6/20/2009 Windows 7 - Download status straight on your taskbar button

Posted at: 6/20/2009 at 7:10 PM by saravana
This is neat! while downloading some large content this morning I've noticed the following scene in my taskbar : Download status showing directly on the taskbar button.
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4/4/2009 How does your blog look inside a blog reader?

Posted at: 4/4/2009 at 3:35 PM by saravana
I think its important the blog authors subscribe to their own blog to see how it looks inside a blog reader. If your blog looks like this inside a reader, then you are most likely throwing away some of your readers. Having a "read more" link at the end and only giving snippet of source in your feed is well and good for high volume feeds like bbc news, msdn articles, google news, etc where its more likely you'll get tons of articles every few hours. But for a personal blog, with maximum 1 or 2 ... [More]
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3/8/2009 Windows 7 - error while trying to activate windows and Windows Update

Posted at: 3/8/2009 at 10:22 PM by saravana
Today I took the plunge and installed Windows 7 beta on my main laptop (its a MacBook by the way). Previously it was running windows Vista 32 bit via boot camp. The upgrade was very smooth without any manual intervention. After starting the install selecting the country and keyboard layout there was no human intervention. After the installation, there were few alerts telling McAfee is not compatible with Windows 7 and there are some known issues. Apart from that everything seems fine. I trie... [More]
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10/2/2008 .NET Framework 4.0 and "Dublin"

Posted at: 10/2/2008 at 8:08 AM by saravana
As an MVP I've been involved in series of web conferences and SDR (Software design reviews) related to "Dublin". As Darren mentioned here, the news came bit earlier than expected. It is more exciting time for people involved in Connected system development (Windows Communication[WCF] and Windows Workflow[WF]). I believe release of Dublin will take us to the next step, much closer to building enterprise scale applications using WCF/WF. Even though WCF got a rich hosting model, due... [More]
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8/28/2008 Blog Migration - blog engine change, URL change, hosting provider change and Face lift.

Posted at: 8/28/2008 at 11:58 AM by saravana
Below table summarizes the undergone changes. The objective is NOT to cause any disruption to blog readers(subscribers), try to preserve the search engine ranking and migrate the URL to new home safely.  Its not a trivial task, so I took some time to put this article, so that it can help few people out there. Even though this article is focused from blogger.com to blogengine.net, majority of the concepts will apply to any blog migration. Task From To Engine http://www.Blogger.com BlogEn... [More]
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8/11/2008 Print Screen on MacBook - BootCamp

Posted at: 8/11/2008 at 11:40 AM by saravana
I became a full time user of MacBook running Windows Vista using BootCamp (Version 2.0) for a while now. One of the issue I came across recently is trying to find out the equivalent of "print screen" Key, I don't need to emphasis on the importance of this. According to the document, its just F11 for print screen and "Option-F11" for active window.   There are couple of issues: 1. F11 is a volume control key by default and you need to press Fn ... [More]
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7/18/2008 Our first UK SOA/BPM User Group Meeting

Posted at: 7/18/2008 at 11:19 AM by saravana
Last night we had our first UK SOA/BPM user group meeting held at Microsoft office in London Victoria. Thanks goes to Jonathan Woodward, Michael Stephenson , Andy James for organising this. It was a good turn around for the first meeting, around 30 people. It's good to get in touch with some of the folks you have only known in the online world.  I think its very healthy knowledgeable crowd, with fellow MVP's (Yossi Dahan, Santosh Benjamin, Robert Hogg), few people from Connect Sys... [More]
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6/30/2008 Any recommendation for Windows 2003-ASP .NET hosting?

Posted at: 6/30/2008 at 11:00 AM by saravana
Hi All, In the past few months I been hit with so many technical problems running biztalk 24 * 7.com. I'm currently with 1and1 for my hosting, I been with them for past few years now. Everything is well and good until you hit a problem, but once you got some you are in real trouble. In my past few months experience I never got a single issue solved by their technical team (this is just my experience). At last I decided to take the plunge and move to a different hosting comp... [More]
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10/23/2007 Off to Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference

Posted at: 10/23/2007 at 2:00 PM by saravana
I'm going to Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference running between Oct 29th to Nov 2nd. To make most out of my trip (going to spend 13hrs each way in flight) I decided to attend the 2 days pre-conference session by PluralSight presented by Matt Milner, Jon Flanders and Aaron Skonnard. On the second day of the conference I'm hosting a round table session at "Ask the Expert (ATE)" reception, to cover the topic  "BizTalk Overview". Hope t... [More]
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6/21/2007 please ignore - posted for Technorati claim

Posted at: 6/21/2007 at 10:12 AM by saravana
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