TechEd India

I’ve just received an e-mail from the Microsoft .NET Delhi User Group regarding the Tech Ed India 2004 registration offer. The registration fees is Rs. 6000 (=USD 130) per person, but as a special offer you only need to pay Rs. 4000 (=USD 85) if you participate in…

J2EE vs .NET Web Services

The whitepaper J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET – A comparison of building XML-based web services is now online at TSS. The conclusions seem quite interesting, which also talk about the arguments for, against and supporting both platforms.…

MSN Newsbot

Is the MSN Newsbot a Google News ripoff or an “innovative” competitor? I still like the simplicity and effectiveness of Google News. It does what it says – dynamically serve up-to-date news. Probably the only thing missing with Google News is a RSS/Atom feed.…

More Acquisitions

Google acquires Picasa (a digital imaging solutions) and Microsoft acquires Lookout (a e-mail search solution).…

BPO Buzz

Where in India are most BPO companies situated? Take the BPO Quiz and find out the facts.…

Signal-to-Noise #9

dotText pre-0.96 – Two new features (among others), Search and ScheduledEvents,?in dotText (pre-0.96) that I’ll be?going through?for sure to learn more on the implementation and design. From Scott’s blog: “ScheduledEvents is a?simple API for scheduling a recurring event (or…

Signal-to-Noise #6

Sample chapters (Part 1 and Part 2) from O’Reilly’s ADO.NET Cookbook Ted Neward shares his thoughts on the talk Joel Spolsky gave on “Designing Applications With The User in Mind” at UCDavis Microsoft Interview Questions by Chris Sells. [via Jason Salas] New article…

Signal-to-Noise #5

The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog Now we?know a little more about “Microsoft Venus” (i.e. ASP.NET 2.0). Matisse 6: The Ultimate .NET Database (PDF). There’s?even a?new .Text DbProvider available for Matisse database. I wonder if any web hosts support Matisse as yet…