Archive for December, 2009

2009,Resolutions and Top Blog Posts

Every year, I make a resolution and the time of the year is back again for me to look back and evaluate what I’ve done well, what I missed, and what I need to change to make 2010 even better than 2009.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 31, 2009 at 11:20 am

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What it takes to be a Good Programmer ?

A few months back i had posted a Q&A on the Topic " What it takes to be a Good Programmer " in LinkedIn . The response i got was really good .Here is some of My favourites and the summarization of it .Let me make it clear that I do not consider myself a good programmer. My coding skills are just a mere average and i am still learning and there is a long way to go before i am even pleased with my Programming skills .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 30, 2009 at 12:49 pm

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ASP.NET MVC in Delphi Prism – Introduction

ASP.NET MVC is a web development framework from Microsoft that combines the effectiveness of the model-view-controller architecture . It is an alternative to the WebForms that was and is still mostly used one in ASP.NET . What is a Model View Controller (MVC) Framework?

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 27, 2009 at 10:52 pm

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Application Compatibility Series on Windows 7

Windows 7 has been made public and many users are moving towards adopting the same. From the application standpoint, Windows 7 is very similar to Windows Vista. This means that, we will need to work towards solving the compatibility issues which would arise. In this series of posts we will look at some common challenges around application compatibility when coming from a legacy operating system, why changes were made, compatibility technologies inside the OS and methods for getting incompatible applications to run on Windows 7.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 27, 2009 at 5:53 pm

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A New Language from Microsoft

Yesterday i was going through a blog about the new language from Microsoft called Vedea .This language is built on .NET 4.0 DLR and has the syntax that is similar to C# . Vedea is a visualization language to create interactive data-driven visualization .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 21, 2009 at 4:42 pm

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Deploy BDE for Delphi Apps?

If your Delphi application accesses data using the Borland Database Engine (BDE) and you wish to deploy it on a user's client computer, then it is necessary that you deploy the BDE too. You may receive the following error , if the BDE is not deployed .

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 18, 2009 at 6:01 pm

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#13#10 in Delphi

These are the control characters in delphi that are used to format strings. If a string value has to be entered in a multiline , we can use this . Eg: var testString : String; testString := 'Senthil' + #13#10 + 'Kumar';

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 16, 2009 at 5:27 pm

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Virtual Business Cards for MCP’s

Microsoft has just launched the long awaited Virtual Business Card program for Microsoft Certified Professionals. Everyone who has an MCP or MCT profile can now create their own cards. Microsoft announced in July that the Welcome kits for certification were to be discontinued and promised to create a better way of sharing the transcript of your certification in a easy way.

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 13, 2009 at 11:05 pm

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GIDS 2010 – Great Indian Developer Summit

I have already been a participant in the last 2 editions of the GIDS ( Great Indian Developer summit ) and looking forward for the GIDS 2010 too to make a hatrick :-) . Infact i have already got my slot booked for GIDS 2010 .Although i dont prefer the paid conferences , this one is an exception as you could learn more

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Posted by Senthil Kumar - December 8, 2009 at 9:40 pm

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