/12/15/using-asp-net-mvc-on-iis-5.aspx and if you encounter the same error as I did ASP.NET 2.0 Application on IIS 5 Resulting in Error (aspnet_wp.exe (PID: XXXX) stopped unexpectedly.) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233478/asp-net-2-0-application-on-iis-5-resulting-in-error-aspnetwp-exe-pid-xxxx-s
Last night I spoke to Orange County SQL user group on SQL Azure, Microsoft’s cloud based relational database. SQL Azure, dubbed as re-launch of SQL Data Services (SDS) (and later SQL Services) is a cloud-based service from Microsoft offering data storage capabilities for Azure Services Platform. In the talk I discussed the challenges of putting…
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me this question, I would have enough money to buy Trevor Hastie's The Elements of Statistical Learning Second Edition :). Anyways, here is a good explanation from Algorithm's of the intelligent web on what is so naïve about naïve Bayesian? "This is the calculation of…
ACO, a multidisciplinary PhD Program in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will be streaming live lectures by four prominent computer scientists. Live web streaming available at no charge. Theory Day Celebrating 50th Anniversary of Foundations of Computer Science and 20th Anniversary of the ACO Program at Georgia Tech Held in…
Paul Sheriff will be speaking to our user group Wednesday night on Debugging tips and tricks. With his interactive and easy to understand presentation style, his sessions are highly recommended. Details below. Debugging Tips & Tricks with Paul Sheriff Wed 21st Oct 2009 Abstract: If you have not really dug into the VS.NET debugger, then…
Tomorrow I will be speaking to the Southbay.NET users group in Torrance. Following is the abstract of my talk. For details and directions, please see the link below. Web Application Testing using WATIN Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 6:30 PM Web application testing is a tough task especially in the ASP.NET web forms environment where…