Technical News and tips from My learning

How many people know about WinFX (though not in detail but on a overview)? I was not clear till i read Ian Moulster's blog. Moulster, discuss and explins indetail at this thread about WinFX. His tag line (Translating Microsoft Technology into plain English) suits best. Did you read this?

I can’t believe these statistics … There were about 75,000 new blogs per day, 1.2 Million new blog posts each which means a new blog created on ever second of the day and 50,000 posts an hour… !@#$ Source: Sifry

Problem: Write a query using the following table. The requirement is, result all the details " less than 20000" in ascending order and salary "greater than 20000" in descending order Name Salary Karthik 25000 Samuel 32000 John 17000 Murali 28000 Syam 15000 Output should be Name Salary Syam 15000 John 17000 Samuel 32000 Murali 28000 Karthik 25000 Query is: Select * From Order by (Case When Salary <= 20000 Then -Salary Else null end) DESC,(Case When Salary > 20000 Then -Salary Else null end)

Today, while reading about the patches for Teamsystem, came across of Rules to follow while conducting Scrum. This data found from Scrumforteamsuit product website. As the website says, this product is developed by Conchango in collaboration with Ken Schwaber and Microsoft. At this point of time, I need to mention about Ken Schwaber, Ken Schwaber co-developed the Scrum Process with Jeff Sutherland in the early 1990s. Visit Ken’s website to learn more on Scrum. Here are the guidelines or thumb rules during the scrum participation. Let me see, how this will work out for me. Hold the Daily Scrum in the same place at the same time every work day . The best time for the meeting is first thing in the day so that Team members think about what they did the day before and what they plan to do today . All Team members are required to attend . If for some reason a Team member can't attend in person, the absent member must either attend by telephone or by having another Team member rep

Today, while searching for information related to Phishing attacks , I came across of a white paper published by “ NGS (Next Generation Software)”. The whitepapers link has great information related to Security threats and the prevention mechanisms. Great research information at single location. Must have a copy in your library. I had one, did you?

Are you ready to secure your code? Well i'm ready and prepared to shoot out the threats to my code. Microsoft is conducting a contest for all the developers to prove their skills on securing code. I've registered to this contest, did you? Wish me all the best for the first round..

Today, i come across of an article Microsoft Patterns & Practices about the mentioned title. This article explains in details about developing webapps using ASP.NET in most secured way. Along with this, i also have come across of Installing SSL Certificate with IIS on Web Servers. Great Articles. Did you read them?

Do you want to check your IT Capabilities... Try this tool. The concept of this tool is from Keystone Strategy , but developed by Microsoft under the direction of a professor of Harvard Business School... All the big names came out with a small tool to help you to assess yourself before others do. Why are you waiting ... try out this and learn about your self.