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Our Mount Wilson Adventure is published! As a side note, as NEC is rapidly thriving and therefore we've out grown our space and had to move to a new cool new building. I've got a nice new bigger, better and uncut cubicle “Adnanotopia“ whose pictures I'll be posting soon.  

Couple of days ago, I and Rob were discussing merits and pitfalls of template based code generation in llbgen and codesmith. Also, that it's a fallacy code generation has become somewhat synonym to ORM (Object Relational Modelling) and ORM faces several challenges when it comes to support legacy systems. This reminded me of Kathleen Dollard, author of  “Code Generation…

Chris Rose, our former DBA and a friend mentioned yesterday the need of having to use SQL server reporting services subscription emails “WITHOUT Outlook and Exchange”. He suggested and I concur, there would be two ways to do it. 1. Configuring a Report Server for E-Mail Delivery Use the RSReportServer Configuration File and edit the SMTP…

Mark Fussell discusses the driving goals for the WSE 3.0 release, how security best practices have been incorporated by introducing "turnkey security scenarios" and the relationship between WSE 3.0 and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), the future Web Services platform from Microsoft.   Click here to read more/see the video

via Scobleizer referencing ZDNet’s George Ou Now that's a memory / CPU hog right there.

NASA's World Wild...really awesome .NET app. From their website.. “World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there...” Download  

It seems to me a clear violation of (SD3 + C) Secure by Design, Secure by Default, Secure in Deployment and Communications principle. The scary thing was, I could even reproduce it in IE 7.0 beta; not a firefox vulnerability of course (not that I'm a firefox fan but people!). Next time you have your…

My school's webct server is down due to hurricane Wilma; I'm hoping not to find it floating in the water after its gone. I wonder if I can get away with not submitting assignments and claiming that Wilma ate it, would it work? worth a shot I guess.

Murphy's First Law of Software Development: Every Software Engineer continues his state of chatting or forwarding  mails unless he is assigned work by manager. Murphy's Second Law of Software Development: The rate of change in the software is directly proportional to the payment received from client and takes place at the quick rate as when…