CoDe Magazine, a well known online magazine for .net architects, designers, developers, celebrating its Anniversary on completing 5 years. I am glad to listen that CoDe magazine has now become a proud supporter of .NetFoundry. For user group members CoDe magazine is providing its issues on discounted rates.

Anniversary Celebration Offer *Free 5 Years of CoDe on CD! Plus...Subscribe Now and Save $10

User Group CD offer: http://www.code-magazine.com/subscription.aspx?ref=ugrpcdoffer

Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work.

Practice is when something works, but you don't know why.

Developers combine theory and practice:  

Nothing works and they don't know why

Father: I want you to marry a girl of my choice

Son: "I will choose my own bride!"

Father: "But the girl is Bill Gate’s daughter."

Son: "Well, in that case...ok” Next Father Approaches Bill Gates.

Father: "I have a husband for your daughter."

Bill Gates: "But my daughter is too young to marry!"

Father: "But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank."

Bill Gates: "Ah, in that case...ok" Finally Father goes to see the president of the World Bank.

Father: "I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president."

President: "But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!"

Father: "But this young man is Bill Gate’s son-in-law."

President: "Ah, in that case...ok" This is how business is done!!

Newton's Method:
Let, the lion catch you. For every action there is equal and opposite reaction. Implies you caught lion.

Einstein Method:
Run in the direction opposite to that of the lion. Due to higher relative velocity, the lion will also run faster and will get tired soon. Now you can trap it easily.

Software Engineer Method:
Catch a cat and claim that your testing has proven that its a Lion. If anyone comes back with issues tell that you will upgrade it to Lion.

Cheers,

~Danish Sami

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Notification is something which I like the most, believe me it's more then a alarming feature, and truely it is. Whether you like to be aware of when your disk space reaches to a amount or you want to know when a row get updated either in the form of email or report. Surprisingly the information could be in the form of XML which you could later render on the device with the suitable style sheet. For administrators the Management Tool is a choice to configure the Notification Services. Here absolutely we are not forgetting the devlepors who play the most important role in writing up the Notification Contents using SQL and XML.

Your questions are most welcome and will be glad to anwer and to solve them.

Enjoy will come up something more on this.

~Danish Sami

Microsoft Middle East Developer Conference 2006

Location: Cairo Internation Conference Center, Egypt.

When: 5th - 8th Feb'06

MDC 2006 is the biggest Developers' Conference of the year in the Middle East, and is a critical event for any developer who wants to see the newest as well as the next-generation technology. MDC06 is full of sessions and activities that help you learn the current and future of the Microsoft platform and get to know people who are as passionate about software as you are.

Home: MDC 2006

Agenda: Agenda

Detail Agenda: Agenda 

Speakers: Speakers

I am really missing the event cause no flights were available, but I will update here all the sessions and presentations.

:-(  what to do

Download an updated version of Books Online for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, the primary documentation for SQL Server 2005.

Related link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx

Enjoy

ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2005-135.pdf

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talks to Computing

Bill Gates reflects on Microsoft’s past and future plans, in an exclusive two-part interview looking back on Microsoft’s 30 years.

Tell me where I am going to die, so I will be sure not to go there."

Technorati Profile

Breaking changes are changes in either the .NET Framework (runtime breaking changes) or Visual Studio (design/compile/project upgrade) that make certain application and development scenarios behave differently from the version 1.0 and 1.1 .NET Frameworks to the 2.0 version. Read more http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/programming/breakingchanges/default.aspx

Cheers,

~Danish Sami

Frequently Asked Questions

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/faq/default.aspx

Cheers,

~Danish Sami