Let’s face it, the top item in your Start Menu is no longer a Dev Tool. It is more likely Excel or Word. In my case it is powerpoint followed by word, excel and then MSDN. As an evangelist, one tends to live in Beta Land, which is hosted in Virtual Server and persisted in a VHD, [...]
Aug 312005
Aug 312005
Kimberly Tripp has put up the draft of a whitepaper on SQLCLR for the DBA. This will eventually end up on MSDN. I especially liked some of the last few sections: Source Code management, Release management and Warning Signs. This is stuff people use in real life and is very useful information, all under one [...]
Aug 292005
While I was on the road last week, I finished reading The Rule of Four. Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomson, fresh out of college, have written a book set in the campus of Princeton about an under-grad’s obsession in finding the underlying meaning of an esoteric rennaisance text called HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI (hypner-oto-machia poli-phili) that [...]
Aug 252005
Gaurav, Jani, Manik, Ramneesh, Ravi and I have been on the road for the last one week. We started off with Trivandrum last Thu, hit Kolkata day before on Tue, did Ahmedabad yesterday and are visiting Chandigarh tomorrow! My travel schedule has been maddening: 18 Aug Delhi to Mumbai (8:00 am)18 Aug Mumbai to Trivandrum [...]
Aug 152005
I love eating good food (and it shows! ). Yesterday evening, the entire family (that’s about 10 people) went to this place called Pind Balluchi on Ring Road, right next to the Lajpat Nagar flyover. Actually this was my second visit. Chikki, Gagan, Montu and I had been there a couple of weeks back and [...]
Aug 122005
One of my American friends got confused by the first entry in this blog. His question was how can writing a blog be Karma? Isn’t Karma a sort of divine power? Well, deude, I am no expert on metaphysics or theology, but from what I do know of my mother tongue (Hindi, which derives from Sanskrit) and [...]
Aug 102005
Someone recently pointed me to http://www.quickshift.com/Product_QS-SQL.shtml. These guys claim 3x and 4x times performance gains with SQL Server. The product apparently sits between the OS and SQL Server and they improve performance by managing the "flow of data and operations." They don’t give details on the technology up front – you need to contact them [...]
Aug 102005
I was disgusted by this article on InfoWorld. It is shamefully incorrect. First, the exploit was against Monad and not Vista. Second, all techniques discussed in the exploit require the user to load and run malware on their box. When a user downloads and runs *untrusted software* on his machine (and yes everyone is an [...]
Aug 092005
Good to see the SecurityFocus guys give its due to Microsoft for doing some innovative security work: http://online.securityfocus.com/news/11273/2. This initiative by Microsoft Research allows the company to handle zero day attacks. A zero day attack is one in which an exploit is made available before or on the day a vulnerability is disclosed. This [...]
Aug 092005
karmany evadhikaras tema phaleshu kadachanama karma-phala-hetur bhurma te sango ‘stv akarmani (You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty) – Krishna [...]
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