Vista's Virtual Folders

Rory clarifies [http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/15716.aspx], Vista [http://www.microsoft.com/vista]‘s Virtual Folders are not shortcuts (as symlinks) to file/folder locations but to saved searches.…

Digital Picture Recovery

Digital Picture Recovery [http://winutils.net/digital_picture.html] will recover lost, deleted and formatted digital pictures from media such as flash cards, memory sticks etc. [Thanks to Scott Hanselman [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,64f02df5-01b0-4fd9-82e4-56cbac349f7a.aspx] for sharing]…

E=mc^2

“To mark the one hundredth anniversary of Einstein’s famous equation, E=mc^2, NOVA has gone live this month with a Web site that features exclusive content and podcasts [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/] from ten of the worlds top physicists. “…

My gVisit'

I mentioned gVisit [http://www.gvisit.com] sometime back and finally got a visual visitor log for my blog’s setup. It’s cool to be able to see on a world map who has visited the blog, from where and at what time. Nifty! Here’s the gVisit map…

AJaX with SOA

Can Ajax be running partner of Web services? [http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1116318,00.html] Whether or not AJaX [http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php] and the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can coexist together is yet to be seen with the nature &…

Frustration

> Frustration is often a by-product of skewed expectations and one’s own inhibitions.…

String Enum

Is this a dirty hack or what? Implementing a class to replicate a string enumeration (as by-design enum is numeric only): public class RegLibUDFs { public static string CodeName = "AC"; public static string Version = "AV"; public static string Users = "AU"; public static string CompanyDB = "…

Calling Code Dynamically

I’ve never really fancied Interfaces. But its quite surprising to find out that Interfaces are faster [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp02172004.asp] for object reference and invocation, as compared to Delegates or .NET Reflection.…