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Tech Ed India – Looking Back

Microsoft Tech Ed 2004 is happening this month across four cities – Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai & Delhi. The first two cities are completed, there is only Mumbai for me to go. After which I am traveling to Redmond, USA so I will be missing Delhi this time. The topics I present this time were “Secure Coding Strategies” & “Developing Secure Web Services using WSE 2.0”. For speakers like me, Tech Ed is a tiring event that happens every year  – Sleepless nights spent  on preparations, struggle with Beta Code and of course Murphy’s Law when it comes to doing demos…

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In Microsoft

MSN Messenger on the web

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You are on the move, sitting in a Hotel Business Centre, connected to the Internet using a PC that’s there. You want to use MSN Messenger to talk to your friends or wife back home and the machine doesn’t have…

In Coding

Find true character length of an Unicode String

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Many times while working in Indic Language web pages, I want to find the true character length of a string. .NET String.length() or its variants from other major programming languages, return character length based on storage space. They don’t follow the…

Apps

Online Photo Albums made easy

As with any other user with digital cameras, I too have built over the years tons of Digital photographs. Now for the last 1 year, after my Son was born, the photos have increased by leaps. After downloading from the camera I keep them organized in Folders (Family, son, Travel, Business, Friends, Presentations & Venkatarangan). When I last counted, the Photos folder on my laptop was about 1.8GB!. The problem I have is not with storage – with the ever decreasing cost of Hard-disks, this is not a problem. The problem is on sharing this with my friends. Since I…

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In Technology

Universal WhoIs

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Most of the Internet Power users are aware of Internic’s WhoIs service. Given a domain name (Say venkatarangan.com) WhoIs tells you details about the owner and name server details. But Internic’s WhoIs is limited to gTLD (Global Top Level Domains…