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Yahoo plans to shudown couple of services !!!

As yahoo plans to shut down couple of services, people have started migrating their data from yahoo. In a news statement, Yahoo mentioned that it will be turning off the following services: 1. Delicious – the famous social bookmarking website … Continue reading

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Save paper by adopting to WWF

You must have read at the end of various emails “Please  think before you print this email”. But many of go ahead and just print them. Every paper you print costs a tree somewhere in the world. To protect the … Continue reading

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Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Released

It would be a partial relief for thousands of developers who have been experiencing problems with Visual Studio 2010. The Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has been released for public now. The reason I am saying that it is a partial … Continue reading

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Microsoft to Show Off Windows 7 Slider Tablet at CES

Steve Ballmer, Mircosoft’s CEO, will be demonstrating tablet PC running Windows 7. The New York Times reported this in a blog post. The Times didn’t name its source, but the person described the Samsung slate device as “similar in size … Continue reading

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jQuery – Huge size of calendar widget

Most of you must be aware of jQuery – a Javascript framework. jQuery has an plugin for the UIs – jQueryUI. When you see the Demos on jQueryUI.com the calendar looks so elelgant and right sized. But when you download … Continue reading

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SQL Server – Denali – The next version of SQL Server

Microsoft has recently announced the next version of SQL Server 2011. The code name for the product is ‘Denali‘ . The CTP1 for Denali is available for the download here. With SQL Server code-named ‘Denali’ customers will benefit from the … Continue reading

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SQL Server – Getting Today’s Date only

It is quite common that you want to extract todays’ date component only in sql. The most obvious approach to do is use GETDATE(). This returns today’s date and time. To just get the date component use this select CONVERT(datetime, … Continue reading

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Windows Phone 7 now available in US

Windows Phone 7 is now available at AT&T and T-Mobile retailers across the United States. The launch was on Nov 8, 2010. The app market already has more than 2000 apps and games. Lets see if Windows Phone 7 can … Continue reading

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Consuming webservices/website running on development machine from Android Emulator

It is quite common to develop a webservice/website and test it on the same machine. The same can be tested and viewed through localhost. But in the android emulator localhost doesn’t work. To access the development machine, use 10.0.2.2 Hope … Continue reading

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Creating WCF RESTful services

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) a part of the dot NET framework which allows you to easily create webservices. Couple of years back, SOAP based services gained lot of popularity and soon became the de facto standard in the industry. But … Continue reading

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