The Fourth Annual Expert Awards Announced

The Fourth Annual Expert Awards Announced

Experts-Exchange has announced the fourth annual Expert Awards sometime in January 2008. I actually got this news from the Experts-Exchange mailer. You can check out the webpage here for more details: http://www.experts-exchange.com/expertAwards2008.jsp?cid=606

Let us join together to congratulate everyone who has won the award and thank Experts-Exchange for encouraging us to participate in technology community discussions with more enthusiasm and vigor.

Annual SuperGift Winner of 2007 in Dotnetspider

Annual SuperGift Winner of 2007 in Dotnetspider
 
It is a moment of great happiness to share with everyone that I have been selected for the Annual Super Gift for the year 2007 in Dotnetspider. You can find my the prize winning description over here [You may need to scroll to find my name there]. Also, you can find my Dotnetspider profile linked in the right navigation of this weblog.
 
This is another encouragement for more help to my peers in forums.

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Reached Level 5 in 'Yahoo Answers'

Reached Level 5 in 'Yahoo Answers'
 
Just got the email from Yahoo Answers that I have reached 'Level 5' in their scoring system. You can check out my Yahoo Answers profile over here. The Level 5 does not have any per day limitations on the number of questions to answer and hence it would facilitate a more passionate helping for the fraternity.
 
 

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Collaborative Computing

Collaborative Computing

A truly Team-Spirited work always pays good both in short and in the long run. This has been succinctly visible at least with the momentum gained by passionate opensource development. Around last week, one of my friend in Bangalore was asking me about any good hosting website which could manage his utility code that he wanted to share out as opensource so that more interested people could join in, share and collaborate. Though I just emailed him a couple of links, I later thought I would write it as a post for the benefit of others too.

• from Microsoft:
• GotDotNet
• CodePlex
• Google Code
• SourceForge

Perhaps, if the reader knows more such hosted webservices, please feel free to share the same as comments for the benefit of others too.

Website Whois Database and Privacy Protection

Website Whois Database and Privacy Protection
 
Among one of the many ways that spammers harvest email addresses and contact info of persons is to use the Whois Database of websites. Whois lookup of any website is intended to provide three types of contacts like the following:
 

1. Administrative Contact
2. Technical Contact
3. Billing Contact

Of late, spammers have also been known to run automated programs on whois databases to harvest contact info from these. A number of registrars have deployed little to more innovative schemes to thwart this attempt. I remember, GoDaddy, used to provide a CAPTCHA initially for any lookup.
 
I had to help a friend to register and start his website sometime last week. During the process, I had discovered a new webservice called PrivacyProtect, which helps to mask all the contact info. However, if you genuinely need to contact the domain owner, then you can go to PrivacyProtect website and use the domain name to contact them. And more, this service seems to be free. So, I would recommend that we all should try using this service to contain the malicious efforts of spammers.

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Free BizTalk Training by BDotNet Team

Free BizTalk Training by BDotNet Team

I came to know from BDotNet about a Free BizTalk training that they are planning to organize in Bangalore on 19th and 20th January 2008. The following are the features of the Free BizTalk Training.

1. The training is restricted to top ten passionate contributors at BDotnet discussion boards and ten lucky members of BDotnet.
2. Venue: Microsoft Technology Center (with hands-on lab for two days)
3. Trainers:
1. MVPs with over seven years of industry experience and part of core BDotnet team.
4. Application Process:
1. Register yourself at http://www.bdotnet.in/
2. Send an email to team (at) bdotnet.in with the following details and the subject as "BizTalk Training"
1. Your name
2. Industry Experience
3. Technologies that you know
4. Whether interested in paid trainings?
5. What training topics are you interested in?
6. Contact Telephone Number (They have mentioned a preference to mobile phone numbers)
3. The selection process would pick ten lucky members and intimate them the final registration list.

CodeProject MVP List 2008 Declared

CodeProject MVP List 2008 Announced
 
It was a great celebration day in The CodeProject messageboards yesterday when the webmaster declared the list of CodeProject MVPs for the year 2008. There were forty codeproject members that have been chosen as CodeProject MVPs for this year (2008).
 
Let us take this opportunity to congratulate them and wish them all success! Also check out the blog post of Pete O'Hanlon over here.

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