TechEd India

By Ashutosh in .NET in India on

I’ve just received an e-mail from the Microsoft .NET Delhi User Group [http://groups.msn.com/dotnetsig] regarding the Tech Ed India [http://www.techedindia.com/] 2004 registration offer. The registration fees is Rs. 6000 (=USD 130) per person, but as a special offer you only need to pay…

J2EE vs .NET Web Services

By Ashutosh in .NET Web Dev on

The whitepaper J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET – A comparison of building XML-based web services [http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=J2EE-vs-DOTNET] is now online at TSS. The conclusions seem quite interesting, which also talk about the arguments for, against and supporting both platforms.…

MSN Newsbot

By Ashutosh in Business on

Is the MSN Newsbot [http://newsbot.msn.com/] a Google News [http://news.google.com] ripoff or an “innovative” competitor? I still like the simplicity and effectiveness of Google News. It does what it says – dynamically serve up-to-date news. Probably the only thing missing [http://myrss.com/f/g/o/…

More Acquisitions

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Google acquires Picasa [http://www.picasa.com/google/] (a digital imaging solutions) and Microsoft acquires Lookout [http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/] (a e-mail search solution).…

BPO Buzz

By Ashutosh in Business on

Where in India are most BPO [http://www.rediff.com/money/bpo.htm] companies situated? Take the BPO Quiz [http://specials.rediff.com/money/2004/feb/10quiz.htm] and find out the facts.…

Signal-to-Noise #9

By Ashutosh in .NET Web Dev on

* dotText pre-0.96 – Two new features (among others), Search [http://scottwater.com/dottextsourcetree/browse.aspx?f=C:SitesDottextSourceDottext.Search] and ScheduledEvents [http://scottwater.com/dottextsourcetree/browse.aspx?f=C:SitesDottextSourceDottext.FrameworkScheduledEvents] ,?in dotText (pre-0.96) [http://scottwater.com/blog/archive/2004/02/01/Pre096.aspx] that I’ll be?going…

Signal-to-Noise #6

By Ashutosh in .NET Web Dev on

* Sample chapters (Part 1 [http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/ado.netckbk_chap01/index.html] and Part 2 [http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/ado.netckbk_chap01/index1.html] ) from O’Reilly’s ADO.NET Cookbook [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/adonetckbk/] * Ted Neward shares his…

Signal-to-Noise #5

By Ashutosh in .NET Web Dev on

* The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog [http://microsoft.weblogsinc.com/] * Now we?know a little more about “Microsoft Venus” [http://www.iunknown.com/000398.html] (i.e. ASP.NET 2.0). * Matisse 6 [http://www.matisse.com/]: The Ultimate .NET Database [http://www.matisse.com/pdf/product_information/Whitepapers/DotNETarticle.pdf] (PDF)…