It's been more than 5 years since I got my first pay check, I just took the time to think though the experience I have gone through, the people I have met and the totally unexpected twists that have popped in my life over this past years. To the most part it has been very useful and interesting journey, if not anything just for the amount of knowledge ......

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Originally posted at my personal blog BlogEngine.Net 1.1 has been released. It's quite amazing how fast these guys have churned out the new release. With my recent experiences in porting, chewing, and digesting dotnet projects, I kind of think that coding for Dotnet Framework V2.0 from scratch is lot easier than porting a complex system and maybe that ......

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Too many option spoils the child! Well, I don't know about you, but that is the case with me recently. I had been looking to getting a good laptop for myself, and was torn between option of choosing a PC or Mac. My area of considerations where that I was mainly developing in .NET platform (and still continue to do so, but not in a large scale) but currently ......

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Hi, We have an opening for 'Entry Level .Net Developer' at Abu Dhabi (1 or 2 years experience) and also another good opportunity at a friends company in Dubai (3+ years experience). Interested candidates do get in touch with me at the earliest possible!

 

Have a great day

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I was recently working on an option to present our company profile PowerPoint file on the web, it has quite a lot of pictures and videos in them. At first I used the normal PowerPoint -> Save As web site option and was not satisfied with the kind of output I received. So, I thought I could as well develop an framework for putting up the powerpoint ......

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After my recent laptop crash I had moved to my desktop for the development, since my desktop is equipped with more RAM and has Windows 2003 as the OS (instead of the XP in laptop) I comfortable in doing my development work on the desktop and continued staying on it. Recently I saw that one of my hard disk is having only 200 odd Mb of free space and ......

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Hi all, Due to the constraints / trouble I had because of my previous blogging platform, I am switching to dasBlog. I have not ported my old posts to this platform yet, will do so when I have some time. Thanks for taking you time to visit and read my blog ......

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Candidates who are looking for an opening at Abu Dhabi with 2+ yrs exp in Dot Net (Web) contact me at the earliest possible.

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Hi GWB, It has been a exciting 2 years of blogging here, GWB was the first technical blog I started and it has come a long way. Now since there are more than technical posts I am concentrating on that and also because of the flexibility that I require; I will be using my personal domain blog as the primary (http://blog.vijay.name) , I will sure be cross-posting ......

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Microsoft developers have posted information on windows vista blog mentioning the reason for taking down the windows vista torrent that was posted by Chris and Jake recently. I personally agree with the most of the comments users have posted there, people downloading beta are not inexperienced end users but rather experienced developers. With that demographic ......

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Original post at my blog As if usual problems arent complex enough my Visual Studio 2005 stopped displaying DataSet's that were designed and were working very recently. When I open my visual studio solution / project which already has an DataSet open I will get the following error dialog [ Load DataSet Error Failed to load dataset because of the following ......

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Change the minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters to minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters. Local MSDN document not up-to-date!

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It has happened finally! Microsoft is conducting a two days conference in Dubai on 30th April and 1st May 2006, more info can be obtained from http://www.microsoft.com/mi... Any geek going from Abu Dhabi can get in touch with me so we can go together. Happy coding ......

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[Update 3rd Sep 2005 1629 IST (GMT +0530 hrs): Yahoo no longer has $1.99 domain registration offer.] It is really a exciting day for me! you see, it all started when I heard about yahoo offering domain registration for $1.99 (info from Sören 'chucker' Kuklau), I was very excited and opted to the yahoo page for registering my wanted domain name. ......

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