Category Archives: Tutorial

Developing Metro apps for Windows 8

Probably most of you would have seen the preview of Windows 8 – either at BUILD conference or online. For developers it’s time to start looking into what it takes to start developing Windows 8 applications. The apps would be … 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 – 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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