Microsoft Office 2007 Beta Delivery
Check out the free downloads of Microsoft Office 2007 or free shipment of CD from this URL http://www.microsoft.com/india/office/beta/. It takes about two weeks of delivery time. You may need to login with your Windows Live account to proceed with the order.
Free ASP.NET 2.0 Hosting Accounts
Developers using .NET Framework 2.0 would be trying to find out some free hosting accounts where they can play around with .NET Framework 2.0 applications. During the initial stages of .NET Framework 1.1, we had the following websites that supported free .NET Framework hosts. Check out the following comprehensive lists:
Visual Studio Project Convertor
It would really be a daunting experience after downloading a Visual Studio .NET project file and your Visual Studio refusing it to open complaining that it has been designed for another version of the product. I came across a tool called VSConvert from CodeProject, which I would like to share the information with my readers and which I hope would greatly help in converting project files across .NET Framework (1.0 and 1.1). Check out this tool from CodeProject VSConvert page.
Currently, conversion of project files to 2.0 framework is possible using Visual Studio 2005 itself as the IDE pops up a wizard. However, the reverse might not be possible since there are a lot of changes from 1.1 to 2.0 version of the framework.
STS 121 Discovery -- Flash Demontration
Check out the Flash Demonstration Application hosted on NASA website in its STS 121 Discovery Shuttle Mission Page. It is really exciting to even click and view the application and I am sure it is really a life's best experience travelling to outer space, doing research there.
Check it out for yourself.
No spams on Blogs
One of the most dreaded threats that any blogger faces comes in the form of comment spamming. A lot of people would have confronted with spurious comments posted by automatic bots on pills etc and also from persons sans ethics using others blogs to solicit visits to thier websites.
There have been a diversifed ways of combating this. Till now, the following have been used popularly.
Comment moderation enqueues all the comment till the blog owner/administration peruses through the comments that are pending approval and gives a nod. CAPTCHA filters all the comments that are posted by spam robots since it generates a dynamic image which is readable only by human eye and not by spam robots.
I came across this website similar to Email Relay Blacklist services which offers spam blacklisting webservice for blogosphere also. Check it out at Akismet. It is free for personal use too. So, I think, you can start using it as a valuable tool to combat spam and keep your weblogs healthy.
Develop without Borders
Check out a Microsoft Office 97 programming contest. This seems to be a very innovative programming contest where the contest works are going to benefit a lot of charities worldwide. The contest is jointly managed by Microsoft and HP.
For further details, check out Develop without Borders website and/or the Source URL in Chennai .NET Usergroup Message.
Asia Pacific Telecommunity Elecution Competition
The Asia Pacific Telecommunity and ICT development forum is organizing an International Conference in Chennai between 10th and 14th July, 2006. The event is hosted by the Department of Telecommunications and managed by BSNL, Chennai Telephones.
As part of the international conference, an elocution competition for college students is being planned out, in alliance with Anna University. Students of Anna University and/or its affiliated colleges are eligible for participation in the same. Each college may nominate two UG/PG students for the same. The event is going to be one-of-its-kind in the international arena of telecommunity and would be a most right and an apt platform to showcase the potential and prowess of the students and the institutions.
All participants get a certificate of participation whilst winners stand to get attractive cash prizes besides an invitation to attend the main conference.
Source Courtesy: Chennai BSNL
JavaScript Framework Library
JavaScript has been an inevitable scripting language that developers worldwide rely on ranging from the simplest forms of form validations through interactive animations on the web browsers. There have been JavaScript applications running from Windows Desktop as well.
Check out this elegant Javascript library called Prototype, which makes development of web applications easy, giving enormous flexibility to maintain as well.
Incessant Flow of Appreciation and Congratulations...
An incessant flow of appreciations and congratulations for the recognition described in my other post ("Selected as Microsoft MVP again"), makes me more happier and merrier than ever. As my colleague, Prathiba, has described in her post, "Need for recognition", the words of appreciation really gave a great boost and energizes ourselves to conquer further peaks of victory.
This post is dedicated to one and all who supported, helped and encouraged me. To requote Prathiba, "It takes more than a good heart to let a person step forward when he took the only first step".
Thanks again...<!--
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Posted at 02:26 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan
Deepak Kumar Vasudevan July 5, 2006 11:55 AM PDT Thank you, AravinthanAravinthan July 5, 2006 10:04 AM PDT Congrats deepak.. :)
Original BlogDrive Post on Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Selected as Microsoft MVP again...A few moments back, my mailbox was glad to recieve the mail from Microsoft India Community Manager, Abhishek Kant that I have been selected as a MVP (Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional) in ASP.NET category.
A few things to recall -- I have been MVP for two years consecutively from 2003-04 and 2004-05 in .NET framework and then C# categories. I would like to express my sincere thanks to the Microsoft MVP selection team for considering my humble contributions towards this recognition. You can see the MVP logo in the left hand profile of this weblog.
I would like to extend my hearty congratulations to my collegue, Vadivel Mohanakrishnan, who also has been nominated back as MVP in his favorite SQL Server category. <!--
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Posted at 06:55 pm by Deepak Kumar Vasudevan
Padmashree November 3, 2006 12:57 AM PST Congrats for your achievement! I am a final year engineering student and am one of the managers of Maduraidotnet.The link is http://groups.msn.com/maduraidotnet.I would be glad if you could join our group and provide technical assistance.Deepak Kumar Vasudevan July 26, 2006 01:56 PM PDT Thank you, Ankur!Ankur Raheja July 20, 2006 12:30 AM PDT Just landed up here through some link... Congrats !
Original BlogDrive Post on Monday, July 03, 2006
Quick Pointer to Archives
Blogdrive is no doubt an excellent weblogging tool. Of late, I needed to quick link an archive from my friends weblog, since I had been discussing on a topic, on which the other blog there was a discussion. But I could'nt directly found what is called a Permalink feature and hence I had to give the straight link to the archives page and then a manual instruction to use CTRL+F to find the text.
Thanks to Blogdrive extensive and comprehensive collection of database, I found the Permalink format. http://username.blogdrive.com/archive/blogid.html For example, the archive URL for this would be http://deepak.blogdrive.com/archive/169.html
